Dapper Dan

Very nice Soulnothing! You could call it ManDebian..

This is the best "how to" I've found.

In Gnome or KDE? I believe KDE has a menu editor that will allow you to edit it to your liking. I use IceWM which makes editing the menu as easy as pie.

I understand y'all's points about Windows XP, and it's all about choices and what works for you. For me though there is the freedom issue. I have 9 computers to maintain, and only one of them has a Windows partition. That's so my nephews can play games on my mom's computer, and it's Windows 98. Otherwise, all the others are free of Microsoft, consequently I feel free! Before, with Windows, I felt like a slave in comparison.

I've never used it, but I know someone who has, plus I've seen a lot of positive remarks about Smoothwall on the net. Linux will certainly be a better server choice for you, but hopefully you are a computer enthusiast and will take on the challenge. Be prepared to research and learn because Linux is challenging. If you prevail, you will be greatly rewarded in the end! Iamroot, I personally have not been aware of problems associated with just accessing NTFS partitions with Linux, and never had any problems reading Windows partitions back in my dual booting days. I do however understand there can be problems associated with writing to NTFS from Linux with some of the apps that are working toward that end, but I've never tried any of these.

I'm simply not understanding why so many are having so many problems with Mdk 10. I downloaded the ISOs for the three CDs of Mandrake Community and burned then with K3B at 8x, and have had no problems whatsoever. In fact, I've used these "Community" CDs for three different installs and have never had even the first problem! Go figure..

SoulNothing, I have a monitor that it way to dark too. You can set the gamma by going as root: xgamma -gamma 1.6 Change the value up and down to get the gamma correction you desire. Go slowly though, you don't want to fry your monitor. I'd start at 1.1, then 1.2 and so on. Once you got it at the value you like, just add it to your .bash_profile so it will go to the value you want when starting your desktop environment.

I have run all the above mentioned Wines on RH 8, 9, and Fedora Core 1 without difficulties. I haven't tried wine with the 2.6 kernel though. I presently play the games Trespasser, Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and Team Fortress, all at native or better speeds. In fact, while playing the on-line multi-player Team Fortress, I get far better pings than I ever got under Windows! If you must run Windows apps, VMware and Win4lin are both excellent solutions, although VMware is slower and more expensive, and Win4lin is less expensive and natively fast after it gets up and running. The limitation of Win4lin is that it only works with Windows before Windows2000. For many of the Windows applications, there is usually a Linux equivalent. Of the ones I've tried, It's been my experience that the Linux equivalent is either as good and often better. For instance, why run Nero with wine when there's K3B? Why run Word 2000 with wine when there's Open Office? Why run MS Paint with wine when there's the Gimp and a whole host of other Linux "paint" programs? There are some that aren't as fully featured though. The interface of a native Linux app may at first be unfamiliar, but after a period of adjustment, it will almost invariably run more stably than it's Windows equivalent under the Windows OS. We have to remember that these programs were made for Windows, not Linux, and our mileage using Wine is going to vary. Wine is not a magic program to run all Windows applications satisfactorily, but if you can get it to work for a particular program you cannot do without, it can be very handy. We tried running Quickbooks Pro with regular Wine, Crossover Wine and even gave it a shot with Winex, all to dissatisfaction. Finally we found that Win4Lin runs Quickbooks Pro as well for us as it did under Windows. There are Linux financial programs out there, but most are not as full featured as Quickbooks, and very few will do payroll. For all other applications we use Linux.

Hey y'all! Check this out! Linux-Wlan says it uses prism2, and I don't see there are newer "versions" to muck you up with broadcom chipsets without letting you know. At this price, I'm ordering mine right now before they run out!

It just so happens I'm in the same fix. I decided not to wait, and ran out to Radio Shack and purchased a Linksys WMP11 wireless PCI. The guy at the store said I could bring it back if I couldn't get it to work. Linux-Wlan says the WMP11 uses Prism 2, but the later "versions" of this card don't and won't work. There's nothing on the box that says it's any of the versions so I hope things will come together when I install it tomorrow. If you can wait, I'll let you know how I come out, then you might want to consider getting one too if I can slay this beast! Edit: Just found out the #$%^ing thing is a WMP11 (version 2.7) which uses the broadcom chips! You can't see that it's a 2.7 until you open the box! %&*@! So I'll take it back tomorrow.. [Edited by Dapper Dan on 2004-04-28 00:21:21]

These guys are right. K3B is the most smokin' cd burner app there is! My second choice would be Eroaster, which comes standard with Mdk.

I often find myself needing two instances side by side to research one link while posting on another. It hasn't confused me yet.. As far as confusion goes, it appears as though that's just what happened while I was trying to edit my last post after posting then editing! I sure wish there was a way to edit BEFORE posting.

Originally posted by jimf43: Quote: I can't imagine why you'd want all those windows. Shades of M$ IE ;-). Boy Jim, that one really hurt!;(

ATI makes great cards, but if playing Windows games via wine is important to you, you can save yourself a lot of headaches by using Nvidia. I've been a member of Transgaming.com for a little while now, and the forums over there are just rife with complaints about ATI cards not working properly with Winex. If this isn't important to you, I think either ATI or Nvidia will be good choices. I've used both, and personally think Nvidia is more user friendly for Linux users.

Hi guys, I'm thinking about buying this Proxim pci card for a computer on my home wireless network. The box will be running Mandrake 10. There is nothing on the Mandrake hardware list about this card. I know from experience that the Orinoco gold card works very well on our laptop using Morphix. Do you think it will work alright with Mandrake 10 using the 2.6 kernel? Thoughts?

To me, the best way to learn is, learn as you go! As questions arise, use google to find answers. Here, Linuxquestions.org, Justlinux.com and others have great informative forums to read. Don't try to cram and learn everything at once or you wind up very frustrated. Also, when you have a question you can't find an answer for, post it here, and someone is bound to be able to help. You learn a lot just by asking questions.

A quick search on your scanner with Linux comes up completely empty. I don't think there's a way to get it working for you. Sorry..

I've never done a Suse ftp install. I wish I could help you. Sorry...

Originally posted by shadowmatrix: Quote: I hope that I will be able to return the courtesy by helping another user in need at some point in time. That's the whole idea! There's an awful lot about Linux that I don't know, but if I have a little knowledge and experience with something that can help a new user, then I believe I have a responsibility to try and help them. I'm sure most here believe as I do, that helping new Linux users is a very rewarding way of giving something back to open source. I'm glad to hear you have grasped this concept so early on in your explorations with Linux!

Morphix Gnome 4.1 works like a champ on my wife's laptop.

For those of us over 40, shouldn't we be able to find a place for these two guys in our organization?? http://www.vegalleries.com/misccels/tennesee.jpg http://www.emerchandise.com/images/p/CWY/pdSYCWY0001.jpg Dapper Dan

If your /etc/inittab is set to 5 it should boot you straight to the "login manager" which is either kdm (KDE) gdm (Gnome) or xdm (unix). If you set it to "3" it will not boot you into "X" or runlevel 5. For now, leave it at 5, unless you like to start x yourself by going: startx [enter] Your default color depth is set for 24 and your resolution at that depth is set for 1024x768. If you're not getting a screen, then you may want to run as root: XFdrake [enter] ..and play around with it until you can find a resolution and monitor configuration that works. Make sure that your monitor is listed correctly as the particular model and make you have. XFdrake takes a little while to figure out, but it has never failed me when trying to configure a monitor..

I've been experimenting with Mdk 10 Community, and it does beg for cd 4 often when trying to install packages. If 10 is like 9, you can only get the cds after cd 3 with the bought boxed set. There is a way to set urpmi to download the files you need instead of it wanting the cd's but I haven't figured it out yet. Anyone?

Those .bin files will make a newb crazy! I know, it happened to me! Pull up Nautilus or konqueror and just double click on it. If that doesn't open it, you may have to change it's permissions to 777. Or, from a terminal as root, 'cd' to the directory where that .bin file is located, and do: chmod 777 yadaya-whatever-it-is.bin [enter] Then: ./yadayada-whatever-it-is.bin [enter]

It all depends on how you want to do it. You can use ftp or ssh or telnet or tightvnc. On the same network, and especially if using wireless, I prefer ssh as it is much more secure than the others. First, you'll need to make sure both boxes have openssh server and client software on them. Check your firewall and make sure it allows ssh to go through as "trusted." Once all this is done, open up a terminal and find out the ip of both boxes if you don't already know. As root do: /sbin/ifconfig [enter] On each box respectively. This will give you their ip addresses. Let's pretend the user name on the server box you want to contact is bob. Let's also pretend the ip of that server box is 192.168.1.101. Go: ssh bob@192.168.1.101 [enter] The server will then ask for bob's password. Give it and press enter. That's it, you're in!