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or krename?

I always thought this was enabled by default. You just have to type a slash "\" and then type the word you're looking for. F3 to find the next match, shift-F3 to find the previous one. I did think that Opera had a cool zoom function which scaled the images as well (changing the text size in Firefox just changes the text size but leaves the images as they are), but I can't find a link right now. And no, I don't think anyone here is preaching or evangelizing, we're just discussing features + and -.

You have been able to (at least manually) for quite some time. See this thread for some more suggestions. Similarly Ctrl-L goes to the location bar in Firefox too. I agree with arctic, I think most of the points mentioned here are either also true for the competitors or not really selling points for me. I think the major advantages which people raise are greater speed, smaller memory usage, and mouse gestures. The most often-mentioned disadvantage is the closed-sourceness. Firefox has vastly more plugins available than Opera but has vastly more rubbish plugins too.

Update: (in case anyone's interested) Using Debian everything works perfectly, I can use avrdude to read from and write to the memory of the chip, using KHexEdit to edit the binary files. This is via a (homemade) parallel port cable to an attiny2313. Plus I can use avr-gcc and the other bits to make a .hex file from the C source (actually just call 'make') and use avrdude to write that generated .hex file to the chip. So I can do it with Debian, it's just a shame these packages aren't available in Mandriva!

Wow, you've used 14 Gigs in your root directory but less than 200 Megs in your home? That's very unusual! Normally the root partition has only a few gigs in it (like maybe 5). Do you store all your personal stuff somewhere in the root tree rather than in your /home directory? Try using filelight (if you've got it) to see where all the space is being used up. Or use Ian's tip from the command line.

Update: I tried again with Mandriva, and I got kontrollerlab and binutils compiled ok, but the compile of gcc for avr borked and I couldn't figure out what the problem was, so that stumped me for the rest of the chain. Then I tried it in Debian and it all seems to work fine - I installed avr-gcc, avr-binutils, avr-libc and avrdude. I got as far as compiling the C into a .hex file, which seemed to work ok - obviously I won't know for sure until I've uploaded some recompiled code into the chip. But certainly a boatload easier using precompiled packages! Fun stuff!

I know you said "preferably using the GUI" but here are a couple of command line options: zip -e mcrypt

Welcome aboard! :) 1) - right click on the bar and go to "Configure Panel". There are boatloads of things you can configure here, including size. 2) - In general you can say this: the first thing you install on Mandriva, it will seem like it's much more complicated and confusing, and why can't I just get an exe from the web and double click it. The second thing you install on Mandriva, then you realise how cool the system i and actually it's much much easier than searching for exes on the web. Almost all the apps you'll ever want are just waiting for you in the repositories, without you having to hunt for them, but the first time in you'll have to set up these repositories. Fortunately if you're running 2008.1 this step just got a whole lot easier. In the menu, go to "Install and update software" (I think it's called that, but you'll see it anyway). The tool will ask if you want to set up repositories, and you say yes, you want full sources. You select a server near you, and it will load a list of all the software you can get. And it's a biiiiiiig list! Then when you want avant you just search for "avant" or "awn", make sure the dropdown is set to "All" (not "Packages with GUI"), select the ones you want, and press ok a few times :)

There are much more recent threads on this topic - for example Mandriva Star in Kicker bar, K-menu Logo in 2007 Spring, Kde menu, Changing Gnome/KDE Star icon, and so on. All findable with "search" ;)

Don't know where you've got that from, arctic, I've never heard of this phenomenon. I've never heard of people switching out of embarrassment and those that do use it are more than happy to explain the advantages.

Maybe it seems to be okay but you might be making problems for yourself later. Generally it's a bad idea to use 2008.1 repositories with a 2008.0 system. With the PLF stuff it may be less of a problem, but it's something you should be aware of. In the case of k9copy, it's also available in the 2008.0 repositories so you could use it from there - I don't know about dvdshrink though.

Maybe if you told us what isn't correct about the rendering, it might be easier. Could you perhaps make a screenshot, showing the how other applications are showing the text and what Firefox displays?

Thanks Steve, great link! At first I thought these things sit on top of the gcc suite, so I could skip the binutils and gcc steps (I've already got them installed via rpm). Then I would just need to compile avr-libc and avrdude and I thought I'd be set. kontrollerlab is already compiled ok and runs. Alas, I can't compile avr-lib because it needs an avr-compatible compiler (ie, avr-gcc). So it seems I do indeed need to compile both binutils and gcc in their avr forms. Sigh. I had a quick look in Debian to see what's there and they're all in the repositories, gcc-avr, binutils-avr and avrdude. No kontrollerlab but perhaps for starters I'll try doing it from Debian just to see whether it works or not.

Hey, that's cool, thanks for the link! Unfortunately I can't find that for Mandriva either (only Suse or Fedora) so the same problem applies - try an rpm built for another system or try to build from source, which is better? It's also not at all obvious from the website whether the kontrollerlab includes avr-gcc or not - it says it uses it, but I can't find anything obvious in the package contents or in the source tar. :unsure:

Has anyone tried programming AVR microcontrollers with Mandriva? When I look in rpm.pbone.net, I see packages called avr-gcc for other distros (Fedora, RedHat): But this package doesn't seem to be available for Mandriva. All I can find for Mandriva is one called sdcc which doesn't seem to do quite the same thing. Any idea why avr-gcc isn't packaged for Mandriva? Might it be worth trying a Fedora/RedHat rpm with Mandriva or would I have to compile it from source?

I've been playing recently with the live versions of Mandriva 2008 Spring and Kubuntu Hardy Heron. For what it's worth, I've written a page describing the pros and cons, how the live versions compare, and how to do the basics with each. If you're interested the page is here: http://geocities.com/firsttimelinux/live_d...ubuntu2008.html [moved from Other Distributions by spinynorman]

Try "python-qt".

Qt has a gui designer application, yes. But it generates code which you can then use in the IDE of your choice. It's not a complete IDE by itself. If you're short of time, one heavy criterion is what you already know. Do you already know any C++? Java? VB? Sometihng else? That's for sure the best starting point if you're in a hurry. I might be wrong but I think you can develop J2EE applications for free and deploy them onto something like Tomcat / Apache for free. But it doesn't sound like you need the Enterprise bits, no. Developing and deploying a standard java app won't cost you anything - but if you want to deploy the runtime too you'll have to look at the licensing rules. Or just deploy your app and say that they need to get the JRE from somewhere else. You can develop quickly in any language. Some (eg VB) are more suited to quick prototyping than others (eg C). So let me get this right - you want to release your software as open source (for example, using the GPL), and at the same time charge money for it? This was my earlier question, you can certainly sell things you've released under the GPL, but under the terms of the GPL the person you sold it to has every legal right to just give it away to anyone for free, publish it on the internet, etc etc. They could give it to Mandriva and they could package it in the repositories if they wanted, because you've allowed them to do this with the GPL licence - Is this what you're intending to do?Or are you really wanting to keep it closed-source and sell the compiled code as a product?

You seem to be bundling together three things in your evaluation - IDE for development (eclipse, kdevelop, anjuta) - language of code (java, C++, python, ...) - widget library (AWT, SWT, Qt, Gtk, ...) But you can develop C++ with eclipse, you can use SWT with java, there are lots of possibilities. All your database questions are down to the language, not the IDE or the widget library. I'm not sure what you mean by "printing reports", I'm guessing you just need to generate a pdf or word doc and let that do the printing, right? And I'd question your statement for java - "Price: ( 100$ year/developer ? ) cheap". Eclipse is free, the java SDK is free, what is the 100$/year for? As far as I know you don't have to buy a license to sell java programs. Also what do you mean by "RAD" - the ability to do a quick prototype or the ability to have a team working simultaneously on the project? And C++/Qt can for sure talk to Postgres and Mysql, there are bundles of programs doing just that. I don't think connecting to those databases will be a problem for any of your options. I know nothing about Firebird but a few seconds with wiki tells me that it supports C++, java, perl, python, and I'm guessing anything else which supports odbc. I think the criteria you've got are more like this: IDE - cost, maturity/stability, features language - speed of development (for you and/or team), libraries widgets - cost, looks, design tools I think speed of execution is a factor but probably much less important than you think. Is it going to take you 2 weeks to develop in Visual Basic but 6 months in Python? If "flashy guis" is a priority, then just look at the open source projects which you consider "flashy" (digikam? stellarium? blender?) and see what they use. Maybe the standard widget libraries aren't flashy enough... And about the Qt licence, is the software you're going to produce going to be open but not free? Does that mean, you will sell it but also sell the source code including rights to modify and redistribute? Seems to me like you'll sell one version and then find the source legally and freely redistributed, no?

He never said anything about booting from a dvd, John! ;)

He never said anything about an iso. ;) It sounds like it's just any old dvd, not a Mandriva dvd. It's just that he can't read it when running Mandriva.

Welcome to the board! :) It's not a yes or no answer, it all depends on the dependencies ;) If it's a little rpm which only depends on itself and its own lib file, you'll have no problems using it with 2008.0. On the other hand, if it has a long list of dependencies including some core system components (like KDE, Qt, C++, common libraries), then you probably can't just update the one rpm without also updating all the others to their 2008.1 versions. And then updating the others might impact other things you've got installed, and it could get messy - it might be easier just to update the whole system up to 2008.1 and then everything's consistent again. As daniewicz says, tell us which rpms you're talking about, it might be easy or it might be a right pain. As for the 2007.1 rpms, I don't know, it's not usually necessary because everything in 2007.1 is also available (and probably with a better, newer version) with 2008.0. If you're not seeing common programs in 2008.0 then it might be you've not set up all your repositories. Have you got main? contrib? plf-free? plf-nonfree?

Thanks! So some executables are in /usr/bin, but maybe just console apps. Interesting, thanks! Maybe I should launch lynx instead :D

Wow, very confident! I think I would be more confident if I had ever heard of Darwin before... but whatever. I was trying to avoid making assumptions that "name xyz implies function abc will be available, and anything else means it won't be", and trying to use a more reliable method of directly testing if the function is available.In that case it is exactly like browser detection! :P So does anyone know what the result of those 3 commands would be? which which which firefox firefox http://whatever

That's exactly what I meant by "I'd prefer to do the checking without trying to retrieve and parse the OS name if possible" - just like the old days of browser detection and a new version comes out and the things stop working because the name isn't exactly like that any more... :( I was trying to detect which functions are available but maybe that's not possible?