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Has anyone tried doing a dist-upgrade with apt for SuSE? Did it work?

Originally posted by clutch: Quote: Um, I think it was a legal requirement that anybody who ran Win9x/ME was not allowed to sleep at night. Well, unless the machine was disconnected from the network, and off, and encased in cement. Even then, it's touch-and-go... LOL!

Originally posted by clutch: Quote: Strange, I have been a Windows user for the last 10 years, and haven't had these issues. Must be the user. Actually he's probably an above average user because he told me he was paying for McAaffe, and had his computer setup to download the latest virus definitions and do a scan once a week. He didn't know what spyware was though. The average computer user out there is just not going to be aware of all the things thay need to do, (and pay for) to make their Windows boxes secure enough to be able to sleep at night. Unfortunately, the market takes advantage of these very people. "Got a virus or spyware? We can help for $$$." This is the very reason I considered changing my radio station over to Linux to begin with. Even though I had what I believed were pretty dang good security measures under Windows 98 SE, I still couldn't sleep at night. If we had gotten a virus that locked up our boxes we would be seriously out of commission for a while, even after having backed up everything important. Now that all our boxes run Linux, I can get a good night's sleep again!

A friend of mine who uses Windows XP Pro recently told me of a very interesting problem he had. He said when he booted the day before his desktop image, icons and toolbar were gone. All he had was a single icon labled, "teeage [censored] photos!" Having no other way to do anything, he clicked on the icon to see what would happened. When he did, his modem network connection utility came up, dialed, got him on line and took him to a site with a warning that he had porography on his computer. The site featured several articles about people who had been prosecuted for child [censored] pictures on their machines, followed by an ad pitch that their software could rid his computer of the offending images asking for his credit card numbers! When he exited his browser, he had his desktop back but in the background was a black screen followed by a big warning about [censored]ography on his computer and a link back to the site. He asked if I could help him. The first thing I did was download Firefox Web browser and Ad-Aware. Ad-Aware found 144 spyware, malware, miningware etc. and I deleted them all and got him set up with Firefox. I went into the desktop manager and tried to re-establish his desktop background image, but the black screen and add would not go away. I traced the image to a file located in C:\Windows called "desktop.html" I commented out the image's name which made it go away but now, all he has is a white screen and you cannot put his desktop image of preference back. What a pile of crap! How invasive can you get! I didn't rub it in or anything, but the whole time I was working on his box I was saying silent "thank you's" that I don't have these problems anymore.

Originally posted by ReFoRMaT: Quote: With all due respect, that is like putting the cart before the horse. Which distro do I use for this 'break in' period? Besides, you guys are losing sight of what I am and what I am trying to do ReFoRMaT, with equal respect, this topic is not just about you. There will be plenty of new users who will read this post and may benefit from this discussion. For anyone who is thinking of using Linux I would give them the same advice. Whether or not you feel it may benefit you personally, (which obviously you don't) is of course your choice.

Originally posted by clutch: Quote: ReFoRMaT, your best bet is to simply stick with a distro, any distro, and get better at it. The more you bounce around, the harder it is to get any real "feel" for that distro or Linux in general. I completely agree. The time to start experimenting with other distros is after you've used one a good long while and have gotten very familiar with it. That way you have a good sound foundation from which to size up other distros as better or worse for you against what you've learned. clutch wrote: Quote: I guess I just got so used to Gentoo that I haven't had a need to try any other distro for personal use. I was fascinated with Gentoo, and appreciated the whole built-from-scratch-hot-out-of-the-oven-especially-suited-for-your-box approach, but frankly I'm a little too lazy and impatient to learn all that is necessary to be on top of a Gentoo installation. I started with a 2.4 kernel then updated to a 2.6 kernel and everything ran pretty smoothly. It was just far more work than I am willing to undertake. With Gentoo, I was constantly on line searching for answers to problems I encountered without locating an understandable solution. Many of the "How-tos" on the Gentoo site were (for me) like trying to understand an alien language. Gentoo just wasn't a comfortable fit for me. I think what attracts me to a distro is how much thought and attention to detail has gone into it. I also like a lean and clean set of apps without all the bloat for the sake of throwing huge numbers of apps at the end user in an attempt to impress them. Even after installing everything from the two CD's, Slackware is lean on apps. I was really exited about Ubuntu for a while until I ran into things that just weren't thought out. As a for instance, the Ubuntu wireless card configuration utility froze up with me on two different machines with two different cards each and everytime I tried to use it. I like SuSE because it is well thought out, and attention is paid to the details. I have a feeling I'm gonna really like Slackware for my stated reasons, but as for now. SuSE 9.1 has so far been my distro of choice. clutch wrote: Quote: Caution: most users to switch to "lean" distros like that rarely go back to ones like RH, SuSE, Mandy, etc. Hope you can adjust... It's still early, and I may yet run into problems with Slack that turn me against it. So far though, most everything has gone smoothly, and I'm very exited about it. Slackware just feels like a better fit for me than any other distro I've tried after this period of time.

Man! That's pretty wierd! I can't imagine why you're having this problem. Send Egorgry a PM in case he doen't see this thread. I'll bet he'll know how to fix it. Sorry I couldn't help more...

Hi guys... As long as we're sizing up new distros, I'm coming to you from Slackware 10. Just installed it this morning, and I'll have to say this is a vast improvement over the problems I ran into with Slack 9. Or it could be I'm just more experienced with Linux now. Anyway, I found out that Slackware has a package management utility called, and this is priceless... slapt-get! It works almost exactly the same as apt in Debian or apt-get RPM in Fedora just with tarballs rather than Deb packages and RPMs. I really like this! Slackware isn't nearly as difficult as I once thought it was, and it runs like a damn scalded dog! In fact, it feels like it runs better than Gentoo did on my system, and this still with the 2.4 kernel! The hardware detection was excellent, and the text install is very easy to follow. It seems to have a more "solid" feel than either SuSE 9.1 or ProMepis. My desktop of choice, IceWM installed without complaint as did Firefox. Java, flash, and realplayer plugins for Firefox were up and running in no time, and for a while, I'm gonna stick with Kmail over my longtime favourite, Evolution just for a change of pace. This is a truly solid way to go with Linux. I feel very at home with Slackware, which is not the same feeling I ever got with all the other distros I've ever tried. Of course it's still early yet... Slackware doesn't have all the GUI configuration utilities that SuSE, Fedora and Mandrake have but I'm willing to forgo a little convenience at this point to learn how to configure things manually. The standard DE is KDE, but it also offers Gnome and XFCE. I can't say enough about how much I'm enjoying this. I still don't think Slackware is a good "newbie" distro, but once you have some Linux under your belt, I think you should definitely give Slackware a try!

I just installed FB on my box and everything ran smoothely. I'm not as up on Debian as other package managers, but it seems it's telling you their is something wrong with frozen-bubble-data. Maybe clean out your present downloaded packages which frozen-bubble-data is one: apt-get clean And start over downloading the packages again. Maybe it's continuing to try to use the problem package because it's already there but can't because it is broken.

Maybe try: apt-get remove frozen-bubble Then, after it is removed: apt-get install frozen-bubble

Does anyone know when Nvidia plans to address this and come up with a new "driver?"

When you click on log out does it take you back out to KDM,(the sign in manager thingie?). If so, look in the menus there and you will find the shutdown option. If logging out doesn't take you kdm and instead takes you to a prompt, I think you can log out by going: halt [enter] Or: halt -p [enter]

The easiest way to install it is to open a terminal. Konsole will do. First you must become root. You do that by typing: su And pressing enter. It will ask for your root password. Type it in and press enter. Then type: urpmi wine And press enter, and follow the directions. It will ask for one of your install cd's where wine is located, and it will get installed. If you need more help just "hollar."

I'll be honest with you, I didn't read it all because it was quite a lot of reading, however I'd like to comment on something you said: Quote: Some argue that open source software is more vulnerable to attacks than proprietary software and some argue just the opposite. One of the "vulnerabilities” Steve and Bill and their cronies insist is a flaw in Unix operating systems is that it is open source, and since everyone has access to it, it can be undermined and hacked. This is simply a spin on the real truth. To paraphrase something I read on the Net on this subject, "just because you have a map of the layout of the security of Fort Knox doesn't mean you will be able to easily breach its security." I don't believe for a minute that Windows is targeted more just because it is the predominant operating system. In a straight up, side-by-side comparison, I can't see that Linux is inherently as insecure as Microsoft.

Check back if you need some help using it. We'd be glad to help.

I'm using the 2.6.9 kernel in ProMepis Beta 3 and not having many of the problems folks are reporting with the same kernel in FC3 so I don't think it's a kernel problem per se. I'm staying away from Core three for another few months...

You're almost always gonna run into some type of difficulty when you try to live on the very outside of the Linux envelope no matter what Distro you're using. Why do you think Patrick Volkerding is sticking with the 2.4 kernel in the upcoming 10.1 version of Slackware, and maybe even the 11.0 version? Remember Jimf43's tremendous problem using the latest 2.6 kernel with Mepis? He lost a bunch of info on his ReiserFS partitions due to a bug no one was yet aware of. I'm presently running two machines at work with Core 2, and with the updates, both are working as close to perfectly as I could ask. It's gonna take a while for Core 3 to get sorted out. When it is, that's when I'll upgrade. You can avoid many problems in Linux by just staying one version behind the latest. If you drop back to Core 2 I'd be willing to bet you're Nvidia problems will go away.

Are you using the "6629" version of the 3d accelerator drivers? I'm having problems as well. See here...

The simplist solution to almost every video card problem in Linux is to just obtain an Nvidia card. ATI makes great cards. It's a shame they don't give the Linux community the same level of support that Nvidia does. If there is an Nvidia card made within the last couple of years that doesn't work with Linux, I don't know what it is. http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compat.php?cat=All&sort=All&idx=n

Hi Barao and welcome! Unless someone else knows something I don't, I'm afraid you can't make a boot disk with FC3. That was the case with FC2 too. What's the problem? Maybe we can help with whatever it is that requires you to have it.

click once for the penguin to drop, then again to swing the bat... http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf My best was 315.3.

Oh my god, I just hit 466.5...

My first at bat on version two I hit 396.3!

That's a very helpful link ohhst! Thanks for linking it. I have it bookmarked to show to any future inquiries about .iso image burning!

dizarludba, I thought I'd responded to your post, sorry. It must have been yet another time I previewed without posting. I'm afraid I'm completely in the dark about the problem you all are having as, (a) I use Nvidia and y'all don't. ( I've never tried installing Core three (yet) so am unfamiliar with it altogether. Here's a good page on the problem though... As far a editing XF86/XOrg file, I believe with Core three you'll have to edit the Xorg file. It's located in /etc/X11. Presuming everyone at least has a prompt, you can edit the file with command line editors such as nano, pico, VI and Emacs. Since I prefer VI, I'll tell you how to edit with it. At the prompt where is asks for username, type in, root [enter] (when you see [enter], of course that means press enter.) It will then ask for password. type in your root password and press enter. Now we have to open the file in VI. Type in: vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf [enter] You should now have the xorg.conf file open. Arrow down and look for a section that is similar to... Code: Section "Device" #Identifier "VESA Framebuffer" Identifier "GeForce FX" Driver "add"vesa"here" #VideoRam 4096 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriateEndSectionEndSection Arrow down and across to the Driver section. Press the insert key and change the Driver section to "vesa" so it looks like this: Code: Section "Device" #Identifier "VESA Framebuffer" Identifier "GeForce FX" Driver "vesa" #VideoRam 4096 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriateEndSection After you are certain this section is edited properly, you must exit VI. Do this by pressing the "Esc" key and releasing it, then holding down the shift key while pressing the colon key to make a : , release shift and press the "X' key, making a small x right next to the colon, then press enter which will write the file. So it's press Esc followed by : then x next to it then press enter. For more on VI commands see here... I hope this helps some.