Comments | tfofurn: And this is supposed to be a development platform?

tfofurn

And this is supposed to be a development platform?

Nov 05, 2003 16:09

I've been consistently disappointed with little oddities of RedHat 9.0's desktop. The fault lies mostly with Gnome and its developers. At the bare minimum, I expect a truly kickin' development environment. Emacs has been filling that bill as I knew it would ( Read more... )

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torq November 5 2003, 13:17:11 UTC

Did you read that Red Hat is going to be discontinuing the plain
Red Hat system and only offering Red Hat Enterprise ?

tfofurn November 5 2003, 16:10:14 UTC

Yes. That's quite disappointing, but they're right to bail if the product isn't cutting the mustard yet. Maybe Novell will fill the void.

What kind of Gnome are you using? anonymous November 6 2003, 13:27:52 UTC

My gnome-calculator has Bin, Oct and Hex right there, just had to switch into Scientific mode.
Also what's wrong with M-x calc in Emacs? Just get your

Re: What kind of Gnome are you using? tfofurn November 6 2003, 13:48:00 UTC

Well, I'm using whatever Gnome came with RedHat 9.0. The calculator in the accessories menu says it is "GNOME Calculator 2.2.0.3", but I can't find any switches in the menus to change it to scientific mode. I didn't find anything in the calculator's help, either. I've just confirmed that "gnome-calculator" on the command line gives me the same thing. Perhaps you're using something newer? Perhaps the --load-modules option will buy me some new features?

M-x Calc does not appear in the root level of the Emacs info node, so I assumed it didn't exist. Now that you tell me it's there, I found it via C-h a calc. This calls for further reading. Thank you, anonymous stranger!

Re: What kind of Gnome are you using? anonymous November 6 2003, 17:45:05 UTC

gnome-calculator onnn Mandrake 9.2 gives me Gcalctool 4.3.3.
Calc is right in the first screen of my Emacs info page.

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Re: What kind of Gnome are you using? tfofurn November 7 2003, 08:37:57 UTC

I installed gcalctool this morning. It's quite nice. Thanks for the suggestion.

As for the Emacs info page, I've confirmed that there is no mention of "calc". Grumble, grumble. I'm starting to think that if/when I get around to putting Linux on my home machine, I'll be using Mandrake instead of RedHat.

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