OpenSuse

[DAVEM]

After a less than great experience with Ubuntu, I installed OpenSUSE which I have to say is simply outstanding. I thought moving to Linux would make my TV card redundant, not only did openSUSE install the right driver, it also installed TV viewing software which worked straight off.

R was a easy to install automatically with the Package installer thingy.

It's been a while since I tinkered with Linux, but I'm fully converted, it's not as good as OS X IMO, but certainly up there with the best OS I have used.

Just great,

It's all been so easy that I only have one question!

1) I want to transfer files from my Mac to my PC, how do I do this?

 

[deano]

usb key ? or scp over the network

 

[DAVEM]

usb key ? or scp over the network

They are both connected to a router
(PC via wire and Apple Mac via Wireless)

Thought there must be a sftp type setup I could go for?

 

[matja]

1) ensure your Mac has sshd running

2) on your linux machine : rsync -av user@mac-hostname:/path/to/files /where/to/put/them

3) easy huh

If command-lines scare you, theres a selection of graphical SCP/SFTP clients, GFTP is pretty good.

 

[v0n]

seconded, rsync will be the best option, however, I would do it as
rsync -e `ssh -ax` -avtW user@mac-hostname:/path/to/files /where/to/put/them
To maintain timestamps and modified dates, makes life easier...

 

[leezer3]

How about Samba? Should allow you to map the drives at both ends, as opposed to having to play with the console or a separate utility for transferring files.
Guide to setting things up on the SUSE box here:
http://www.tweakhound.com/linux/samba/page_2.htm
And on the Mac end here:
http://www.opendarwin.org/en/articles/osx_smb/

-Leezer-

 

[DAVEM]

Cheers, yeah I can't believe how easy it was to setup OS X to be an FTP server!
My Linux setup is almost complete, just two oustanding questions:
1) How can I make the included player, play WMV files?
2) When I ssh -X into my Mac, is there anyway I can get X windowing working? So ssh'ing to x11 rather than a standard terminal?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

2) When I ssh -X into my Mac, is there anyway I can get X windowing working? So ssh'ing to x11 rather than a standard terminal?

To do this it would be easier to use a VNC client at your end and a VNC server on the machine you're viewing.

 

[leezer3]

To get wmv to play, you'll want the w32codecs package. Should be easy enough to find- May not be in the main repos due to legality issues though.

-Leezer-

 

[DAVEM]

To do this it would be easier to use a VNC client at your end and a VNC server on the machine you're viewing.

cheers I was a little worried about bandwidth, as VNC tends to take LLLOOOOAAADDDSSS....