Darkelve

I don't think it's really illigal, just 'dubious' because of licensing requirements and doubts about that. I think these distro's just have too little cash to get into trouble for that, so they decide to avoid this trouble alltogether. When the user HIMSELF downloads it, of course it's not their responsability anymore. If I'm dead wrong, someone correct me please.

Just a quick note: If you find any interesting article in Dutch that does not exist in English, send me a PM and I will translate it when I have time. Technonoid, perhaps a kind of 'Survival guide to Linux/Mandrake' would be a good addition? Where we guide users through the most common tasks with explanations and screenshots?

! I want to help, but not sure with what. So I think I'm going to update that tutorial I made for tuning Mandrake/KDE applied to Mandrake 10 (or make an extra one, but I don't think that will be necesarry). I think I will add a little background information about what parts a desktop consists of and how the process of creating a window on your desktop works. What do you think? Darkelve

Thanks Bam between the SuSe website, the comments on this board and the excellent reviews on MadPenguin (how could I have forgotten!), I found all answers I wanted. http://www.madpenguin.org/Article1131.html http://www.madpenguin.org/Article1226.html Except for this one: In WinXP, if you disable ALL network interfaces, will it STILL be able to make a connection to the net, or not? I am asking this since I do not want to use WinXP for network related tasks any longer. But I will keep it around for e.g. games and certain apps. Darkelve

Tyme, in case you are interested, there is a nice article on using divs to show/hide content on ALA this week: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/eatcake/

Heh: http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=122 then some text about getting it from videolan and how instructions to install it. Should work, but WAY less straightforward than just clicking on an RPM.

Only thing I am still concerned about is getting DVD playback to work and getting certain codecs installed. Shouldn't be too much of a problem I guess. If it is, somebody better warn me quick! :unsure:

Uh-oh! Somebody better warn Patrick. Although somehow I think if that happens, Cybrjackle will simply start up his own distro B)

Hey board! I am probably going to buy the professional, so anything I say might not be applicibal to 9.1 personal (I do seem to remember had kernel 2.6 and kde 3.2 also though...). I'll let you know my experiences when I get it! This might be the day/week when I finally start really 'using' Linux instead of 'just toying' with it. Or it might not. Anyhow, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Darkelve

Well, I checked the SuSe website again; they have updated their pages for 9.1, I think I'm going for the pro version anyway. Too many stuff in there I will probably run into using later on anyway... price is not an all-or nothing factor, only 'personal' does have a home-user ring to it and it is considerably cheaper. But after comparing the two I think for me personally, the Pro edition is probably best. I'll probably end up installing all this extra stuff myself otherwise, possibly breaking things in between :o I do like printed documentation however, and I read it's quite good too. Anyway, I'm glad I informed here first because otherwise perhaps I'd have bought something that didn't fully meet my requirements... the first step for that, of course, is to define what your requirements are...

But surely one could find a SUSE RPM for Kdevelop, a very popular application and install it like that. And I think when Kdevelop is installed, you automatically have GCC installed, not? I don't think I will need to install a lot of extra stuff, but when I do, I'm prepared to e.g. learn to install from source. Although I'd rather not have to deal with it. Still, if it's the only way to get an app running. SuSe 9.1 Personal is very well priced also... but it still is a fully functional distro, is it not? What exactly would I be missing compared to the Pro version??

Ah, so you got a promotion! Congratulations!

Hey board, I'm kind of done distro-hopping, it's time that I actually start using my computer for something productive ;) I tried and hopped and burnt and tested... but I think I'll finally settle on SuSe 9.1. Don't get me wrong, Mandrake 10 is wonderful, but I can't get my wireless network set up for it, at least not the way I could with all Debian-based distros and with SuSe. Plus I think it holds a lot of good things of its own: applications included, automatic warning of updates (SuSe watcher), I nice control panel&Yast, RPM-based, KDE as a primary choice for the desktop... I would like to customize it a bit however (wallpaper, window decoration etc.), but I guess that wouldn't be much of a problem. I'd only need to do some simple things to make it more to my liking, e.g. install Moz. Firebird(and/or Opera)&Thunderbird for my browser, maybe acme for my multimedia keys, change my desktop look like I said and set up a simple firewall. I'd use it mostly for Browsing, E-mail, chat (MSN network kind of obligatory... :( ), Personal Finance management, Office tasks etc. simple stuff like that. I was thinking about getting WineX since I'm content enough with only a few games (although Morrowind is a must-have), but perhaps I can just dual-boot and disable all network interfaces in Windows (will that REALLY shut off all network connectivity, e.g. also 'calling home' and such?). The dual-boot is probably still the safest option I guess... I think SuSe 9.1 Personal would already suit all my needs, or should I really dig out a little more for 9.1 professional? I don't really need stuff like web server etc. for the moment. It would be nice to be able to do programming in it, since I've started to learn C. But I guess it wouldn't be so hard to install KDevelop. Or erhaps gcc alone is enough for those simple apps you make when starting to learn C. I don't think it should give a lot of problems, but I'm just curious about your experiences. SuSe 9.1 will be in shops here on thursday 29 of april. Darkelve

I'd say there are less embedded devices using WinCE, BUT they are better advertised. I'm particularly talkin about PDA-type devices. Well, that's my impression at least.

Somebody better e-mail the URL of this thread to AMD! ;) 92.31% on 26 answers... that's just great for any product...

cybrjackle, I downloaded it but then when I wanted to burn it I realized I had run out of 700MB CD's Well, I guess you can't be beat ;) Looks like they took some cues from Mandrake though... ? Or is that Just KDE 3.2?

See: http://www.distrowatch.com/?newsid=01541#0 This should be nice for all those who want to try Linux (or SuSe) in particular before actually installing it, or just having a LiveCD handy. Happy downloading! Darkelve

I started learning C++ first with some help from a friend who knew C. He never said anything about learning C first but it wasn't that hard for me to get started. I found C++ not that hard to understand. But to learn C first is not a bad idea, I wish I had. I just need to keep at it! So much more to learn. Tell me about it. I've been following this for a few days now and I'm at this point: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c13.htm Did most all of the exercises, as well as a small one of my own. 2 things I have found to be invaluable: A. Put some dedication in the studies. Study a bit every day. Doesn't matter if it's only one page. Important thing is to grasp the concept(s) B. When you don't understand something, it is important to have a clear mind. When you're confused as hell (bubble sort in my case...), it might help letting everything sink in for a bit and then re-read it a couple of times. Anyway, I really feel like I'm making some progress here. I'll probably have grasped the 'basics of the basics' quite soon with this. Then I can start on a good book. Tx for recommending the K&R book. Darkelve

Well, IT guys say now it has to be a 1-bit image... :confused: We tried and it still doesn't work, so IT staff is going to ask the company which told us to do so (convert it) in the first place ;) Darkelve

aRtee, thanks, I will take a look at your pages before I make my own post. That being said, I am convinced Linux should be pushed for its own benefits, rather than because of the reasons why M$ as a company and why M$ products are harmful. Not that these reasons aren't valid, but they're more of reasons to 'Why escape M$" rather than 'Why switch to Linux'. True, I myself discovered Linux while browsing some of these 'anti'-Ms sites, but that only helped me to get a clear picture of the current market situation and bad practices, and gave me no real picture of what I could expect of Linux. [side note: even when I was downloading my first distro. It's a weird feeling though: you are nervous because you are threading on unknown terrain, but at the same time adrenaline flows through your blood preparing for the excitement of trying something different, of actually having a 'choice' what to put on your PC and what to use. Ah, the burning of my first distro, the sweet memories... ;) ] Just my 2 cents here.

Hi all, a collegue of mine has to put a (scan of) digital image into an AS/400 system. It's a drawing that has to be scanned in. IT department said it could only be stored as a 2-bit PCX image. I offered to help, but I don't know what the hell that means (2-bit image) and I don't know how to do it (the conversion) either. I can scan/convert the image into any format Photoshop(7.0) can handle. Any tools used should be available on WinNT, preferably stand-alone programs. Any idea? Any clues? I searched a lot for sites about this, but no luck so far... Tx, Darkelve

yup, Yellow Dog Linux it actually looks kind of good... It looks like Red Hat on Apple hardware, with Anaconda, Bluecurve and a Yellow Dog on the wallpaper... My previous experience with Red Hat wasn't too good. True, it was probably me for a big part, but I still don't like the smaller part (and the experience where my mouse went totally crazy). The iBook still seems nice though ;) I hear people claim its expensive, but I wonder if it would be so easy to find an Intel architecture laptop with these specs and similar price!?

Hi all, I'm still thinking about getting an Apple iBook. About a year ago, I thought of it and decided I didn't really need a laptop, but a lot of things have changed since then. Of course I want to be as informed as possible before buying such an 'expensive' purchase. I'm doubting between the iBook and Powerbook line, but I think the iBook should be sufficient for me. Plus I'm budget-conscious. I picked the smallest (and 'cheapest') model, the 12'' model. While I'm not sure how big the screen actually is, I won't be needing a huge screen for anything (I've got my home PC for these things). Don't need a lot of hard disk also, since I will probably be using 'external storage' (or my home PC) for that. Here's the configuration of the one I want to buy: • 768 MB DDR266 SDRAM (256 MB built-in and 512 MB SO-DIMM-slot) • 30 GB Ultra ATA-schijf • DVD/CD-RW • Bluetooth-module • AirPort Extreme-card • Keyboard & Mac OS • 1-GHz PowerPC G4 • 12,1-inch TFT-screen • 2 USB-ports • FireWire-port • Light Net adapter (translated, dunno if this is correct English) • Battery Price: € 1 312,22 +BTW: € 275,57 =Subtotal: € 1.587,79 Seems like good enough value for a laptop of this spec, but I got some Linux-related question also: - What Linux distro can I install of it? I only know of Yellow Dog and Mandrake PPC at this moment. I heard Panther is a fantastic OS, but I was thinking about a dual-boot. - Is there any 'problematic' hardware in this config? - Is it true that the PPC-versions of distro's lag behind the Intel versions? What about the available applications, etc. - Anything I should pay special attention to? I'd appreciate your comments, especially from existing Apple/Linux-users. Darkelve

Not sure, but couldn't you just run 2 instances of the same program?

This isnt tuxracer or frozen bubbles I'm talking about here lol. 2k4 will run on 256, but MUCH better with 512 or more. I didn't know Frozen Bubble needed 256 RAM to run