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Hi Dr Bill, Billy here I understand your frustration, but I do not have a comfortable reply either. Scripts just are not going to happen. That would take a lot of time and $ I used to use this 'teaching' approach. After thousands of these type post for the same 40 questions, I got burned out. I then proposed our FAQ. Was great. Now out of date. Even when it was great and updated I can see that it was too easy to just link to it. Makes it easy for people to think that if they didn't understand a FAQ they were somehow inferior or stupid, and then afraid to ask...huh? I've often wondered if it was such a great idea. Especially since it is not updated as it should be. Sounded good to a burn out though :D I don't see the 'Club' as an answer...why do you think people come here? However, I do think you should tell mandriva what you think. Can't hurt. Win is not easier because of its lack of security. It's easier because 1. it is usually what people use when they first learn how to use computers 2. it doesn't have a lot of different extensions and filetypes for a user to learn several different ways of manipulating. Pretty much point and click. Default filetypes are pretty much setup for you, or you are asked at install, and if you wanna change it, it's right there in the preferences of the app you want to handle that filetype/extension, not some half hidden, obscure preference within a subsection of a main section in a desktop envionments control panel somewhere. 3. Just like in win (nt kernel), lin is more than capable of installing and running and entire app fron within a users directory structure. Are we asked in lin? No. So, you either have to have root privy's or get, and install a tarball to your home directory, and setup a shortcut to run the new app. Not user friendly and Linux is bad, very bad about this. It is an area that can easily be fixed, yet isn't. Wonder why? So, the only thing left is hardware and not much can be done about that overnight. It will take a major colaboration of many distros and a lot of $ and marketing to properly release a polished, professional product that is usable and still secure. It is very possible and is in fact already done by apple. Usability does not, in anyway, sacrifice security. That is a myth. If and when this product is released as 'Linux' and not some distro, hardware vendors will take notice and only then begin to consider linux as an alternative solution. Of course by then, mac will be on intel arch so..... Until then, developers that give of their personal time while they hold down full time jobs can not provide the hardware support in linux the world needs.

If you are using DefaultDepth 24 you are using 32 bpp. Makes no sense, but that's what they say.

The color? sorry but there are tons of themes this color and I don't think anyone is scared by them, in fact, they are among the most popular :huh:

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reworked the scrollbars and range sliders on Scutum GTK

Hi eric.proctor and welcome! There's a lot of differences between gnome 2.8 and 2.10. Mostly small things that easy going people don't notice or care about, but very picky people do notice and do want them. Hence, me Ubuntu, well....until I find the time to put fc4 over ubuntu. I need 2.10 I'm comfortable here having run it since beta warty, and I hate reconfiguring my desktop from a default anything.

I'd like to know...wuz_up_wid_da_name? :unsure:

would have if I had plf enabled

you know, you click a link or bookmark and it just sits there like it doesn't know what to do and says 'contacting/waiting for bla bla' The sites are not the prob. I've been browsing them for 5 years.

nah, it's the actual os. There's even differences between distros. Debian has always been, by far, the slowest. Mandriva is about the 2nd fastest and fedora/rh is #1. I'm installing fedora4 over ubuntu because of it. Those that have most of their experience with mandriva won't notice as big a diff than if they used suse or debian. Deb is horrid and Slack is not great either. Gentoo was good but my experience there is very limited. The fact that reaction time varies between the diff distros proves it is the OS. Keep in mind I have used all these and much more on both boxes and both cable and dialup.....so, give it up.... it IS the OS :D I think all this is very OT but a mod (arctic) disagrees. So again,

scripts from iphitus and cybrjackle (instructions and credits inside) in the term http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/docs/info.txt and http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/docs/sysinfo.txt

locate slocate urpmf google will all tell you where it is

I'm making a gtk to go with the Scutum metacity theme. Not near done but you can see where it's going. Click Me

use urpmf to find what pkg the missing file is in :D and then install with urmpi gcc-cppno need for the internet and much faster :P

Anyone know if the install allows the bootloader to NOT be installed? and does it work? I had fc3 give the option to not install the bootloader but it did anyway.

open a terminal and run; passwd

support? what's that? true about RAID, ISV, LVM, and Directory Server though... it does it quite well and easily

It's just still riding on the coattales of its past is all. It was the first distro to grasp the corp rung and hang on. Linux is linux...can anyone argue that? There's nothing rh can do that any other distro can't. If you know enough to run sel, then you know enough to run it on any distro.

taking it one step further there's no future for pc/mac games either

No, sallam means opening the control center as a user and getting the root login dialog window. I've always thought that 'remember password' was there as a 'not yet impemented' feature that just didn't work.

My current isp is mylinuxisp so that is doubtful as well My current isp is mylinuxisp so that is doubtful as wellcable was roadrunner so again...doubtful....20+distros, 3 isps, 2 computers, 2 dialup modems and 2 cablemodems....so, guess again... Linux webbrowsing sucks ;) fc4 will replace ubuntu nah...I download all 3 cd's for ML9.1 on dialup, so 150MB is nothin ;) my cable was roadrunner for 2 years... so again...doubtful....20+distros, 3 isps, 2 computers, 2 dialup modems and 2 cablemodems....so, guess again... Linux webbrowsing sucks ;) ur probably more right than you think. Too much time and wasted $ on this internet wasteland is the main reason I'm going dialup ;) ($9.99 a month...RR lowered it from $49.99 to $26 at a lower bandwidth about like dsl but...) Screw cyberlife...I want a real life again maaAAhan this dialup sucks! On mandrake now..

well, I've experience this with 3 providers so I seriously doubt it.

well I've always said the same thing and people say I'm crazy. It's all browsers...it's the connection. Use the same dns settings as windows and linux is still a lot slower and this goes for dialup as well. Linux web browsing just sucks IMO. I can load pages twice as fast in xp. FTP download is faster in linux though...but guess which we use a lot more. I almost ditched linux because of it. If you find the secret to changing this let us know. I've tried everything, running the most barebones net setup but its still mega slow. Right now I'm in xp because I'm switching back to dialup and linux whipped out a bunch of deps for me to resolve and since I've been broadband for 2 years I have no cd's so I have to go download the pkgs I think I'll install fc4

based on how gnome runs on my celeron 600, 192mb, gf2 I sure would hate to run it on your box.....but then, before I had my newer box it wasn't bad, so I guess it depends on your patience and what you are used to.

great! now can you mark this thread solved so people do not come here to see there really wasn't a problem? :D thx!