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Thanks for the suggestions. Will do

Yea, FC5 is far from perfect, but it's the best from the choices available to me, since I'm boycotting Mandriva on moral and political grounds. :P Says a law student. p.s. I love 'yum update' and hope that FC6 will be better.

Hi! I've been running FC5 since its' release date and I've noticed that sometimes, maybe once in 20 days the network disappears. I think it has been in the moments when I have a hard network use, like torrents, etc. I can connect, reconnect, etc - nothing happens, although the connection in my network config is labeled as active. I've usually solved the problem by plugging/unplugging my network cable and doing a few network restarts, to fix the issue (usually takes some frustrating 20 minutes). Meanwhile on the same internet connection at the same time my small sister's windows pc has no network problems. Do any of you have the same problem? I'm labeling this as FC5, because nothing like that (sudden network disappearance) happened when I was using Mandriva and Kanotix. While I don't think that anyone here can help me with this, I"m just curious, if I'm the only one to "suffer" this. :D

now you scared me!! so much for a quiet and relaxating evening full of peace eeeeeeek, I almost want to deinstall my FC5 now... but , but there's nothing I could put in place (scratches ehad) damn!

Thanks. I use KDE. ;)

Thanks for advices!

Thanks, but isn't there any way to do it from Fedora? It would suck if I have to reboot into another distro just to format a few partitions.

Hi! Is there anything as easy and functional as Mandriva's diskdrake? A friend is coming over to put some files on her hdd and I'll need to rearrange and format a few paritions. Maybe there's a 3rd party app for this? I really don't know, have been using MCC most of my conscious Linux life. :P (Although I now like FC5 very much)

yea, I use ark too, although its' new archive creation imo is not intuitive

Just out of interest: does Winzip work with Wine?

offtopic My father called american beer 'socks water', I myself have never tasted one (and hopefully never will). I've read that Budweiser is exporting a special beer to the USA to meet its' food safety requirements (boiling it up and then cooling?). In Latvia we have a very strong beer making tradition and almost no foreign beers can be bought, because all drink the local ones.

Well, Kasablanca is a KDE ftp client and it is quite good. It's a matter of right choice. edit: I still prefer gftp

Try either gFTP or Kasablanca (kasablanca is a KDE app), I've found them to be the best and most easy to use p.s. sorted out my gFTP problem, I had an antique version or something back then.......

thanks, devries, I'll check it out :)

I'm now in the position of writing music reviews for one web site and need to make samples from songs, so I need a software that can open and edit mp3 files, cut out parts from them and make mp3 format samples (but I'll consider ogg too). Any suggestions? Thanks!

I was a very experienced Windblows user , iked new technologies and tinkering with computers, read internet computer mags, etc., probably from there discovered about Linux, but it was my eldest sister who herself is quite good with computers and was using RedHat at that time, suggested me to try Mandrake as a first time distro, when I had asked her for an advice about trying out Linux, so I downloaded and installed Mandrake 9.1, but I only went full time Linux when Mandrake 10.0 CE came out because it was more usable, I knew more about Linux by then AND it had very few problems with my hardware (nothing a newbie like me couldn't fix). (earlier versions had messed up soundcard drivers for my card)

nah, it didn't, the links in that website simply were done like any good webdesigner does - configured for directory path only, i.e., /texts/articles/song.htm not http://website.com/texts/articles/song.htm

:huh: :o how did I manage to miss that?!! thanks, Ian!! :)

Hi! I want to download whole website so that I can later browse it offline. Is there a wget command that does this or any other software perhaps? Thanks!

Of course it won't kill it! There are ones that I can boot from a floppy, live cd's, ones for server, others for workstation, diagnostics, security, etc! No one thing could do this all. That's a strenght, not a weakness. And if some refuse to use Linux just because there is no easy, one choice, then worse for them. There is no need that all the users in the world use Linux. It's ready for the desktop - for me, for others I don't care.

I suggest you give it a try at least, it's a very good distro for laptops, and they have an english part of the forums, besides you can always ask for answers here, many of us have used Kanotix one time or another.

Why would Mepis want to base itself on Ubuntu, if Debian is right there? Seems too much steps in between, imo... For the record: I loathe Mepis, it's a dirty, buggy, uncomfortable distro

aghr! complicated I then better use Kanotix (if I'd want Debian based anyway) edit: I heard the same rumour about Mepis

shit....... we're totally screwed and I don't think --force will help us in this ALL ARE FREE TO PANIC

Did you disable SELinux? It's crucial that you do. it's a security layer that eats much resources, but is not really needed if you are not running a server or work with gov. secrets, etc. You can disable it in ADMINISTRATION -> SECURITY Also, run SERVICES from SYSTEM menu and disable the ones you don't need. FC5 is designed both for desktop and server, so you might not need the server parts running. p.s. For package management I advise you install YUMEX, just type as root: yum install yumex p.p.s. what specs do you have for your laptop? edit: for laptops KANOTIX is a very nice debian based distro