Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

I have recompiled custom kernels. That's really geek work.

I actually built a couple of network appliances built on the Soekris platform and Fedora Core 4 for some special switching/routing needs of one particular customer and that involved rebuilding the kernel for the Soekris box.

It's not something you have to really do any more... The latest versions of my custom built Soekris boxes are with the stock Fedora 8 kernel build, as a matter of fact, we loaded it right off the iso using PXEBOOT straight to the CF card on the Soekris with a serial console attached... through minicom on the desktop. Pure joy.


On 11/04/2009 05:14 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

Even better, tn5250j is open source and isn't insanely hard to figure out
how to download and change like other tools have been for me. One thing
that drove me nuts is how when I copy something from the tn5250j screen and
paste it into another GUI text editor (email, gedit, etc) it would always
add an additional crlf which I would inevitably have to hit the delete key a
couple of times to get rid of.

I have an article coming out soon on IBMSystemsMag.com showing how to make a
modification to tn5250j from start to finish (including downloading Eclipse
and pulling the source from the sourceforge.net repository). Hopefully
tutorials like that will show how simple *some* apps are to modify and
subsequently get more people involved in modifying the tool to work out the
various bugs.

On a similar note, I have never had to recompile the Linux kernel. I shy
away from almost all things that require recompiling unless I REALLY
want/need it.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, R Bruce Hoffman<
bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've tried IBM's Linux versions several times and it's almost always
given me fits on Fedora. But Fedora is bleeding edge.

I use the TN5250j and it's been terrific, even with the large number of
versions and releases of the Java VM that I keep switching around on.
Best of all... it let's me map the right ctrl key as enter...
honest-to-god 5250 keyboarding!



On 11/04/2009 05:02 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

I also have used it and still have it installed. I love how fast it is
compared to tn5250j, but changing fonts is like pulling teeth. I changed
the font one time and since then I can't seem to change it again. So at
this point I am just sticking with tn5250j as that has given me the best
over-all experience to date.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Brian McKee<map@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4-Nov-09, at 3:02 PM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:

Anybody running the IBM 5250 emulator under Ubuntu?

Yes - why?

Brian

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in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car."
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