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John, how long did the recovery process take?

In true GNU/Linux tradition Songbird has been forked. The new incarnation is called Nightingale: http://getnightingale.org/

Mandriva One, Linux-Magazine May 2006 version install drops into console asking for local host login. I do not know what response to make.   Thanks for any help. Yup, I'm a newbie.

It's always a bit hit and miss using distros from magazines.  You'd be better off downloading your own Mandriva One.  Just make sure you test the the .iso for corruption before burning and installing. 

I seriously hope that no outsider takes a look at the comments on that and believes it to be indicative of the Linux community as a whole.

I hope they do. I hope they realise that just because your product is "free" you can't 'wine and dine' the community, you can't encourage their support and feedback to improve your product only to drop them as soon as you get a better offer.

They come across as a bunch of whiny brats.

Or come across as users who give a damn, so much so they choose to voice their disgust.

The organisation has limited resources and decided to focus on the wider user base, a harsh reality of real life.

Interesting how this has become an issue as soon as they decided to step into the video arena. I'm sure the fact that DRM and Open Source don't mix has nothing to do with it.

Get over it and grow up.

I'll leave that flame bait alone...

Songbird halts major support for Linux...

 

www.ubuntugeek.com

So how do I get 4.4.1?

urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.4.1 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.4.1/Mandriva/i586 with media_info/hdlist.cz

 

Then do:

 

 

urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select --auto

Same here.... Breakages, no matter which distro.  :huh:

Pardon my ignorance (new to Linux but willing to learn the easy bits), doesn't that just install KDE 4.4.0?

 

At least it did on my pc!

That thanks was for my link to try 4.4.0 not 4.4.1

For those interested in such things:

 

Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they are.

Benchmarks: Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, Ubuntu 10.04, openSUSE 11.3

 For those of you Mandriva users interested in trying 4.4.0 as root do:

 

urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.4.0 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.4.0/Mandriva/2010.0/i586 with media_info/hdlist.cz

 

For 64bit users replace i586 with x86_64.  Then do:

urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select --auto

 

If you break your system, don't holla at me :D

Where can I find the repo links?

Do you have the perl-CGI package installed?  You will find it in the package manager (Configure Your Computer).

Static Ip's managed by the router (which of course also acts as an intenet gateway) is by FAR the simplest and cleanest solution.

You do not need dhcp/wins if you use static addresses, and regarding DNS, you can rely to the DNS server which is pinned on your router, or explicitly define a different one on any of your machines- no matter if they are Linux or Windoze.

I'm with scarecrow on this one.

Add as root the ip address and the hostname to your /etc/hosts file.  A quick way to do this is to type as root:

echo '<ip address here> <hostname here>' >> /etc/hosts

 

If you can't do it that way you can do: Alt & F2 then type kdesu konqueror this will open your filemanager as root.  Navigate to your /etc folder, look for the hosts file, open it and insert the entry, then save the changes.

 

 

Ensure you have the package ntfs-3g installed.  You might want to also install ntfs-config which is a graphical utility for configuring your ntfs drives.  Both packages are available in the Software section of Configure Your Computer or you can install via commandline as root with

urpmi ntfs-3g ntfs-config

 There's FreeGuide.  Download rpm from here: http://sourceforge.n...eguide/0.10.12/

 

See screenshot:

Install glassified or any other transparent theme. Under System Settings--> Advanced--> Desktop Theme Details, click the Get New Themes button and browse available themes.  Glassified and Transparent Grey are there.

System Settings--> Advanced--> Desktop Theme Details.  If you have something like the Glassified theme already installed, you can select the panel theme (which is transparent) from it.

Installation went smoothly, no problems on Mandy 2010.  Thanks tux99 :)

Thanks tux99 for packaging up this great media center :)  

 

For those who don't know, you add scripts and stuff into a hidden .xbmc folder.  To make the process even easier, add the SVN Repo Installer.  You will then be able to install scripts from within the media center instead of manually having to put them in the correct folders.

 

 

I do agree that you should not have to hunt around to do basic tasks like changing your wallpaper or taskbar settings etc.  I've grown used to the changes and more or less know where to go to tweak particular settings.  The thing that gets me is the lack of a good help facility.  One where the user could type in what they are looking for and be presented with the results.   Documentation in GNU/Linux is woefully inadequate.  

 

+1  For Customisation options. 

 

-1 For Documentation & Embedded desktop help

 

 

One application you could use is DeVeDe.  It's in the repos.  Stand by for more suggestions :)

 

...but how can I e.g. change the height of the taskbar?

Right click either the desktop or taskbar, select unlock widgets, left click the cashew that appears (to the right of the taskbar), you will see a Height button, drag up or down to resize taskbar.

 

How can it be hidden?

Under the same cashew that appears on the taskbar, click More Settings.

Hello? Is this Linux-Vista?

Hell NO.  I don't care what anyone says, I've had to use Vista on the odd occasions.  It is freakin' horrid. 

 

 

Even such simple things like changing the wallpaper are made pretty difficult by hiding them cleverly in completely cluttered menus and control-centers

Right click the desktop, left click folder view settings.  Same amount of steps it took with 3.5.

 

How have you managed to have 3 control centers?

I need solutions here folks, this is a reason why I dont stay with mandy that long: slow community

You need to recognise we are all volunteers here.  You don't employ us, we have other things to do as well!

This works great!  Thanks Tux99 :)  Do you know how to add or install scripts?