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Looks very good, although I never played Freespace 2, so I'm not quite sure what to expect.

Not yet - my brother has the disc, so I will have to get it from him some time to try it out.

To me it doesn't matter what they install - so long as it's Linux I know it will probably work with my usual distro. I also think Ubuntu would be best though - just because of the new user experience.

Instead of installing to an external drive, why not try out Mandriva Move? It allows you to boot into Mandriva from a CD and play around with it. This might be better for you, unless you have a specific need to try out the 2007 Free x86_64 flavour.

The problem is not with the magazines, but with Linux in general. The level of eye candy intended for that release of Mandriva is only possible with all graphic elements in the computer at hand working perfectly. Now we all know how challenging it can be to get it all up and running smoothly on a specific system - to make a generic boot disk that gets it all right on many and disparate machines is virtually impossible. This is because things like display drivers do not enjoy enough vendor support and development to get them up to the level of their Windows' rivals. In fact, I take it back - the magazine is to blame. They made a stupid statement that cannot be justified. As a result, there are now people out there thinking, "jeez, this Linux thing isn't so hot after all."

Yup, I would say the journalist (or editor, more likely) is more to blame than Symatec here. They knew that a headline like that would lead to big hits.

It's a headache for everyone, and the customer demands for a solution is one of the reasons for the controversial Novell-Microsoft agreement. On the one hand you have vendors like Oracle who are able to supply the complete stack. But a homogenous stack is not possible for everyone and in most cases the environment is heterogeneous requiring integration that is not always possible and leads to the kind of OS shift you experienced. But with Linux entering the desktop-ready state and the subsequent growth in adoption that will follow, the development of specialist applications for Linux will happen. Unfortunately it's a slow process, but once the steam train gets going it can't be stopped ;) And most developers will find that a large percentage of back-office systems are already running Linux solutions, making the switch easy.

You probably just have to tell Mandriva to use the right driver for your card. Lets use a generic driver for now. What you need to do is edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the command line interface. You should be able to get to a console to do this (if you aren't already at one) by using ctrl+alt+<F key 1 - 7> Once in the file look for a section like this: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI 9800" Driver "vesa" EndSection Whatever is listed where "vesa" is in the above example should be changed to "vesa" or perhaps "vga" Then save the file and try to start the X server again: $ startx If that doesn't work we'll have to look at other possibilities. You said that you couldn't find your card in the list during installation - so which one did you select?

Ramfree is right about those flags. You don't need them, all they will do is limit what you can do with that NTFS partition.

Uh... the stats were released by Symantec, not Microsoft. So why would they want to skew the statistics? In fact, if anything, Symantec would be more interested in making Windows seem less secure. The problem is not the skewing of facts, but rather the approach. The vulnerabilities repaired in Windows were less than, for example, Red Hat - but that is vulnerabilities found by Microsoft. There might be thousands more that were just never detected. Of course, this could be true for Linux and OSX too ;) But - the difference is the reaction time to detected vulnerabilities. Here again we deal with the nature of the beast. Holes in Windows tend to be way more serious than those of other operating systems. A threat that is serious will obviously be dealt with more quickly, whereas the typically minor vulnerabilities in Unix-based systems do not require urgent attention. The article is waste of bits and means nothing.

I can do Afrikaans <-> English But I don't know any Afrikaans people who can't speak English

I disagree, to some extent. Being desktop ready does mean being compatible with the current status quo, which is MS Office at the moment to a degree. But it also means offering enterprise-level support, having a clear maintenance solution in place, offering stability, scalability and value. For the longest time Linux has managed to deliver on all fronts for back-office solutions, but on the desktop things have been shaky. Things like being able to painlessly mount a USB hard drive or manage patches add to desktop readiness. On the GUI front, Linux has had a lot to offer, but has suffered in terms of stability. But this is changing. I like to use Ubuntu as an example, because part of the distribution's goal in creating a Linux for the masses is to solve the desktop issues that Linux has suffered - and they have succeeded in many ways. I would say that even two years ago it would be difficult to roll out a Linux desktop in a large corporation - but now it's looking seriously possible. Not because Linux is becoming like Windows, but because it is more robust in its GUIs and offers serious support from the likes of Red Hat, with a good degree of user-friendliness.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.3/releasenotes/ Several security issues have been addressed, as well as website compatibility.

All Logitech MX Mouse Buttons (MX610) - The Quick & Easy Guide B) It refers to Ubuntu, but should be useful nonetheless.

How were you doing it before discovering that menu? Before listing your thread as solved, I'd be interested to find out what was causing the problem in the first place.

Try https://localhost:631 Also paste your CUPS config file, if you can.

Enterprise ready, yes - but certainly not desktop ready. Linux is only now approaching the desktop-ready state with the likes of Ubuntu, but still has some way to go. A commercial desktop Linux is just what the doctor ordered. Enterprise customers want to pay for something where support and a competent partner network are guaranteed. Yup - and this is good, because enterprise customers (other customers, sadly, do not matter much at this stage of the game) need to be alerted to their presence. As I said above, Enterprise customers want this kind of distribution, and they command the most significant market share. And you should spend money in getting an office. If you're an SMB then you can do it "freely" (which really only refers to software). Enterprise customers do not want to and should not want to make use of free solutions. This is a positive move by Red Hat and re-affirms Linux entering the desktop-ready era. We all want Linux to be taken seriously, but with perceived value it is hard to take anything seriously which is free (ie, which does not cost anything). Red Hat are the corporate face of Linux and necessary in grounding vital enterprise customers.

I don't want to discuss marketing, I was just explaining why it's ok for such a conversation to happen. Get that finger outta my face! :P

The check boxes you used are flags in the fstab file. They would result in an entry like this: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows/ ntfs nosuid,umask=0,user,noexec,nodev 0 0 However, I would advise against the use of noexec and nodev unless you have very good reasons for needing them. Also check out the ntfs-3g project, which allows for writing to NTFS.

I noticed in one of your other posts that you're running Spring. Cooker might be a little shaky on the codec front. I would really go back to a stable Mandriva release if you want things to just work, because that will not be the experience in Cooker. What graphic card do you have and which driver are you using for it?

Can you get to a terminal (ctrl+alt+<f-key>)? If you can it might be worth sifting through logs to see at what stage things go south.

From what I have read it is better to install Beryl from urpmi than with singular rpms or compiling. I would scrap that installation and use the Mandriva package manager to try and install it, once repositories have been configured correctly (Easy-Urpmi).

Did you get that error when trying to follow the link I posted? Because that link goes to the Mozilla site, so there must be something very wrong with your Firefox if it won't display its own developer's website.

So much hate :mellow: Ah well, I guess everyone deserves a second chance... and a third... and a fourth... and a fifth :P As one of the comments said though, if he can contribute towards a good package manager for Solaris then he will have redeemed himself.

True. But we also discussed how to install Java last week, and yet the question still pops up. Topics like this are re-occuring, and while they might be old-hat for some of us, are probably worthy of discussion for new users. Some of it will be rehashing for sure, but we'll also get new ideas and updated info. That's how I see it anyway :P