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Re: Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content
by Rick Graves 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Dag, I think you are taking what RedHat Legal says too literally. Yes, they SAY this is about confusion, but I do not think it is really about confusion. This is about their trademark rights (not covered by the GPL) and what they can do to enhance their revenue flow -- make it harder for the public to know more about the advantages of CentOS. > It's hard to discuss this without knowing what happened exactly after > the > letter was received, but I would have send out a reply asking for > concrete examples and rationale. So I think asking for concrete examples and rationale are not likely to help, as asking for this will not cause RedHat to back down from enfocing their trademark rights -- because of the "real reasons". Rick > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:12:19 +0100 (CET) > From: Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com> > Subject: Re: [Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website > content > To: CentOS discussion and information list <centos(a)caosity.org> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0502142101290.921(a)horsea.3ti.be> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > I think the issue here might be the fact that Red Hat is mentioned > together with links to the Red Hat site in such a way people might be > misled into thinking CentOS is endorsed by Red Hat or CentOS is the > same > as RHEL. > > Now, it would not surprise me if that message got lost in translation > and > ended up being written as it is in legalese. > > It's hard to discuss this without knowing what happened exactly after > the > letter was received, but I would have send out a reply asking for > concrete > examples and rationale. It makes common sense that if you receive a > message that (partly) does not make sense to you, you ask for > clarification. > > It's in everybody's best interest to get rid of any confusion the > website > might give. We do not want people to believe that CentOS is something > else. > > Let's not focus on one mistake and let everybody do their job and clear > out the mess. I don't think there were ill intentions being used here, > except maybe the guy who posted this on Slashdot. > > -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] >

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Start your engines...
by Patrick Lawrence - CentOS Lists 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/ is open... Let the building begin. :-) Pat -- "Let's Roll" - Todd Beamer

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CentOS-3 s390(x) errdata: Updated python and rh-postgresql packages fix security issues(s)
by Pasi Pirhonen 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hi, First some general explanations about what this will be. There is this 's390(x)' in the Subject: and that will mean it's bi-arch annouce conserning both - s390 and s390x. If there is for example only 's390', it's about 31bit version only. I've notified that i cannot anymore paster the source for information on this, so i just say Updated: Python and rh-postgresql -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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centos upgrade fm 3.3 to 3.4
by Chaitanya Krishna A 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

hi, 'dag' thanks for the help. i've been able to download all the headers. now i'm in a dilemma. i'm usig an i686 arch. i see that that centos 3.4 is for i386. can i still upgrade to 3.4 or do i've to wait till i get an upgrade for i686. regards. chaitanya. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

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Res: Re: [Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content
by LUIS ROBERTO WANDERLEY DE SIQUEIRA 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

what about something like: http://www.idtnetwork.com/show.aspx?mi=161 http://taolinux.org/?q=node/view/2 http://whiteboxlinux.org/ brigth, blinking... in the very first page...lets try do to as all others are doing... its a pratical approach... not what we think about Red Hat trademark guidelines. Luis. ______________________________ EMPREL, http://www.recife.pe.gov.br

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upgradation to centos 3.4
by Chaitanya Krishna A 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

hi, i'm new to linux. right now i'm using centos 3.3. i want to upgrade to centos 3.4. i haven't used yum before. i have to go through a proxy to access the internet. so i thought it isn't able to access the proxy. after some searching on the net i could set the http proxy in the /etc/profile file. i used the following lines in the file(with the actual ip address and port ofcourse). set "http://my.domain.name:port/" export proxy_http="http://my.domain.name:port/" when i became the super user and tried the command 'yum install centos-yumcache', i got the messages attached below. [root@achala etc]# yum install centos-yumcache Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3.3 - Addons retrygrab() failed for: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.3/addons/i386/headers/header.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.3/addons/i386/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error > there was some info on the centos site that when u first run yum a lot of headers would be downloaded. i think i don't have any downloaders with me. one more thing that i did with the yum.conf file was that i changed all the "centos-3"'s to "centos" in all the paths. can someone help me with this situation. thanks for any help. regards. chaitanya. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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view remote desktop
by Hard Hold 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

I know with vnc you can access virtual desktops, but is there a way to view the current desktop on a kde session? I tried changing the .vnc/xstartup and added the startkde & at the end to get the gui working, but can only get virtual desktops to show. or if there is a different software to use that someone else might know about. Using CentOS 3.4 Rob

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Re: [Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content
by David Thompson 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Francois Caen wrote: > >Please don't think I'm taking credit away from the CentOS maintainers. >My point is simply that there is no guarantee that this community >would adapt and become another Fedora Legacy. After all, we'd all be >using RHL and FC with FL updates if that was we wanted. We're here >because we want to use RHEL w/o RH. Very different crowd and needs. Not at all. I'm a RHEL-rebuild user because it best meets my needs. Especially after this nonsense, I wish that my needs were best met by a different distro. I have no inherent loyalty to RHEL (or Red Hat, for that matter). Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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CentOS-3 ia64 errdate: Updated python and rh-postgresql packages fix security issues(s)
by Pasi Pirhonen 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hi, Let's try to make my first one. rh-postgresql: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-141.html Python: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-109.html I really don't see any point of making a list of updated files, so i do it this way (lazy that is :) -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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CentOS-3 i386 errata: Updated kdelibs and kdebase packages correct security issues
by Lance Davis 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-009.html refers Updated files are :- updates/i386/RPMS/kdebase-3.1.3-5.8.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/kdebase-devel-3.1.3-5.8.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/kdelibs-3.1.3-6.9.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/kdelibs-devel-3.1.3-6.9.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/kdebase-3.1.3-5.8.src.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.1.3-6.9.src.rpm To update run 'yum update kdebase kdelibs' Lance

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