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  1. Come back Distro?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by yochenhsieh

    If you want Control Center like MCC or YaST, I think there're only three distros you can choose now: Mandriva, PCLinuxOS(based on Mandriva), and SuSE. There were Conectiva and Lycoris which both had Control Centers, but also both acquired by Mandriva.:P

     

    SuSE 11.0 will have KDE4 by default, but it's not yet released. Currently it's at alpha3, and scheduled for release in June.

    PCLinuxOS does not have regular release schedule, the current release (2007) can be upgraded to KDE4.

    Mandriva 2008.1 has been released and uses KDE3.5.9 by default. You can install KDE4 in addition and it will not replace/upgrade your KDE3 if you already have it.

  2. Upgraded from 10.1 to 2008 and now won't boot

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by yochenhsieh

    Download a Mandriva One (live-cd) to backup any important data and files first. Then do a fresh install of Mandriva 2008 again. It should be faster this time. You may also use the One live cd to install Mandriva 2008.0 if you like.

     

    There's nothing wrong with your hardware. It's just there're too many differences between 10.1 and 2008.0, usually nobody would suggest you to upgrade normally from a distribution version so old. Especially when you have built and installed many softwares from source, which might break dependency. Upgrading also takes a lot of time than normal install. Installing Mandriva 2008.0 from One with my 24x combo drive only took less than 15 mins.

     

    If you have / and /home mounted at different partitions, you can just reinstall Mandriva without formatting /home and keep all personal data untouched. That's my way of "upgrading" Mandriva. ;) I've "upgraded" from 10.2->2006->2007->2007.1->2008 without too many problems.

  3. Mandriva One 2008 (free ver) & 4 GB RAM not found

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by yochenhsieh

    The One edition of Mandriva Linux 2008 uses a kernel build designed for compatibility with the widest possible range of systems, the kernel-desktop586 build. If you install One on a system with more than 880MB of RAM, not all of the RAM on the system will be detected and used. If you have more than 1GB of RAM, you will be able to gain the benefit of your extra memory by switching to the kernel-desktop kernel build. Once you have installed the necessary packages, you can simply restart your system. The new kernel build should be the default, and you should notice that this one recognizes all the memory your system contains.

     

    http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandr...to_880MB_of_RAM

  4. Localized 2008.0 One now available!

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    After several weeks of testing, new localized Mandriva One 2008.0 are now available on public mirrors!

     

    These images contains additionnal lang support:

    - One "extra-i18n"

    * Arabic (ar)

    * Bulgarian (bg)

    * Hebrew (he)

    * Hindi (hi)

    * Lithuanian (lt)

    * Dutch (nl)

    * Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)

    * Ukrainian (uk)

    * Uzbek (cyrillic) (uz)

    * Zulu (zu)

     

    - One "asia"

    * Indonesian (id)

    * Japanese (ja)

    * Korean (ko)

    * Malay (ms)

    * Chinese Simplified (zh_CN)

    * Chinese Traditional (zh_TW)

  5. Emulators

    in Virtual Machines and Emulators

    Posted

    If you want to emulate Win95/98/Me, use qemu, vmware player* or vmware server. Virtualbox does not support Win9x series. I would recommend vmware player as it's easier to use than the other two emulators.

     

    For emulating Win2000/XP or later, any of the emulators you can find should work. Vmware products now have experimental Direct3D support, and Virtualbox has seamless windows mode.

     

     

    *Use easyvmx to create new disk image and vmx file. http://www.easyvmx.com

  8. How do I install software programs ?

    in Software

    Posted

    I have Mandriva 2007 free on my hard drive, I downloaded some programs from the internet ...eg Google Earth for linux....how do I install this program ?

     

    Also how do I get codecs for Totem movie player ? I want to watch some video clips of mine but it says it can not play the file because I do not have the codecs for Media player 9 video clips.

     

    Also another stupid question, how do i make a short cut of a file to my desktop ?

    Under "Home" I have a file called Documents, I want a short cut to be on my desktop.

     

    Thanks

    Hello,

    For Google Earth and codecs, the best way might be install them from PLF repositories, with rpmdrake or urpmi. You need to add plf repository to your software media first, e.g. easy urpmi:

    http://easyurpmi.zarb.org

    After you have the plf in your software media, you can install them from Mandriva Control Center, or using urpmi.

  12. Just installed Mandriva One, little to no software

    in Software

    Posted

    The official 2007.0 tree are already mirrored:

    http://mirrors.kernel.org/mandrake/Mandrak...al/2007.0/i586/

     

    To add your urpmi sources in a more easier way, just go to "configure your computer"->"software management"->"select from where software packages are downloaded". Make sure you're already connected to the internet, then click "add"->"distribution". You will be asked to select a nearest mirror, then the rpmdrake will automatically add the software repositories.

    Easyurpmi is another way to set urpmi sources, if you prefer console than GUI:

    http://easyurpmi.zarb.net

     

    If you add repositories and install softwares when using One as a Live-CD, those softwares and repositories data will be also installed onto your HD when you use the live-installer. You don't need to add the repositories twice.

  13. Control Center -- Does it matter or not?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by yochenhsieh

    Some Linux distros feature a control center for configuring system settings, e.g. Mandriva(MCC), SUSE(YAST). However, there're also popular distros which does not have a control center of its own at all, e.g. *buntu, Fedora. What do you think about control centers?

     

    Talk about your thoughts.:)

     

    ps. Control centers of Linspire & Xandros are just KDE control center with little (or no) modifications. That doesn't count. :P

     

    Mandriva Control Center

    http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...42&slide=44

     

    SUSE YaST Control Center

    http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...37&slide=43

     

    Conectiva Control Center

    http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...00&slide=53

     

    Lycoris Control Center

    http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...65&slide=38

  21. Maybe I just got the wrong distro?

    in Software

    Posted

    Ok, that is one issue. But how can i improve the speed? Win98, for example, runs smoothly on that box, while MDK10.1 doesn't.

    You can try icewm, blackbox, or Window Maker. There're many light-weight solutions for old hardwares. That's not a distro problem. KDE & Gnome usually need 256 MB at least. I'm not sure about XFce, though...

  22. FlashPlayer in 2006 free? [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Hello, rogerh.

    You will not find flashplayer and realplayer on any of your urpmi sources. These softwares have special licenses including some restrictions regarding to redistributions of such softwares.

     

    The flashplugin can be downloaded at

    http://macromedia.mplug.org/

     

    The RealPlayer can be downloaded at

    https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/

     

    Just download the rpms and double-click on them to install. The flashplugin will install to your mozilla plugin directory, which will be used by firefox automatically. The RealPlayer can be launched by running "realplay" command, you can add it to the menu by using menudrake.

  23. Mandriva 2006 Live cd - User Login problem[solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Hello, slan57.

    Actually, you don't need to use the control center to configure resolution. Next time when you use Mandriva 2006 Live CD, there is a small monitor icon on the right side of the KDE panel. Just right-click on it and you will be able to switch resolution.

     

    However, in case you need to logout and login again for other things. Before you logout, use the Mandriva control center to "unlock" the guest user and set the password. By default the root has no password, and the guest is locked in 2006 LiveCD. You need to unlock guest first, then set his password, otherwise you won't be able to login as guest again.

     

    All settings of the 2006 LiveCD cannot be saved, that includes the password. This Live CD is mainly made for demostration and hardware compatibility test.

  24. No More LiveCD How-to?

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    I don't have the time to write a howto for MDV 2006. Nor to answer the many emails I am getting. There won't be a howto the next months. And I am tired of being the (free-beer) personal helpdesk for people all over the world.

    All scripts are included in MCNLive.

    Also, the cvs of mklivecd should work. If you have questions or problems, you should ask the developers of the mklivecd scripts.

     

    --chris

    Sorry, I wasn't meant to offend you.

    Thanks for all the information you provided, I will try the cvs again later.

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