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  1. Yes Redhat is rather particular about that. My understanding is that if you redisirbute copies of Redhat, you should not call it "Redhat" or even make referrence to this and you should remove all their proprietary icons. As for the freecurve...I'll try it in a bit, but I like my Linux having a decively Linux look. But I think I will install Mandrake 9 in two PC's in a Internet Cafe I help manage. One with freecurve and see what people think about it (and KDE standard as well). Right now the shop is running 12 PC's, 2 on WinXP, 2 on Win98 and 8 on Win95. Maybe its time to introduce them to Linux.
  2. Been looking at it. To me it has a decidely Windows 98/2K inspired GUI. Not bad for converting over some windows user...though I like KDE myself.
  3. I am not sure, by my understanding is that Win98 can only boot from Drive C. Win2K and XP can boot from other drives. I think you would have to install Win98 first.
  4. I use Mozilla myself and like it, but my understading is that it intended mainly for developers while Pheonix, Galeon, Netscape...etc. are targetted at end users.
  5. Well to be honest about it I was hoping the SiS 7012 onboard card would be properly configured on install since a lot of boards have this card, and was a bit dissapointed for awhile.
  6. Well I just started with Linux last May. Mandrake is the only distro I have used. Strated with 8.2 and have seen no reason to change. I have it installed on two PC's. An AMD K6-2 350 with a Sounblaster soundcard and a HP Printer. I still have 8.2 isntalled on this machine and everything worked perfectly. I also have it instaled in a XP1700 machine (dual booting with Win98SE) with onboard SiS7012 sound and a Canon printer. With 8.2 you had to do osme work to get the sound and printerworking. With nine only sound needs to be worked on and the fix is the same as in 8.2. So all in all, my experience at it has been good. I have a third PC, a Fujitsu Notebook with WinXP Home installed. I updated to SP1 and lost my sound...a little tweaking is inherent with every PC IMHO.
  7. I found an interesting article in the May 2002 edition of Linux Magazine entitled Too Many Servers by Steven Vaughan-Nichols. In part it reads: "I think Linux will become a brand-name operating system for millions of business users. But they're not. going to be running Linux on desktop PCs, they're going to be running appli cations on a Linux virtual machine (VM) running on a high-powered cluster or on a mainframe. You could see signs of this coming change at this January's LinuxWorld. Shirts and ties far outnumberedtie-dyed shirts. The big news of the show wasn't that IBM was pushing Linux on the mainframe: they've been doing that for awhile now. And it wasn't their TV ads featuring Linux or their new slogan, "Linux is real business." The big news, according to Bill Zeitler, head of IBM's server group, is that out of the bil- lion dollars IBM poured into Linux, "We've recouped most of it in the first year in sales of software and systems." That's not, "Oh, some day we'll see a retu,m," or "Oh, it's worth it because of good will," that's "IBM is making money from Linux today." x x x How is it being done ? IBM is doing it by running Red Hat, SuSE, and TurboLinux as VMs on their S/390 mainframes and other "big iron" models. VMware is also in the picture with its ESX Server, optimized to run on IBM's Intel-based eServer xSeries systems. Compaq and Platform Computing are using clustering to follow a similar path on the Alpha. In addition, there are at least four open source VM projects, Free VSD, Plex86, User- mode Linux (UML), and v server. Commercial efforts in the same line come from SWsofr and Ensim. You might be asking, though, "Why bother with virtual machines?" After all, it's not as if your generic Linux box is going to run out of resources for ordinary server programs. But there are several good reasons to go the VM route. One is security. While the Unix/Linux security model is strong compared to Microsoft's, mainframes are muchhard- er to crack. Even if a cracker does get root access to a single server running as a VM on the mainframe, he's still no clos- er to getting into other Linux VM servers or the mainfr~me operating system. Another advantage VMs have is stability. Half a dozen Linux VM servers can crash, but the other two dozen will still hum along normally. A standalone Intel-based Linux server simply can't compete with that level of stability. x x x What's clear, though, is that Linux's biggest future role isn't as the revolutionary operating system for PCs; it's as the heart of corporate big-iron systems. There's something ironic about that, but it's the price of success. Linux is proving to be too good, too advanced for the desktop; instead its fate is to be the center of the enterprise. Who would have thought it?" Comments?
  8. "I installed f-prot and even figured out how to use it. Don't laugh." I could not even install the thing. Was able to use Sophos though. Nice little program and easy to install (well documented at least), but too expensive to buy.
  9. Thanks for the info. Will download filesc on icculues.org instead. Cool avatar razor.
  10. Should I use the quake2-3.20-6.i386.rpm or quake2-3.20-glibc-6.i386.rpm Any other related help would be appreicated.
  11. I stand corrected. Those of us who still hang on to a Windows partition for whatever reason (Falcon 4, Flanker 2.5...etc.) will have to reinstall Windows regularly. Those who have severed there MS ties, will never have to reinstall at all (just upgrade from one release ot another). Thanks. I stole the avatar from Tom's Hardware...he he.
  12. I guess a fair number of us are running both Linux and Windows in the same PC. Sooner or later you are going to want to or have to reinstall windows. In my case I am running Windows 98 on Drive C and Mandrake 8.2 on Drive D. To reinstall Windows, simply use your Windows boot disk and format the drive it is installed on. Than reinstall Windows in the same drive. In doing so you would have lost your Linux boot manager (LILO). In order to restore this just boot using Linux CD1 and press F1. At the prompt and type "rescue". Mandrake will detect your old Linux install and restore the the boot manager.
  13. I was not planning to buy this one. But since they are supporting my favoritie OS, I think I'll return the favor :D
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