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If you are running the latest development version then there should be a ~/.fluxbox/apps file which you can put your apps in

Strictly speaking world isn't every installed program - jsut the system ones and ones that you have specifically installed. dependencies of those packages are often not included in the world list. This means, in theory, that you can easily remove packages that are no longer needed as deps and also that the deep option is helpful in making sure your deps are all up to date.

It works in sylpheed-claws (and presumably sylpheed) as well. You have to make sure you use your email address as your username.

No, actually it's me as well...

add the option "noauto" and change "user" to "users" This means that any user can now mount the partition and that it's not already mounted by the system. If you also make the directories owned by your normal user - something like: chown <username> /mnt/windows_osio Then that might help to make it accessable. This does all mean that you will have to mount the partition yourself manually. I assume you know how to do that - if not, then post back

Just to point out that this is now available natively...

One of the reasons that I switched from gentoo to arch is simply because I couldn't see any advantage in gentoo over arch anymore - whereas arch has the advantage of quicker installs and IMHO better stability. I find arch generally runs faster than gentoo, so I can't see a reason to bother compiling for my system. I also find that if I don;t like the way a package has been compiled (i.e. what has been enabled and what has not etc...) then I can easily use abs to recompile just those one or two packages (just one in my case) - so the advantage of gentoo's USE flags is diminished. Also, I began to find little annoying things in gentoo and it began to seem more and more unstable to me, which arch does not so much. I'm not saying everyone should use arch over gentoo - everyone will have their own preferences. But gentoo compile approach is not necessarily better...

Bizarre - it's back again... I'll make sure I do a back up now...

no, although the current system does have two drives. I could try swapping the master and slave over and installing linux on that and see if it's mountable. My only question is - if it could be seen by another system, why can't mine. It really is as if it was not even physically connected to the system Is there some kind of disk check/repair utility that I coulduse to get it back up long enough to back up the data? Ideally one on a bootable media...

Anyone? I don't even mind buying a new drive if I can figure out a way of getting the data off the old drive...

if you do export PATH=/somedir then only that directory is on your path and so nothing in /usr/bin or wherever will be found. If you do export PATH=$PATH:/somedir then the new entry is simply added to your existing path and all will be found again...

I just booted into my PC (running arch although I doubt that's relevant) and for some reason found that mozilla kept crashin whenever I went to any site. After that, X crashed and I had to restart my computer - the kernel was still running I think, as there was none of the flashing lights that accompany a kernel panic. But nothing was responding so I had to switch the machine off. now it's as if I had no hard drive at all! The drive was partitioned, some of them were reiserfs, but my boot one was ext2. Can anyone help? I've lost everything!

You don;t have direct rendering - do a search on the board for your video card for some hints as to how to proceed from here.

Midnight commander is pretty good for this as well as being very light and a good file manager...

People who are completely new to linux may also be competely new to forums and communities like this one - I know I was... It sometimes takes a little while to figure out how things work - and doesn't necessarily mean laziness. One of the first posts I made on another forum was a question that had, apparently, been answered several times. The person replying to my post told me this and asked me to use the search feature. I did this and could not find any solution for ages - I would have given up long before I did had I not been told that the answer was somewhere. In that context a simple "use the search feature" wasn't helpful really, a link might not have hurt if the poster knew where the answer was. If the answer had been buried, as seemed to be the case, then a new post on the topic might have been helpful Plus many noobs might often believe that their question is a stupid one (even if it isn't at all) and therefore assume that no-one else would be dumb enough to ask it. This can include things that may seem to the rest of us to clearly be an faq - like how do I play my windows games on linux... One of the things I used to love abou this forum was that no-one cared if their were multiple posts - everyone was too chilled out for that. I'm not saying that we need to answer every question a hundred times - but just post a link to a thread and relax about it - making it an issue tends to create a noobie unfriendly atmosphere - a potentially fatal thing in a forum designed to help people...

It probably is the best option in an RPM based distro - similarly, non-rpm packages systems work very well in non RPM based distros. Personally, one of the reasons I don't want to return to Mandrake as my main distro is I don't like using an RPM based distro...

What's the dockapp in the bottom right?

I just can't seem to get away from fluxbox - but that's ok snce I don't really want to...

allied assault is part of medal of honour isn't it? Wouldn't that mean it's part of the linux port? wouldn't that mean that there is simply no good reason to run it under wine?

Cool - I have all that, assuming my ATI 9800 pro is better than an 8500...

Not aware of anything that is rugged - the sharp zaurus is the main linux contender and I don't think it's that rugged. Some pocket pcs can have linux installed on them - notably ipaqs. BTW - I have to say that, despite personally preferring palm, pocket pc is actually a very good product IMHO

What has typically happened in the past is that you buy the windows version for the game data and then download the Linux binaries. So one purchase will give you both installs.

It it available for free from download - and before SoulSe gets onto his normal freeloader thing - remember that doing it the CVS way not only invloves effort but doesn't include some of the features ;)

I have to say that one of things I like about arch is the lack of "bloat" - which probably is at least partly due to a smaller user base. That said - we were all newbie's once (some of us still are!) and should not shy away from helping people. People that come to a distro like arch and have questions are actually those that will end up knowing the basics of their system, so it's actually productive to help them. As tyme says - the development of arch is up to the developers. If someone want to develop a pacman gui - fine, but no-one says it has to be included in the pacman packages.

Medal of Honor is being ported to Linux as we speak - check out icculus.org for details. It is far better to run a native port than use wine...