[BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux

Tue Nov 27 20:52:34 EST 2007

You can scramble but I will forever always say cli can never screw up, never 
slow anything down and never crash. Guis you need to worry about libraries, 
toolkits, etc. It's a big mess.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <Robert.W.Rimkus at usa-spaceops.com>
To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." 
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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux


> Hurst Wrote:
>
>>Put it this way, Debian 4.0 etch includes gnome 2.14. I think that says a
>>lot and gives some insight to how outdated all other packages are. I just
>>want to install it and run it in command line, no desktops or anything.
>
> Get it installed and bring it up.  Go into the /etc/inittab and look for 
> the line that begins with the characters 'id:5', there will be more after 
> that but
> there is only one line like that.
>
> Change the digit five to the digit three and save.  Then type 'init 3' on 
> the command line.
>
> That will put you in runlevel 3 which does not support X and next time you 
> boot it will bring you to a login prompt on the console.  You will live 
> happily
> ever after in a command line environment.
>
> But what is this orca?  It seems as though that gives us access to X 
> Windows.  When I look around me at work, most everyone is using some sort 
> of GUI.
>
> Shouldn't we all be scrambling towards GUIs like the rest of the lemmings?
>
> I would certainly like to have a dependable, reliable, stable interface to 
> X Windows like I do to the command line.  I had better check it out and 
> find out
> for myself.
>
> bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc]On
> Behalf Of Hurst, Cody
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:17 PM
> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
>
>
> Put it this way, Debian 4.0 etch includes gnome 2.14. I think that says a
> lot and gives some insight to how outdated all other packages are. I just
> want to install it and run it in command line, no desktops or anything.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <Robert.W.Rimkus at usa-spaceops.com>
> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY."
> <brltty at mielke.cc>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
>
>
>> Hurst Wrote:
>>> As a side note, is rhel 4/5 really as outdated as debian stable?
>>
>> I have no experience with Debian yet so I cannot compare.
>>
>> My experience with RHEL 4/5 leaves something to be desired.  If you want
>> to build a kernel and have it run then I would stick with Fedora!
>>
>> But the guys on this list seem to favor Debian so that might be the
>> direction you would consider going.  I am serious looking at it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> bob
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc]On
>> Behalf Of Hurst, Cody
>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 6:03 PM
>> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
>>
>>
>> As a side note, is rhel 4/5 really as outdated as debian stable?
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <Robert.W.Rimkus at usa-spaceops.com>
>> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY."
>> <brltty at mielke.cc>
>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
>>
>>
>>> Hurst Wrote:
>>>>as long as it is later than 2.99z then I will be fine.
>>>
>>> I believe 3.7.2 comes on RHEL 4 but I had to pull the FC6 copy of brltty
>>> to run it on RHEL5.
>>> FC7 does not have it at all.
>>>
>>> bob
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc]On
>>> Behalf Of Hurst, Cody
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 5:25 PM
>>> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
>>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
>>>
>>>
>>> as long as it is later than 2.99z then I will be fine.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Jason White" <jason at jasonjgw.net>
>>> To: <brltty at mielke.cc>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:24 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:44:12PM -0800, Hurst, Cody wrote:
>>>>> Does brltty come on Rhel5? orr 4?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know, but if it does, it will be an old version, and you would
>>>> be
>>>> better served by compiling a new version from source anyway.
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