This is a limitation by "What's on the screen", if you want to use the vi copy function you could do something like '1000y' to put it into the yp keyboard.

If you want to do this easier, you can...

What is the output of 'lsmod' and 'dmesg'

That is also a way that most people (at least ones that I know) make images used for external bootable devices (DVD, USB, PXE, etc.). Make an image in Virtualbox (or VMware) then write that image to...

I agree with the statements about CentOS, the lag time is a bit excessive recently due to the whole power struggle in the organization. Ubuntu is a good choice, but if you are going to use it for a...

/etc/ssh should be where the system config is held, and .ssh can contain a lot of things including a copy of anything that can be placed in /etc/ssh, but with local user overrides.

It doesn't take a genius...

Anyway, OpenBSD and FreeBSD are both free, OpenBSD unfortunately lacks some of the 'features' that I like with FreeBSD, and doesn't have the same ports tree :x

That would probably be since I manage the systems Daniweb runs on.

Have you installed a Window Manager or Desktop Manager to run when x starts? What is in your xinit file?

Based on your description in the first post, your already in 'X', and you are having to revert to the terminal mode to be able to do anything. It sounds like you have X installed, but no window...

I think the fact that most people who are asking which is the right type of linux for them may not be ready to go from 'something else' to 'lightweight'. Most work their way down, as they learn what...

What kind of USB wireless device do you have? You may be able to get it to work with the ndis wrapper.

Just thought I would throw in some additional information. The only intel chips that were true 64bit, were the itaniums (IA64), most of the newer processors are capable of 64bit computing but are not...

Well written, might want to clean up the formatting though.

Again, this is a public forum, yes, it may not have been on topic, but people have the ability to suggest alternatives. Lets keep our pride and ego out of this, as I'm sure I know people that have...

rpm 'hell' comes from people not understanding how to use RPM's. If you have the rpms, you can either use up2date to get them (you CAN add additional software channels to up2date as well as yum), or...

I was responding to jbennets post. I said nothing in regards to yours. Please read the posts before you go off on someone.

Clarification:


You mean 'By Default' All Linux distrobutions, can work with almost any software package designed for linux.

A 'Full' Ubuntu install, can contain just as many packages.

Just because it hasn't been mentioned, RH7 has reached it's EOL, there are already a few HUNDRED vulnerabilities for the software included with the distrobution, and I wouldn't recommend installing...

Everyone has the right to their own opinion, you said yourself that the live CD included over 900 applications, to native linux users, this seems rather bloated. My live CD includes 130 applications,...

There is nothing unique about this distrobution, you can make live CD's with all the software you need, this is just another distro to add to the list of...

Personally, I wouldn't run Solaris on an x86 server. Redhat Enterprise is definately starting to shape up to a decent server OS. Debian is nice, but you won't find it on my server. Ubuntu is more for...

Several, however I don't really think it's the kernel that is really the issue. 2.6 actually has far better driver support than 2.4 for the regular user, what exactly isn't working for you?

Well... Maybe in windows. However since linux is opensource, and you can pretty much compile anything with 64bit compatibility. I would highly recommend 'not' installing 32bit versions of your...

Most linux distrobutions use the AMD64 installer for all 64bit processors (regardless of AMD/Intel) You can find Ubuntu's 64bit installers here:...

Now days, ATI and Nvidia both have linux drivers (nvidia usually being the better of the two on linux), but you should be able to find the right drivers here:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html...

As the previous technicians stated, there are many options. I would recommend trying FreeBSD (or the live CD equivilant Freesbie), or Solaris (intel version is now free iirc) if you are looking to...

It would be better to get a .torrent file and just let your machine download them in the background.

Just wanted to add a little note, I work with people and personally have a Linux box that plays World Of Warcraft, Counterstrike source, and several other popular games by using Cedega from...

It really depends on what you are wanting to do with the server, as far as networking, *nix was *designed* to be a network OS, so you shouldn't have any issues there, Fedora and CentOS are both...

Not really, Apache does not deal with Mail Transfers, except when it is using a formmail or something that will send the mail to the MTA, the MTA is what you have to be worried about accessing the...

Personally, I would recommend qmail with qmailadmin installed so it is easy to manage the accounts, more information can be found here:
http://www.inter7.com/index.php?page=qmailadmin

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X86-64 is a processor that is based on the x86 design, such as pentium and AMD and are 64bit, where as i386 are the regular Pentium/AMD's that only have 32bit processors.

Knoppix was not meant to be an OS ran from the hard drive, although you can save the configuration to a floppy disk if you want. Personally If knoppix works, then there is no reason that another OS...

Although one thing that I would like to mention is that even though linux *can* run on a 486 with 8 meg of ram, like windows you will be limited to the functionality of the software based on the...

Personally I would recommend that you try fedora, I've recently installed that on a dell laptop and the only thing I had to find externally was the video card driver which was very easy. The only...

another useful command that can be found is 'netstat' this can be used the same as on windows except with redhat, there are certain flags you can use.

ie.
netstat -a = shows all network...

They are right, Redhat and Mandrake are really good 'newbie' OS's, granted Mandrake when it was first created was stolen from redhat, so much that still said 'welcome to redhat linux' on the...

Well honestly, I've seen people who have managed to completely change the OS. For instance, they get a RH9 box, and less than a week later, it is gentoo. so if you do keep up with ALL the changes, it...

personally, I just installed slackware 9 which is my first slackware distrobution, so the previous post might be a little off.

It really depends, there are a lot of new features with the newer versions such as new versions of KDE/etc. The thing with linux, is it isn't like an 'upgrade' from win2k/winxp, as if you keep the...