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I used to have Mandrake 10.0 until I have installed Ubuntu.

Since then I am Ubuntu for it's much faster on my systems.

A few points:

- for Ubuntu with a kde flavor you may want to try kubuntu; there is also Xubuntu

- true that Grub is installed on top of the current MBR, but you can choose not to install it. I had no problems when detecting other OS installed (xp)

- Ubuntu repositories are great and the installation/upgrade is very fast and w/o problems, not even rebooing/leaving the os, even after upgrade.

- I have seen all three major releases 4.10, 5.4 and 5.10 and I anly saw good things from a version to another.

- there is a server version to install, choosing server at initial install prompt (not fully tested by me)

- there is (not maintained anymore) a free Ubuntuguide, a great doc made by someone in Malaysia.

- ubuntu main pages is done in zope and plone, with wiki - great tool.

 

I really loved mandrake, had it for two years, but ubuntu really helps me concentrate on using the OS and not tweking it so much.

I also want to add that Ubuntu has a great comunity with local teams recognized, and helped by the central team. Needless to say that Ubuntu is free and comes in a "1 CD install" which can help a lot in regions with slow or no Internet connection. Shipit (free CD's from Canonical) it's another great idea for gettig Linux and Ubuntu known.

 

I represent the Romanian Ubuntu community and I give a big Hello to everyone.

I try to ompile Garnome 2.10.0 on my second box but I have errors.

can someone help me?

make paranoid-install [enter ... goes ok up to]
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for some Win32 platform... no
checking for perl5... perl5
checking for X... no
configure: WARNING: X development libraries not found
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for fontconfig >= 1.0.1... Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fontconfig' found
configure: WARNING: No fontconfig found, skipping tests for FreeType and Xft
configure: error: *** Didn't find any of FreeType, X11, or Win32.
*** Must have at least one backend to build Pango.
make[7]: *** [configure-work/main.d/pango-1.8.1/configure] Error 1
make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/alcatel/Software/gnome/garnome-2.10.0/platform/pango'
make[6]: *** [../../platform/pango/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/alcatel/Software/gnome/garnome-2.10.0/platform/gtk+'
make[5]: *** [../../platform/gtk+/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/alcatel/Software/gnome/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libglade'
make[4]: *** [../../platform/libglade/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/alcatel/Software/gnome/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libgnomecanvas'
make[3]: *** [../../platform/libgnomecanvas/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/alcatel/Software/gnome/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libbonoboui'
make[2]: *** [../../platform/libbonoboui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/alcatel/Software/gnome/garnome-2.10.0/platform/libgnomeui'
make[1]: *** [../../platform/libgnomeui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alcatel/Software/gnome/garnome-2.10.0/desktop/bug-buddy'
make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2

I had the same problem in a previous make paranoid-install with "pkgconfig" but I went to "bootstrap/pkgconfig/" and I comiled ok the package, while in "bootstrap/fontconfig" I have errors:

...
checking for FT_Has_PS_Glyph_Names... yes
checking for FT_Bitmap_Size.y_ppem... yes
checking expat.h usability... no
checking expat.h presence... no
checking for expat.h... no
checking xmlparse.h usability... no
checking xmlparse.h presence... no
checking for xmlparse.h... no
configure: error: Cannot find usable expat library. This could mean that your version is too old.
make: *** [configure-work/main.d/fontconfig-2.2.96/configure] Error 1

 

any idea ?

 

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I can help with English <-> Romanian language translations. Please include me in the list.

I am living in Shanghai

I have seen many computer shops.

None of them have displayed the wind00ze logo.

I very much was impressed to see a shop where the stand had pc's all running Linux.

Mandrake 10.0 is running there and lot's of people were stoping by to see a different OS.

 

China is a different country (at list this is how I see it) It will take some time until Linux will rule the pc world here.

When the Chinese gov will impose strong rules on piracy, win will be still available @ 1$, because it's the right price.

 

That will be a good moment for Linux here

Just imagine how strong and big linux community can be in China.

It's just that Linux it's not know here...not so much.

 

A romanian living in Shanghai

do a backup from mdk control center on you user files and system data files.

save the backup in another partition /backup if you can make one or /home.

If you put the backups in other partition then / every time you need to reinstall/scratch you can safely format your original / and still have your vital data saved. A simple restore should put you back in linux business.

I must ask the high level users:

if you restore, your permissions to the files are kept right ?

one only need to recreate the same users

or create a new one and chown?

Or ?

 

good day

[CTRL] +D or simple logout should reboot your machine.

failsafe is more, much more then safe mode in wind00wz (if this tells you something).

I think you can even do a chroot to you original / , start all your services, ad so on.

It should be used more for debug purposes.

 

A french link on the subject http://lists.ze-linux.org/2004-03/msg00568.html with an example.

Good luck

I tried with two friends of mine a few years ago and with two others now.

I converted myself (for the moment...) and my wife. She is not allowed to switch to win without my concent! I'll get

Sh does not complin lately ... I just have to find some solutions and time to fix my sound, find a IM with voice and that's it. I, for sure, will forget wi(kk). My wife will have to follow me. Already she enjoy it!

So at the end I have coverted someone for sure!!!

I am so close.

I love the fact that I can leave ten's of windows (app and such) opened ans still my pc works nice after 1 week.

I hate when I have to reboot or switch!

I am using Gnome .

Used to have KDE .

 

I have not decided. I am waiting to see 2.8. :unsure:

 

run urpmi.update before adding a new media; will refresh the package list.

I have the almost same problems when a rh package was present on my media directory.

ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.1 up

eth0:1 is up, answers to ping, ftp, http

didn't check smb

ciao

      * Solid foundations : new compiler, updated kernel, and updated

        package management system make for a better, sounder distribution.

 

Can I update my current kernel version 2.6.3-7mdk with the one from 10.1?

urpmi should do it right ?

:unsure:

My / was 100% full

I moved lib and src dirs from /usr to my /home and made a ln -s to the new directories.

I rebooted once and the problem was solved.

I had the same problems a few times before applying the above w/a.

repdek,

what version of vmware are you using?

does it work?

do you have access to network, sound and webcamera devices in the emulated win?

 

great day!

I have a Samsung SCX-4x16 Series all in one printer. The model name is SCX-4216F.

I can't use it at all in linux. It is connected via usb.

I wonder if it will work with a parallel cable... ?

I leaned from LinuxPrinting.org that I should use a PPD driver but I can't find a good one which work with my printer or even close.

 

I wrote a mail to Samsung asking for help and support in having the printer spec so I will write myself the PPD file.

 

This is the answer I got:

 

Thank you very much for your mail.

In case of SCX-4216F, we do not support a linux driver or a PPD file.

It is product specification that is decided already.

If you have a question or another problem, feel free to send me a mail please.

Best regards.

 

What should I understand? That I have a winprinter?

I appreciate your help in getting it working.

Thank you

Standardization is the answer

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/36550.html

This is mine.

<----

I have to by a telescope too ... and I will, but not just yet.

Once I tried to install a Red Hat binary file unde my mandrake linux.

Someone recommend me not too.

Anyway I didn't know how to do it and I don't know it even now.

If you are interested abut the package, google "graphon" and you will find a fast application which works excellent and is very fast in exporting your linux env.

Just today I have installed cygwin and using XDMCP and the connection to a HP-UX server was slow comparing with graphon product. I believe they use some kind of compresion in exporting the screen.

This is what I am looking for ...

A internet installed distribution that I can use along with others.

Can you imagine where software development will be driven for to support such demand! I wonder how many people will be using this this super extra free linux box. So free that you don't even need to have a PC to have a linux box! Will be linux able to handle such power demand ?

 

:woot_jump:

 

Then just imagine win just a client to access Linux!!! This rocks!

I think it will be great to have access to a linux box without having to install one in your machine.

This will be possible if it will be installed somewhere on the Internet and letting users to create their accounts. I would need only a minimum number of applications.

It would be used by people who have no other choice but to use windows (Office pc's)

 

This will give others the chance of try and why not, later, switch to Linux.

 

Please let me know if there is such a thing on the internet.

 

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I am also interested in having Yahoo Messenger running in Mandrake. I need the voice and games features. I am traveling a lot and is excellent tool in keeping close to friends and family.

Thank you for any suggestions in getting it running.

Mine:

Size: large

Style: Non-legacy

Class: high end

 

Extra features that I need:

110-220V

P4, 512 RAM hdd>=80G

usb web cam

4 usb 2.0 ports

clear sound and speakers (jbl)

modem (maybe pc-mcia)

lan

3D video card

15" display

Battery for 3-4 h

cd-rom/cd-rw/dvd-+rw would be very nice

optical and wireless mouse

2 slots PC-MCIA

 

Extra features that I would like:

second lan

2-3 years waranty

 

Romanian living in Taipei, moving soon to Shanghai

 

Price should be less then 1700 Euro

Compaq Presario 2800

I had also a problem with KLaptop, having the icon but not functional.

Before:

lilo.conf: acpi=ht

apm on

acpi acpi(d) packaes not installed

 

So I disabled apmd from mcc, installed acpi and acpid, and chaned lilo to have:

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux-acpi"

root=/dev/hda5

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=on resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"

vga=788

read-only

 

Now KLaptop is working fine but still I see some error messages while booting so I post them here in case are needed or someone has a better ideea of what's happening.

 

Thank you :)

 

dmesg:

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BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffd0000 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 000000001ffd0000 - 000000001fff0c00 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0c00 - 000000001fffc000 (ACPI NVS)

BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)

511MB LOWMEM available.

ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000

On node 0 totalpages: 131024

zone(0): 4096 pages.

zone(1): 126928 pages.

zone(2): 0 pages.

ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000f9970

ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ CPQ004A 0x31050220 CPQ 0x00000001) @ 0x1fff0c84

ACPI: FADT (v002 COMPAQ CPQ004A 0x00000002 CPQ 0x00000001) @ 0x1fff0c00

ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ CPQGysr 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x1fff64c3

ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ CPQMag 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x1fff65d1

ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ EVON800 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000

ACPI: MADT not present

...

ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf031f, last bus=3

PCI: Using configuration type 1

Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!

ACPI: Interpreter enabled

ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing

ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 (bios) S4 S5)

ACPI-1121: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.C03C.C048] (Node c158bf

e0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT

ACPI-1121: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.C03C.C04C] (Node c159f1

e0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT

ACPI-1121: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.C03C._CRS] (Node c159f2

00), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT

ACPI-0098: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.C03C._CRS] (Node c159f2

00), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT

ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [C03C] (00:00)

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)

PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1

Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C03C._PRT]

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C03C.C03D._PRT]

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C03C.C04E._PRT]

ACPI: Embedded Controller [C0D0] (gpe 29)

schedule_task(): keventd has not started

ACPI: Power Resource [C140] (off)

ACPI: Power Resource [C154] (off)

ACPI: Power Resource [C158] (off)

ACPI: Power Resource [C15B] (off)

ACPI: Power Resource [C164] (on)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B6] (IRQs 5 10 *11)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B7] (IRQs *5 10 11)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B8] (IRQs 5 10 11, disabled)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B9] (IRQs 5 10 *11)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0BA] (IRQs 5 *10 11)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0BB] (IRQs, disabled)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0BC] (IRQs, disabled)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0BD] (IRQs, disabled)

ACPI: Power Resource [C0CF] (on)

ACPI: Power Resource [C1D0] (off)

ACPI: Power Resource [C1D1] (off)

ACPI: Power Resource [C1D2] (off)

ACPI: Power Resource [C1D3] (off)

PCI: Probing PCI hardware

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B8] enabled at IRQ 5

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B7] enabled at IRQ 10

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B6] enabled at IRQ 11

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0B9] enabled at IRQ 10

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0BA] enabled at IRQ 10

PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing

PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'

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I can help with translations

english <-> romanian

italian -> english

french <-> romanian

 

Sebastian :)