Has there been a discussion about whether or not to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04.1?
What is everyone's opinion?
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Thank you, I will put that on my list...
On 8/31/2014 5:21 PM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Simple ssh will work too--you, can install winscp on Windows and it
> can use
> ssh to share to and from your Linux machines.
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 03:02:36PM -0400, John Ferrell jferrell13@triad.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> /RE://
> /
>
> Next on my list is SAMBA and APACHE. Some measure of file sharing
> with the windows net is important to me. I will look up NFS.
> The current elements of my array are win 7, 8, Vista, Pi, RoboLinux
> and Kindels.
NFS takes a bit of work, especially if using firewalls and SELinux (on any
RedHat based system).
Simple ssh will work too--you, can install winscp on Windows and it can use
ssh to share to and from your Linux machines.
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Lars Finsen lars.finsen@ortygia.no [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering if there is something like Parallels in the Linux world.
VirtualBox installs without problems on most Linux systems. It's comparable
to parallels. VMware-player, also free, installs on most Linux systems.
The simplest one, in my opinion, is VirtualBox.
I could split it up and run both Windows and Linux, or throw the whole Windows mess out and run Windows programs with an emulator. If I do use a partition, I suppose an emulator could access files in the other partition, couldn't it?
It should be able to do so, this depends upon how the files in the other
partition are exported. With VirtualBox, you have options for shared
directories as well.
And would it run flawlessly? And would a Linux machine communicate flawlessly with a Mac over a wireless home net?
>
It certainly should. I usually use NFS to transfer files between my wife's
machine and mine, but also use ssh.
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Hi,
I'm wondering if there is something like Parallels in the Linux world. I've bought a machine with Windows 8.1 installed. It does not seem to want to communicate with my Mac, as my old Windows XP machine did flawlessly. Also, it struggles to handle two hard drives. That may be hardware-related, though. I could split it up and run both Windows and Linux, or throw the whole Windows mess out and run Windows programs with an emulator. If I do use a partition, I suppose an emulator could access files in the other partition, couldn't it? And would it run flawlessly? And would a Linux machine communicate flawlessly with a Mac over a wireless home net?
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Having muddled through the cease and desist of support for Win Xp I eventually gravitated to Win 8 and am very dissatisfied with it. Considering reverting back to Win 7 I decided to check (just in case) there was a thought plan to follow suit with Win 7. ZDNet says it's set for 2020. Report here.
Leonard
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:11:58PM -0400, John Ferrell jferrell13@triad.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Wow!
> There is a lot of my questions answered there. Without the full example
> I would have been trapped by the chmod.
> It works great.
Glad to hear it, and glad to hear that the instructions were good. I pride
myself on my documentation. :)
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Wow!
There is a lot of my questions answered there. Without the full example
I would have been trapped by the chmod.
It works great.
On 8/14/2014 5:01 PM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Most of the time, a distribution's version of youtube-dl is out of date
> anyway. It's just a python script, so you can download its source and use
> it.
>
> wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2014.08.10/youtube-dl
>
> This should bring you the script.
>
> Now put it in your path. Standard would be to either put it in
> /usr/local/bin or your own $HOME/bin. $HOME means your home directory.
>
> Meh, some distros don't look in $HOME/bin as a path, so let's put it into
> /usr/local/bin
>
> sudo mv youtube-dl /usr/local/bin
> sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
>
> Then use it.
>
> Find a video you like on youtube, copy the url and then
>
> youtube-dl <url>
>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 03:32:25PM -0400, John Ferrell jferrell13@triad.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> It responds that "E: Package 'youtube-dl' has no installation candidate"
>
> If anyone would care to join in they are welcome. I warn you, I work slowly!
> John W8CCW
Most of the time, a distribution's version of youtube-dl is out of date
anyway. It's just a python script, so you can download its source and use
it.
wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2014.08.10/youtube-dl
This should bring you the script.
Now put it in your path. Standard would be to either put it in
/usr/local/bin or your own $HOME/bin. $HOME means your home directory.
Meh, some distros don't look in $HOME/bin as a path, so let's put it into
/usr/local/bin
sudo mv youtube-dl /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
Then use it.
Find a video you like on youtube, copy the url and then
youtube-dl <url>
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I did not multipost this because I don't follow the other groups.
I installed RoboLinux last week and except for a couple of install questions that confused me, it was up and running as advertised. The target machine is a Dell XPS 210 (duel core)with a new 1T hard drive. I selected Firefox as the browser and was up watching Nixie Pixel Youtubes with out tinkering. I frequently update/upgrade from the command line with what ever distro I am using, no problems ever.
I download and save a lot of tutorials on youtube so one of my first objectives was to find a downloader for that task.
http://www.tecmint.com/install-youtube-dl-command-line-video-download-tool/
Shows a script that I have tried without success:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
It responds that "E: Package 'youtube-dl' has no installation candidate"
If anyone would care to join in they are welcome. I warn you, I work slowly!
John W8CCW
It sure gets tiring to find a Linux Distro that works fine while running Live, install seems to go fine, but updating breaks printing. The last embarrassment occurred when a Windows user needed a print-out...not a good demo moment folks! Zorin 9 Core-64-bit was the offender this time. Previously, it was RoboLinux 64-bit, that was a freebie in February 2014.
Zorin tells people not to update and blames Ubuntu, maybe Ubuntu blames Apple, who took on the printing engine, I wonder if they blame HP, etc.? Please someone help make Linux even better than it is...By the way, Mint can print from Live DVD, but not use my HP scanner...
Joan in Reno
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