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/etc/resolv.conf is where Linux looks for name servers (for DNS). I suspect your DHCP server (or something) is changing the name servers often and the file is being recreated. Not sure why it is making empty copies of it though...

Have you tired XMMS? CLick on "Open Location" in the XMMS drop-down menu and give it the feed url directly.

You can use your existing swap. Some people will tell you that you need one swap partition per drive - this isn't necessary, but won't do any harm. So yeah, they will happily share the swap you have. Slave is fine - Linux is happy living anywhere, so long as your bootloader (LILO or GRUB) point to the right partition.

You only need software to load music for listening back on the ipod, which requires the maintenance of a disk-side itunes database. But to use the ipod as an external hard drive, all you have to do it mount it, like you would any other usb drive. You can even mount "Apple" formatted ipods if you haave HFS+ filesystem support compiled into your kernel, otherwise fat32 is the way. I once formatted an ipod to reiserfs to see what would happen - made quite a nice external, journaled drive. This, of course, was not an ipod I owned :P and I put it back to HFS+ a day later.

This is an interesting question. Urpmi was awesome in the beginning, simply because there were no / few other package managers out there. But now it doesn't compare to the likes of Pacman, Apt, Yum and Portage. It's due for an overhaul. I reckon it'll be something like Apt4rpm... unless they rework urpmi, which would be interesting.

I actually would have agreed with you until about a year ago. You see, there are currently more people using Linux on desktops than OSX - So if the game developers don't ignore OSX, why would they ignore Linux? Linux has also lost its stigma as a "server OS" or a "geek OS" and more and more home users are turning to it. Look how many members we have here now as opposed to two years ago for example. I don't personally know any game developers as such, but I have written to Blizzard before - and their answer to me said that they were closely following Linux's development and would support the OS when the time came. They also said that they firmly believe that, given the current growth of the OS, that they would start supporting it one day. I do, however, know many general software developers and they are all now working towards making their products available to us. I think Nero burning ROM is a good example, even if it isn't a great piece of software (the port). Macromedia, Adobe.... so many companies are now strongly considering Linux. But why should the gaming companies bother NOW when Cedega exists? They will in the future when Linux has a more firmly established Installed-base, but the statistics don't add up just yet, so they leave it to Transgaming. And yes, they do talk about Cedega - a lot. Remember that Transgaming is in contact with developers all the time - their core business relies on Windows games! So the developers not only know about them but are, in some cases, assisting them. Not all these games work so well on Cedega purely because of the hard work of the Transgaming team. I have no way to prove this though, just my understanding of how they do it. Plus, with OSX now moving onto an x86 architecture, Transgaming are preparing to knock on doors in a big way - I'm willing to bet they had one of the first developer release Intel Macs. This will all change in two years time - either OSX will have come close to the installed-base of Windows (this is a discussion for another thread please) or Linux will have - I firmly believe this. And when this happens, the developers will clearly see the market potential of native games. The future is bleak for Windows and better for the Xbox. I reckon the future of computing is an OSX vs. Linux (or derivitive) world - and the developers just follow the herd.

but still, make sure you have a backup of all important files on that drive/partition because it never hurts to be safe. :) have fun learning. :) ciao! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Forgot to mention that Thanks ramfree17!

I'm glad to see this board has recovered some of its silliness. Just to stay on-topic: XP sucks. Seriously you guys.

You could also use menuconfig to update your menu and hopefully gaim will show up, otherwise add it yourself. -OR- set gaim to start whenever you login - that's what I do.

Welcome! I reccomend Ubuntu, for a few reasons: 1 - It has a LiveCD, so you can get familiar with it before installing. 2 - Its installer can safely resize NTFS partitions, so you could install it alongside Windows without a hassle. 3 - It is a very friendly distro and doesn't confuse you by overloading you with software apps that you may not need - it comes with a decent selection to get you started. You don't need to know anything about programming to use Linux - heck, I can barely program an echo command :P All I can do is a little PHP and a lot of HTML - in no way beneficial to Linux useability ;) Take the plunge! You won't regret it and if you do, we're here to help!

As Devries said, it is beta so you will not get official help - but we're more than happy to try and assist :) You could try and update your menus - now I haven't used Mandriva in ages, but I believe the command was: menuconfig --update ? If someone could verify that for me - I don't have access to a Mandriva box right now. Remember that beta versions are buggy though and if you need something stable, revert back to the last stable release of Mandriva.

Jeez, some of us obviously don't keep up with the times. Firewire has been working solidly in Linux for ages. All 2.6 kernels support it _really_ well. All you need to do in compile the kernel module in. This is the problem with distros like Mandriva that ship with precompiled kernels - they presume too much. My advice: find out how the Linux kernel works and compile yourself a vanilla kernel. It's not difficult at all. ! Ignore the misguided statements in this thread - Firewire is fully supported in Linux !

I only buy native games, unles I REALLY want to play something or it gets given to me. Like Half Life 2, I really wanted to play so I use Cedega and KOTOR2 was given to me to review. This game looks good, I might buy it if they port it, if they don't it'll have to be REALLY good :P

What do you do before you get that error? How exactly are you installing it? Is that a make error? Did you do ./configure first? Have you found out if Crossover Office is available as rpm?

What does that say anyway?

Any particular reason why you're compiling it instead of installing it with urpmi?

It depends on how it has been setup. It mayt be FTP or (even better) SFTP, in which case you could. There are many ways in which they could be doing it. The best would be to ask the system administrator or someone at your school and then tell us what they said ;)

Nope, Firefox does not require Mozilla and installs independantly. Having it in no way implies having Mozilla. But Mozilla has been on ever Mandrake CD/DVD... since... forever. :deal:

Another option would be to use VLC - it plays wma files out of the box.

But, is KDE inherently better somehow, because I used it on Suse, and it was fine. I just configured it to look somewhat like gnome. :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't understand scarecrow's comment... there is nothing wrong with Gnome in Mandriva. KDE is not better - they're just different and both have strong points. Scarecrow: please back up your statement with some justification? Ubuntu uses Gnome by default - that doesn't make it better.

Look in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or XF86Config-4 file and find the mouse device section. Try changing the mouse device to /dev/psaux (if it isn't already).

bvc has made a good point, consoles are going to become more and more prominent. But PC / Mac gaming will never die. It's a different experience, less social, more involved and given the models that govern them, PCs will always lead in hardware performance keeping them the platform of choice for thorough-bred gamers. Cedega is damaging the porting possibilities for Linux right now by making games manufacturers lazy (why port for Linux natively when we can use DirectX as an API and let Cedega worry about the Linux guys?) - but Linux is growing, like it or not, and if it continues on it's current path will own a substantial chunk of the desktop market in two years time. It is already bigger than OSX. Once Linux reaches the 30% install base (and it will), we will cross the line and it will be impossible for developers NOT to port their games and still sell. My current business involves interviewing the people who decide the future of computing and they are all singing with one voice: software innovation in the future will rely on open source and Linux will be large force to deal with on the desktop in two years time. Now, if Apple ever decide to make OSX available for PCs (the Intel Macs will run Windows, but they have an internal dongle that is required for OSX - so don't be silly and post that it is happening already, because it isn't), well then we'll have a different scenario altogether. Because OSX would kick both Linux and Windows off the scale overnight. On the desktop anyway.

How do you play the Windows version of Heavy Metal FAKK2 natively in Linux? I though the Linux version was a seperate entity?

Next would be _either_ updating your kernel version to get the latest version of the ALSA driver - _or_ downloading the latest ALSA driver kernel patch and updating your driver. Next, make sure you have the latest version of alsa-utils AND the SDL libraries that NWN relies on. Once you have all of these things, rerun alsaconf and hope for the best. There are posts all over this board and the net on updating your kernel - and it is made even easier by the fact that Mandrakes patchy kernel won't require you to do any compiling - although, I would reccommend compiling your own vanilla kernel for best results - that's just me ;)

i found the original avatar from www.linux.gr or www.hellug.gr I do not remember to tell the truth. Take a look also here to find also other pictures with tux. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was referring to the original logo you had when you joined As for Ubuntu - it rocks and will not stop being popular. I don't use it myself but I hold it in high reagrd - to a degree that I see it as the messiah of mass-desktop linux usage. But that's just me :P