Dapper Dan

It all depends on what type apps you are wanting to run. Regular wine will come standard with most distros. My experience has been that it will run limited Windows applications, and very few of them well. For office apps CrossoverOffice is definitely the way to go, but it isn't free. It will run a lot of Windows office apps extremely well, check this page out for a list of which ones. For gaming you'll want to go to Transgaming.org and subscribe to Winex3. It also cost a minimal amount monthly, but there is a free version you can download which is a lot harder to get up and running. If you need a variety of Windows programs, I've found Win4lin to be a stellar way to go! With Win4lin, you install non-XP type Windows right on top of you Linux, and it will run most programs excepting games as well, and more stable than Windows! It also installs effortlessly, but you must have a licensed copy of Windows to install. To run apps with wine(x), cd to directory containing the desired executable and go: wine windowsapp.exe For winex go: winex3 windowsapp.exe Good Luck!

When I was using Windows, (and thank god that's behind me now.. ), I did prefer Sygate over ZoneAlarm. To me, Sygate was just more on top of what the real issues were with Windows security. I also felt that Sygate gave more tools and utilities by which to manage security, and was more suited for tailoring it for one's specific needs. Both are good though.

He was in XP and all of a sudden his Linux opened up? As in, the computer suddenly went down and rebooted into Linux? If it is an XP security issue, do what SoulNothing said and get a good strong and restrictive firewall. If it is Linux that is cracked, (which is much ore unlikely) tell him to change his usernames and passwords in both immediately and reconfigure the firewall to "paranoid." Especially have him change root's password to something very abstract. I'd be willing to bet it's an XP security issue. If that it the case, he should only go online using Linux until he gets it fixed. I hope your friend gets it sorted out.

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I haven't used Slack in a while. (and of course used IceWM with it ), but have been seeing and reading a lot of positive comments about Dropline Gnome.

What do you get when you set to "No firewall?" That should open up every port on the box to let it through. Edit: Are you using a router? If so, have you checked it to make sure those ports are open?

Found this for you. I always use the keyboard when playing games so I couldn't recommend one. I would definitely seek advice over at Transgaming.com, or you might be able to dig up some good info on which to use from what's already posted. Good Luck.

RAM and swap look good. Danleff can help more on the compatibility issues with hardware than I can, although you may also want to see if there are too many instances of certain daemons running. This happened to me once with Mdk 9, and caused halting problems. As root go: top [enter] And check the usages of running programs. Sometimes, that can cause the type problems you mention. Good Luck!

Hmm. Not having this problem on my Community 10. What is your RAM and how big is your swap in comparision to the rest of your Linux partitions? Have you had another distro on this box that worked alright?

For those of us who have not seen that post, but may be able to assist you, it would help if you gave us a link to it.

If you have apt-get installed, add the Dag repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list, update and then do: apt-get install firefox [enter] Or you can get the RPMs here: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/8.0/en/i386/RPMS.dag/ I've been using Firefox for a while now, and it has started to irritate me. Galeon, which is just as fast, and in my opinion more full featured and user friendly, won't install on Fedora Core 1 easily, so I've been using Epiphany for a while. I'm not sure why so many folks dislike Epiphany, maybe it's the name, but I find it a capable and user friendly browser, much the same as Galeon.

Hmm. Maybe it isn't mounting the cd? Try mounting the cd before playing. As root go: mount /mnt/cdrom [enter] or: mount /mnt/cdrom1 Then try the cd player.

I'm sorry, I don't have an answer for you, but wanted to let you know I had similar problems with proftp once before. I either never found an answer, or tried several "remedies" that didn't work. I finally uninstalled it and went with the other ftp server/client software on the Mandrake 9 cds, but I can't remember what it's called right now. I believe Mdk gives you 2 or three choices. Try uninstalling proftp server/client and using one of the others. That's how I got ftp working for me. With Linux, my attitude has always been, "Life is too short to wrestle with apps and programs that won't work for you, if there's an alternative app that will!" Good luck!

You should be able to solve the permissions thing by running k3bsetup2 from the kde control center. It gives you an option there of changing those permissions to run k3b as other than just root. It seems I'm seeing k3b included in a lot of new versions of Linux distros now. It's such a good frontend that I think it will wind up being a standard Linux utility in most distros like Xmms is as a standard mp3/wav player. I tell my Windows friends that as far as burners go, k3b rules over all I've seen offered by Linux or Windows! It takes a little effort to get it running right, but once you do, it is such a pleasure to use!

...This is a very useful link.

I've never done what you are trying to do so I have no advice there, maybe danleff can assist you with that, but you need to set your bios to boot from cdrom. At startup, you should see something like, "Press F2 for setup." or something. That is to access your bios. Hold what ever key it says to down until your bios comes up. Change the boot order so cdrom comes before booting from HDD. Don't change anything else in the bios! When you are sure you have it set right, save it and try rebooting from the cdrom again.

Sounds to me like your bios is not set to boot from cd. Did you install RH9 beginning with a boot floppy?

Thanks very much for posting your detailed description of what you did to get it working! The whole point of these forums is to help folks solve problems they're having with Linux. I'm sure your post will help a lot of folks who check in here!

The best way I found is to use Partition Magic ( a very good Windows partitioning tool) to create an unused portion at the end of the HD. You do this by shrinking up your Windows partition. Partition Magic is pretty common, but does cost. Maybe you have a friend who can let you try theirs out, and if you like it you can consider purchasing it. Once you've created this empty space, start the RH 9 install and tell it you want to partiton your HD manually. Then you can create a / partition, a /home partition and a swap partition there. It's really not very hard, but make sure you double check everything thoroughly before committing to anything! Luckily, RH 9 comes with an easy escape if you need to try things over again. The only way you are going to be able to proceed with confidence though is if you back up all your valuable XP data to cd before starting, which you should do in all such instances anyway. Then, if you screw it up, it won't matter so much. Be sure to format your / and your /home partitions with ext3 and NOT ext2! If you go with ext2 you'll wait for all eternity plus 20 years for it to check your disk, should you have to shut down improperly. Ext3 is journalized, and will tell itself where it needs to be when rebooting, saving you a lot of time (and hair) in the process. Just as information to you, I've used RH9 and Fedora Core1, and Core1 beats the pants off RH9 in just about every way..

Fedora Core 1 would work nicely, or Mandrake 9.0 or Mandrake 10.

If you or your apt/yum/urpmi has updated your Xmms to the latest version, you may be interested in bookmarking this page for reference..

I just checked the Gigafast website and they list a driver for Linux. I would send them an email, or call them requesting support and give them a link to this thread. If they are going to provide Linux drivers, then they should give you support since you spent your hard earned money for their product. If they won't help you, I would take it back and demand a refund.

I'm with maillion on this. Even though I use Fedora, and detest Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2, if it works for you then I would stick with it. I started with Mandrake too, and the interface is pretty easy to understand, plus you get a lot of great configuration tools. Once you've got a good idea of what Linux is about then try other distros at that time.

I've been seeing where folks have been having this same problem, unfortunately I don't know how to help with it. Sorry.

You asked if "someone" had solved this problem and I answered you. If you had wanted a more specific answer you should have said so. Good luck... ;(