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JonEberger

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  1. so i agree with alot said. package installation needs to be standard to get this where joe schmoe actually has a difficult decision between windows and linux. until this i don't think it'll happen. mand___ has gotten better in that previously, i could install mandrake three different times with the same options and (although i know that software doesn't work this way) would seemingly get three different operating systems. i think consolidation is great for linux. i know a few years ago when aol almost bought redhat we were all kinda nervous. but things like this fuel progress. things work better and when there is competition progress is made faster and the product is less expensive. as far as mandriva buying lycoris....props. strategic business moves coupled with using and reusing ideas that work will produce a product that people want. good job french linux guys. knock out some m$ for us.
  2. to throw my two cents in.... my wife has a dell inspiron with a p4. we both do math and so the heavy computation makes the p4 with the ht wonderful. it has 1 GB of ram and the XVGA screen which is sharp and clear. but the battery life sucks almost immediately. the dell warranty is for a 4-hr battery life....right. this is her second battery and it's barely getting more than 2 hours. hers has an nvidia gefroce fx5200 card i believe. wonderful card, graphics are beautiful. older mandrake versions weren't happy installing a generic driver for this card. so we had to the do the vesa driver and go from there to get the nvidia driver. it gets ridiculously hot. i've actually broken a sweat sitting with the vent facing me. further it's heavy. with power supply weight tops 10 pounds. that doesn't sound like much until you've got alot of other stuff with you. while the dell is a wonderful machine, unless you go for one of the smaller ones, i'm not sure i'd recommend it. i've got a buddy with one of the centrinos. he's impressed and so am i. it runs fast and seems to do everything he needs it to do plus some. he's in math too so the processor strain is hard for him too.
  3. so although not very helpful, i had the similar issue with mine. mine had a "k___" process taking up 99% of cpu time. hmmm.... i think it was a ksoftirqd process. so 2005 had just come out and i wanted to give it a shot anyway. so i reinstalled with the mindset that if it still had this hard/software issue i'd investigate it then. 2005 has kde 3.3 and the flaw is fixed. so, if you're looking to migrate to 2005, this might be an ideal time to do it anyway. i know that reinstalling linux is never a good solution, but in this case, it accomplished two goals for me simultaneously.
  4. there are tons of books out for it too. googling php and functions together tells you so much about php it's really not funny. i've been learning too. there are some web tutorials out there. take a look at those.
  5. the broken cd writer could def. make it more difficult. perhaps you can do some kind of networking with someone whose burner works. i know for alot of other distributions, there are smaller boot images that can be loaded onto a usb-drive. if you can boot from it (as allowed by your motherboard) then perhaps that is a solution even if it means not using mandriva.
  6. if you have the funds and they're no object, i always go for the best i can afford. just because you'll have it longer and you'll happy with it. if money is a little more of an object go for the slightly lesser card. i seriously doubt you'll be disappointed with it. i'm still running my geforce 4 ti4400. at the time money was an object and i wasn't willing to spend the extra 100 or whatever to go with the 4600. i lost SOME performance, but not much. it still runs great and outperforms alot of cards (some newer). also you might want to ask yourself how much gaming you really do and if it demands such a beefy card. on the other hand, if you do cad or some heavy design, a professional grade card might be the thing to think about. you probably know exactly what you need/want. these are just things i think about when i buy new hardware.
  7. odd. f1 always works for me. in fact, i played around with options when i installed mandriva 10.2 the other day.
  8. hey ian. i hope my post didn't come harsh at all. in a way i was kinda trying to say be cautious, but i was also trying to say, we all had to learn sometime and somehow. props to you for trying to help out.
  9. i'm kinda with papa... one of the very wonderful things about this board is that newbies and pros alike can come and ask questions (if they need it). so for all the champs out there, it was obvious that the aforementioned list was specifically for that persons computer. e.g., bluetooth gets ditched on mine too (always). but cpufreq stays up because my processor can it. on the other hand, people who know just enough to get themselves into trouble might do something they're not real sure about. this could cause some unwanted effects. but i would suppose if they screw it up and they don't know what they're doing, they're probably not using it for ultra-necessary purposes. worst-case scenario: reinstall linux.
  10. are you doing dual output? to a monitor and a tv? maybe the card is getting hot and forcing the power break. the software could allow things to happen you don't want. so that could def. be an issue. if it hadn't been for all the other posts, first i too would've check was power supply. i cleaned one of mine out with compressed air and a vac and the machine (which suffered from heat problems) now no longer does.
  11. kaffiene has been a resource hog on my wife's 10.1 oe laptop too. it brings kde to a crawl.
  12. 1. KDE (overall usability and stability) at home and fluxbox (lite!) on my laptop 2. Firefox 3. Thunderbird 4. Gaim 5. Konsole (what a wonderful console app) 6. Emacs and/or Kate 7. MATLAB (unfortunately, wonderful ideas just painfully slow) 8. GKrellm 9. GIMP (lately) 10. XMMS 11. TeTeX compiler (Math grad school)
  13. i think it'll run just fine. if you run kde or gnome, it maybe a little slow, but not horrendous. but if you're a fine time installer, it might be wise to back everything up. you can never be too cautious. alot of us probably learned by just jumping in. a little advice probably would've saved us a ton of annoyances.
  14. i use lm_sensors with gkrellm. i love it.
  15. So I came by an older laptop and of course shortly it was running MDK 10.1. It's a great laptop for what I do. It's a P3-600 with (unfortunately) only 128 MB RAM. The HD is more than big enough for me to run whatever I want on this computer. It runs great with a lighter desktop and I'm trying to squeak all of the performance out of it that I can without spending any money on it. When looking in the hardware configuration, harddrake says that the video card is a '3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133'. However MDK has loaded the ATI Mach64 Utah module. The graphics run great and I've tried other modules to load in it's stead. I don't really SEE a performance decrease. GLX gears runs about the same under both modules. Is there a performance increase to the Utah module over the Rage Pro driver? Are the proprietary drivers from ATI as worthwhile to obtain as the NVidia ones are? Thanks, Jon
  16. you probably shouldn't share the entire drive just as a matter of security. especially if you have any kind of wireless going on.
  17. so you can always give it a shot and then reinstall the older version if you don't like the new version. typically with me, hardware problems either get completely resolved or new hardware difficulties appear due to OLD hardware. i typically end up being impressed with the smoothness of each release of (formerly) mandrake and it's install. however, i'm typically also a little disappointed with the stablity (or quirkiness) of at least one application when the quirks and stabiltiy of a previous version get fixed. it's up to you. i'll give it a try. i've still got my mdk10.1 cds just in case.
  18. i've tried it and it never worked well for me. i know one guy who makes it work. but it's so much easier with lilo or grub (i'm a lilo fan). install xp first and then mda then it works great.
  19. so the way to update your media is by pointing your browser towards http://www.mandrakeusers.org/easyurpmi (it's the link at the top of this forum). pick your distro and hardware, then mirrors. you'll get the commands to add the new mirrors. copy and then (literally in konsole) paste the commands right in. works everytime. on the easy urpmi site there is a note to do a 'urpmi.removemedia -a ". this can be handy if you always want to get your software from mirrors and not the discs afterwards. another easyurpmi site is http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. they're basically the same page. good luck.
  20. what video card in particular are you using.... most of us use the same downloaded cd's (less the fourth, same as yourself) and we've worked through alot of the problems. is this a laptop or a desktop? did you check the md5sums of the iso's once you downloaded them? (winmd5sum is a handy program). worst case scenario, you reinstall disabling acpi in the bootloader options.
  21. is there some kind of configuration tool in your router which automatically dials up the adsl?
  22. i have to admit that discussing mandriva 2k6 makes me feel like used to feel when win2k first came out. what's the abbrev. for mandriva going to be? mdk was obvious, but is it going to be mda or mdv or mdr? this is probably common knowledge, i've just not been on the board enough lately to see.
  23. so i've been using mandrake since 7.0. which i'll agree with an above post that it settled mandrake above others. several of us in a csc dept. got hooked on it then over and above redhat and many of us still use it. 8.2 was a fantastic release. it was stable, had everything i wanted and sound worked for me the first time out of the box in linux. :-) (ah the memories and the frustration.) when 9.0 we jumped on it. used it for a while and then jumped back to 8.2. i ran 8.2 for quite awhile on my office machine during my m.s. 9.0 was flakey, but 9.1 was awesome. USB support became at least twice as good and when i plugged in my usb drive or my camera, mdk saw it. rockin'! i was stoked. at this point, linux was getting good enough that GOOD office apps came out. 9.2 took forver to come out and blew chunks at me everytime i tried to use it. i went to fedora core and mdk 9.1 (back and forth) during this time. when 10.0 came out I was very impressed. it ran smoothly and installed quickly and easily. it was hailed by many as the first REAL linux alternative to windows. i believe it. i ran it from the day it came out until 10.1 ce came out. i ran ce for quite awhile as well. it is still on an older laptop and runs amazingly well. but it was just buggy enough on some hardware (my desktop and my wife's laptop) that we both went back to 10.0. but when the oe came out, i was blown away. i still am. i've gone around to two or three different distros and always come back to mandrake. i can easily make the install as big or small as i want. urpmi is afantastic tool and i have so much control over what occurs that my computer runs like i want it to. that's why i voted for the 10.0 series. i believe that if someone was willing to try linux, they could survive as well on mdk10.1 as they have on windows xp. i truly hope that mandriva doesn't screw with a policy of releasing a distribution which makes confident and capable strides forward for linux newbs, the average capable cmoputer-savvy user, and the linux elite alike.
  24. so i think the ram might be your biggest constraint. but unless your wm is lite, you're going to get the hurt put on. the hd restriction is fine, just be very conservative with installation of packages. unless you're dying to use this machine, it might be worthwhile to look for another one....
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