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Do you know where the config file is? I cannot find it -- my CPU is still running full blast and my fingers are HOT.

They posted the 10.0 OE .iso images though.

I've seen the 10.1OE torrent that is a big DVD, but I don't have a DVD burner. Is there a 10.1Official torrent for the seperate disks yet? 10.1OE is on many of the regular Mandrake servers as .rpms -- I don't know why they haven't posted the seperate .iso files yet.

Has mandrake gotten around to putting it in the standard distro yet? I'm tired of installing by hand. Even though it's (finally) just a one click process to install, I never am quite sure where to put it -- and then I forget where I finaly did decide to put it when it's time to upgrade.

It's 10.1 OE!!!!! http://www.mandrake.org [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

:D :lol: Thanks for the tip!

Heck, I've been using it since 0.3, and it was better than IE even then. No one believed me though.

I've been trying various flavours of Mandrake on my P1120 since Mandrake 9. They all worked pretty well, except that I've never managed (i.e., gone through the trouble) to get the following working: 1. Touchscreen (maybe 2 people on earth managed to make this work) 2. Longrun (supposedly in the built into the latest mandrake kernel) 3. sleep on lid close. Right now it's running 10.0 Community and everything except the above works, including USB, simultaneous USB mouse and eraser mouse, disk spin down, screen blanking, wireless. I had to manually tweak X for the screen size and mice, but everything else, including built in wireless was good to go out of the box. When 10.1 Official comes out, I'm going to try to get 1, 2, and 3 above to work. If anyone has any pointers, I'd love to hear them!!!

Just stick in the mandrake disk, and when it gets to the disk partitions part of the install, select "custom" or "advanced" or whatever the thing is called, delete the old linux partition, make a new one in the same space, name it "/" (yes, you give it the name of a slash character without the quotes), format it again using ext3 filesystem (which is the most rock solid IMO), and then continue with the regular mandrake installation.

That Is the directory I went to Assuming that was the Latest Version for Intel Based PC... soo someone plz tell me an easier way to install java. or plz have the patience to explain to me HOW to go about this. :mdk: :mellow: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Really, I just don't remember anymore. I always just figure out how to install something more or less from scratch, by doing lots of google searches and by reading the documentation that comes with the software. Here are some little things I remember: Java: get it from java.sun.com or sun.java.com or whatever the place is called. You may have to install from the command line, and you may have to install as root, or at least "su" Azureus. I think I kept googling until I found a Mandrake.rpm version and just installed it by double clicking. I'm not sure.

But that makes no sense at all. There's tons of software in mandrake that hasn't hit 1.0 1.0 is just a concept, it doesn't really mean anything.

Absolutely Azureus. You need to install JAVA first, and it can be a bit of a pain to get running at first, but once you do, it has the ability to work cross-platform (Windows/Mandrake) on the same files. Azureus is by far the best.

I wish it would minimize to the system tray, but I've been wishing that for years. I thought I saw a wrapper for XMMS once that would do that, but it needed to be compiled into KDE or something, which had me hitting the back button as fast as my little fingers could click!

Ouch! Thanks for the info. I was hoping for something painless like an automagic security update.

I've been using Firefox for YEARS on both Win and Lin because it's the best browser hands down once one learns how to customize it. I think many (most?) if you would agree. But I always have to do a seperate download. Mandrake sticks all kinds of other wierd browsers in their distro that hardly anyone uses, and that are far less useful and stable than firefox. I just don't understand it. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

That was a rocking post. One of these days I'm gonna get to it. At the moment I still have to boot back to XP to get my remote to work when I'm watching movies through my TV.

I agree with the above. XMMS always crashes/freezes for me if I don't first go into XMMS prefs and change the sound to ALSA, OSS, or whatever, after I install.

I thought I saw somewhere that it was up to 2.6.8 somewhere, but when I look here: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?dis=10.0 I can't find anything past 2.6.3 I've been desperate for a kernel 2.6.4 or higher for a long time (to make longrun work on my TransMeta laptop). Is there some other place to look?

I don't trust importers much. Too much experience. I prefer to do it from scratch when it only takes 10 min or so and then I *know* it's as stable as possible.

I still have my Corel Linux box! It's a pity that didn't take off - was a decent attempt at a distro. I grew up with Wordperfect and my old man still refuses to use anything else. I use Abiword and Gnumeric like iphitus. Abiword is the best Word processor for Linux IMHO. Agreed! I thought the Corel distro was one of the best at the time it came out. Awful stuff happened though. Not only to WP. sheesh... I don't even want to start.

It's made for SunJavaDesktop, but in despairation I just clicked on the RPM and it installed instantly: http://jdshelp.org/srpms.php It's an older version (0.3 I think) The newest all GPL version (0.4 I think) I could not make work in 10.0oe. Maybe it was my fault, I don't know. The only weirdness is that it puts the player in: /usr/local/RealPlayer/ instead of /usr/bin

I have a friend (PhD professor now) who REFUSED to use anything except AmiPro, and continued to use it even on WinXP. It took years for her to even *try* the Lotus updated version she loved it so much. What was neat about AmiPro was that it came on 8 floppies for Windows 3.1, yet still worked perfectly so many years later on WindowsXP (although it was limited to 8 character filenames in all caps!). She likes the Lotus version fine, as apparently it was more or less the old AmiPro with longer file names plus add on junk she never uses. In any case: for high speed production, I've never seen anything that was even *close* to WP. There's a reason legal secretaries use it. They type morning 'till night, non-stop, often 100wpm+ and don't want pretty fonts, formulas, or pictures -- just perfectly formatted text. I think the name of the word processor pretty much sums it up.

I'm getting this error trying to run WP8 in Man10oe. The package manager says I already have LibXt.s0.6 installed. I'm having zero luck here. Anyone?

I know most of the planet doesn't even know what WP is, but those who actually type for a living (or used to) love it most. A few months ago there was a story floating around that WP was coming out with a new Linux version (last was 8.0 and terrible). The web site only says it's in beta. I emailed them but they didn't respond. Does anyone know anything?

I always just: 1. Export my bookmarks 2. Delete *ALL* of the old Firefox installation. 3. Install the new Firefox version. 4. Reimport my bookmarks 5. Reinstall all my extensions with freshest versions, themes, move buttons where i want them, etc. This prevents all of the upgrading problems that everyone else has. I'm pretty good at it now, it only takes me about 10 minutes.