Re: [LUG] Unanswered questions

[Roland Tarver <roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/13/2012 03:20 PM, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:52:53 +0100
> Philip Hudson wrote:
>
> > ... from yesterday.
> >
> > (Note: I have deliberately not RTFMed. This is as much to give the
> > flavor of the meeting as to gain answers).
> >
> > 1. What's the difference between 'ssh -X' and 'ssh -Y' (i.e.
> > X11Forwarding and TrustedX11Forwarding)?
>
> First Google result for: "ssh -Y"
> http://bit.ly/Se9SQ5
>
> > 2. WTF is clang, and is it really going to replace gcc?
>
> Clang already replaces GCC... if you want it to. All about choice.
> Clang's "goal" is to *offer* a replacement to GCC, but I doubt it will
> supplant GCC in totem any time soon.
>
> > 3. Does Wayland exist?
>
> Yes.
>
> > 4. Does Restricted Boot mean we're all doomed, or that our old
> > hardware will jump in value?
>
> Unsure. My gut feeling is that it will fail like many other previous
> systems designed to "lock" computer systems, for whatever reason.
>
> > 5. Does anyone use a non-apt/dpkg/deb distro, like Suse, RHEL/Fedora/
> > Centos, Mageia, Arch, Gentoo?
>
> I occasionally play around with Slackware. It's good fun, but I find I
> spend more time playing than I do being productive, so my "main"
> systems are Debian and Ubuntu.
>
> I used to use Mandrake/Mandriva upto and include the time they
> introduced "urpmi". I have used CentOS systems and a couple of RHEL
> systems, so YUM is relatively familiar, but I *prefer* the whole apt
> thing.
>
> > 6. What's the right command line invocation to burn an ISO to a
> > CD/DVD on debian/Ubuntu/Mint, rather than just copy the ISO file?
> > Does it involve mkisofs (we thought so) and dd (I doubted this).
>
> Are you asking how to make an ISO or how to burn one?
>
> Making an ISO will involve either a tool to copy bytewise the data from
> a medium (DVD, perhaps) into a file. DD does a good job, but there are
> others. You can even use cp: cp /dev/sr0 /path/to/file.iso
>
> Burning an ISO to a disc writing software. From the commandline you can
> normally use wodim.

I use genisoimage; followed by wodim. They have always worked a treat 
for me. :-)


Cheers roly :-)

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