punkisdead

Just curious about what window managers people here are using????

Suse 9.0 runs flawlessly on my new laptop. Gentoo running my db/web/mailserver Debian on my desktop at home used for development. Coyote used to run my firewall/router until I splurged for a wireless router. Other than that I've used, most versions of RedHat since 6.2, Mandrake since 7.0, Slackware, Lycoris(blech), Lindows(blech, blech), Xandros which is just as nasty as Corel(hated it even though it was .deb based), Libranet(which is also .deb based), Caldera(hate to admit that, had to ritualistically burn those cd's and the free hat I got from them at some expo), Yoper, Linux from scratch, Knoppix, demolinux, etc etc. IMO I liked gentoo for the fact that every package is built from source with the build flags I specified, so everything is optimized for my system. The downfall, it takes forever to compile every package from source. Debian is nice, apt is an awesome tool(no dependency probs), it's downfall being lack of bleeding edge and sometimes not-so bleeding edge packages. Suse has come a long way in the last couple of years. Wasn't impressed with the package selection in 8.2. 9.0 seems to work very well, they finally upgraded to MySQL to 4.0, and detects all the new hardware that no other mainstream distro could.

Go with Gentoo, it's a little involved on the install, but very well documented and you'll definitely learn more about Linux just from the install than if you were to run either Redhat or Mandrake for years.....

Quote: I need someone to give me some advice on what I can do to run Winex it tells me that do to limitations of my distribution that I will have problems running Winex. What can I do to fix it? Install Redhat 9 or some other distro. I tried everything I could to get Winex working with Suse and nothing worked.

Winex will not run the Windows version of the Sims. The Linux version uses a special version of winex which to my understanding is not available by itself. You have to buy the Linux version of the Sims if you want to play on Linux.

I prefer k3b for my cd-burning. Nice looking interface and easy to use and setup.

For all practical purposes....None. The only difference is which toolkit it uses to run.

I've always just built xine from source and it seems to play divx just fine.

You also might want to make sure that the proper tk/tcl packages are installed. Other wise just use make menuconfig

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com is an awesome resource.

I just bought a hp ze4315 with the same video card, and have found that using vesa as the video driver works. Unfortunately there is not much if any support for ATI video cards in linux. Check out http://www.linux-on-laptops.com and see if your laptop is listed or not.

I'm not 100% sure on the options, but you can actually just mount the .iso files as if they were filesystems. something to the effect of: mount -o iso9660 loop file.iso /mnt/whatever try the man pages for mount and verify the options needed.

I would have voted except my favorite is not included in the list..... GENTOO Linux Great source based distribution, pain in the ass to install but the performance increase is considerable when compared to a canned distribution like redhat or suse.

Just saw this today. Claims to work with MOH Allied Assault and a few other newer games.....

MSN denies support for linux machines but I did have it working at one time.... I'll ask around and try to remember how I did it.

also make sure you are typing "root" and not "Root". You really should create a normal user account though.

-rwsr-xr-x the first set is the owners permissions, the second set is the group member permissions, and the last is everyone else..... do a ls -l /dev/cdrom* if this is linked to something else for instance if it is your cdburner it might be sr0 or scd0. you should see something like the following.... brw-rw---- 1 root cdrecording 11, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/scd0 This device is owned by root and group is cdrecording, I believe in Suse the group is disk. So if you make yourself a member of disk you should be able to mount it.....

Why are you trying to run X as root? If you need to run an app in X you could always su to root then type in: xauth merge ~<username>/.Xauthority now you can run X-apps as root without that nasty error saying cannot connect to Xserver

If you can try to get a copy of Mandrakes samba.conf file, they have it very well documented.... I'll fire up my laptop later and see if I have samba installed.

To share files between your laptop and desktop computer you should look into samba. It's a little tricky to get working right but when it's done you will be able to share files between the two. For your second question it sounds like you want to use VNC.

Why not still buy a usb burner, if there is support for it. You can always unplug your printer to use the burner or vice versa.....

Did you edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to change your video adapter from "nv" to "nvidia"???

Download the rpms from either redhat or freshrpms.net. You don't need a compiler to install rpms.

my guess is that since the nforce2 is so new and they have their own strange idea of chipset, that redhat 7.2, which is roughly 2 years old already, wouldn't even know what to do with them....

Before you get all gung-ho and repartition your hard drive, I would try out something like Knoppix or something like it, if you have a decent internet connection. This will give you any indication of problems you might have hardware wise, and since you can run it right off the CD, you don't have to monkey with your hard drive. You should stick to ext3 for a file system, and I would install mandrake first since they seem to be a little more newbie friendly.