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hi, does anybody have any idea how to set up a basic shareable address book? with at least one enrty :)) thx
Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm a relative newbie, been using redhat for about two years at home. Suse offered me free boxes of 8.2 pro for a project I'm doing at school (building a writing lab for my 7 and 8th grade students. I'm an English teacher in a middle school.) So, I'm going to be trying Suse out. Anyone that's moved from RH to Suse or had experience with both want to give me any tip offs? I don't have the software yet, but I'll have it shortly. Although I am a simple English teacher, I jumped onto the OSS train, as I said, around 2 years ago. Since then my own academic site has taken on the role of advocating for OSS in schools, too. Anthony Baldwin http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn!
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 09:13 pm, anthony baldwin wrote:
Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm a relative newbie, been using redhat for about two years at home. Suse offered me free boxes of 8.2 pro for a project I'm doing at school (building a writing lab for my 7 and 8th grade students. I'm an English teacher in a middle school.) So, I'm going to be trying Suse out. Anyone that's moved from RH to Suse or had experience with both want to give me any tip offs? I don't have the software yet, but I'll have it shortly. Although I am a simple English teacher, I jumped onto the OSS train, as I said, around 2 years ago. Since then my own academic site has taken on the role of advocating for OSS in schools, too.
Anthony Baldwin
http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn!
You might add where you are located.... You might find someone local to you that could help you out. I know I would. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 02/10/04 21:19 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations." - Napoleon
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On Tuesday 10 February 2004 09:13 pm, anthony baldwin wrote:
Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm a relative newbie, been using redhat for about two years at home. Suse offered me free boxes of 8.2 pro for a project I'm doing at school (building a writing lab for my 7 and 8th grade students. I'm an English teacher in a middle school.) So, I'm going to be trying Suse out. Anyone that's moved from RH to Suse or had experience with both want to give me any tip offs? I don't have the software yet, but I'll have it shortly. Although I am a simple English teacher, I jumped onto the OSS train, as I said, around 2 years ago. Since then my own academic site has taken on the role of advocating for OSS in schools, too.
Anthony Baldwin
http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn!
You might add where you are located.... You might find someone local to you that could help you out. I know I would.
I'm in Southeastern CT. The local lug guys likely might be useful, now that you mention it...I think there are some suse users therein. Good looking out.
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anthony baldwin wrote:
Anyone that's moved from RH to Suse or had experience with both want to give me any tip offs? I don't have the software yet, but I'll have it shortly.
A couple things: -There is no 'service' script. This is replaced by an 'rc' prefix before the init script name you want to run. i.e.: instead of 'service network restart' you type 'rcnetwork restart' -Yast is very useful--SuSE's version of a complete system configuration tool. Using it you can install extra packages with dependencies auto-resolved, perform overall system updates (you: yast online update), and make any system configuration changes needed. It takes away the confusion you might have from looking for config files in RH locations. -The config files under /etc/sysconfig/ are very well commented. -SCPM (read up on it) is very useful. Enables you to maintain multiple system config profiles managing anything you can think of. Allows you to freely modify config files then fall back to the working config snapshot when done playing. Most useful on laptops I imagine but I'm sure it has plenty of desktop applications. -I like SuSE a lot better (you'll probably get that on this list a lot :) Those were the main diffs I noticed.
Although I am a simple English teacher, I jumped onto the OSS train, as I said, around 2 years ago. Since then my own academic site has taken on the role of advocating for OSS in schools, too.
I've been talking to my local (town) library director recently about converting to OSS. I wonder if you can offer any propaganda links for this sort of thing--details on how migrations took place and were successful, etc. I'll check out your link below first. Her big fears surround cost of MS licenses for all her PCs. Her eyes lit up when I told her about Linux, OpenOffice, and other OSS.
http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn!
HTH, Brett
--On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:13 PM -0500 anthony baldwin
Hi, I'm new to the list.
Several month lurker here.
I'm a relative newbie, been using redhat for about two years at home. Suse offered me free boxes of 8.2 pro for a project I'm doing at school (building a writing lab for my 7 and 8th grade students. I'm an English teacher in a middle school.) So, I'm going to be trying Suse out. Anyone that's moved from RH to Suse or had experience with both want to give me any tip offs? I don't have the software yet, but I'll have it shortly. Although I am a simple English teacher, I jumped onto the OSS train, as I said, around 2 years ago. Since then my own academic site has taken on the role of advocating for OSS in schools, too.
I came to SuSE 5.2 via a slightly different route back in the day. I started with Slackware back around '96 and began the flattening my forehead on the wall. I liked slackware because everything used simple config files, not too unlike the ini files of the day. I then tried RH 4.2 and very quickly hated it. I did not like RH taking the config files away and hiding everything behind a UI and scripts. I'm sure had I taken the time and effort I would feel different. I tried SuSE soon after and was sold instantly. I liked the pleasant mix of config files and scripts which take care of many of the details. I also liked the fact that Yast for the most part did exactly what it said it would do and was easy to navigate. Over the years I've watched SuSE go from slightly complex to almost child's play when installing. Recently I tried RH 9, and again promptly hated it. I was lost. Again had I had the time and desire I'm sure I would figure it all out, but again I did not like the hiding of config files and whatnot. Take Care! -Amdrew
Zoltan Levardy wrote:
hi,
does anybody have any idea how to set up a basic shareable address book? with at least one enrty :))
thx
Well, other than ldap, you could do something like putting the directory in a common location and using links to it. I used to do that, between my Linux & OS/2 systems.
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