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The news was about a weapon system. So unless the army starts to shoot at vehicles in traffic jams or accidents Linux won't really have any effect on those cases.

Unfortunately removal is not as straight forward as installation. In your case you should try to remove kdebase which in turn removes the whole KDE desktop.

There is a separate tool for removing complex transactions called urpmi.recover. It's not installed by default and I never tried it myself but it's reported working nicely.

I am still unclear on this point. Which cooker repos should be used for updates? (not installation)

 

Only the ones with 'update' in the title?

The above + Cooker Main?

All of them?

All except backports?

Some other combination?

 

I have tried the first two of these options and it makes a huge difference to what is offered when you elect to 'Update System'.

 

One other question on this topic. I downloaded cooker rc1. If I continue to update it does it eventually turn into the next release candidate then finally the finished product or is it necessary to download the next version each time one is released?

Since Cooker is the testing ground of Mandriva it doesn't make any sense using the backports and testing tree of cooker. You can use the rest.

During the testing phase cooker becomes frozen (no new version only bugfixes) and eventually becomes the stable distro. Mandriva puts it into the public mirrors then opens cooker again. So if you're not careful enough you'll have another unstable system again.

1. Right click on the window header and choose Special\Always stay on top. I'm not using English settings so the actual text can be different.

4. You should write a "&" without quotes after the command.

This is an old topic. It's for Mandriva 2007. In 2008 you have to change the menu icon in a different way. There are a few topics about it already. They also explain howto get rid of the menu text. Sorry but I can't remember these things.

Did you restart X-window? Or just logged out and logged in?

Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data-forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations.

Read the rest here.

The ATI Catalystâ„¢ 8.3 Proprietary Linux Driver is out. You can read the new features, resolved issues and known issues here.

You can download it from here (32 bit) or from here (64 bit).

Is Zapata telephony what you are trying to compile? Because if it is then you can find it in the contrib repo.

zaptel-tools - Various tools for the Zapata Telephony Interface​ 

Various tools for the Zapata Telephony Interface

I read some bad things about 2008.1 RC1 but nothing that would come close to this. So let's start at the beginning. Did you check the download and the burn?

3. I think you can mount an ISO image only in read-only mode, so no.

In mplayer left\right arrows moves back\forward 10 seconds, up and down 1 minute and PageUp and PageDown 10 minutes. I don't know if it's configurable though.

I guess the warning message is there because the mirrors are currently updating. They just want to wait until it's finished.

Older versions of IPB used to add my posts to the previously written ones automatically. Why isn't it working anymore? Also how can I delete my post?

Arctic is claiming to be from an Old Europe. Where is that? And why do refer to me as a troll what does it mean??

You know you can edit your posts.

Troll (Internet)

Vista Ultimate is free?????? Where can I download it?

From the unofficial Microsoft distributors (piratebay, mininova etc.)

We all heard about a couple of companies, some very large ones, switching to Linux. But now, according to The Register, the US Army is planning to use Linux for its next generation weapons program called Future Combat System.

Future Combat Systems, or FCS, is a roughly $200 billion weapons program that military officials consider the most thorough modernization of the Army since World War II.

US Army struggles with Windows to Linux overhaul (The Register)

'Battle Command' Summits (DefenseNews)

The Complex Crux Of Wireless Warfare (Washington Post)

i586 in the package names means only that the package was compiled for Pentium class or above processors. So it's 32 bit.

You can use existing Linux partitions for a new install. You only have to delete or change them if you want to change their size or want to completely delete Linux.

That bug is important because you should add only the update repos first, update your system and then add any other repos you want. I don't know though if it's responsible for your screen.

What is the underlying rationale of this common sense?

 

Common sense could work in both ways, common sense could tell you that by joining an existing repo you could reach a larger audience quicker and easier but at a cost to individual reputation. Whereas on the flipside, common sense could also tell you that you could maintain independence, work harder and longer to obtain individual reputation and prestige.

Working with somebody doesn't mean you won't have individual reputation.

Joining an already existing repo has also the benefit that your work won't disappear when you had enough of making rpms. You can also lure some other people to make more and better packages. Common sense could tell you that.

But the main thing I was first thinking about is that these repos are not built against each other. So having fewer repos means more stable system.

Autonomy and Pride can be motivators. By maintaining his independence he has full control to do what he wants, when he wants. He doesn't need to adhere to anyone elses agenda but his own. These values are known to motivate individuals, in fact they fit in with Maslow's "Self Esteem" need on his hierarchy of needs.

Talking about his motivations with you is pointless IMHO so no comment on this part. Or are you mapi Reiver?

Common sense could be a reason for the opposite (not making your own repo). But I was asking about his motivation.

Why don't you team up with one of the existing sites or directly Mandriva? What made you make your own repo?

Krusader is great (I use it all the time), but it has no real chances becoming an official KDE filemanager as long as it does not support thumbnails. There are some thoughts about making Dolphin the default KDE4 filemanager, but not Krusader.

Still, I love that filemanager. Next best available after Midnight Commander (of course!).

Thumbnails? The whole point of two pane file managers is displaying file lists. How could you display thumbnails in a file lists without

a, displaying miniature images

b, displaying looooooooong lists? Besides generating thumbnails sometimes takes a of time and it slows the system down.

Anyway I have no problem Krusader not being the default file manager as long as it exists.

Are bug reports a waste of time?

From the bugs reported to Mandriva I have everything from "solved in days" to "reported a year ago and still opened". Of course I would like them all solved within days but I know that open source projects are usually underfunded. They don't have enough developers. They do what they can and so do I.

KDE Community Ships Ninth Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop.

KDE 3.5.9 features translations in 65 languages, improvements to KDE PIM suite and other applications.

The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.9, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. The most important changes have been made to the KDE-PIM applications, including the KMail email client, KOrganizer, a planning application and other components.

The rest of the Release announcement is here. The Changelog is here.

I guess I'll have to get used to the kicker style menu now because that feature is too good to live without :D :D

I think you mean the kickoff menu style.

Anyway this feature is not related to menu style. You can use it with the original menu style if you want. The only confusing thing is how it works. Because if you just click on the Reboot button the machine starts to reboot immediately. But if you click and hold the mouse button down the menu appears and you can select any boot entry.

I can see coralftp in rpmdrake. Try downloading the hdlist files again.