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As tyme has said - Easy-Urpmi will set up your sources enabling you to download more packages than are available from the standard repositories, including your CDs. This means that Mandriva will just be storing a bunch of text, which doesn't take up much space at all. Not worth worrying about. If you run a 'boring box' however, you might not even need any of those extra packages. If all you do is basic productivity / Internet stuff then you probably already have everything you need. Still, it is nice to have access to the full list of stuff for incase ;)

Long discussion over here on the Ubuntu forums. Doesn't seem like WINE will run it, but someone might figure it out sooner or later. For now it seems like Cedega is the only way.

As neddie quoted: ;)

Our gov has had a commitment to open source in place for some time and recently committed to more installations. The problem is that they are doing it the wrong way around IMHO - they are focusing on implementing Linux and OSS on desktops - I think that internal systems should be migrated first and desktops last.

I dunno man - everyone hates Vista, but when Joe Sixpack goes out to buy his next PC, he'll just get Vista pre-installed and go "Uh... cool, now I have Vista." Retail box sales of Windows are usually bad, they rely on OEM to hold their market share.

I've always done it this way: - cd into new kernel source directory # make mrproper (this will wipe out your .config so I do it before I have copied over the old file) - Copy old .config into new kernel source directory. Then: # make clean # make # make modules_install Obviously, if you need to change anything do make menuconfig first (I'm a bit of a gambler, but I haven't had to change anything since 2.6.8 or something, so....). Now we wait for someone to point out that the first two steps are not necessary for 2.6 kernels... to them I say fooey! And I su to compile kernels. There is nothing wrong with making significant system changes 'as root' - which I think we all agree this is. You should never log in as root, but there is nothing wrong with using su.

I wasn't saying I want them to go with Arch or Gentoo, I just said that this was something I would want. Ubuntu is the clear choice for me. So long as the hardware all enjoys vanilla kernel support (as much as possible) I'd be happy.

Just to confirm that http://www.fallingleafsystems.com/ is the right address. The alkyproject url just times out. It looks like a really interesting project. The fact that a compiler must be developed for each game individually makes it a lot of work though, but I can't think of a better way to do it. It'll be interesting to see what becomes of this.

My answers are in. It's tough to suggest a distro. Ubuntu is an obvious one for me as a one-size-fits-all distro. But then I would love to be able to buy an XPS with Arch or Gentoo pre-loaded.

It's timing out for me... seems the page is either down or has been removed.

Let the patching begin!

I suspect that your driver was the problem and you were never really connected to the network. Lets see what the reinstall does for you - although remember that in Linux it is seldom ever necessary to reinstall - most things can be resolved without it. Of course, a reinstall is sometimes easier than repairing :P Thing are going great in SA :) We have a crime problem at the moment, but the government is well aware and, unlike many other African countries, at least they acknowledge it and are putting measures in place to tackle it from both a socio-economic and law enforcement perspective. Other than that, we're just gearing up for the World Cup in 2010

What output does # ifconfig give you? And are you sure you are using DHCP on the Linux box? Changing drivers should not be necessary if your Linux machine is, in fact, connected to the network.

Open up a terminal and type "ping [your router's ip address]" Example: $ ping 192.168.1.1 If your router is using DHCP you should not enter a manual address. Try using DHCP on the Linux box too.

Loki?

I think that a project as close to its community as Gentoo is can never really be in trouble. I understand the concern that right now Gentoo seems to be hovering without much direction from a development perspective, but I doubt this will be a long term problem. Gentoo is not a profit-driven company and Gentoo itself is open source. Even if the entire dev team quit it would just get picked up by someone else and a new group would form around it. In fact, perhaps it would be best as the group of developers currently on the job seem to have lost the plot. Well, that's if we believe Robbins anyway - and there is the possibility that the problem lies with him and not the other developers (I haven't been privvy to the 'attacks' made on him, so I wouldn't know). As for the disparity in development strategies, this is obviously a good thing. It shows that there is a caring community of developers out there who are sticking to their guns. It shows that someone cares. I wouldn't worry too much about the future of the distribution, it is still my favourite. From a dev perspective something like Arch is more with-it, but the problems at Gentoo currently are not permanent, I'm sure ;)

Gonna need more details here. You say you are connected to the network - can you ping your router? Is your router definitely connected? Are you using DHCP or manual settings? Have you tried a trace-route to see where the request gets stuck? Have you updated your MAC filter on the router (if you use one)? Let us know as much possible so we can try and help you out ;)

It's called Cedega. Find it at www.transgaming.com with a community site at www.transgaming.org It was previously called WineX

Emoticon overload? :o :cheeky: :cheeky:

It is very difficult to make a Trojan-like virus for Linux and I doubt anyone would want to, unless they were attempting to hack something like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and then they would be up for a serious challenge. You really do not need to worry about viruses in Linux yet - not enough people use it for the people who make viruses to care. They're more interested in turning Windows machines into bot-nodes for sending spam and the like. The site you bought your copy of Mandriva from probably downloads isos and burns them for sale (this is perfectly legal, of course), unless you bought an official boxed version. Either way, feel free to proceed with an installation - the chances of a virus are virtually nil.

Have you tried installing these packages with urpmi? I recommend you visit our Easy-Urpmi page and configure your package manager with a decent list of repositories. Then try using urpmi to install the Java run-time environment and upgrade Firefox. If you need help with using Urpmi - feel free to ask, search the board or Google it - there are tons of tutorials out there. The software manager in MCC is just a graphical user interface (GUI) for Urpmi. You could also use it from a terminal.

You should be asking these guys. The driver is not complete yet, but you might have some luck with it.

I would first use something like grip to rip the audio off of the partially-filled CDs, preferably to WAV format so that quality is maintained, and then use k3b to combine it all onto one CD.

Either will work.

Well of course Internet speed is moot unless you live somewhere like Hong Kong or South Korea and have a gigabit connection. Other than that, no connection in the west is going to be too fast for the 54mbps of 802.11g (unless you live in a big data centre). Throughput to the internal network will be double that of 802.11g. I can confirm that because I've seen it. But, of course, you need to have 11n on both sides for that to be true. I'd wait a little before getting an 802.11n card. Not because I'm worried about the standard, but just because they'll get cheaper.