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Nautilus 2.6.3 that is.

I like a lot of the features. But the default "new window" is driving me crazy. On the plus side, it responds a lot faster than before (an issue with only 128M RAM) and some of the new functions are great (I like the "view" menu for example.

What do you all think?

SCO is: more evil than a room full of republicans

on the way out as a company

in deeeeeeeeep sh*t with IBM

It sounds like you may have errors on the CD. If at allpossible transfer the CDs to your HDD.

OK. Where it says URL add the path to the files you want.

If you keep them on CD then that will be

/mnt/cdrom

or similar

If you decide to put them on your HDD then you can simply point it to the place you put them

/home/jeffs/sources

or similar

Does that help?

I assume that you mean you lost track of how to use the CDs via software management?

If so, and assuming you have the space to do this, I suggest copying the CDs to your HDD and using them from there.

eg

file://home/jeffs/CD1

and so on

So I updated to the latest gnome and gdm from cooker. I run flux with gdm as the DM. Now, my gdesklets will not start up. Literally nothing happens at all. top shows nothing. I am perplexed.

Any ideas?

Your CDROM may simply need mounting. Upgrades are always a little interesting to do, although I have managed a few without too much bother. My suggestion would be to do a clean install without repartitioning if you can.

I would still be interested in knowing exactly what sort of IT job the OP holds. He sure does not sound like someone with any admin experience on any OS

That's nice, just filled it in. You would think they would be more curious about what features their users would like though... (I'm talking about spontaneous responses here)

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Agreed. Overall I thought the survey was well worth doing (and it is nice to see something like this happening), but I also wish they had asked what sort of features we would like to see (and perhaps which ones we would like to see the end of)

Tell us where you are at with Java. I assume you have downloaded from Sun and are having issues from there. More than happy to help

Betrayal at Krondor

I have this working in DosBox but it is terribly slow. How does yours run (and what are you using to run it? I love that game

Take a deep breath and relax.

Okay, did you run 'updatedb' as root before you tried this?

And now it works a charm. No problems at all.

Next time check logs before posting dumb question

I had a funny feeling you might say that.

I will try it without the uninstall first but I think but I suspect it may need it.

Cheers bvc

edited to add: Header read failed on the xorg-x11-xfs file. That explains a lot. Think I might download that one again

I work in IT and have had to do Windows support for a long time. I hate product activation keys (corps just get a version that lets them bypass this usually), and the anti-piracy nonsense in Longhorn looks like it will be even worse.

 

I've done lots of replacing of hardware on Win PC's. I have never had Windows totally puke on me because of a hardware upgrade before, as long as I had drivers, but I avoided the driver-poor NT and Win 2000 and waited for XP before I moved up from Win98.

It sounds like you not only work in IT but are responsible for choosing the OSes your company runs. Although for the life of me why anyone would keep with 98 over 2k is beyond me (or indeed replace 2k with XP).

1. Downloading and installing drivers or shareware must be made consistent, simple, and must never depend on compiling or maintaining copies of source code. There should always be a user-friendly option, otherwise, it's just niche hobbyist stuff and not really a valid competitor. If you have to type "make", or even go to a command line to execute a file name or make something executable, the installation routine stinks by today's standards.

Most drivers come in precompiled binaries. Also How can you work in IT and never use a CLI? I have worked in IT on numerous systems for a lot of years. None of them were workable without reference to the command line. I include WinXP and Win2k in that. Certainly 98.

You do recognise that not making things executable off the bat stops users from installing malware or inappropriate software right?

2. kernel upgrades must not break drivers and programs (in Linux, it seems to be the rule that they always  do) and must be possible to perform with a soft reboot followed by everything "just working." If Linux can't do this, then it needs to change, because today, security updates are constant and must be fast and easy.

Security updates can easily be done via urpmi (which even has a pretty graphical interface). You rarely need to upgrade the kernel or make alterations to it. Most businesses and home users have little need for a custom kernel.

P.S. Rebooting for a kernel change -sure. Rebooting for installing software - you must be joking

3. Multimedia applications must open all sorts of files and "just work" without having to recompile libraries.

All sorts? Really? How does Win Media Player handle quicktime these days? Last time I checked it did not handle it at all well. Except for older versions of quicktime. Doesn't like ogg vorbis much either. With the windows players you still have to install codecs. How is this any different?

Don't get me wrong, I love tinkering with it, but there is no way I will deploy this crap in an office full of people. Evolution crashes on startup 33% of the time

Doesn't force a reboot though does it?

you have to understand a command line just to upgrade your browser version, and installing patches and updates is outrageously complicated and requires too much expertise. And as a result, support staff must be paid too much money.

That first is simply nonsense and I think you know it. Patches and upgrades are NOT difficult at all. Support staff huh.

Lemme tell you a story. A true one. I worked for a major institution. I worked with one other guy. We administered Solaris and RH. There were roughly as many machines running those as Windows. They had to employ 12 people as support for windows. There were run off their little feet. We mostly played BZFlag. We did get paid a little more - our skills were transferable to most *nixes without too much trouble. they had to retrain almost from scratch if MS so much as changed the GUI. They cost a whole lot more than we did.

In the end, I actually save money by paying Redmond's outrageous prices and putting up with a monopoly.

Nonsense. See above.

Linux development must address this. It looks like they are trying, but they are moving too slow, and not resolving critical issues. There are 15 media players for Linux, but not one of them works right out of the box.

Slowly? On which planet? There are more updates and upgrades available for Linux than any other OS I have ever seen. Those media players. Work. Easily. No problems.

There are other problems too. Gnome is working on "spatial browsing". That's idiotic. That's just what Windows 95 did ten years ago - open a new window with every folder you double click. I turn that off and use just one window, but now Gnome is going to do it too? Why is there an Epiphany browser? It is basically as functionless and ugly as Mosaic .99 was, and here we are ten years later when people are using tabbed browsers in windows that block popups. Epiphany is a failed project and should be dumped. Just bundle Mozilla.

You did actually look at the browsers right? I use Firefox, but I like Epiphany. I think you misunderstand what the Gnome project is looking to do.

Likewise, Konqueror is just a cheap, off-brand attempt to copy MS Window's use of the browser rendering engine to display everything in a web-way. But that was just a fad and is now over, and people largely turn it off, and yet Linux developers are still trying to make it work. And Konqueror is not a good web browser either. It is clunky and lacks just about every feature you can think of.

Yup. Konqueror is so bad that Apple used it as the base for Safari - which is a shit-hot browser. What features are you looking for? ActiveX that allows remote installation of software? Multiple windows instead of tabbed browsing?

I have no idea why Wine is bundled. Nothing seems to work properly under Wine. I certainly wouldn't trust it to be stable enough to work on important documents using it to get to office software or even to check my email through it. It seems to exist just as a selling point for people leaving Windows. To me, the existence of Wine is a milestone that marks the failure of Linux development to truly offer equivalent, alternative software.

There is great alternative software for pretty much any useful Windows app can think of. With the possible exception of Photoshop. Then again, anyone running Photoshop on anything but a Mac is insane (and probably not a pro designer - hence I question their need for something as powerful as Photoshop). Wine is (IMO) useful for running some of my older games. I do not even have a windows partition. If I desperately want to run something native and not ported or replaced I use wine. Without trouble.

I am sorry if this comes over as a little harsh. I just think you need to investigate the option a little further

OKay so I have my sources sorted out.

BUT

xorg-x11-xfs is needed by xorg-x11-server-6.7.0-0.2.11mdk
XFree86-libs = 4.3-30mdk is needed by (installed) XFree86-xfs-4.3-30mdk
unable to install package /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xorg-x11-xfs-6.7.0-0.2.11mdk.i586.rpm

Seems there is some kind of conflict here. I was under the impression (perhaps mistaken) that it should work like an update/upgrade.

I did satisfy the deps by ensuring urpmi downloaded everything correctly.

Is this simply a matter of installing this without X running or have I screwed something up along the way somehow? Advice appreciated with thanks

Marcintesh_OS-L-Blue MCity and Icons

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I love this bvc I have downloaded it and once my switch from XFree to Xorg is done I will be installing this and seeing how it looks run in flux

my favorite server is usually carroll.cac.psu.edu (often referred to as just carroll) but she seems to be pretty well filled to capacity at the moment.

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Finally got a connection to Oakland. It is as slow as a week of wet Sundays but it will do for now. Guessing the penguin is just getting more and more popular huh

Each one I try at the moment seems to be down. I am really only interested in the 'main' as all I am doing is moving from XFree to Xorg.

Anyone got one they know to be working at the moment?

Thanks in advance

My advice is not to use the configuration wizards at all.

Open your favourite console.

Type "adsl-setup"

Fill in the blanks where requested

to start it simply open a console and type "adsl-start"

Are any of you using X.org at the moment? If so what are your thoughts on it and how was the install (and the replacement of XFree)?

All of the above look good, but I am really looking forward to finally being able to afford a powerbook

From this I gather there is not a jigdo download. OK. If I make one does anyone know where it can be hosted? I simply cannot afford to do so

We all know the pain of downloading ISOs. Then having a micro-outage or failure, having bad sums etc.

Jigdo seems to make this much simpler, yet I have not seen a jigdo site for Mandrake. If there is one please point it out to me and disregard this post

If not however I would be interested in doing it, if a suitable hosting arrangement can be found

Keeping your existing Mozilla is a good thing. Symlinking to it to make Java work is the easier than the instructions Mozilla use for Firefox