iphitus

No, there's still something wrong. Things shouldnt crash that much, and if they did, we'd have countless people complaining on the forums here. Somethings up with that box.

Those two that crash, that may be due to bugs if it's so predictable. But because OOo and RPMDrake are crashing, I'd hand the system back, it's an unusually high amount of crashes and probably does point to some sort of hardware or RAM issue. James

There's no hassle I know of with a dual boot system that could possibly be worse than swapping hard drives. You've caused yourself far more hassle by not allowing it to set it up for you at install time It's simple. -> Plug both the drives in, with the Mandriva drive first, so it boots mandriva. -> In mandriva, go to the bootloader configuration, and just add windows to it. Automagically, now you will have a menu on boot to either windows or linux.

Again, give 32bit a shot.

Please use the easyurpmi links at the top of the page, follow the instructions, and then install anjuta from RPMDrake or urpmi at the command line.

yes, most new computers can boot from USB, I know my 3 y/o acer and another 2y/o acer can. First just install mandriva as you normally would, except pick the usb hdd as the hdd instead of the internal. Same procedure for any distro. Let it install an MBR to the external drive. Then just find the key to give you a boot menu, it's F8 on mine I think --- but it will vary, and is often displayed on screen or in bios, or manual, and just pick USB boot. Alternatively, go into BIOS and change it so it will try to boot USB before HDD (don't worry, if there's no USB available, it falls back to hdd) James

oh! so cool. where? how! does the bluetooth work? my dad's got an old T3 with a bust up battery, if i can get linux on it, i might bother fixing it up! edit: Ok, I googled, http://hackndev.com/ looks like bluetooth does work. Is it possible to boot the palm straight to linux? James

Reinstall. If through *some* freak of nature, coreutils has been removed, your installation is most probably cactus, and chances are, other things have been bust up pretty badly too. James

Yep sure... I think he has a right to answer questions.... he also has the same right as anyone else to submit bugs and fixes and moan if they don't get used.... he has no right to expect they are used but he has every right to moan... he's just a guy like you and me... Do I expect Gnome to change? Nope ... perhaps Linus is just more optimistic ??? Don't forget, Linus didnt blindly bumble in and throw his flamethrower around. He wrote patches to make the neccesary changes that he requested, and then argued the point when they didnt get accepted --- this i believe is not unreasonable, and he has just as much right to question the rejection of his work as anyone else. Yes be he has the same right to an opinion as you or I. Also the kernel contains things specifically for Gnome/KDE... the whole HAL stuff is largely for Gnome/KDE... huge parts of the kernel are written for DE to integrate with... so when you stick in your CF card or USB key etc. the DE knows... I'm betting if you dig the the ML's you'll find plently of times Gnome devs have said how the kernel should handle something... The DE should not have any integration with the kernel, as the DE is intended to and does work on a range of kernels, *bsd, Windows, OSX's, etc. That's the point of hal, a userspace process to allow generic access to hardware information across a range of architectures and kernels. It is not a kernel project, it was not started by kernel developers.

iph, Just out of interest, I've been to the archlinux website, but it still says 0.8 is pending. Do you know when it's due for stable release? As Arctic said, releases don't mean sweet bugger all in Arch. It's just a snapshot of the repo's at one point in time. Between now and 0.8, there's still a few big changes (pacman3, updated network scripts), but nothing that should break anything like mkinitcpio did. There's 0.8 pre release ISO's here: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/0.8 give those a shot. James

Just run 32bit on it, it will run fine. 64bit will *not* run any faster than 32bit will, although 64bit will happily use more ram. Currently, unless you need the extra address space, 64bit has little to no benefit. I've got a 64bit capable processor that's never seen a single line of 64bit instructions in its life. Anyway, as for the crashing: - You've checked ram, give it another check, ram is a wierd bugger, best to leave it overnight. - Temperature, boot up to bios screen and see if it has temperature monitors. Let it idle at bios, and watch them - Run a 32-bit distro. All the software will work flawlessly on a 64bit proc. Trust me, you won't be missing out on anything by running 32-bit. There's no speed difference. James

Yes, but upstream from your ducks :) the ducks are CG :o nooo!

Minix was simply a source of inspiration for Linux, little more. It's creator Tanenbaum (i knew his name, and how to spell it!) has actually received a fair bit of press over the years. And I'm sure i'm not alone in remembering the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate that flared up again last year about OS kernel design. If you look Tanenbaum up, he does actually receive a fair bit of attention too, with a few accolades and many titles published under his name. As for the GPL..... you can't possibly say RMS doesnt get enough attention, and through him the FSF (although the GPL was written by RMS long before the FSF was about). James

pgrep is useful for getting a particular process, eg pgrep firefox will return the PID's of any process with firefox in it's name. Also useful is killall firefox-bin Will kill all processes by the name of 'firefox-bin' And also good is: killall -9 kopete adding the -9 will remove those stubborn processes that don't want to go If adding -9 doesnt work, the process has locked up in kernelspace, and often the only way to kill it is to reboot. James

Horrible misinterpretation of the faq, and horrible wording on the FAQ's behalf. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/Fre...yAskedQuestions Straight after the above usage example, it states this: Note, that it is now possible for an admin to ADD restrictions to what can be done with a screensaver. out of the box, these restrictions are obviously NOT enabled or even configured. out of the box, gnome-screensaver DOES NOT PREVENT you from abusing your CEO. Though if you do need to use your screensaver to abuse your CEO, I suggest you find some other way of venting your anger. That's a terrible stereotype of the Gnome developers. While I agree, they do overdo it with their focus on UI and usability -- it DOES result in cleaner and better designed applications. Life isnt black and white. There's a continuum. | extreme ------------ fair -------------- whatever | Keep in mind that fair is near impossible, and Gnome, in it's focus on UI, gnome has tended slightly to the extreme, I agree, but at the same time, the results coming out are honestly not that bad. Each gnome release is polished and popular. If so many people use Gnome, then they can't be completely messing everything up. KDE on the other hand tend a little to the right of the continuum, they'd prefer to get a feature in rather than bitch about the implementation. So while their implementation may not initially be as clean as Gnomes, it tends to have more options. KDE4 looks a bit fairer though than past releases. This is about personal choice. Different people like different setups. I cannot work in a messy working area for example, so KDE tends to be uncomfortable for me to use. Not implying KDE is messy, but it's currently not as tidy and refined UI wise as gnome. Some like the KDE setup of everything, every option, every configuration. back to the topic.... Horses for courses. Linus is overstating his opinion, and because of his status, people are giving it more attention than it's honestly worth. Sites reporting on this really don't help. It's not news, it's someone just attempting to enforce their opinion on others by abusing their public status. Once you mess with linux for a while, things become repetitive, things happen again. People don't learn, because so many more new people join. If I had a dollar for every stupid article about desktop linux for example, or poorly researched extreme point of view I've seen posted on Linux news sites, I'd be very rich. A majority of that wealth would come from OSNews, which tends towards this sort of crap. This has happened before and should blow over fairly quickly. Forecast is a storm in a teacup people, so don't worry about the umbrellas. James

The shipped packages need to be made worthwhile. Solid paper documentation and a more complete CD set. Even if it is available online, it's pretty convenient to have a full package repository burnt for you. James

Oops, misread. I thought you said useless sites like OSNews ;)

just out of interest, what PDA do you have? I'm looking at PDA's and would love something linux based.

Indeed, XFCE4.4 is great, but, from what I read on other sites, it is not really lightweight anymore but needs almost as much RAM as KDE and Gnome. But I could be wrong. numbers? I suppose it depends on how you use it. XFCE have implemented a lot of third party apps themselves now, terminal, a decent file manager and such. XFCE alone might be more, but pulling up a file manager shouldnt cost you anything, as it uses thunar which will already be running, and pulling up Terminal shouldnt cost much either, as it's built on XFCE libs which will be in ram.

I'm going to be a smartarse and say XFCE4.4. Huge improvement over past releases.

Yeah, I suppose it should. But it has been a little while since i used debian. Though what ever changes in debian ;)

you'd probably be better off installing it, then realising it sucks, then puttin linux back ;)

Ok, once you've got a system up and running, you've got no need for the CD's. If you use testing or unstable testing packages, then you're better off dist-upgrading all the way up to testing or unstable respectively. Library versions and such will differ between different repos, and as a result, packages from unstable, probably wont even run on stable. The same may also apply with testing. debian unstable... in my experience, isnt very unstable, it's far more solid than mandriva. You're probably best just dist-upgrading straight to it if you want the latest stuff. James

snd-hda-intel is the correct driver. Try unmuting and putting the volume up on all channels, especially front. If this doesnt work, it might be better to try a newer version of mandriva.

When using an old config..... copy it into the kernel source directory as '.config' then run make oldconfig and it shows you all the new options. then just run as was said above, make make modules_install make install alternatively, do the make install step manually -- whatever floats your boat. James