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I wonder if people have alternatives.. or rather I think if people see as Python as a better alternative. Eric Raymond think so, and that caused some discussion about if python is an alternative to Java. Sun Exec. got a laugh, while others actually did migrate, some use them both under Jython and well at the end is a matter of preference. While the Free Software Foundation calls for making their Java application Gnu/Java compatible. I use floss for more than pragmatic reasons so yeah I dig the philosophical reasons to and wonder if there are people that actually care about the philosophy of floss.

I have to disagree, openoffice.org is really easy to work for address book is actually on a wizard to import your address book from your mozilla address book or whenever. Mandrake is also a great distro, it install apache, php and mysql righ from the instalation cd (althought on the latest I didnt found the mysql server which was a hassle). And at the end u just working out from the box. I have experience problems with the latest blackdown java since it has some issues calling a class to connect to mysql.

I kinda did but u dont u always think u have them all anyway?

Yes that is what I see people say but I want to get a copelled educated reasoning, hopefully with examples why is this not good. I will assume that java es evil.... but in that evilish I want to know exactly why. For example flash is evil to the web... why? well because the content is invisible to webcrawlers so the use should be null or limited. For Java, yes it is slow, but what I mean is why is it slow. Because there is not compiled? Such is Python no tcompiled well there is bytecode and PYC but head to head are they comparable even. Now about fragmented I mean u got the jsdk by SUN and you have the gccj by GNU and the IBM Java. Also apache is triying to put harmony together and bring a definet FREE java. So my question, is it even worth it to think about Java as an option. Sun just pull out Java 1.5, and well I most say that I only waiting to see how many incompatibilities it brings to the other FREE Java entitites (free as GNU). Sorry about the linux issues with java was that Linux as oposed to Solaris for example had issues handling the threats of the programs. I am not very knowlegable about this issues but I did remember reading articles about the issues of Linux with Java.

This question might be hard to answer, well I will try my best. I download the series of shows from Go-Opensource (www.go-opensource.org/). I got them all via bittorrent but when I wanted to watch them on mplayer I could just get the video but no audio. They seem to be rendered for quicktime or something. The videos are mp4 (MPEG-4 Video) The audio (which is the one I DONT get) is: 22500 Hz MPEG-4 Audio I currently have mplayer and also have some codecs like xdiv and quicktimelinux rpms. Any ideas? I also have my mplayer with support for theora.

I havent been able to install inkscape it seems it ask me for some modules which are simply not there. I get the response that I need perl-XML-XQL, however I happen to not been able to found them even if I have all my perl packages? Can anyone shed some light? should I look into cooker unstable? I dont think is necesary, please help.

Thanks, will do. :)

Ok Java is not open source, even the free java is more like a playing catch up alternative similar to mono and very different from open languages like Python and Perl. So there are many theories of java. - Java is slow - Java is fragmented - Java has issues with linux - Java has poor interfaces (UI) aka AWT Sucks!!! - Java is Not free Software

Most of the issue of why linux is because you got everything that you need for free or a very marginal cost. Also you start discovering communities (more on Why Open Source?). The 4 step program to be a Linux user should be: - Install free software on your windows machine (Firefox OpenOffice.org, GAIM etc..) - Get a LiveCD (Knoppix, Gnoppix) - Install a dual boot on your machine - Trash Windows :) I used to be in a Special Interest Group for Linux and I can tell you some of the key reasons to switch: - Curiosity (I want to learn this) - Pride (I am a geek I need to know everything) - Hate (we all hate Gates) - Paranoia (Virus, worms, my data is KING) - Control (Don't want no Palladium-DRM up in this *ish)

I have a permission hell which the html of my site is dividied between two entities apache and root. What I want is to make it usable for my user and I also want to move all the content to home. Why? Because I usually run cron jobs backing up my home and I want my web data to be included there. I also want to make it accesible for my user to access the folders and everything related. I guess I can put a SUID but I am not experienced enough about this. So I am asking for help on steps how to make my public_html folder to be in my home. I was thinking about just putting a softlink but the not so easy part relates with avoiding a permission hell.

Actually I could run mandriva 10.0 from mandriva 10.2 using the qemu repositories with no issue. Windows was other story thought.

I am a lugradio fan, they are a bunch of interesitng guys up in England and they talk a curse a whole lot about Linux. Is really a great community and their interviews are surprisingly good. http://www.lugradio.org [moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman]

I would need to look more into this, I would like to understand better this subject. When I start Mandriva 10.2 I get a message saying that it use udev instead of devfs and that also hal is present, however is rather new and I need to learn how it works and how to work with them. I dunno about hwd and I hope someone else who have understood the strugle with hotplug.

I got an Inspiron 4000 and have a great result even the modem works :) You do need to get the source at linmodems.org and compile it against the kernel each time you update your kernel you need to repeat the process which is kinda tedious but then again is only if you need a working modem.

I'll try rmmod in the future, however which scenarios do you use it. I mean my external HD is perfect when I start, but if I unplug it and plug it back in it just dont get recognized and thats when problems start. So my question is, should I use rmmod usb-storage; insmod usb-storage; or is there a way to restart the service (as oposed to remove and insert back the module). It just sound too low level to reset the usb-storage locator process.

ok I read the man and couldn't make sense of it. I wanted to reboot the usb-storage module of the lap because it was failing to re-detect my memory card. I then put depmod usb-storage and didn't worked. The next time I reboot the lap I got into the issue that it couldnt load any module meaning that it couldnt mount the audio, the xfs reiserfs type partitions and I end up with and with no home/ partition. So what I did was several tries re-mounting. modprobe usb-storage but got that the module wasn't found... then I did depmod -a this make a file in /usr/lib/2.6.8-12mdk/modules/modprobe.dep full with all the links to the modules, after rebooting, everything went on smoothly.. But I wanna know what did I just did and why did that happened. Yes I read the man plenty of times but all I could make this is that.... when depmod has no arguments, -a is assumed and that breaks all the paths to the modules as well as their dependencies. PD: And I still have the doubt about resetting the way usb-storage operate.

I want to start mandrake on m work computer which unfortunately use the crappy Windows XP Home. So I download Qemu, and the Mandrake img file for Qemu. However I haven't been able to get it to boot. I wonder if anyone has done this and if they can tell me how to go about it.

So how does the source from devel compared with the source of the SRPM or .src.rpm ?

I want a user to have a time different from the system one. Since the user access through ssh from east coast while the machine is on the westcoast I wonder if there is a way to set up an individual time (sys +3hrs). Can anyone tell me how to do this? I suggest it would be something on the bashrc file.

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Thank you guys for the tip. Since I am not online when I am on Linux (dont have connectivity) I usually can't do that straight away. Please bare with this sometimes silly q's.

I can help with Spanish too (Español).

A year or so ago, Lycoris had plans to launch a TabletPC running lycoris, I was eage r to know more about it, but time passed and I never heard from that again. Also a pocketPc was in plan, which also given me the munchies to know more about this. My question is if they ever got that project of the ground since they never actually push it on their Lycoris Store. Now that Mandriva is thinking of buying them, will we see a mandriva on the pocket? that would be a totall killer app, specially with some development such as zeroconf and mandriva networks.

Whenever I started my 2005 LE I got a message at boot saying that the filesystem is mounted as read-only and that the journalization is skipped. I got 3 partitions; root which is a ReiserFS, swap and /home which is an XFS. Before , everytime it boot it checked the harddrive, but from a while now, it start pointing that the partition are mounted as read-only. Is there a potential problem? how do I switch back? Do I need to switch back? thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman]