mousematt

At a glance: GCC and all of the devel.rpms for every app on the personal CD. No server applications at all: ie. samba client but not samba-server. No GNOME desktop at all: but enough GTK to run GIMP and Evolution. If you want the full list I'd suggest you check out SUSE's site... They do break it down. If I were you: and I wanted to buy SUSE: I'd go for the Pro Upgrade.

the Personal version is missing almost everything including GCC - so if you ever need to compile something, you'll need to download the development tools first. If you don't need the printed manuals: buy the Upgrade edition of the Pro Pack. You get the same CDs but no manuals. It's the same otherwise. I've tried SUSE 8.2 for a while... and came crawling back to Mandrake. SUSE binaries are not as plentiful although SUSE does have some great innovations. I'll prolly look again for version 10 or 9.2 - whichever one has been Ximianised and infected by Novell. 9.1 by all reports is the last of the old German developed SuSE releases. It does look spiffy... just buy the pro upgrade rather than the personal.

i had the same problem with 10CE for a while. It vanished shortly after I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.3-7mdk. It didn't happen instantly though: it took a couple of days *curiously* What kernel are you running? Have you upgraded it from the original install? Also: have you checked to see if "Lookahead" and "DMA" have been enabled on your CD drives?

There is another way to get the NVIDIA rpms. If you are a member of Mandrakeclub you have full access to the NVIDIA and ATI driver rpms. Have you considered joining? It is worth it - there are a lot more packages there waiting for you and you do help out Mandrakesoft. Think about it. My two australian cents.

What is better for Mandrakesoft? Do I buy another boxset (9.2 Powerpack Plus for AUD $125) or do I join the MandrakeClub (AUD $100)? I can't afford to do both. I'm only a poor student... financially and literally... *meant to be writing esay atm... this is more entertaining* Anyone's thoughts? Shiny new box or a club membership? mousematt @ Murdoch Uni in Australia

I'm not sure it has to be blender or povray. Check out www.dnaresearch.com.au : the site other uses Red Hat exclusively but he does produce a lot of rendered 3D landscapes using Linux. Why not ask him what he uses? mousematt

will MDK 10.0 have a 2.6 kernel as a standard install? SUSE and RH are staying with 2.4 for a while yet... I think I might keep 9.2 for quite a while yet... at least until 2.6.6 or something like that. Does anyone else hope that Mandrake 10.0 has a choice between 2.4 and 2.6? I hardware that needs 2.4 drivers - and don't exist in 2.6... Yikes!

Yes its only one hard disc. This box is just a basic desktop - most of the time its a glorified typewriter... I don't dual boot and don't test run two seperate distros... I just use Linux. I bit the bullet tonight and ordered a 9.2 PowerPack from Mandrakesoft's australian distributor. It should ship soon enough... Thanks everyone for your support I think I might partition something like this... boot 32MB root 8GB home 12GB (includes most of my oggs) backup 9GB free 11GB (I'll find a use for it soon enough) Any criticisms? Also, do I use all ext3 or is something better for what I do? (type, surf and listen to Beethoven:P)

Yes, my PC is my personal stereo. Would you create a seperate partition? How big? 10GB? Also, how do I change the permissions so I can write to it as non-root? Any thoughts, about this or partitioning in general?

I am preparing to do a clean install of 9.2 and would like to hear everyone's advice on disc partitioning. I have a 40GB harddrive and 9.2 will be the sole OS - it is essentially a desktop box with a single user - how do I set it up? My one requirement is that I keep one 9GB ext3 partition called /backup - i won't wipe that. That leaves 31Gb to play with... Share your thoughts

On my kde desktop i just create a link to application with /usr/local/mozilla -editor in the execute dialog and pick an icon. It works every time. You can also do that in GNOME the same way...

ok ok ok i may have overreacted a little... but a dial-up connection in australia is painful... i do need the kernel sources to compile my intel 536ep modem driver (no rpm) and i rarely update kernel... its not nasty cos the source isnt there BUT it is a major inconvenience... but i guess i'll deal forgive me for the irate grumbling... had a very very bad day :? :( sorry everyone... jus been a bad day :P

What do you mean no kernel sources on the International CD? If there are no kernel sources on the Discovery Edition or on the Download Edition - I am going to CANCEL my order with Mandrakesoft... I need the kernel source to install Mandrake on my hardware - no sources... no point. ARGH!!! I hate when companies do this to dial-up users...

At least in RedHat (where I am hiding until my 9.2 powerpack arrives); Totem does suffer just a little - both the xine and gstreamer versions: its almost there but it doesnt like low bandwidth streaming media at all... yet BUT I still prefer it to MPlayer...

Quick question - is 9.2 being ported to PPC like 9.1 was?

Of course it is a skin bvc... I may be Australian, but I am not that stupid LOL :D Galaxy could either be further integrated ie. XMMS skin, MPlayer, Mozilla so that it is a seamless user interface (my personal preference) or just made prettier (and probably larger). I am curious to know what is actually gonna change and how that is gonna effect the performance fo MDK. This may seem silly to some but GUIs do matter - Ximian and RH know this and Galaxy was a start for MDK - I just wanna know if they're gonna finish the job properly... or is KDE gonna have inconsistent icons with GNOME etc... :?:

Just curious. I am a RH9 user who will probably return to MDK when 9.1 is released - Fedora scares me too much... Mandrakesoft claim that 9.2 will have an improved Galaxy experience Does anyone know what that actually means? What are they going to change?

Evolution 1.4 cannot check POP servers that use Intermail to handle email... You might find that sympatico.ca uses Intermail for POP3 Hope this helps. -------------------------------------------------------- Happilly using RedHat 9 and Ximian Desktop 2

It's not over yet! The reason Kmidi plays so poorly is that it currently only has two instruments - piano and guitar. If you read the KMidi handbook there is a section on downloading and installing additional patchsets for KMidi - Read through it, follow the appropriate links and download the new patchsets (I recommend EAWPATS 12 - its on par with an AWE 128); configure them to play under KMidi (a little fiddly) - and away you go with your midis screaming out of your speakers... Don't be discouraged so easilly - Linux requires a bit of effort but the results are worth it... :D

Forgive my tardiness - I have just swapped ISPs and it takes a few days for teh necessary cheques to clear etc... Still minimal luck - must have something to do with my dratted SiS 630 display card.

I am running 9.1 with X11 4.3 - all of the fonts in GTK apps look terrible (worse than they did in 9.0). I have included a screenshot below - it seems that the Helvetica font used by GTK apps doesnt have anti-aliasing switched on at all. Hevetica also looks this bad in Mozilla (although every other font looks fine) - Does anyone have any suggestions? I have posted a screenshot at the address http://www.mbsa.org.au/linux/font.png - Sorry about the image size I am eager to cure a few of my colleagues of their Microsoft Addicition and some really scrappy looking fonts in Evolution, Gnumeric, Gaim, J-Pilot and XMMS (Menus only) aren't going to help my cause. Can I change the default GTK app font to something legible like Arial or Tahoma, replace the version of the helvetica fonts so they look as good as the KDE fonts or switch on anti-aliasing for GTK apps. Please help me

We're up and running - I needed to disable Plug'n'Play in the BIOS - simple as that :) :lol: I feel like such a newbie

Yes I am using mousedrake and I have tried a USB mouse... Thankyou everyone for your help... It may be my device controller on my mainboard

I have swapped the mice over a couple of times - still no joy... I just reloaded Mandrake and URPMIed every kind of update still no joy - it looks like it might be interference from some other IR peripherals... Will keep trying

I have been running 9.0 under KDE 3.0.3 with no problems since September. I booted my PC today and the mouse has frozen smack bang in the middle of the screen. It is a PS2 Wheel Mouse and has worked perfectly until today. I have swapped it over to the serial port, changed it to non-wheel mouse, even reloaded Mandrake from scracth - none of it works... I really need to sort this out or I'll back on Windows by Friday Help me please!