Subj : Re: Remmina RDP
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Mon Jun 03 2024 17:28:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>>> To get around this (with an old Win98 machine I have that does not
>>> otherwise have access to the Internet), I installed an ftp server on the
>>> linux machine for the occassional times I need to transfer something
>>> between boxes.
> 
>> Clever trick. What FTP server did you use?
> 
> I installed vsftpd.  It was pretty simple.  The Win98 ftp client works fine
> with it (knock-on-wood!).  I also made sure that the ftp port on that
> machien was not open to the router (and the outside world).

https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html#download

I'll have to try it, thanks.

>> Yeah, there's the one I like best, then the several that I can make do
>> with if I have to, because PCLinuxOS is a one man band, Tex's health
>> isn't good, and dunno if there's anyone going to continue the distro
>> when he hangs it up. So have been trying to come up with another I like
>> as well... so far the answer is "not really."
> 
> That is a good reason to be trying out other distros, though.  I think you

Yeah. Next one I become addicted to, I'd like to outlive me.

Fedora is tolerable, but I don't LIKE it the way I do PCLOS. And the 
performance is nowhere near as good. Boot to desktop:
PCLOS: 5-10 seconds on a modern machine, 30 seconds on a 16 year old laptop.
Fedora: 2 minutes on a modern machine, I wouldn't even TRY it on the laptop.

> told me before, but which one is PCLinuxOS based on?

Mandrake, a LONG time ago, before Mandrake itself died. It's become its 
own thing, tho the nearest current relation is OpenMandriva (but OM is 
not nearly as clean and bug-free).
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