HJ

Anyone have any clue about changing the color of desktop fonts in gnome 2.4? I've asked around else where and google'd and haven't really come up with anything....

One of the cards that this "driver" works with is in my dell laptop. It's a truemobile 1300, which currently does not have any linux drivers. Debating weither to give it a try with this windows' drivers thingy... Then again, my netgear wg511 works np natively in linux... So there's no real use.

Do you have mozilla installed? For epiphany to run, it needs mozilla to be installed.

GNOME 1.Faster 2.Nicer 3.Cleaner

Yea, I can't wait for it either... Or for MoH: Spearhead for that matter.

Couldn't have said it better myself. :-)

Sorry I fliped out on you, I just get very agrivated with people that shutdown and diss other distoros, especially when they don't seem to be giving it much effort.

My point is that he is shooting down a distro, clamming its not workable, before he even tries asking for help.

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Also, good job at editing your post on the gentoo forums..... I'll show a screenshot of what he initally posted.

DETAILS MAN, DETAILS!!! How the hell can someone help you if you don't explain your problem in more details? If I call 911 and tell them i hurt, how can they tell me what i can do, unless i explain what's wrong? Plus, that post was today, after you made (or at same time) you made the inital post here. Give them a chance to respond man.

Ok, try asking around why they weren't working? Just telling someone that they aren't working, doesn't help.... I admit gentoo isn't for children.... But hell, i learned more about how linux works and what it does, and what it's capable of in 1 week of using gentoo than i did in 1.5 years of using mandrake. Plust a newb (such as my recent convert) can easily install gentoo if they just follow the install guides, and ASK for help... You posted something knowing, not caring, that it could turn into a flame war? How do you mods feel about that?

I'm gonna try to be nice here, cause quite honestly I'm frustrated. I jumped on over to the gentoo forums, and looked up your user. You have 2 posts, 1 asking wheither the cds are worth it, and the other basically complaining that things aren't working, not specifing what's wrong. Just saying "Why won't the Nvidia drivers, which work on every other distro I have used, work on Gentoo? ". People can't help if you don't supply details. Here's his post.... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=9...4062&highlight= Also, that post was at "Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:48 am." I mean, wth? It's like people joining our IRC channel ( #musb ), asking a question, then leaving in 30 seconds because of no response. Come on!

I've been using Gentoo about 7 months and i love it. Sure installs take a longer than binary rpms/targz/debs/etc, but i'm a patient person, the feartures in portage (such as the USE variable) make it well worth it IMHO. As for the Nvidia drivers, i guess you didn't read the install guide very well," emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel", boom, done. Works great.(and it does point that out in the install guide) Problem with gentoo-sources, i personally don't have a problem with them, but there are so many sources you could emerge...... And I find the install guide to be quite informative, and easy to follow. I've recently converted a friend over to linux, and when he was first using mandy, he would drive me crazy cause he couldn't figure anything out. He had to hack so drivers, and scripts to get a few things working on his laptop, with newer hardware. and madrake didn't like the changes. He finally got frustrated and installed what i use, gentoo. Couldn't of been happier. "Gentoo is awsome, not like pain-in-the-ass-mandrake." is what he said. But anyway, it's only a matter of opinion and experience. I know debian is a great distro, but I've had bad experiences with it, nothing ever worked. So I don't use it. That's what linux is about, choice. As tyme said, this could turn into a flame war.

While I did give it another chance, I've still decided to stick with gnome 2.4 :-)

I really have no clue what happend during that install. I just did a complete system install, then installed XFCe4 again, and I don't have anyproblems now. So I am very confused at what happend. The reason why I mentioned gentoo is because the gentoo packaging system (portage) is written in python. And one of the things that fubared was python dependancies or something another. It'd be equivlant to having your rpm database being corrupted and rpm binaries/libraries going missing, aka. not good :-)

OH MAN LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH XFCE4 ROCKZ0RZ!!11111 You install, everything goes well; installs cleanly, no problems at all!!! Then you start X up into it to give it a try, and you play around with settings and stuff to see how coolz0rz it is, and you love it! Next, you decide to go back into gnome just so you can compare speed/look/etc. Gnome starts loading and nautilus keeps crashing!!! Isn't that SUPER COOL!?!! IT JUST SEGFAULTS! Then when gnome actually starts, you realize that for some reason, all your gnome menu entries are gone! You don't need that clutter anyway!! BUT THAT"S NOT EVEN THE BEST PART!! When you start running console apps that use python, they segfault and crash with weird errors. So you go to try and reinstall what isn't working, but since your pkg manager (gentoo) is written in python, IT DOESN"T WORK!! ISN"T THAT SUPER!!!?!?!111 So now I have a completely useless system!! But hey, I guess it was worth it, because I got to try XFce4........ </sarcasim></frustration> Ok, I did absolutly nothing between install XFCe4 and discovering all these problems, so i have no clue what really did it. But I sure as hell am not going to be giving XFCe4 another try. btw, fubar = fscked up beyond all recognition

OK guys, I'm really stumped here. I've been working for the past few hours, plus until early in the morning last night trying to get my friends laptop running well with everything working in linux. I've solved most of the problems, but this wireless network card is drving me nuts. According to usbview it's a IEEE 802.11b PRISM3 USB (even though the casrd is built-in, it connects to the bus through USB) and is a AirVast Taiwan. I tried following the directions/info supplied here but I can't get mandrake to recognize a wlan0 device. At first I built my own version of wlan utils and drivers and installed them, then I notice there are kernel modules for prism2_usb (even thought it's a PRISM 3 card the prism2 drivers are suppose to work) already in the mdk kernel and the wlan utiles it uses in a mdk rpm. But, with both setups, I still can't get it to recognize a wlan0 device. Anyone have any ideas? I have a feeling it has something to do with the way mandrake is handling it, but I haven't been using mandrake myself for a while, and am not sure. Thanks -HJ

The other day a friend of mine asked me "Why do you use linux?" I told him because it fits my needs, it looks nice, works the way I want it to, and that I can put it on my computer and no one can tell me I can't. Then he ( he isn't the brightest fellow...) started saying that I only use linux because I hate Microsoft, that I'm a hippy, and that I think everything should be for free. Basically he labeled me what many Windows users that no nothing about linux label us as. But I, and you, know that most of us linux users aren't like this. While I do strongly dislike M$, I'm sure as hell not a 'hippy' and I don't think everything should be free. This got me curious.... Why do _YOU_ use linux? What interests _YOU_ about linux? Why don't _YOU_ use a Microsoft, Mac, or other OS's (including *BSD, etc.)? What made _YOU_ start using linux?

There was some stink about this over at the Gentoo forums when every one realized they couldn't emerge winex-cvs anymore. Unfortunately, people aren't making as big a deal of this as they should be.

no, the only real speed advantage is if you are using more than one machine over a network (or atleast that's how i understand it) correct

Calm down gents... Any way, here's my 2cent.. I myself am a gentoo user, and I couldn't care less about this article. Speed isn't why I use gentoo. I like gentoo because it fits my needs, not becuase it's "speed optimized" or what ever. If I want a super speedy distro, I'd still be using Slackware. The main reason I use gentoo is because of the tools that come with it; namely Portage. It's great, easy to use, and powerful. It makes installing and customizing software a breeze. Plus, gentoo has a great support community. Getting/Finding help is real easy thanks to the forums they have on the gentoo web site. And as for the inconvienence of building all the software, I don't find it a hassle. All the machines I have are plenty fast enough for it. And thanks to distcc, building all my software is hella fast (gotta love compileing my kernel in under 2 mins :-) ). Anyway, that's my 2cents. -HJ

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I'd be interested. Although I don't know what it is I could do... But if there is, I would love to..

Well technically if Half-Life was ported so would Counter-Strike, since it is a HL mod. But to hold you over from any CS urges, try this cool Quake3 mod. www.truecombat.com I've played it the past few days and it's pretty fun.