I can give you some help via email, but I&#39;m not close to Ray/Cooper.<br>I&#39;ll be able to help more on some Fedora topics, depending on what they are. <br>With server type issues, there are others on this list more qualified than I regarding Fedora.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Graham</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 17 August 2007 12:18, after a long battle with technology,<br>Stephen P Rufle wrote:<br>&gt; I would like to ask the list if there is anyone that lives near<br>&gt; Ray/Cooper who would be willing to help me learn about GNU/Linux ( I
<br>&gt; am starting with the two distros in the subject). I would be willing<br>&gt; to buy dinner ( pizza ... etc or you can eat a home cooked meal :)<br>&gt; and then tutor me on the different issues I might be having.
<br><br>I don&#39;t live that near (13.1 miles away, Southern and Mill, &quot;25 minutes<br>in traffic&quot; according to Google Maps, that is probably underestimating<br>things.) but might be willing to help.<br><br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Software RAID ( wanted to know someone before I invoke a
<br>&gt; failure), GUI tool to show state or manage<br><br>SoftRAID is too important to be left to a GUI tool.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, it should<br>be pretty easy to hack something that reads /proc/mdstat and displays<br>that info prettily with Gtk2-Perl.&nbsp;&nbsp;Doing things with mdadm would also
<br>be possible with that approach, but it&#39;d require more work.<br><br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Would like to set up VNC so I can run the comp with no monitor<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; after it is setup<br><br>No problem, run KDE Desktop Sharing or gino or x11vnc while you have a
<br>monitor hooked up, test, make sure it works, fuggeddabouttit.&nbsp;&nbsp;NOTE:<br>VNC is not insanely great wrt speed, and will be laggy and annoying<br>even on a switched 100bT net.&nbsp;&nbsp;BTDT.&nbsp;&nbsp;There&#39;s *got* to be a much better
<br>way.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don&#39;t know what it is though.&nbsp;&nbsp;For running individual apps,<br>using X (bare if you have your X started without -nolisten tcp or<br>forwarded over ssh if not) is the way to go if you have 100bT.</blockquote>
<div><br><br>I&#39;ve tried and been impressed with FreenNX, which is the free version of NoMachine. <br><br>&nbsp;</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * General guidance on living with Linux<br><br>0. Try something new.<br>1. If it worked, great.&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Goto 0.<br>2. If it didn&#39;t work, remember how it failed, try to do things<br>differently next time so that it fails in a different way or works.
<br>Search The Fine Web for keywords that relate to what you want to do,<br>and you can often find much useful information.&nbsp;&nbsp;Goto 0.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>