Dapper Dan

I notice most of those are accessing an ext2 file system from Windows 95/98. I wonder if they also works with ext3 and ReiserFS?

I use a Dell 4550 with a 120 gig hd, 2. something gig pentium 4 and 512 mb ram. Although I installed a swap, I don't use it. I read somewhere that having that much ram kind of negates the purpose of having a swap. My machine runs faster with the swap turned off than on because everything is forced through the memory. I haven't tried this on a box with smaller than 512 ram. It would be an interesting experiment if anyone wanted to try it..

When I don't have X on a box I use vi. When I have X, I use gedit. You're right, which ever one gets the job done.

Maybe we've already answered all the questions, and they're just coming here to read them... Seriously, I think what danleff said is pretty much on the mark. Also, I think we get a lot of new Linux users, and many of them, are afraid to ask a question for fear of someone ridiculing them or jumping down their throat. Most of us know from experience that it's not an unfounded fear. I remember when I first started trying to learn Linux and had no one to help me. Reading the man pages at Mandrake was like trying to understand Martian, (French Martian at that!). When I finally got the nerve to post my first question, I got a few snide comments and condescending answers, but there were also those that took time to empathize and understand my lack of knowledge and tried to help me. I'll always be thankful to those seasoned users who didn't forget what it was like when they were in my shoes. Once, I posted a question wanting to know how to become root. Man, did I get flamed for that one!

Moreover, sane Linux users??!!

The only utility I know of is Explore2fs. You can also do it from partition magic, but that costs.

It all depends on which apps or programs you are wanting to run. There are different "flavors" of wine. For office type apps, see Crossover/Codeweavers. For gaming, see Transgaming.com who develops Winex3. Regular old wine that you can download, and that comes with many distros, will run some applications, but I've not experimented with it enough to know which ones. Only regular wine is free, (as in "free beer.")

I would like to thank the moderators for upholding the integrity of this forum. It's good to know there are still places on the net where repeated inappropriate conduct can still get you banned!

dUMb24, just do a search here for "MSN" as this question has been asked and answered many times. You'll find a wealth of information on how to get MSN working for you! Good Luck!

Well you started the thread, so I guess it's up to you whether you mind it being off topic. I don't get a chance to fool with cars the way I used to, but I definitely believe there is an interesting correlation between tinkering with cars and fooling with computers, Linux in particular. In fact, I find myself calling upon many of the same reasoning resources and techniques to solve computer problems that one develops while working on automobiles. Computer geeks today can be likened to the first mechanics who loved working on automobiles a hundred years ago. I don't think we're alone. Many of my friends who love fooling with computers have an interest in automobiles as well. Back when I was younger, I spent most of my time working on one of several 1960's Oldsmobiles I have owned. I still have three of them. A 1965 Olds 442 Convertible, a 1966 Olds Starfire, and a 1967 Olds 442 coupe exactly like this one, although this isn't mine. All are still in road worthy condition, but I haven't the time to work on them like I used to. I still love cars though!

I can't make a suggestion from personal experience, but a Linux server installer guy I know really likes smoothwall.

Are you making the repairs yourself?

caudell is right. Win4Lin rocks if you simply must run Windows apps on Linux. Windows 98 would install right to it, and you would experience far less crashes.

Try: /sbin/ifconfig

Knoppix is the most well known live cd that uses KDE. There is also Morphix-KDE.

Fedora Core 1 is a continuation of where Red Hat 9 left off since RH will cease support for it's free versions next April. RH will then exclusivly offer Red Hat Enterprise which has to be purchased. RH will rely on Fedora for experimentation and bleeding edge development of their software. It is my understanding that up2date support will cease come April 1st.

Are you still using Outlook because you do not yet have a Linux email program configured? Go to a terminal, and as regular user, not root type: evolution [enter] is it there? if not, now go to Synaptic and install it. Other good email apps you can install and use from heaviest to lightest are: mozilla -mail kmail balsa sylpheed Look them over and see which best suits you. Since you mentioned "streaming audio" earlier, I thought you might want to play around with RP, (which does do streaming audio..)

I'm using RH 9. parted is installed. I uninstalled, then re-installed qtparted via apt, without complaints. Afterward, I tried to install from the qtparted rpm and it said it was already installed, yet when I do: locate qtparted it comes back empty??!! This is a strange one!! ;(

Have you looked here? http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/3.1.94/

Danleff I've got something strange going on. I've never used qtparted and checked if it was installed. It wasn't so I installed it with apt-get. parted in also installed. At the command line as root, I do: qtparted [enter] ..and nothing happens! I've tried Qtparted, QTparted, QTParted, QtParted etc, and cannot get it to come up! Weird huh??

Quote: is there any .wma plugins for xmms? Not that I'm aware of. Mplayer will play .wma files though.

Yes! Morphix rules!

It has been my experience that the only thing you really get with 9.1 and 9.2 is just better eye candy. I know others experiences may be different than mine, but in every other way, the latest two versions for me were just a big disappointment from 9.0. Though not quite as pretty, 9.0 is far more stable, and gives far less problems on the install.

cosmosys, did you ever get Linux up and running on your brother's box?

A kind of similar situation, except it's a Gnome problem is this: When I I try to run Balsa, I get this.. Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL: omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0 When I run Nautilus, I get this... GConf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL: omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0 All further errors shown only on terminal And from the terminal, each of these many times... (nautilus:25279): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL: omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0 ** (nautilus:25279): WARNING **: No description found for mime type "a udio/x-pn-windows-acm" (file is "Untitled.wav"), please tell the gnome -vfs mailing list. If I delete .gconf and .gconfd it fixes it but only temporarily. When those files are recreated, it comes back. It doesn't do it when running Evolution, Galeon or any other Gnome app. I've Googled this thing to death, read bug reports and have tried every suggested solution I have found but so far, nothing has worked. Does anyone have ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!