JonEberger

So I'm going to fall in line with a couple of folks on here: I've actually found 2005 to be solid. It runs great for me. The worst thing about older MDV installs is the urpmi repositories disappear. I ran 2006 for a while. It didn't like me on a laptop. But I've ran Mandrake/Mandriva since 7.0 now and the one I've had the worst luck with was 9.2. The Betas for 9 were actually more stable for me. But again, that could be hardware.

likewise, senor.

the article makes good points. if a commercial vendor commissions a study and the results don't favor it, we never hear about it. but i think it is good for these studies to go on. i don't mind paying for a better product (if there is one and i need it badly). if there is an open source program that does just as well or better, more power! but, if not, i don't mind getting what i need. if the govt. is using insecure software, they need to know about it and i want them to find out. same for other business which have my social, credit card numbers, etc. i want their security. since the govt. is commissioning it, assuming the commerical groups are honest, the results are actually useful. if the groups are honest (no self-interests) and the report remains objective then people will know what is right. if the open-source software is the best, then these commercial companies can bump up their product. if no, then the same goes for the open-source. just at a slower rate.

yum is so much better. up2date takes forever.

hey jboy. whenever i do it, there is one .mozilla file. but there is also a new mozilla-firefox executable somewhere. you can either change the usr/bin shortcut to this new mozilla-firefox or you can simply make a new one either from your home directory or in the /usr/local/bin (i think this is proper directory structure. someone correct me, please). by shortcut i mean ln -s ___ ____

hi. there are people who can better answer this question, but no one's given you a response, so i'll try! i presume you're using mandriva. would go to the easy-urpmi link at the top of this page and set up urpmi to use sources other than the discs. then as su (type su and then enter the root passwd when prompted) type urpmi wine. from here mandriva should install wine well for you. if all goes as planned, then you can go to the yahoo website and download their messenger. theere should be a .wine directory created in your home directory. try to run wine and i believe it makes several configuration scripts. then try to install the messenger. it should get all you neeed. at least this worked for me recently with webbrowsers, and a few other things. good luck!

i think the reason that it (firefox) is installed by default is probably because a high percentage of the mozilla-using world has stopped using the mozilla suite (seamonkey??) and has picked up firefox, thunderbird, and nvu (it is intended to fill the same niche as the web editor i believe). during the install i believe you can opt out of the inclusion of firefox. so while it may be lazy packaging, or if someone feels that it's a bad idea, the bulk of the mandriva-using world doesn't mind so much. and to second gowator, 20 mb just doesn't mean so much to me these days either.

kat sucks.

there's also a system monitor built into kde. it monitors cpu usage, swap, and memory usage. i use it alot. i keep klaptop_acpi_helper (i think this is the actual name for it) as well as kmix, kwireless, and the sys. monitor applet. of course time and date are there. now also, gaim can dock to the tray. it's really awesome.

404 Not found <{POST_SNAPBACK}> give them another shot. i accidentally deleted a directory in an unrelated fury. also try this screenshot.

well, it's me again. since that post i've actually gotten one of those same laptops. there is source code for the ipw2100 on ipw2100.sourceforge.net. i think there are also rpms. you should have a firmware rpm and a driver-type rpm. they'll probably match your kernel version. there maybe some generic no-architecture ones. i can't remember. depending on your mirrors for urpmi (although i don't know if you can do this) you might be able to urpmi ipw2100 and go from there. good luck!

there are few things on here that i agree with and disagree with. i agree that there are some fc components which are less intuitive. i also agree that fc is more advanced than say mandriva or suse. i don't think yum is quite the tool that urpmi (or apt) can be. but that is also coming from a heavily biased viewpoint of having learned linux on mandrake/mandriva. i disagree that it's not for beginners. i think as far as menus go, they're very clearly labelled (in KDE at least). one thing i think noobs (not used derrogatively) would benefit from is a straightforward naming of user tools and not having something named afer that particular distro. i appreciate that in fc. concerning the install, i think the package choices during the install might be easier than in mandriva. as far as the DE goes....i'm running kde 3.5 right now and it's rock solid. the native DE install was a kde 3.4, but 3.5 has presented absolutely no problems and I don't expect such. i've also got fluxbox installed, but haven't so much as even tried it even though i very much enjoy it.

here's mine: screenshot1 screenshot2

so as long as you have a reasonably fast p3 or better, you're set as far as processor requirements. 128 might be a minimum on the books, but a true min. is more like 256 MB. 512 will allow for nice smooth operation without much (or any most of the time) hitting of swap space (hard disk space that linux moves stuff to because it doesn't have enough RAM). i've got a 3-year old p4 (2.26 GHz) which runs linux wonderfully. but i also had a 233 PII laptop with 192 MB RAM which runs a stripped down linux okay. video cards should be nvidia. better drivers.

same here.

i cannot believe that. in every aspect there are the equivalent applications in linux and better on the antivirus front. obviously if you're already using mozilla-thunderbird, it's already there. for outlook, there's evolution. the virus issue is one that is not dealt with otherwise.

hello marcelo. i don't speak enough spanish to embarass myself trying. if you did the install for mandriva, it might be worthwhile to either google-search for the name of the rpm for urpmi. or if you're new to linux, perhaps (i will be frowned upon for saying this) reinstall making sure that you install urpmi (and gurpmi). if you're new to linux, another install might not be bad experience anyways.

so while i know this post is about 2 and a half years too late, if you include the amsmath or amsart packages, instead of doing the $$lim_{aaa}$ stuff you can do $\lim_{}$ stuff and it automatically puts that underneath. but further if you use an equation environment that might help. it's super nice to see someone use the latex software. it's totally wonderful. just out of curiosity, why did you pass the documentclass command the [spanish] argument? also, it was wonderful to see the gnuplot references. that was actually what i've been looking for all over the web. thanks,

did you ever get this fixed? i've never had this problem before, but i suppose it is likely. i too did a "urpmi octave" and it works fine for me.

:werd:

i tried it a while back. i was darn impressed. i like fedora better than it though.

you can get a good motherboard for less than 100 bucks. of course this varies on your process and what you consider a "good" motherboard.

flux screenshot Here's what I've been using. It's pretty simple, but I like it. Those leaves are KY leaves.

i'm a flux and kde fan. i'll post some pictures this afternoon....if i can make it look my desktop(s) look the way i want them to. some of these pictures are awesome guys. good jobs.