bvc

that's why I left mandrake for ubuntu. Being a gnomer.....their is too old...even their cooker is too old.

http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/screen...pper-DrakeG.jpg

 

 

bvc, is that the ubuntu human theme? Could you please tell me how to change the colour?

Info here

http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/wp/

I suggested them while working on the default Human theme for Dapper. Mark S. liked them, but....no one else seems to... :unsure:

that's why I left mandrake for ubuntu. Being a gnomer.....their is too old...even their cooker is too old.

http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/screen...pper-DrakeG.jpg

No entries yet? :huh: Gotta change that immediately. :D

Here is a simple sketch to start with. Very close to the official Mandriva-look, but still different. Nothing great, but still better than nothing at all.

Nice. Just a thought....The tux looks to me like a dog with something in its mouth. Sorry, but I've looked and looked at it and that's what I see...do not see tux (no I'm not on meds and have not been drinking). Nice, simple, clean otherwise.

 

With some polishing, ilia_kr's is moving.

what is the gtk theme? SmoothMilk...or whatever?

mandrake 8.1 because 7.2 wouldn't fly with my soundcard and modem

My last desktop lasted over a week, which is like, a record for me.....wanted to tone it down a bit...

Dapper-Duck

It was about time for a new thread. ;)

 

Mandriva 2006 with gnome and a bit of gdesklets stuff.

Are you just using tangodance or is that mandriva's gnome default?

rt-click>properties>open with

AI, a d3a (gtk) port to the eXperience engine. It's a lil faster!

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...0725&highlight=

Thx! This wall is nice too, and with a little texture on the mcity.

Dapper-Drake3

 

then there's the bluecurve mcity feel...sorta

Dapper-Drake2

Dapper-Drake

for gnome stuff

http://art.gnome.org/faq.php#q2

 

http://art.gnome.org/

http://www.gnome-look.org/

oh come now, it's impossible to contribute to windows unless you have enough $ to buy the msdn license :P not a fair comparison ;)

no it's not...there are win forums

 

are you, like anna, saying you have to contrib code for it to be considered a contrib?

 

of course not, the flame post is silly, not just an opinion, and should have never been made B)

don't you know, all we do here is complain and bash!! ;)

why not? I didn't know contrib to devel was a requirement to having an opinion ;) Funny, you never hear people asked for their conrib to devel when they bash another distro or windows Simple use, and help on a mandriva forum is more than enough to justify bashing

*cough

What modem?

 

We can't assume because it is external and serial that it should work in linux, obviously. Could save a lot of time.

 

scanmodem tool

http://132.68.73.235/linmodems/index.html#scanmodem

for http://www.linmodems.org/ but...why not?

 

http://www.devidal.tv/~chris/winmodems/pci_list.html

 

oh...and I recommend wvdial

I'm currently running ubuntu-dapper (devel) and it boots faster than any distro I have ever had, including lfs. I know you couldn't install the older versions, and you'd have to go kubuntu for kde, but I just thought I'd mention it, because it has been know to boot slow wiith previous versions but dapper's boot blows my mind. So if you are broadband get the latest, what? ...Ubuntu Dapper Flight5? ...and give it a go.

Me, too, I have Dapper on one partition and yes, it boots faster than Breezy, but it ain't faster than my e.g. Fedora or Mandriva or Slack boxes. While they surely improved the overall speed, Openoffice became slow like a slug. I don't know why... :unsure: Hope they fix it till Dapper gets officially released.

I believe thats a gdk/cairo/font issue, but I could be wrong. Heh, my wifes ML2005LE takes 10x longer to boot than ubuntu dapper (seriously!).

Fast boot time (My opinion is that suse and ubuntu are too slow) Recent version of Ubuntu have some problems with my rare hardware (sata1/2, x86_64 x2 smp) and I thats why I cannot even install it.

 

Could someone name any distro that have fast boot time, KDE is default WM, it contaisn good packet manager and its very updated (most recent versions of kernel...)?

bummer

 

I'm currently running ubuntu-dapper (devel) and it boots faster than any distro I have ever had, including lfs. I know you couldn't install the older versions, and you'd have to go kubuntu for kde, but I just thought I'd mention it, because it has been know to boot slow wiith previous versions but dapper's boot blows my mind. So if you are broadband get the latest, what? ...Ubuntu Dapper Flight5? ...and give it a go.

but I'm no newbie that needs a dumbed down windblows replacement, so no Linspire, Mepis, PClinuxOS for me too.

 

I'm thinking between SuSE.....

I'm sorry, I didn't read the entire thread but...

 

PCLinuxOS dumbed down? When did that happen? :huh:

...and if you don't want dumbed down, why are you thinking of SuSE? It's by far the most dumbed down aside from Linspire and Mepis.

 

Please don't suggest Ubuntu, I have psychological incompatibility with it.

I can see that since you are considering SuSE :P

 

Why base your choice of distro on the distro's company policy or whoever works for the company rather than on which distro works best for you?

why not? most linux users wouldn't be if not for MS's policies and who works there :P

[EDIT] oh, I see arctic already said that

oooo....I wonder where I put that ubuntu livecd?

threw it and all the other outdated distros about 3 months ago. I did have an ubuntu hoary iso laying around, so I burned it to cd and installed it to a spare partition. Still no go, so I went and bought a Best Data external serial modem and linux works again. Weird. Wonder what kind of hardware failure allows a modem to work in win and not linux?

 

On a side....about 2 or 3 years ago I paid 70$ for the USR5686 and 3 months later they were down to $40 and on clearence for $20. I almost (wish I did) bought one for a backup/extra. Today? $100 :unsure: ...am I missing something here? Guess they caught wind of the need for these suckers

 

 

Also, peoplepc.com does work in linux as does airmail.net and copper.net.

For my area and phone line, copper.net seems best.

 

/me has a headache

the prob with that is ...it's not a bug, considering it happened to 2 diff distros that are over a year old

 

I'm not going to add this to the other 80% of bug reports that are not bugs at all

 

Found out today that no changes were made on the isp end

 

So, what happened is...

 

-modem is disconnected by the user (my wife, not root ...he was at work)

-20 minutes later it dials on its own (have I been cracked?)

-user disconnects while it was still making the connection

-only works in xp...does not work in linux

 

so I see 2 or 3 possibilities

 

1. hardware failure

It's the #1 all time modem (USR 5686 external) and is over 3 years old

but why only fail in linux? ...just doesn't fly with me....any hardware guru see that as a possibility?

 

2. I was cracked, which explains why it dialed 'on its own', and maybe a ppp script was screwed with?

...this happened with a user logged in, but root would have had to be cracked because my ubuntu partition would have had to been enabled from ml2005le's fstab and the same done to it. Possible but....

 

3. isp did something and the 2 people we talked to doesn't know it

The isp is MyLinuxISP but they have sold out to internet america (loosers)

So the 'we don't support linux' doesn't get them far with me on the phone, even though it's true now, it's false advertising

 

 

I have been using copper.net for a while too. Does a decent job, but my phone line is crap. (i live in the country).

do you use kppp (KDE)? or some other method to connect (wvdial) (...and in GNOME)? Do they have a download limit? I see they have a connection time limit, but that's not a prob.

 

I tried kppp but it doesn't get it done either. Pppd times out (error 10). I've checked all the settings and config files in both distros. I either need to uninstall/reinstall ppp stuff and delete all left over files in pkgs, and/or get a new modem, I guess.

 

sick of using xp/firefox!

 

oooo....I wonder where I put that ubuntu livecd?

oh boy

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...138&hl=peoplepc

 

I have tried PeoplePC techs for over 3 weeks, but they won't tell me. The crazy thing is if I use Kppp, I connect every time.

 

I say this because today, my internet stopped working in linux but still works in xp. So I joined peoplepc for the fun of it. Same thing. Wvdial spits out a ton of characters, starts pppd, disconnects and redials.

 

Sad, the internet is ran on nix and we can't use dialup

I guess I have no choice but to bloat my install and manually download kppp/dependencies and manually install them just to see if it works

 

lame...

sick world we live in.....

Amarok is nice if you don't mind qt apps.

I do mind...very much so :P

 

I'll check out listen...they have ubuntu dapper debs

Too bad neither have all good features. Rb's library is much better but the sucker is just getting to bulky and ugly for me. The small display is now a medium display and useless. At least banshee looks good. Interesting when you mouse over the thumbnail also....

Human

it's been a slow death, but they started stabbing the beast when they killed Tom's board, so none of what followed was/is, a supprise

You know I have been doing some research and Ubuntu linux seems to have really hurt Mandriva. Probably because of their great marketing campaign something Mandriva has always been lacking in.

yes, the final blow was kubuntu.