Re: [newbie] Re:Back to Basics
Well I did the same but came back to the rpm way. The problem is that everything is in a different place, has a different name, there is way to much to learn before doing the simplest thing. I also found that the debian community had a different mind set... And the clincher is that hardware isn't always auto installed. I had lots of usb troubles etc. However the deb package rocks. I was just spending way to much time fiddling with the os and very little time getting anything useful done. Aaron PS. Contemplating a move to debian...any comments? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re:Back to Basics
Wow. I just went to yoper and if what I read is true I will be switching to it as soon as the first release is out. Aaron On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 12:51, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:34 pm, et wrote: snip consider yopa. it is a new distro for th desktop, and while I have not yet had a chance to check it out, it comes highly recomended by folks I have learned to trust. On this list, I think it was YAMA, Sridhar Dhanapalani, that thought this was a good distro, and every other bit of advice he gave was right on the money. /snip et, I'm pretty sure the name is Yoper. BTW : where is Sridhar these days ? Miss him too. Kaj Haulrich === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. === __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WINE or something similar??
Well my experience has been that the only open source option is wine, however wine is not so stable and requires a lot of fiddling to get it to work, and it is not so fast. VM ware is not for everyone, if you are testing on many OSes it probably is the best choice. I don't know all thats out there but for explorer and similar apps Crossover office works fine. From what I have read on this list Win4Lin is much faster and runs more apps. If you must have it open then have fun with wine Aaron On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 16:49, Chuck Burns wrote: Here's the deal.. I have a pure Mandrake 9.0 system on this box.. No windows partition at all.. now.. lets say I wanted to make a disk image inside my current linux setup, and run win apps.. and I want it to be opensource.. NOT vmware. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
Hi What modem are you using?? Did you use the mandrake internet connection wizard?? Please give us some more information so we can help. Aaron On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:09, Margot wrote: I'm a very newbie running Mandrake 9 and I can't get it to connect to the internet. My ISP is eurobell. I've set up the connection in MCC, and that bit seems to work OK - it dials, verifies my username and password, and is clocking up a penny a minute for the connection when I test it - but I can't get any further than that. I've tried setting up my details (username, password, server names as supplied by eurobell), but when I use the various applications to try to access www, usenet, email accounts I just get error messages - message wording varies depending on the application, but amounting to host eurobell unknown. I've checked the documentation on the machine and printed out several trees worth, but still can't crack this. The only documentation I found that seems relevant told me that the host name should be in the /etc/hosts file. This is what my /etc/hosts file contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.50 home No mention of eurobell in the file. Should I add something here and, if so, what? I've been reading this list for a couple of weeks and picked up some useful tips, but nobody seems to have exactly the same problem as me. Luckily I still have the old Win 98 machine running so I can access the mailing list - but it is annoying to have to unplug the modem and keep moving it from one machine to the other as they are in different rooms! I tried eurobell's tech support, but their first question was which version of Windows do you have? and the conversation went downhill from there. Can anyone help? TIA Margot Lawrence __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] c shell path
Can someone tell me how to create variables and add to the path in C shell??? I can't use many programs because of this, Thanks Aarom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] glibc mdb-tools
Hi I saw the post and downloaded the mdbtools only to find it needs glibc to be exact glibc-common-2.3.1-36.i386. If I hunt up an rpm and install what could happen to my system? I am a bit afraid to do this without urpmi but I don't see it using this tool. Since this is not the only thing I do I would hate to break all my apps for this one??? Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing software problems
Do you have the installation discs from mandrake?? try the control center software manager. Or use urpmi and the name of the package. __ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?
Hi my 2 cents I started out with Redhat 6 at work and upgraded to 6.2 At home I kept upgrading Redhat until the 7 series when I tried debian, a distro which looked amazing but which required to much time to install. I then tried SuSe but just plain didn't like it. The gui, the installation, I never got my internet connection working. I tried a 7 something version of Mandrake but it didnn't recognize my hardware. I windozed for a bit then I tried Corel oh boy a good idea that just didn't deliver. They hid all the tools and I had hardware problem after hardware problem. But I liked the ease of use and not being afraid to have the video setup easy to do. I installed a 8 version Mandrake and really liked it everything seemed to work wow. but because I really wanted to learn debian I installed Potato. I banged my head for a couple of months, and finally realized I was missing basic functions I needed so as soon as Mandrake 9.0 came out I installed. I still experience some hardware related problems but once I junk supermount life is great. I can't get my usb printer working but I see that redhat et al has the same problems. I am waiting for the next version (and not printing) which I hope will have solved some of these problems. The interface and tools in MD are just great. Aaron On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 04:19, Les Henderson wrote: I'm curious as to why someone would choose mandrake over other distros and thought that this might be the best place to get some oppinions since i'm sure that there are a number of people on this list who have some strong views on the subject. i've personally only run mandrake 8.1 on my home machine (when i downloaded it, it was current). i've run a red hat box on a work machine as well for a short period of time. i've got things that i'm very happy about with mandrake and things that i've been somewhat annoyed with. my main annoyance is that i can't find rpms from the original packages that were present on the 8.1 CDs on a number of the mandrake mirror sites (my original cds have become somewhat scratched). the main thing that i really like about mandrake is its installer. on a previous computer that i had mandrake would easily install when red hat wouldn't no matter what i tried (not that i necessarily knew too many things to try). there are a number of other things that i like and dislike about what i've seen with mandrake, but i would like to hear what its vocal user base likes about it compared with other distros. just curious. btw, i'm looking for actual comparisions about what are the features that you like about it, not just flat out oppinions that mandrake rocks. i hope that this isn't too off topic. Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lindows
well I did some research and the bottom line is do you want a distro that lets you run windows apps?? Are you looking for a debian distro? Then these distros are trying more or less succesfully to fulfil a niche. A dummies linux for windows people. Lindow Xandros and all of them cost money. I tried corel and liked the idea but not the implementation. They say this round of distros is much better. But if you have mucked around with a normal distro you are probably one who doesn't need them. ON the other side. If you feel you want to run windows apps on linux there are apps out ther e that let you do this some better and some worse just as xandros and lindows. These are Vmware and Win4lin and crossover office. these pay alternatives will bring you pretty much up to the windowy level that these distro's offer but with a user base that has longer experience. lol Aaron --On Monday, December 23, 2002 05:35:25 AM -0600 Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lindows
You are forgetting the w2k crowd that understand user permissions. Lindow seems a bit annoying to me at least Xandros is based on corel which with all its problem didn't try to be windows. Aaron --On Monday, December 23, 2002 01:10:52 PM + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2022 1:09 pm, robin wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to convince neophytes that Windows is good but not that good. I just don't like the approach and am disappointed in Wal-Mart for taking it. From what I know of Lindows, it strikes me as the worst of both worlds. I hear it automatically logs you in as root, thus blowing most of the famous Linux security and stability in one fell swoop. That should make windows users feel at home :) Anne AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] menus menu menyou menme help
I am having menu problems. I have lots of rpms that don't appear in the menu of mandrake and I want to know how to scan the rpm database and have them added to the menus. I also have applications which I added from sources or shell script installations which I also would like to scan somehow and add them to the menu. I would think a way exists for rpms already. (as I remember in the old kde there was) But for tars etc., there would have to be a custom script or something?? I realize that for command line apps this doesn't seem so important. I could if want later go into the gui and have it run from a shell. Thanks Aaron AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives
--On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:49:30 PM +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:12, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi all, I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and Counter-Strike. As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. I think win4lin. I don't own it but plan to it will solve the problem of dual booting in the mean time. counter-strike like most of its time are system draining, which I think kills vmware and wine before you start. write to the win4lin people and see if they have or will test it for you Aaron Most of the past 4 days has been spent searching, reading, and trying different things to get Half-Life (Counter-Strike) running with winex. It still doesn't work and I'm not prepared to spend that much time trying to get Visio running, so I've built another partition and put Win2k on it. I'll dual boot for now. But that's not gonna cut it for long. I want Linux as my base OS, and I have to be able to run Visio until there's a nix equivalent that will handle Visio files flawlessly. (Exporting/Importing via HTML or whatnot is neat but not good enough.) I'm considering the purchase of VMware Workstation, but it's a $300 decision. So I thought I check here first. This has to be a common issue. Are there any other options - recommendations? Thanks in advance, -- ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to say something about this before, but constantly forget to do so - so I'll do it now. WINE wants to be an abstraction layer - a clone, per se, so that Windows apps can run - right? SO, if you look in the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory, you see a rather bleak and bland SKELETON of Windows directories and the likes. Well, that didn't sit right with me - and wanting to run MYOB whilst in fave linux, I decided to hack WINE. First, I copied just about everything from my /mnt/hda1/windows directories right into the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory. Fonts, DLL's - you name it - I copied it there. I wanted to give Windows programs everything they asked for. I also dittoed the same with the Program Files subdirs, too. I dug through all the ini files and the WINE registry files to straighten out things that had been changed as well as point some virtual dll's to the real McCoy's...took a while, and took a fair bit of experimenting, but overall, now I can run native Windows applications in my linux world. Now my way was hacked/slashed - but from what I unnerstan...WineX is by far the better way to go...they've spent a good deal of time getting WINE Game Playable - which basically tells me that if you can run a game like UT2002 or HL under linux, running sniveling little MS wanna-be programs like Viso (only joking there) would be a snap. And mate, if I can live completely in a Window-less world (socially even) then so can you! -- Wed Dec 18 22:40:01 EST 2002 10:40pm up 5:32, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.20 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | '. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I love dogs, but I hate Chihuahuas. A Chihuahua isn't a dog. It's a rat with a thyroid problem. AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] menus menu menyou menme help
Thanks Aaron I am really looking for a way to create some post install routines for turnkey that will scan a file which has a list of installed programs with a menu item in it and add these automatically to the mandrake menus. I would need to be pointed where to look for what format such a file should be in and how to link it up. (like it was an rpm data base that mandrake/kdes/gnomes menus would think they were the same and update their menus from it) Aaron --On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:22:55 PM + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 1:35 pm, Aaron Mehl wrote: I am having menu problems. I have lots of rpms that don't appear in the menu of mandrake and I want to know how to scan the rpm database and have them added to the menus. I also have applications which I added from sources or shell script installations which I also would like to scan somehow and add them to the menu. I would think a way exists for rpms already. (as I remember in the old kde there was) But for tars etc., there would have to be a custom script or something?? I realize that for command line apps this doesn't seem so important. I could if want later go into the gui and have it run from a shell. Thanks Aaron AM in the AM (PM) You will only get an automatic menu entry if the spec of the RPM defines one. If you think some menus entries are missing, then the command 'update-menus' as root will update the menus of every user. Of course if you have been installing non-mandrake RPMs then the menu entries are not compatible and will not appear. (Note: It is possible for a 'bad' menu entry to prevent other menu items being displayed. I remember Civileme wrote a script to check for malformed menu entries. A search of the archives will find it for you) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need advise on text editors for programming
There are lots of text editors on linux but the two main ones are vim and emacs. both have a bit of a learning curve both do all that you ask, and as to which is better is a dangerous question to answer. I have tried emacs and after much persistance I finally learned vim well enough to call it my tool. aaron - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
