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Darkelve

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  1. Found this link: http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Survey...sults&pollID=53 Maybe this will put aRTee at ease
  2. Yeah I mean those. Would have allowed you to see what is detected and what not without actually having to partition/install/ ... If you're new-new to Linux and have no idea if your existing hardware will works, it will at least give you an idea of what it will be like. I tried to install Mandrake on my friends PC. I gave him a tour on my computer and he was totally impressed. Then when we went installing some of his hardware was not found/configured properly. Courtesy of very strange hardware I found out later (I'd asked him to make a list so I could look it up online, but he didn't have it when I got there to install). Needless to say it was kind of a disappointment for him. If you buy a new PC knowing you want to use/try Linux, you really have no excuse of checking the HW parts, you are in total control. As for already bought hardware that doesn't or won't work, well that's lame but what are you going to do about it? But think on this for a moment: should you even be IN this situation? There exist STANDARDS for these things, including hardware. Should it matter what OS you are using? Is Linux to blame when drivers get written solely for Windows? (or worse, mutilated such as winmodems) Please separate the value of Linux as a system from the rate of 'luck' with your hardware. Your 'Gforce' card, I have a Gforce4 myself and I set it up a few weeks ago, with help on this forum. I've never did real work editing config files in a text editor before, but now I have and I'm glad I did. I have reïnstalled my system afterwards, to be able to put my /home on a different partition and setting up the Gforce card was just a matter of minutes this time. Hey, presto - free education! Also, not working at this moment does *not* mean 'never will work'. As for the concept of point&click: this is really something you have to decide for yourself. Chanches are you will get all or most of your hardware running. But you have to make a mental click when using Mandrake. There's tutorials abound to help you get the most out of your computer. 1. If you do not want to miss/replace any of your hardware, do not want to make an effort AND do not want to use anything other then point&click, then I'd suggest to stay with windows. 2. You can also "bite the bullet" and tackle problems one by one. Sites like these will give you great guidance and I'm pretty sure you can get some more of that HW working. As a last resort, it's always possible to replace some component (e.g. soundcard or network card). I know, you're not supposed to, but again: who's to blame? 3. In case you are ever looking for a new PC, might as well take Linux into account. 4. Distro-hopping is not abnormal: everyone has to find his place. Switching over and over and over hoping your HW gets detected isn't going to help. Better to stick with a distro for a while and get an opportunity to get your hands wet. 5. Linux can be just as 'point&click' as you ever want it to be. However, what you mean is, I think 'click&install' or 'click&configure'. If HW vendors wouldn't write their drivers to work with windows, this wouldn't go as smooth in windows either. If you don't want to get your hands wet, if you don't want to spend some time, effort, perhaps money, getting these things to work - basically, if you do not want to make any investment in it - then stick with windows. The reason people who tried Linux, persevered and finally sticked with it, adore Linux so much, is because their investment has payed back, both in financial as in less 'worldly' aspects. So you either - persevere and tackle problems 1 by 1, e.g. your soundcard or Geforce (recommended). - don't care about spending some dough in order to buy hardware that will work (of course how will you know if you don't try to fix it first?) in order to save on time. - again use windows, with no hard feelings ;) Linux - putting the fun back into computing!
  3. A lot of the company's credibility actually comes from marketing (sad, yes) and support (good). It's also sad when you see how professional Lindows is in some areas but people don't take a hint from that, seeing how it is so un-3l33t... instead of realizing and working on their own weak points. As for people not wanting to learn, I think it is often ignorance. I remember when I started with Linux/Mandrake I was like "Whey, cool, look what you can do with it. And this is for free!?". Consumers are sheep some times I guess. There really should be some way to get to these end users and suggesting them to: - learn about security (basic, no firewalling and DMZ :P ) - ask to contribute (remember, contributions are NOT code only, although I've seen people pretend otherwise). About what we can do as well: - Reporting our working hardware to various HW compatibility lists. E.g. I still haven't reported my Trust 710 PowerCam as 'working' to various lists :unsure: - Also, my dad bought an USB stick which said: 'no driver installation needed, works with Windows, MaxOSX, Linux and Unix, in small but readable print on the box! These guys should be given a heads-up (thumbs up?), even if to send a signal their efforts are noticed.
  4. I wonder what the (dis)advantages would be if conehead66 would have used a 'Live distro' instead? Even if just to get the feeling going, and see what hardware works without fiddling and what other requires it.
  5. Oo, I just found one: http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html
  6. Looks like fun :) btw, does anyone know some good&modern *single* player games (or demos of games) for Linux? Looking escpecially for RPG&Adventure
  7. Maybe this is it: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/6/idpl/839840 I think Apollon (http://apollon.sourceforge.net/info.html) is supposed to be able to do this as well.
  8. Now that we are on the topic of hosting anyway, I would like to find a service similar to brinkster, that is: free, a decent amount of HD (at least 10MB), serverside scripting (preferably asp, php possible too) and a database with connection (dns-less). And a decent data transfer rate as well, since I do not want the site to drop offline after just ten visits (cfr. Brinkster). FTP would be nice too, but is not essential. Idea is to set up a small website with information, plus a back-end database which will capture data from online forms (e.g. questionnaires, registration, ...) So far Brinkster is the only one I could find, but it's not really that impressive. Darkelve
  9. Let me make another remark: Since Linux is free, there is no money to be made from the product. This means money has to be made from other areas such as packaging and service. Because there is also a lot of competition, companies actually have to DELIVER this service. Is Lindows competing? Yes. Is Lindows delivering? In my short experience, their service actually is very good. Now: is Microsoft competing? No, because they do not WANT to compete. So I would hardly say it is the M$ of Linux land. You're just afraid they will become that. But if it gets really bad, half of the community will jump on them and lynch them and I doubt they will still get much co-operation of Debian and other developers. In fact, for Joe sixpack (for whom it is really intended), it is probably *better* than Windows. If Lindows looks good, this will have a positive effect on Linux in general. If it looks bad, it's bad for Linux in general. There's competition here, there's a control mechanism. There's a targeted market. It is relatively easy to switch to another Linux distro with KDE. You do not have to buy a license for every singe computer/cpu. Now Linux desktop systems have matured/are maturing, Operating systems will ultimately have only one choice: play fair, or die. That, I agree with. I think this is an excellent thread for people interested about Lindows, Mandrake and a comparison between the two. In fact, I doubt you can find a lot of places on the web where this is discussed so openly and you find valid arguments on both sides.
  10. From: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8989/ur0312j/ "Is Lindows for everyone? No, but that doesn't mean it won't find a niche" And, in my opinion, that about sums it up.
  11. Hey, Roland, I don't think we should encourage people new to Linux to use the upgrade option. At least not until it's better.
  12. Yes, yesterday. http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/sear...ubmit=Search+... It's not the most recent version though, I think. I've only played around with it for a few minutes. It's interesting but somehow my fonts always get garbled up on the screen. Darkelve
  13. I wonder as well. Some people suspect it's just a hoax. No one smart and well-connected enough to pick up the phone to M$ though. Or maybe they're afraid their phone will be tapped... Edit: by now, I am not sure I even should have post it. Oh well, you're all old enough to decide what to do on your own anyways...
  14. I have read somewhere that SuSe allow you to distribute it, but are kind of quite about this. But IANAL. There used to be an FTP mirror here: ftp://avatar.demon.nl/pub/linux/SuSE/9.0/ISO It's down now (still was there yesterday)
  15. Hey, I know a lot of useless information, so -by way of a Christmas present- I'd thought I'd share these links should you not have read them before. Sure to give you a good laugh :) Also, you can rate them if you want. My top 5: 1. Linux switch ad: (be gentle on the guy's bandwidth) http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ 2. The Grinch Who Stole Linux http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2...031106164630915 3. The Linux by Dr Seuss http://www.thinctanc.co.uk/overflow/lifted...x_dr_seuss.html 4. Mac Switch (be gentle on the guy's bandwidth) http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchback/ 5. Henchfig's CodeBlurbs (be gentle on the guy's bandwidth) http://www.ubergeek.tv/blurbfest/
  16. Darkelve

    xmms locking

    Totem is also quite nice when you want to play music files. Basically it's a graphical user interface for Xine. not sure if it plays mp3's, although I think it does.
  17. Yeah, well, I'm not much of an admin, but I try to help where I can. Glad I could be of any help.
  18. Here is the direct link: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=55401
  19. Scoopy: Are they afraid none will update to their next Longhorn when it arrives and therefore do these weird survey-kind-of things?? an organized counter-action (I would not immediately call it an 'attack'), this is very interesting. Imho, the time is more than ripe for that. We have got some excellent desktop distro's out there, like Mandrake and SuSe, we got the 2.6 kernel soon, and the applications have really matured. Longhorn is, at least, 2 years away. So what are we waiting for? All we need is a plan. How about an effort to advocate and educate about Linux world-wide, and this in a choosen week? If someone can get people world-wide to do this, it should give massive exposure to people and, as a result, in the media. Imagine Linux being advocated all over the world, within the same timeframe. Of course, a lot of us already do that in their spare time, but not on this scale. Darkelve P.S. I don't know the story about wolf, what is it?
  20. Interesting article, really wonder what they want to do with these results: http://www.newsforge.com/os/03/12/21/15462...2&tid=82&tid=94
  21. From the Mandrake website: "December, 19th 2003 - Try Mandrake Cooker with Linux 2.6! - A Mandrake Linux Cooker snapshot (as of 20031217) is now available. It provides the very new Linux 2.6.0-test11 kernel, XFree 4.4pre, Gcc 3.3.2 and KDE 3.2pre, on one CD ISO Image. This is the first brick for the next Mandrake, so don't delay: test now and report bugs! All details are available here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookersnapshot.php3 "
  22. I just downloaded and tried the version 4 pre-release. This guy's a f***ing genius!! I wish he could go work for Mandrake themselves. Would he want to do that? (could we give him a push in the right direction ;) , of course I know that his own business is his alone, but still...) Never seen such a clean interface before.
  23. From our collegues ;) : http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/113122 Seems like you need an older/other distro. Somebody claims he got slackware running on a system with 4MB of RAM! What I did to find this was to search www.google/linux for the following keywords: "laptop 333 mhz 48mb ram" I did not look further but maybe other results might be helpful too. P.S. Try VectorLinux. It's based on slackware, but more intended for SOHO uses (there's even a SOHO version). You will need some configuring, I think, since Vector's menus are just *Crowded*! http://www.vectorlinux.com/ From their sales pitch:
  24. Darkelve

    kde 3.1.4

    Maybe this!? http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tut...rvicemenus.html Edit 3: I did some more research and found that the official name for this window is: "desktop context menu" Try this: http://lists.kde.org/?w=2&r=1&s=desktop+co...ontext+menu&q=t hope I could help set you on your way....
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