Easiest way is to dist-upgrade to hardy; the latest ipods (i.e. classic) should then work (i use rhythmbox on debian sid and it works fine)

Great tutorial Joe

I'll just add that on Debian (based) systems you may want to use 'checkinstall' (available via apt) rather than 'make install'; it will create a .deb and allow you to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#Compliance

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cluster_Live_CD

What version of wine are you using?

Does autodetect in winecfg work?

right click file -> properties -> open with -> select firefox (if its not there click add and find it)

also check out the preferred applications option in desktop -> preferences menu.

dunno why...

anjuta (http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/) may be worth a look - can't believe this thread got so far without a mention.

So cos firefox broke your download you conclude that linux isn't very good.

If you want to download using http use wget. You'd be better off using bittorrent though, you'll get good download...

meebo (http://www17.meebo.com/)

What distro/version of Gaim are you using?

Joe is right, for a easy to install and light debian-like distro I think xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org/) is a good option; it runs XFCE rather than Gnome or KDE so should run faster on your machine.

No, afaik.

Redhat 9 came out about 3 years ago - a lot has happened since then.

Your best bet is to go with either:
Fedora Core (http://fedora.redhat.com/)
or
CentOS (http://www.centos.org/)...

no. you can install them all in one go:


rpm -Uvh package1.rpm package2.rpm package3.rpm


this helps if you have circular dependencies as they should be taken care of without any --force...

if you were to use a recent fedora (from the screenshot it looks like you're on redhat 9 or fc1?) you could use yum and just type (as su)


yum install gambas


and it would go and find all the...

if you install the gDesklets package there is a desklet that copies the OSX dock

here is a screengrab :
http://openarch.net/blog/file/gdesklets.png

there is a similar one for KDE called...

what distro are you using? and on what architecture (x86 / ppc etc)

if you're using ubuntu you should check out the automatix (http://www.getautomatix.com/)