http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/ Slackware Linux Mailing List Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:39:49 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2579 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2579 Apparently two different commands openvt for x and chvt for maybe console operations. I was using control-leftalt-f1 in gnome slack build and it wasn't going Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:31:15 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2578 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2578 Do any such command line equivalents exist for slackware for these two commands either on the slackware distribution or as third party packages? Earlier when I Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:07:45 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2577 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2577 I managed to get orca talking with gnomeslackbuild on slackware 13.0. I had to change the runlevel to 4 in /etc/inittab to do it. A problem that happened Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:59:58 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2576 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2576 I forgot, I had to download mono-basic from the mono project page and I got my version from the svn trunk and ran ./configure --prefix=/usr/local and probably Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:51:31 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2575 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2575 That was well worth the download and install whether gnome ever works with orca or not! It turns out, the mono package is available for gsb and the mono Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:34:08 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2574 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2574 I got gnomeslackbuild installed with the easy install method on the site. I had to install orca since that wasn't installed and neither was espeak. Those two Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:07:31 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2573 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2573 Hi Howard, Apparently 2.28 is available but it's rc1 not stable yet.On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:42:20 GMT howipepper http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2572 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2572 ... Jude, Try GnomeSlackbuild: http://gnomeslackbuild.org/ They seem to have packages built for Slackware 13.0. The release version is Gnome 2.26, but they're Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:32:57 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2571 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2571 I had a version of gnome slacky and was about to install it on this system but couldn't do it because the versions have to match or no install. I don't know Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:01:20 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2570 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2570 http://software.jaos.org appears to be down or tied up. No error 404 messages but long connect delays. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:20:22 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2569 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2569 The spreadshet works. I put together yc.sc and use that to measure where my investments are in any given year. The working assumptions on this spreadsheet Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:20:43 GMT howipepper http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2568 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2568 ... My personal preference is to use the ext2 file system for my /boot slice, and the ext3 file system for all of my data slices. I'm holding off on using Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:52:38 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2567 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2567 I needed to format the sata disk once the partitioning was done and that got it accessible and mountable by the rest of the system. I decided to put a label Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:38:42 GMT howipepper http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2566 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2566 ... Snip! Ok, the link in my last post was bad (thanks Jude!). Here's a working one: www.economics.utoronto.ca/jfloyd/stats/minmansc.pdf Howard Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:03:57 GMT Jude DaShiell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2565 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/message/2565 I'm about to upgrade to slackware 13.x today and have been struggling with locating a usb hard drive and configuring slackware appropriately. If it helps the