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Hi there, Which browser are you using? If firefox, try to download using konqueror instead it will kick in download mode automatically. Stef

Hi, where did you find this rpm? I am interrested, have tried xsoldiers and want to compare. Thanks in advance, Stef

Hi there and welcome, Little wonder you have there, i am jealous... I have not found the answer but this French man : http://pc-silencieux.disk91.com/index.php?...ia-epia-sn18000 might be able to help you, you can ask your question in English there. he seems very expert in the type of hardware. Best of luck, when you have solved yourproblem please let us know the solution, Stef

My contribution this month, Mandriva 2008.1 Eee PC 701 Comiz-fusion AWN avant window manager conky Thanks! :D

News for mandiva 2008.1, A version for xfce is out, very good for limited amount of space installs! http://download.tuxfamily.org/mcc/xfcelive/i586/extra/ Stef [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Hi, here is what I would do. I have done that on my eeepc and use to do something similar on my zaurus. 1- Start your install with your CF plugged in. 2- When you reach the installation step where the system asks you about partitions, choose custom disk partitioning. 3-a Format your ssd as reiserfs and mount point as / 3-b Format your CF as 3.5 GB reiserfs (or ext2) and the rest as your swap. Choose /home as your mount point for the first partition. 4-finish your minimal install as usual. After final reboot 5- AS ROOT : This should put all your /usr/bin on your CF and link them to the rest of the system : (if I remember well...) cd /usr/bin mkdir /home/usr/bin cp -r /usr/bin/* /home/usr/bin ln -s /home/usr/bin bin I remember doing the same with /usr/sbin and /usr/lib as well as with /opt. All that should save a lot of space. Don't worry too much about the swap, if you keep an eye on your (using gkrellm for example) you will notice that your PC actually uses it rarely If I were you I would try eeepclinuxos (http://www.eeepclinuxos.com/) this uses a Mandriva based system which is squashed, it should work on your system. You can try it live to start with and then install whatever you want. It starts very quickly and is very pleasant to use. Stef

Hi, Yes, thinking about it, last time I installed my distro on the eeepc (to do a clean install from 2008 -> 2008.1) I used the mini disk. I then proceeded to install a kde system with not too much software to start with. I then changed the kernel to the laptop-latest kernel and removed the desktop kernel. Then I copied & linked /home /user/bin/ /user/sbin/ on my 4GB sdcard (which stays in the PC always). My swap (512MB like yours) is on the SDcard to minimize the risk of affecting my SSD (4GB). I then installed all the software I needed, including full-office suite, kaffeine, all the photo gear. It all takes a bit less than 2GB, which leaves less than 1.5GB on the actual SSD. You have 2 PCMCIA on it so you could have an SDHC card of 4 or 8 GB on it for not much money and do your install on them... You have a good system, a lot of possibilities there , good idea to put a ssd on it, Stef

Hi, and welcome here. I have an eeepc (asus) and mandriva 2008.1 (spring) the latest version insalled. I have most of the ususal software installed (firefox, openoffice, kaffeine, pidgin, gimp, digiKam etc...) and that runs on kde. The whole thing takes 2.1Gb so you are nearly there! Why do you chose 2008 and not 2008.1? Can you describe your hardware, there is a way to install /home for example on another drive (like a stick). Besides, are you including a swa pin your install? You could also have a look at eeepclinuxos for a very small mandriva-based distro. MCNLive is very good too, a bit old now though and not supported anymore I think. In order to choose the packges you install an ftp install exists and gives you total control. Oce I did an install using xfce as a window manager, thunar as a file manager, mousepad as a text editor and terminal instead of konsole, that took about 1.2 Gb. Last and not least, have you considered puppy Linux? Stef

Umm, interesting thread I find. Digging a bit I found the interactive firewall cong in drakconf. Using nmap is easy but apparently not that complete! I've read a bit in a magazine about Nessus and gave it a try, pretty powerful.It will scan an IP, then sum-up the dangers of opened ports on that specific machine as well as give advice on how to protect it. I had a machine lightly protected on my network and it said that despite being protected it managed to id the PC and scan the ports. I am quite impressed by that. To get the nessus GUi one has to install the gtk package. Also before fireing it up one needs to do nessus-adduser and give a password. GOOD LUCK! Stef

Excellent, I think the admin will want you to edityour first post and write [solved]... I have to do that on my eeepc because I use it now and again on my TV and I lose the bottom of the picture Stef

Hi, Talking about the interactive firewall, is there an easy GUI to configure it, I am trying webmin but it's a bit avanced for me ... Stef

Hi, I have been using Cooker then spring 2008 on my eeepc for a while now and all is good. Nevertheless the osd for the acpi key (volume, luminosity etc...) take nearly the full screen when they appear. When I used eeepclinux there were neat osd pictures much more funky than the default ones. How can I change the default osds to something which looks nicer?? Thanx, STef

Hi there, There is a French article being translated which , I think, talkes about this problem. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Magnum03 I hope this helps, I haven't read it all yet.. Stef

Well, I've put the torrent on yesterday evening for the mini cd duo and the dvd 64 bits, all is there this morning so I can give it a start... :D

Go and get it, FINE, but Go Get it and FEED IT, even better, my upload speed is not great (448 Kbps) but still i'll be happy to put my QNAP up to work for the first couple of week! Stef :D

Hi, To reply to my own query, yes the Phoronix test suite which has been released does work and is in fact quite promessing in terms of a complete benchmark for Linux systems. http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ After downloading the compressed basic file from their website, extract it somewhere. To run the program the only dependency to install is PHP5 CLI (urpmi php-cli). Then here is the number of tests and suite of tests available : [root@localhost phoronix-test-suite]# ./phoronix-test-suite list-tests ================================= Phoronix Test Suite - Benchmarks ================================= build-imagemagick - ImageMagick Compilation [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] build-linux-kernel - Timed Linux Kernel Compilation [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] build-mplayer - Timed MPlayer Compilation [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] build-php - Timed PHP Compilation [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] compress-gzip - Time Gzip Compression [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] doom3-demo - Doom 3 (Demo) [Status: UNKNOWN, License: NON-FREE] doom3 - Doom 3 [Status: UNKNOWN, License: NON-FREE] encode-flac - FLAC Audio Encoding [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] encode-mp3 - LAME MP3 Encoding [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] encode-ogg - Ogg Encoding [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] etqw-demo - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars [Status: UNKNOWN, License: NON-FREE] etqw - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars [Status: UNKNOWN, License: NON-FREE] fgl-glxgears - ATI fgl_glxgears [Status: VERIFIED, License: CLOSED] hdparm-read - hdparm Timed Disk Reads [Status: UNVERIFIED, License: FREE] memory-bandwidth - Bandwidth [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] nexuiz - Nexuiz [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] quake4 - Quake 4 [Status: UNKNOWN, License: NON-FREE] ramspeed - RAMspeed [Status: VERIFIED, License: FREE] super-pi - Super PI [Status: VERIFIED, License: UNKNOWN] [root@localhost phoronix-test-suite]# ./phoronix-test-suite list-suites ================================= Phoronix Test Suite - Suites ================================= - Audio Encoding Test Suite (audio-encoding) - Timed Code Compilation Tests (compilation) - Phoronix Test Suite For Gaming (gaming) - Phoronix Test Suite For Graphics (graphics) - Motherboard Tests (motherboard) - Recursion Test Of Audio Encoding (recursion-test) - System Memory Test Suite (system-memory) - Universe Test Suite (universe) The options when running the software are as follow : \n================================= Phoronix Test Suite http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ =================================\n install <suite OR benchmark>: Install or Update The Specified Benchmark(s) run <suite OR benchmark>: Run The Specified Benchmark/Suite benchmark <suite OR benchmark OR saved file>: Same as manually running install and then run merge-results <Saved File 1 OR Global ID> <Saved File 2 OR Global ID> <Save To>: Merge two saved result sets remove-result <Saved File>: Remove this saved result file and associated files list-tests: List all Phoronix Test Suite Benchmark profiles list-suites: List all Phoronix Test Suites list-saved-results: List all saved results upload <Saved File>: Upload these results to be shared globally build-php: Build A Local Copy Of PHP For The Phoronix Test Suite \n For example, to install the suite for mp3 encoding : [root@localhost phoronix-test-suite]# ./phoronix-test-suite [root@localhost phoronix-test-suite]# ./phoronix-test-suite run encode-mp3 Would you like to save these benchmark results (Y/n)? Y Benchmark results will be saved. Enter a name to save (or merge) these results: encode-mp3 Enter a unique identifier for distinguishing this series of tests: 01 Phoronix Test Suite will record results! ================================= Executing Pre-Benchmark Tasks ================================= ================================= LAME MP3 Encoding Benchmark (Run 1 of 3) ================================= WAV To MP3 Encode Time: 28.55 Seconds ================================= LAME MP3 Encoding Benchmark (Run 2 of 3) ================================= WAV To MP3 Encode Time: 28.06 Seconds ================================= LAME MP3 Encoding Benchmark (Run 3 of 3) ================================= WAV To MP3 Encode Time: 28.06 Seconds ================================= Executing Post-Benchmark Tasks ================================= ================================= LAME MP3 Encoding: 28.55 Seconds 28.06 Seconds 28.06 Seconds Average: 28.22 Seconds ================================= Results Saved To: /root/pts-test-results/encode-mp3.xml Do you want to view the results in your web browser (y/N)? y Would you like to upload these results to PTS Global (y/N)? y Uploading: /root/pts-test-results/encode-mp3.xml Results Uploaded To: http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=profile&u=root-29303-14160-11070 A gui version will be available but is not here yet. Enjoy, Stef

Hi, I came across this article and wondered if anyone has managed to usethis benchmark with Mandriva. http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=downloads Also, if you use benchmarking, what is the latest in Linux systems for all round benchmarking of a system? Stef [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Great! Funny, I downloaded the lite version (rpm) and it doesn't say when it will expire. Is it a free version? Stef

Hi, Me again... I've tried the Bibble lite rpm downloaded from their website and confirm it works very well on my .nef files. Great result and quite fast on my laptop (Eeepc asus only 900Mhz...) running cooker. A .nef of 5MB gave a tiff of 35 MB! I might try jpg... Stef

Hi, Funny that, I was having the same problem yesterday. I've got a Nikon though and therefore am left with .nef . I tried Rawstudion, Ufraw and eventually settled with Digikam and the raw batch tool (dcraw I suppose). I tweaked a bit and had the result I wanted. I still have to work on the colours (mainly contrast) on the jpg using gimp. The process was quite fast, 61 shots In less than 10 mins (AMD 64 x2 5000+ black edition). http://osp.wikidot.com/raw-linux-software-comparison I found that as well: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Bibble-Labs-Bi...5aec662983acfb2 Not sure if it is for linux or not. I think you can try bibble for free : http://download.bibblelabs.com/ Hope you find what you want, let me know if you do, Stef

New tutorial for French speaking people who want to try PClinuxOS on the Eee PC (EeePCLinusOS). This distro is Mandriva based and adapted to Asus EEE. http://www.mypclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=1956.0 I did my best to translate into French but I'll take more time to translate C-Chan's official tutorials... Stef

It's good to see Mandriva at last looking interrested in that type of project. I already run Mandriva Cooker on my £ 200 Eee asus laptop and it works a treat. PCLinuxOS have a better project (eeepclinuxos) for the small computers using a squashfs which gives you a full file system with the usual software (openoffice, firefox, compiz-fusion, gimp etc...) fitting on 700MB. Out of the 4GB of ssd it leaves you with loads of space for your files... Stef

Ok, thanks for that, the official version is coming soon now so I can wait and fix it then. Besides it doesn't seem to affect the system in any ways. About my sources, are they wrongly set-up as scarecrow mentions it? Stef

Hi Ian, Here are my sources : [root@localhost stephane]# urpmq --list-media Main Updates (Cooker2008.1-1) Contrib Updates (Cooker2008.1-2) Non-free Updates (Cooker2008.1-3) plf-free plf-nonfree contrib non-free main [root@localhost stephane]#

Yes, each time I try to do a urpmi the system tries to install whichever glibc is the most recent and returns this error. Stef