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I just got a mepis live cd... I am running it live on my laptop. I was able to get sound installed, but i am having trouble installing a program. The program is called "Wireless Assistant" ([URL]http://sourceforge.net/projects/wlassistant/[/URL]) Mepis detects my wireless, and it will allow me to detect my two …

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Ok here goes, I am a mac guy, OSX is perfect for me, simple, does its job quietly and never gives me problems. Thats the only way I can handle any computer, trouble free. I now have a laptop (windows XP) that I bought for my ex-wife that she just …

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hello friends i m new in linux i don't now how to use linux n instole it.then aslo i have instole it's so i can't make partition proprely.so i want to instole it again i have one partition of 8 gb in which i have instole linus plz tell me …

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Hey Linux Gurus, What lilnux do you recommend for a MAC ibook G3 and MAC Quicksilver G4 Desktop? Thanks!

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I have a hp dv6000t laptop 15" widescreen and I installed the base debian system. After I had installed xorg and some other stuff I booted up with fluxbox. The resolution for my laptop was 1024x768. How do I change the resolution? I looked at the xorg.conf file and it …

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I have tried some distros of linux but only a few ever work (ubuntu and zenwalk are the only ones). All other distros I have tested (debian, my own rbuilder distro, and foresight) do not work. They never can detect my hardrive. I have a hp dv6000t laptop. I do …

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Hi All, Wishes! I had been in this situation for near to 10 days and requests yoru consideration::::::: thanks in advance !! Recently fedora core 6 from shop for sure craze of linux and understanding the system. Unfortunately i landed in a situation where linux shows lots of issues. I …

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Ok i would like to look into swapping my dads XP home pc to linux as it will not have a chance of running Vista. Im in two minds about whether to choose: SuSE 10.2 -may be slow?, crippled dvd support, bad updater? PCLinuxOS 2007 -new, maybe unstable? CentOS 4 …

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I'm new to linux and wanted to try it out becuase I'm getting tired of windows, so to try it out i downloaded vm ware. I made a an 8 GB partition and then proceeded to load redhat. my problem is that when i get to the part of the …

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I have downloaded the 5 images for Fedora Core 5, from fedora.redhat.com. Disks 3 and 4 are too large for a cd, and i do not have a dvd burner. suggestions?

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Ok i got a new server but need some help settting it up firstly: Debian? CentOS? SuSE? secondly: How do I actually set up webmin, apache, ssh and ftp? i want to be able to use ssh /webmin for remote admin and have one homepage which then has links to …

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Okay, I am extrememly new to all of this, but I need some serious help! My sister accidently bumped the plug to my computer out of the socket, causing my computer to powerdown, of course. This isn't the first improper powerdown, but for some reason, my desktop won't load anymore. …

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Hey im new to linux, and i need help with what type of gentoo to get for an intel pentium 4. is it supported? Also is it possible to put slax on an ipod? Thanks, M

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i have downloaded PCLinuxOs and ChubbyPuppy recently. i was wondering how you would burn the iso as bootable cd. do you need to extract the contents of the file and burn it or just burn the iso file as bootable cd

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so im not a complete newb with linux. In the past I have set up slackware and had to actually configure some devices and Guis by hand sort of thing but I have a problem... I have and AMD 64 X2 processor so I wanted to utilize 64 bit processing …

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[b]Microsoft's Monopoly[/b] At this time, Microsoft owns an operating system monopoly with its line of Windows operating systems. UNIX, however, is an alternate OS mainly used by ... er, computer geeks. It's been out for many years and features a small kernel with all programs built around the kernel. This …

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hello ppl im a complete newbie at linux .. the reason im installing linux is because i want a transparent proxy [U]server[/U] with squid ... so .. heres my setup * AMD sempron 2200+ (x86/32 bit i think) * ASUS A7S8X-MX or sth like tha motherboard * 512 MB ram …

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Hi, I'm super new to this website just want to this real quick. Alright, I'm using knoppix live cd on my computer using it as a save disk. Orginally I had XP Pro SP2. It crashed a week or two ago. I shoved in the knoppix cd and saw my …

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This exercise gets you familiar with Ubuntu command-line tools for creating, navigating, and removing directories. [B]Follow these steps[/B] [LIST=1] [*]Type "cd ~" and press Enter. This makes sure you are working in your "home" directory. [*]Create a new directory by typing "mkdir mystuff" and press Enter. [*]Type "cd mystuff" and …

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Grrr........ my thinkpad is annyoing me again Since i did a kernel upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 nothing works (in fact like 90% of all 2.6 distros fail on it) Any good (modern) distros that still use 2.4?

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I tried "SLAX." I tried "KNOPPIX." I tried "BCC-LNX." Guess how many of them booted up for me to try? One of them. The BCC-LNX did, but it didnt like my mouse. So, I burned an Ubuntu Live CD (somehow, I think it was my dad, actually). Vwala. It boots …

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[url]www.zenwalk.org[/url] take a look at this little distro... I started using some time coz it was a small download (I have a limited connection) and it was a full distro... the I fell in love with it.... and last week I went back to linux and i picked zenwalk.... :)

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hello, we have a proxy on REDHAT linux Enterprise edition.in this when we browsing from client pc main page of the sites are opened but link sites/pages on that are not getting and we r getting a massage NO DNS contact to administrator . why??????????? pls help i am in …

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Is there any drives for radeon-graphics cards for SLES 10? And if there is, where can i find them? or is it any other way to fix the graphics, i can't have the screen resolution higher than 800x600

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I know I've posted like 15 threads so far asking for help... but here's my latest problem: My repositories list is terrible, and keeps giving me hell. Any chance any of you are willing to explain to me where to get a repositories list and how to use it?

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Quick! Tell me what Linux would be best for exploring Linux itself, and for programming languages and gaming? I am going to put Linux on my computer, but there are like 3,000 different kinds, and I don't make decisions. What's the recommendation?

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I'm trying to setup a linux game server to host starcraft games. I'm thinking of using ubuntu or suse, but I'm not sure. Which one should I use out of the 2? Also, I really don't know how to set it up, so some one please help me!!!!!!!!

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Hey I am a noob at Linux and I have installed Ubuntu onto my system. I can ping my modem and using the IP address I can ping [URL="http://www.optusnet.com.au"]www.optusnet.com.au[/URL]. How can I set it up so I can browse the net by just typing [URL="http://www.google.com"]www.google.com[/URL]

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