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Ok, I'm reading all this right after I've finished with SuSE LiveEval CD (got it an hour ago with an issue of the Linux Format mag). I tried it just now on a PII 233Mhz laptop with at least 128Mb RAM (it runs WinXP quite well, so it may have 256Mb, dunno...) Well, what can I say... It's been a BIG frustration... It took about 10-15 minutes to get into KDE (at res 800x640, not 1024x768). An attempt to mount Windows harddrive failed (NTFS). YaST failed to configure the PCMCI card while booting and then it took forever for it to start another config process, needless to say I never saw end result of it as the progress bar froze on 0%. I admit I was clicking buttons back and forth quite impatiently (I like things to happen at my will, who doesn't...) and that probably confused the system a lot. Finally I gave up, waited for another maybe 20 minutes for a pause in the CD activity and shut it down. Shutdown was my only good experience. I should say congrats to Anna on the great job. The screen shots are terrific... But on the other hand, average Windows users may never get to see Anna's work. Instead, they play around those LiveEval CDs and believe me, frustration guaranteed....

You are probably looking for a PPP over the Ethernet application. Roaring penguin's PPPoE is one choice.

Thanks to all replied. Indeed I am hoping to get a PDA that I could sync with evo, that's a point of getting it:). What kind of (typical) problem should I expect? Let me then ask this question: is it possible to go a usual way - blow WinCE/Palm away and install a Linix distro, or even better, have a dual boot?

I'm thinking of getting a PDA, HP iPAC and Palm Zire... I suppose there is software to synchronize a PDA with Mandrake (kpilot?). Does it work well with WinCE or Palm OS? Which OS is better supported and more stable? Do you guys have any experience with handhelds? A good advise is appreciated....

Ok, pmpatrick, from ps aux output, the hungriest apps are: 1) evolution; for some reason I have 6 evolution -mail processes running, each taking 3.1% of the memory; 2) mozilla firebid; 9 processes running, 7 of them take 6.6% of memory; Now, I have 512Mb of RAM, here is output of free $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 513056 508516 4540 0 166892 89080 -/+ buffers/cache: 252544 260512 Swap: 923696 5424 918272 So, all memory is available. 5Mb of swap are used, though I am away from my desk for nearly 12 hours....

bvc, thanks for bringing this up, I will certainly monitor the swap usage from now.... I still wonder, is there a clean way to free swap without rebooting?

I'd thought so, but it's more likely that firebird and kde are misbehaving... Exiting vmware returned only 8Mb or so... by closing firebird and evo I claimed back nearly 75% of swap. I still had 85Mb of swap used. Peanuts, but... So I decided to reboot. I closed KDE, and got another 50Mb back. After rebooting, 0 swap was used until I started firebird again...opened a couple of tabs, and here we go - 2Mb of swap gone...

I run VMware 3.1 on MDK8.2, no probs with it... don't know about autocad, pspice (electric circuit design) runs perfectly.

closed gkrellm, ghostview, evolution and firebird, (both were open a long time ago), and guess what - I got my swap back! The swap usage has fallen from 86% to 9% used. Now I'm curious which application is to be blamed?

After closing the VMWare session, I got back only few Mb... will try reboot...

Nnop, msec is not running # ps -x |grep msec 8610 pts/5 S 0:00 grep msec Well, last time I did reboot a (long) while ago... But isn't the beauty of linux that you don't have to reboot just to free memory/swap? Is there a way to free swap without rebooting? BTW, I am running VMware session right now, could that be the reason why swap is nearly full?

My desktop has 512Mb RAM and approx 1Gb swap... gkrellm says that 902M available and 780Mb used... So linux does need swap nearly twice as big as RAM, right? Do I really have to waist 2Gb for swap?

How can you tell how much space is being used on swap? I usually check free space with kdiskfree, but it doesn't show swap...

I'm going to put linux on the new laptop (arrives soon). How much space should I allocate to the swap partition? I read somewhere that the rule is 2x(capacity of the RAM) but not bigger than 512Mb. The laptop will have 1Gb, so should it be 512Mb, or 2Gb? Also, I'm going to put linux alongside WinXP. The harddrive will apparently have NTFS on it. Will linux be able to write files on it, or will I have to create a dummy FAT32 partition for sharing files between linux and XP? Since I installed linux for the first time 4 years ago, Win always got the flick from me. It will be my first dualboot... Funny, isn't it?

VeeDubb, recover searches for inodes on ext2 that were deleted on a particular day/time/hour/.... and contain a particular text string. Then it dumps found inodes to wherever you command it. You then have to pick right file/pieces... For ext3 partitions, try this.... https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-us...r/msg00031.html

That's what I would do. Prepare two copies of resolv.conf, one with LAN settings, another with settings for your dial-up connection. Call them /etc/resolv.conf.lan and /etc/resolv.conf.dialup, or whatever. Then modify scripts that activate network interfaces (ppp0 for dialup and eth0 when connected to LAN) to make them override /etc/resolv.conf by copying appropriate /etc/resolv.conf.xxx to /etc/resolv.conf

Specifically, if you use the ext2 file system, then chances are you can recover text files. For example, recover worked for me. Also, there is Linux Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO http://www.praeclarus.demon.co.uk/tech/e2-...undel/howto.txt that describes the process. I'm affraid it won't work for binary files.

A very useful thread. Maybe, you post it to Tips and Tricks?

Gowator, You use MDK 9.2 as a host, right? I'm asking 'cause the're stuck with 9.0, according to their website. Which version of VMWare did you use, BTW? Cheers

I know nothing about USB networks, sorry... Unison file syncroniser from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ is the best app to sync folders on two comps. It does exactly what you want. You start it on one computer (desktop in your case), no need to run servers on both machines. You can sync files in any direction. It can connect over a direct socket link, an rsh or an ssh connection.

BTW, you may want to check this out http://www.ctan.org/installationadvice/#in...ationguidelines

mathabx.dcl? Strange extension... Anyway, adding packages to latex is easy. Login as root, then go to the latex directory, usually it is /usr/share/texmf. Copy the files according to their functionality, i.e., if it's a latex package then a logical choice for it is /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/packagename (create the directory packagename first, then copy files to that dir). After you've done with placing files, go back to /usr/share/texmf. You'll find the file ls-R in it. Make a backup copy of it (just in case), then run # ls -R > ls-R This will create the new ls-R file. If you now open it with a text editor, you should be able to see the new package files included in it. That's all you need to do, the package is available right away.

It's xvidtune (all lowercase). It is the part of XFree86 AFAIK. On my computer, it resides in /usr/X11R6/bin/xvidtune. Before doing anything, make sure you read the manual: [user@host currentdir] $ man xvidtune Remember the warning:

And don't forget to post the results here :D

Did you configure X to use the external monitor? It looks like X tries to use the laptop screen. You need to tell XFree86 that you're going to use external monitor. Adding external display option to the Device section may help. Section "Device" Identifier "YourVideoAdaptor" # Option "intern_disp" Option "extern_disp" EndSection That worked for me when I was using XFree 3.x.x. Please check out this page for more details: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Han...d_Crafting.html or google for "XF86Config"+"external monitor". This seems to be a well documented thing.