11-28-2002
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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hola. Here is how my partition table looks:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 1 1689 13566861 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde2 * 1690 2783 8787555 83 Linux
/dev/hde3 2784 2813 240975 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde4 ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mr_Proper
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello ALL,
I wander, is there an easy way to get information which linux distro and its version a script runs on?
I'm looking for a function like getDistroInfo(), which would return strings like "Ubuntu7.10" or "SLES10" or "RHEL5" etc.
uname returns lots of stuff, but distro info.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Samtim74
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3. AIX
Hi,
I would like to know, is there a thing that AIX would do it, and RHEL or SLES would not? Something specific and great in the same time.
It might sound weird, but I'm very curios.
Thanks a lot guys! (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: aixn00b
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
want to know which Linux distro is 4 me. want 2 teach my self programing and problem solving. i want to learn code and write code. i have an acer aspire one 2GB memory 160 GB HDD intel Atom. look im as noobie as it gets im a MS xp, vista boy want to go beyond graphical click and do... any help... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: BizilStank
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5. What is on Your Mind?
I have been using Linux OS since 4 years and I'm very interested to know how to create a Linux Distro. I have heard about LFS.
I would just like to know, what do I need to create a Linux Distro?
I'm not a programmer, if I have to create a Linux Distro, what programming languages do I need to... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Auzern
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6. Linux
I hate the fact that my first post is this. Anyhow, I've been using Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, and a few others for quite some time now. I've never had a problem with any distro, thus saying that they were all good in my opinion. I've been reading a lot on different... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vex
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi all, for a while now I've been working on a linux distro and I'm a couple of tweaks away from it to be perfected so if any experts want to help me out please message me.
Thanks in advance.
(I know I've posted a similar thread on the same topic but it was closed due to an unhelpful title... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: allk
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8. Linux
Hello,
I have a Compaq Presario v3000 5 year old laptop, with 1 GB RAM and currently running the (slow and stupid) Windows 7 32 bit, thus I would like to dual boot it with an appropriate distro of Linux that
1) Doesnt consume too much resources (1 GB RAM is not a lot of space) and it ll be... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ajayram
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9. Open Source
What is your favorite Linux distro?
and possibly why?
Personally, I have Fedora 3 on my computer. I have used Ubuntu and Slackware, too. But I think I liked Ubuntu more, maybe because of its speed and easy installation of packages. (192 Replies)
Discussion started by: milhan
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nntp-pull
NNTP-PULL(1) nntp-pull manual NNTP-PULL(1)
NAME
nntp-pull - fetch articles from the server to the mbox
SYNOPSIS
nntp-pull [options...] groupname [groupname...]
DESCRIPTION
Fetch messages from the server and save them into the mailbox (mbox format). Every argument is supposed to be a name of group, optionally
followed by a '>' character and mbox filename. If the mbox filename is omitted, it defaults to the name of the group.
Besides global options (described in sinntp(1)), nntp-pull command takes following options:
--limit=N
Pull at most N messages.
--reget
Start from the first available message.
EXAMPLES
nntp-pull --server=news.example.org --limit=50 'comp.os.linux>os-linux' Fetches at most the 50 newest articles from the newsgroup
comp.os.linux located on news.example.org server and appends them to the os-linux mailbox file.
nntp-pull --server=news.example.net --reget --limit=3 comp.os.windows Fetches at most the 3 oldest articles from the newsgroup
comp.os.windows located on news.example.net server and appends them to the comp.os.windows mailbox file.
SEE ALSO
sinntp(1)
COPYRIGHT
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