sarah31

if you mean that you have made custom menu/icon links for specific functions of OOo then likely you have made them wrong. the OOo menu links in most case do not carry over very well or a distros path to the shortcuts may not be correct. you may wish to take a look at some of the build files for arch linux or gentoo to see how they fix the menu links for kde and gnome.

it will be very hard to recover from this as there will have been several settings for all the different types of files. 644, 755, etc. in future always make sure you throw in an i in rm -rf * (rm -rfi *) this way you should recognize that you have screwed up. as for getting rid of files that have root only grouping or permissions that is what sudo and su are for.

first gen (firebook/"rev.A") 386 ram 867 mhz. only x11 app i "use" is OpenOffice (actually i have used it once). other than that i cannot be bothered with x11 it is an inferior product (mostly due to horrendous toolkits tk, gtk(1&2), etc.). i have purchased no software, don't need to as i compile most whatever i like or just use native applications or prepackaged open source software. i got my mac for OS X (needed to have OS X again) not for placing linux on. I like linux but on a Mac capable of using OS X it is a waste, imho of course. for my pc's though, linux is the way to go. (PS i don't use fink either i would rather have the challenge of compiling something myself) anyway don't mean to sound like i don't like linux, i do like it, just on MY mac it would be a pointless venture as i like OS X everybit as much as linux (except the lack of a current POVRAY binary release).

yeah i would definitely do some good research into the install procedure to make sure you understand and are comfortable. maybe even browse some of the other amc and linux forums out there (macnn, just linux, linux questions, etc) the fact is is that support is lacking no matter how hard you try. so best do some research before plunging in. (actually gowator i think i586 is the best distro optimization as that covers a very wide variety of computer processors and is only marginaloly slower than a very basic i686 optimaization. in the end it is all in service management. even the newest processors can bog without proper service management. oh and it looks like the 2.6 kernel has 64bit support)

got a 12" myself would never dream of putting linux on it.

likely your gaming issues are due to the fact that your wine is build and optimized with a different kernel. you could try rebuilding from source.

i ran linux on an old PPC (first generation iMac) and was not impressed. it operated even slower than OS X on that computer and the setup was a major PITA

you should not be able to install anything to the system as strict user. trying to enable this is very dangerous and you risk compromising your system. *nixes are designed to separate administrating duties from global user to one root user. this ensures that only the person who know the system will not fork it up. there are near root but not full root modes a user can assume to make administering single user systems faster. these are su (superuser) or sudo. both allow a large amount of root permissions to the user while still protecting against "dangerous" actions. never compromise your system to the point where you have user and root able to do install software system-wide. if you do that you may as well use windows. or pre OS X Mac OSes.

perhaops you need libdvdread too?

thatr is the the most recent release i have no idea why they call it libdvdcss2

you mean this source tar -zxvf libdvdcss-1.2.8 cd libdvdcss-1.2.8 ./configure --prefix=/usr make su make install then just stuff the directory in a "savedsource" dir so that you can uninstall it if need be with make uninstall. that is what i do on my mac and it works great (i need it on my mac for transcode btw and not for the native dvd player). as long as xine/mplayer/whatever has dvd support compiled in then you should be good to go from there. edit: oh yeah and run ldconfig as root after too i suppose

why make an rpm (well other than being able to install and uninstall easily) when you could probably just compile it with half the effort? just make sure that where ever you prefix it to that that is in ld.so.conf. EDIT: were you root when you went to build the rpm? rpms may need to be built as root (to ensure proper execution of the rpm buildscript and to get the proper permissions on your package files).

i recommend looking into alomost any of the books published by O'Reilly the have generic linux boks and other more directional ones as well and a whole school of great computer books. basically if o'reilly doesn't discuss it it is either new or depreciated.

just would like to comment on this.....i understand this but with gentoo there is ALOT of documantation at ones disposal and one does not even have to post on the forum to have worked hard at getting gento working the way they desire. i dunno if i ever posted on their forum or not but i DID spent ALOT ALOT ALOT of time trying to get gentoo working the way it should have, it is still a distro of linux after all. the install of gentoo was a snap but a huge waste of time. come on 16v hours for a marginal speed increase on the application use regularily (yes i did use modest CFLAGS...actually very basic CFLAGS) i used everything i knew and searched the forum for the rest. when i did ask question (mostly if not 100% on irc). they mostly went unanswered or no one wanted to help. while i got the system mostly working it was a bug fest. heck even stuff worked better for me when i compiled the source myself rather than use portage. i understand they have fixed alot but please don't assume that some of us dislike gentoo because we are idiots. to me gento is a waste of time. too much goes in for very little in return. on the otherhand you are correct that it is very annoying when a newcomer is vague or simply not even putting in an effort to even help themselves.

yeah chris this OO is much improved in many ways. i would also encourage those who are not sure about running to cast aside those worries and take the plunge.

imho 1.0 blows compared to 1.1 i would work on transferring over to the new version as quickly as possible

as far as i know the tar.gz would be source .... which will take a very long time to compile (7hrs for rc4) i think you should be looking for OOo's binary installer which is already precompiled. edit: my bad their binary is tarballed too...sorry so used to compiling it (or not) that i have not looked at the binary for some time.

excellent well they are very different tools so i don't know if they really compare. portage runs a bunch of stuuf that builds and installs the software based on your settings pacman downloads and installs precompiled binaries. while in some respects it functions like portage it is mor like apt or ports. there are three repositories all which use the same servers so no you will not have to specify a server. you may need to specify which repository you want to use though. compared to what...the top five distros? no we only have about eight developers that work on package maintenance so no we do not have alot of package but we do add when we can and there are lots of user donated packages available (which are not yet endorsed by arch) and it is quite easy to make your own package and repository (complete with dependency solving) yes pacman solves dependencies. no problem.

well dma may be enable but that may not be enough. for example here is the hdparm line that use in order for my dvd playback not to suck a large amount of **s: hdparm -d 1 -X34 -k 1 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 please note that obviously your cdrom device will be named differently because i do not use Mandrake.

well persoanlly if you take it slow you shpould have no trouble with it. arch's instal is not really that hard and if you have another computer you can be online with while you install your can just go to the irc channel and get "live" help if anyone is around. if you don't fear the commandline, know the contents of your conputer, know a little bit about grub or lilo, and know a little bit about how your insternet is setup than i really don't think you will have trouble. it's an installer not philosophy :wink:

mc, emelfm and gentoo (though rarely the latter). i don't really like anything else.

giFT is pretty good too it has plugins for fasttrack, openFT, and gnutella. there are lots of nice interfaces for this daemon as well.

hmm..never heard of anything like that but i will watch this thread for a more helpful response. have you tried looking on freshmeat.net for such software? there is alot alot alot of software of all sorts listed there and the search engine is very easy to manipulate.

pretty well sums it up. the reason many may not learn as much in RH or MDK (and other "user friendly" distros) is that they are not force to. the commandline or other core processes are "hidden". persoanlly i am not really fond of this approach. while i do like less meanial work such as telling the system what devices i have there are great advantages to knowing more of the core of any OS. Namely your dependency on other and paying for those services is diminished. while software/os creators may not like this hit to the wallet it should free up resources for making a better product. in theory. in general that is the benefit of open source. we all learn to be useful and not a burden on the computer industry.

when i installed gentoo from a stage1 tarball last year i had already done the mandrake, libranet, pure debian thing and learned very little on top of what those three distros had taught me. how much you learn with gentoo depends on whether or not you have used commandline much or not or any console applications for that matter. in actuallity the setup and configuration of gentoo is really not that hard because there is mountains of documentation to get you through most of your tough spots. in the end gentoo was a major disappointment for me in many ways, learning was one of those. pure debian taught me more than gentoo.