fuzzylizard

One program that I use all the time is called jEdit - www.jedit.org. It is an editor developed in java that is almost as powerfull as emacs.

A few other programs that I have installed, but don't necessarily use all the time are:

JBuilder

Kylix

Sun ONE Studio 4

Houdini 5.5 Apprentice Edition

These are the major ones.

Now for the but.  Some software for Linux uses x86 only calls, and sometimes x86 assembly language.  These things could limit a piece of software to the x86 platform unless someone went through the trouble to port it.

I have been doing some checking and almost all of the highend software - borland jbuilder & kylix, maple, rational rose, etc all list x86 processors as a requirement.

I have no idea what could be wrong.

The only thing I can suggest is trying to run the command as a normal user and instead of sending the output to a file, send it to the screen. This should allow you to better determine where the problem may lie. At the very least, you can tell if the command runs for a bit and then kills the computer, or if it kills it right away.

Do you have the other drive mounted in linux?

Hopefully someone else can be a little more help.

Here is a quick question that I am trying to find an answer to. If I install a PPC version of Linux onto an iMac can I then install any software onto my shiny new linux mac or do I need to search for PPC versions of the software?

Can I download any linux version of apache or php or mysql or Oracle and install it on a PPC version of linux and expect it to work? Or do I need to download a PPC version?

Thanks.

You could download updated packages from the cooker, or from other locations, but you could not use mandrake update from somewhere else.

What this means is that if you could determine the packages that need/should be updated, then you could find those packages on the mandrake website/ftp sites and download them and install them onto your computer. However, the trick is figuring out which packages need to be updated and finding them all.

This is not all that hard, but it does take a little bit of research. This would be your only option. Either that or update the entire system to Mandrake 9.0.

Define "crashes the computer" please. Does this mean that you do not get the prompt back and you can't type in another command? Or does this mean that you can not wiggle the mouse and open a new program from the menu?

If it is the former, then your computer may not have crashed. The find command can take a long time to complete and if you are redirecting the output to a file then nothing will show up on the screen. The computer will simply sit there until the command completes. And this can take quite a while.

Try adding a & at the end of the command:

>find . -name "*XFree*" > /home/pham/toto &

This will put the command in the background to run until it is finished and allow you to do other things.

However, if crash means the later, then you have a real problem. Find is a regular command in Linux and should not cause your computer to crash.

Last thing, if you issue the command and nothing seems to be happening, try issueing the command ctrl-c. This will terminate the currently running command and restore control back to you. If this does not work, then you have other problems.

Bootstrapping is just a fancy word for booting a computer into linux, or any OS for that matter. So, my first guess would to reboot your computer and see what that does.

I can not comment on Mandrake 9.0 but I sync my palm with evolution and red hat 7.3 all the time.

However, I could never actually get it to work in kde the first time. I had to go into gnome and set everything up. And yes, you do need to do a little setup first. However, there is a little wizard for this that will guide you through it.

So, try doing the sync in gnome first and then it should sync in kde after it has been setup.

You show up here with a question about some, I believe, obscure protocol/software for cd burners and then exit after no one here can answer your question? We don't know everything, sorry.

Anyway, your choice. But I think you should try judging us on more then one question. But hey, up to you.

Good luck in M$ land.

Open a console and type this in to see if you have java already installed

> java -version

If you get anything other then an error, then you probably have it installed already.

If you don't, I would head on over to the sun java website - www.javasoft.com - and download java from there. Are simply looking for the runtime environment - browser plugins, etc - or are you looking to do some java programming? There is a difference in what you download between those two.

Visit the link below and you can download either the jre (java runtime environment) or the sdk (software development kit) for linux. (Third link down in the table) Once you make your selection you will need to accept their licensing agreement and you should see a link for instructions for installing the software.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html

Hopefully this helps. Anymore questions just shout.

Try updating to vmware 3.2. I have it running on windows 2000 and have successfully installed Mandrake 9.0. Although there were a few problems - icon visibility is a little eratic and I can't see any text in programs like OpenOffice.org Writer.

It is definitely slower though, and there is no sound.

I did it because I wanted to see what Mandrake 9.0 was like, but did not have the hard drive space. Plus, I already run a dual boot system with win2k and Red Hat 7.3 and did not want to risk my current setup trying to install a triple boot.

So, it can be done, you may just have to upgrade to the latest version of vmware - which should be free - and then try the install. Any question, just shout.

You have several choices here. You can set the permissions for the file so that anyone can read, write, execute files in that directory. This is probably not the best choice. But to do this, simply su to root and issue this command:

root >chmod 777 /var/www/html

This will make the directory read/write/executable for anyone and everyone. However, this is definitely not the safest.

The next best way is to change the ownership of the directory so that you can read/write to it. This works well if you are the only person who will be putting files there. Once again, to do this su to root and type:

root >chown yourid /var/www/html

This will make you the owner of that directory.

The best way of doing this would be to create a group - www or web or apache - and simply add anyone who needs access to that directory a member of that group. You will also need to change the group membership for the directory. su to root and:

root > chgrp groupname /var/www/html

root > chmod 775 /var/www/html

(replace groupname with whatever you made the group)

The second line is what gives the group read/write/execute permissions for the directory.

Then once this is done, simply add yourself to that group. You will need to use the user and group function in the control centre (I think) in order to create the group and to add users to the group.

Very cool.

Hopefully it stays very cool. :)

Was this a simple BIOS configuration, or did you have to modify the chip at all?

My first suggestion would be to move the windows ntfs partition entirely onto one of the hard drives. This would reduce it to 20 gigs.

Then install Mandrake onto the entire second partition.

Part of the problem may be the fact that you have windows spanning two drives.

Second, try reinstalling Mandrake and see what happens. Can you boot successfully into windows still?

A few details are needed here. How many physical network cards do you have in your machine?

I am not sure how VMWare works with a modem, however, if you access the internet using a cable/dsl modem and an ethernet card then you have two options for internet connection within vmware. The first - NAT - simply translates the network/internet connection on the existing network card into vmware. Therefore, vmware does not get its own IP address on.

The second method is to set up vmware with virtual network cards with their own IP addresses. These IPs are only local to your local lan or computer. This allows other computers on your network to access the vmware virtual computer.

However, how this works with a modem connection to the internet I can't say. The problem that I can forsee is the internet sharing and dhcp are all outgoing protocols and the virtual network cards on vmware are also outgoing protocols. Therefore, theoretically, if you had several network cards in your computer and hooked the nic card, that is sharing the internet connection, up to a hub, and then hooked the vmware nic card up to the hub, you could probably share the internet connection. However, there must be a better solution.

Can vmware not access the modem directly?

The easiest time to perform partitioning on two hard drives is during the install. If Mandrake is already installed, you want to think about a reinstall.

I am not totally sure what you are asking for here. But here is a possible solution that may work

Drive 1: /root /home

Drive 2: /usr /nfs

Note: /root is actually the root directory and should really be shown as /

This is only my suggestion though.

When you install Mandrake, use Expert install, and partition the drives yourself using DiskDrake. This will allow you to choose exactly where everything goes and allocate the space yourself.

Ultimately, the best solution may be to buy a larger drive.

As far as I know, the differences lie in some of the patches that have been applied to the Mandrake Kernel. As far as I know, you can build your system with the generic kernel and things should work out fine. However, I have never done this, so don't take my word for it. I am not completely familiar with all the patches Mandrake applies to the kernel they ship with their distro.

Welcome to the world of Linux. Advice - start slow and work your way up. There is a lot to learn and some of it will be fun and some of it will be very frustrating. But in the end it is all worth it.

Learn the command line. Oh, and write down everything you do. You never know when you will be playing with something and need to go back and undo it. Write down everything!!!!!

To solve your LICQ problem, I would suggest using EveryBuddy. It should have been installed with Mandrake 9.0 as well. It allows you to see all your contacts from MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber using one program. And since you use all these IM services, it may fit more with what you want.

300, must be nice. My papers are all 1500 - 2500 or more. (Usually about 10 - 20 pages) And in university they tend to be very sticky about the amount of words you do use. Very picky profs.

I have no idea if this link will help, but it deals with getting older (ISA) sound cards to work in Mandrake 9.0. (will obviously only help if card is isa)

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?n...order=0&thold=0

One of the areas lacking on Linux is wysiwyg apps. Especially for html/php/jsp/etc.

As far as I know, there are no apps that would fit what you are looking for. Your best bet would be to do the layout using something like Mozilla Composer and to do all the coding in NetBeans or Forte for Java.

Very cool, I now have a little button that tells me the word count for my document.

Thank you.

Over the last few days I have been looking for top quality software that can replace what I have been using on windows. What I am wondering is if there is a best of breed comparison chart somewhere that lists popular windows software and what the best 1 or 2 linux apps are that can be used to replace it with?

I think this would be a great thing to have. Especially if it listed the advantages/disadvantages of each app and maybe contained a screenshot or two.

For those of use making the switch, it would be a big help.

So, does this exist anywhere???

Some software that could go on the list are:

A newsreader like Outlook Express or Forte Agent

An image viewer like ACDSee

Vector illustration package

mp3 ripping software

cd burner

etc...

I realize that most of this software is included within a distro, however, without knowing what the app is called, it can be hard to tell which one to use and even harder to tell which one is the best. (I realize this is subjective to some point)

Thanks guys. Your answers help a lot.