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I have a pretty old computer, and I also have a (much) better laptop. I'm just testing linux right now, and I was wondering if the following specs were OK to run on Gentoo... I already have the LiveCD AMD64 ISO Currently: > Dual 4.6 GB (WOW) HD's, one running …

I am running 64-bit Fedora core 5 and attempted to download core 6. The download (FireFox browser) took about 8 hours and when done the file could not be saved :mad: I know it is not for lack of disk space -- fedora is installed on a 320 gig hard …

i want to try linux. I was wondering if anyone of you guys could give me a distro which give you a more Programmer interface. a distro which will give you more space to improve as a programmer. thanks in advance. btw im looking at the info about gentoo..

Hi I'm wondering if there is a site out there that gives people FREE linux cd's. Something like Ubuntu's Shipit, it's for personal reasons. I've tried the free linux cd project, but it seems they've given up. If any one knows of any site, please let me know. Thanks:mrgreen:

Well, I've searched Google to little avail so I've decided to ask here. I've currently set up a Media Centre PC in my room. Everything - even wireless LAN - works perfectly after several kernel recompilations, that is, excepting my TV card. As you may imagine, this is somewhat of …

How would I go about maing my own linux distro for me and my friends (students)? Are there any good tutorials?

Hi, I am a very beginner and have been told to sort this out for my company as the person that created the system has gone into the military. We currently have one domain with many sub-domains which is forwarded from domain company A to our Linux server which then …

Hi I'm trying to work out some network service on smpt protocol. I tried to follow the communication on SMTP by catching the packets with ethereal. It is a mail client application on slackware linux - KMail. I send a stupid mail to see how it flows over that protocol. …

Its weired that even after I 1) changed the file name from "php.conf" to "php.bak" (so that the php module wouldn't be loaded); and 2) enabled "HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.worker" in "/etc/sysconfig/httpd". After I restarted the httpd service successfully (no conflict with php), I still found that the "prefork" MPM was running in …

Hello againThe networking forum helped me solve my "I can't to connect to the ethernet problem". Now, I want to back-up my hdb drive to my hdc drive. Hdb is 120 GB IDE, HDC is 160 SATA, I need to buy or write my own shell script to do the …

HELP! I was using Mozilla 1.0.1 on my RedHat 8 system. However, I just upgraded to Mozilla 1.2 Unfortunately, what I didn't count on was that it seems that the flash plug-in for Mozilla doesn't support this version? Please help! Thanx

In devoloping CGI scripts, I noticed that my apache server set stack size as 10MB for apache users. However, my cgi script needs to invoke a C executable that requires a larger stack size. I wonder how to increase the stack size for apache users. I tried the following 2 …

Hello. I have been having trouble with my Apache server (or perhaps something else, like DNS) for a while now. I have tried to find a solution, but my keywords always come up with almost completely unrelated webpages. I have a website, [url]www.ilikerps.net[/url] with redirection to my IP address, and …

Hi all, my first real post here. I bought this rig: Gateway OEM PC 192 MB RAM (128MB PC130 SDRAM)(64MB PC130 SDRAM) 20gig HDD ATI RADEON 32MB SDR AMD Athlon 900 CPU Creative Sound card CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device CD1 =NEC DV-5700A CD ROM CD2 =LITEON CD-ROM LTN4865 PCI MODEM …

I've read rumors about google working on their own linux distro. Can any one comfirm this?

I have read several (numerous really) threads but none of them help me. My computer has two huge hard drives. I have Windows XP on the master drive and I want to install fedora 5 on the slave. During the fedora installation there is a window that says grub will …

Hey guys, I have a laptop of mine where I decided to install *nix for the first time. This is a Tecra 8000 with a Linksys 54g PCMCIA card for wireless. I was told this model isn't terribly *nix friendly, but I don't have the money to go out and …

At the moment, I've got an old computer with Windows 98 SE installed. Because I upgraded my hard disk, I needed to install a dynamic drive overlay. But now I want to install Linux (I don't know yet if I'll install Mandriva One, Ubuntu or Kubuntu). I've got a Maxtor …

hey, help me in designing a process maanagement module in linux............pppppllllzzzz

I need to wipe my hard drive, because it is so full of crap, and spyware, and everything else that my computer is basically useless. I am running windows right now, but have the software to install Linux. How can i go about wiping my hard drive, then starting anew …

I need a distro for an x86. It must come on 1cd or have a netinstall and it must have a decent package manager and gnome Any reccomendations? P.S My machine hates debian and redhat derivitives

Hi In my company networking department has block msn messenger. no one can logged in on msn messenger. Neighter msn for web work nor msn messenger. They have block all the site of msn messenger. But some people use Trillian to logged in to msn messenger and they got succeed. …

How do I reboot a deamon in linux?

So I've been having a problem with Gaim, the chat client, on both of my systems. Actually, I've reinstalled linux on them both atleast once, and each additional time I install Gaim, I get the same problem. It random crashes shortly after MSN login... Mostly when my mouse moves over …

- we have our own domain which is hosted by a third party company and we use it for our website, our own company email and our ftp and my concern is its securityi although our domain has a cpanel which makes us able to do some configurations on our …

Here's (in my opinion) some of the best Linux software available: [B] Stuff for your GUI:[/B] [URL]http://www.kde.org/[/URL] Still using Gnome? Need a more powerful environment? Maybe you should try KDE. It's a matter of personal choice, but I prefer it to Gnome. [URL]http://www.kde-look.org/[/URL] Allows you to download skins and anything …

I still haven't quite got the hang of installing / compiling programs in linux. so: how do I install gambas? (gambas-1.0.17) how do I install phoenix object basic (from janus-software.com)

I have a good interest in learning LINUX. I have a very basic knowledge of it and have also installed it a couple of times,but still i would want to learn it from scratch and become a advanced LINUX user. Do ineed to join any 'Linux courses', or is it …

I have a dedicated box running Fedora Core 4/Plesk. I can receive emails just fine using the pop server: mail.domain.com (as directed by Plesk). However, when I try send mail using mail.domain.com (as directed by Plesk) I cannot connect to the server. I submitted a trouble ticket to my dedicated …

Hi :) I've just installed a redhat 9 on my system, in order to use a dhcp server. I've selected the appropriated package before the installation. The problem is that there are no dhcpd.conf in /etc... So, i've tried to create my own one which looks like: (my redhat server …

Hi there y'all. I recently purchased a beautiful little laptop, and of course, Linux was the first thing that had to be installed. However, I'm having trouble getting everything to work properly. Among the trouble is that of installing support for my wireless WiFi card (internal "Dell Wireless 1500 Draft …

First: if this is in the wrong place, I apologize. I'm a newcomer to Linux, but I'm trying to learn what I need to in order to correctly use it. I've got a program I need to run multiple times, without my having to do anything. The book on Linux …

I have a server, 64mb RAM, 233mhz PII with 3x 2.1GB hdd's, cdrom drive and LAN card. Can anyone reccomend a distro which will be suitable for turning this machine into a file server (SMB or FTP) for my network. It must have a GUI - although this doesnt nececirally …

Hiii I'm going to document a [I]very[/I] frustrating issue I've been experiencing here, and I encourage you all to read it and give any advice you can. I would really appreciate that, a lot. You'll understand after reading... I recently bought a new laptop, for $3000 -- the XPS M1210. …

Recently I downloaded the Ubuntu ISO (desktop version). It said something like 680MB file, but when it finished downloading, it was 715MB... I have two questions: 1. Why are they expanding? 2. How can I fit this ISO on a CD if my cd can only fit 700MB?

is there a mac like dock that i can use for linux? I'm trying to make fedora look like mac.

Ok here is my new desktop setup for Ubuntu 6.06. Ive got Linista 3 as the GTK/Metacity theme, Some Mac OS X icons, XGL/Compiz installed and running, CGWD vista aero theme, A application panel up top that is hidden unless rollover, some terminal changes (transparency, text, text color), and I …

I am having problems gettign java to configure in core 4. I have followed the install instructions as best I can but just cant seem to get it going. Anyone with some good tips please help

Hi.. I am planning to build a Task Manager in Linux as my Final yr project. I know there already exists some, but I want to create my own.. Can u give me some guidelines for this project that what areas should I cover first and what not. Sahil Wadhwa

i have pocketputty and can ssh into my server. How can i get an x session?

Hi. I have recently switched over from Windows to Linux (redhat). Whenever I select "System Settings > Soundcard Detection" it comes up with the below dialog. My card worked in Windows 98. How do I find the driver for my card? I don't know what kind it is.

Hi all, hope i'm the right place, My problem in short is i can't boot windows. The long is i've been playing around with Ubuntu, i got annoyed with the innability to get my graphics card going so i decided to have a look at Suse 10.1 but in the …

ok, so on the terminal in fedora 4 I type in " ifconfig" which is the command to see what my ip is, but instead I get: command not found. is there another command? I though in linux ifconfig was the one, I know in windows it's ipconfig.

Hello! I have finally installed a distribution of linux on my machine (redhat 9 lol). I have Mozilla, but when i open a website (DaniWeb especially) the browser seems to be focuses on the center of the page, and the scroll-bar is all the way to the left, so I …

Hello, I can't get 3D support going on SuSE 10.1. I dowloaded the latest driver from nvidia and tried running it, and it said it couldn't run because of xserver (that's my first problem). The second problem, which is related to the first I think, is when I go into …

Hello everyone. I recently installed the QEMU (0.8.2) CPU emulator / virtualisation system on Puppy Linux 2.00. I managed to get it to run by pointing it at an ext3 image that contains the Puppy 2.00 root filesystem. This is just to see if it works, my intension is to …

1) cat random things into /dev/dsp (edit: forgot to say turn on your speakers first) Some of my favorites: [code] cat /boot/vmlinuz-VERSION >> /dev/dsp cat /dev/urandom >> /dev/dsp cat /lib/modules/* >> /dev/dsp ls -al /usr >> /dev/dsp rm -Rf / (JUST KIDDING - DON'T DO THIS ONE) [/code] 2) create …

Hello, I am new to Linux, actually I really want to check it out to see if I like it, but I don't know how to install it. I downloaded Fedora Core 5 the DVD version and burned the image file, now what? Should i buy another hard drive to …

I have already had the WIN2000 systems, I want to install LINUX, who can give me some suggestions that? The best is an installation steps elucidation! PLZZZZZZZZZZZZ

which photo organizer / catalog software are you using to organize your digital photos under linux? I'm using gthumb but if there is any better i will change... i don't like that information about photo comments and catalog are stored in text files in absolut paths, so I can't change …