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I recently installed Linux (Slackware Linux 12) on my laptop. On Windows I used IDLE for my python development, but on Linux, IDLE looks HORRIBLE. I tried tweaking the settings but it still looks bad, and is hard to program in. Can anyone recommend a good IDE for Python that …

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Hi, I'm writing a C++ program with Qt4 libs. When I do a particular sequence of operations, my program exits (but does not crash) with this error in the console: [CODE]my_program: symbol lookup error: libqtxml_plugin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN15QXmlInputSourceC1EP9QIODevice [/CODE] The function is inside a plugin I've written to parse XML …

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hi guyz, i'm a Python user (not so long) , anyway i've read some stuff about lua . i've written function like this [code]def pair(dic = {} ): return dic.keys(), dic.values()[/code] a dictionary is a parameter to the pair function . to use it like this : [code]dic = {1 …

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I've been reading some posts where some newbs have had trouble installing slackware. So I have put together this little how to so they can get slackware installed. I usually only help with MEPIS as I feel it is the best linux but for those who want to try and …

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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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I have a Redhat computer, and am going to install Slackware on another HD, so: Is there an app that can read / run Windows Executables (EXE's)? Such as something called KEXE or GEXE?

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[URL]http://mammouth.tuxfamily.org/slackware/desktop.jpg[/URL] I found this pic when I searched "slackware" on google images, seeing as I am looking into installing Slackware 11 over my RedHat 9 Install. In the above picture, is that the default theme for slackware (with the dock and the transparent windows)? It makes it look like Mac …

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Well i am running my site [URL="http://www.it101.uni.cc"]www.it101.uni.cc[/URL] , i am planing of adding a php back end to this site... I was thinking of making some simple and that works... in a Slackware type of way... so that you would be able to control everything with the help of a …

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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. …

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Hey, I'm newish to the forum( never posted before ) but anyway. I'm thinking of writing a disassembler for z80 or a similar architecture in ally C and was wondering if anyone can give me some tips or places to get started, I've never actually wrote a disassembler before either …

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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 …

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Hi, this never really bothered me before, but now it sort of does. My ADSL connection's IP address is DHCP assigned, and when I first got it, I just plugged it into my Mac, and it worked painlessly, so I never gave it much more thought. But one thing I …

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I downloaded the Slackware iso images from the Slackware site and burnt them to CD. I have Windows XP currently and want to dual boot with Slackware. I put the CD in the CD dirve and rebooted after ensuring that my boot order was CD-rom first. I can't get the …

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I am a novice linux user (I am 15). I have run mandrake, fedora core and suse in the past because i liked thier configuration tools but now I am using slackware. I know how to install programs using RPM but how do you install .tgz or .tar.gz files ? …

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How can I make my own linux distro? Im 16 and a relative noob to this. I usually run Mandriva/Fedora/PCLINUX/Slackware. However, I managed a basic gentoo install and know my way around tools like vi, the shell and gcc and thaught how great would it be to make a new …

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You can read about my linux experience here: [url]http://www.gabrielvilla.com/forum/?p=9[/url] and my question is about Gentoo. I decided to install Gentoo, but after printing pages of the installation guide, I could not get too far. Two things??? is there a ditro as good as gentoo (not red hat or mandrake or …

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hi i want to install slackware onto my laptop i have a 10g hardrive and i dnt wnt a partition for windows as my desktop is my windows i want linux straight down on me laptop lol i have read guides but get stuck partitioning for linux dpartitions is it? …

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I have a small server that I would like to install Slackware Linux on but am not sure whether the 10.1 would support the hardware I have. dual Opteron 240 AMD processors Tyan S2880 K8S motherboard 1 gb ddr ram Adaptec Ultra 320 SCSI controller 2 30gb maxtor scsi drives …

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Hey, I've been using linux forever and want to start dual booting slackware and BSD. I've heard that Slackware doesn't like this very much and was wondering if anyone has any experience with this type of setup?

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Hi all, For all of us slackware users out there...I was wondering what version you run currently. I met someone last week that was still running 4.0 at his home and had a hardended kernel and the machine had been up for years. Made me think that there may be …

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**Intro** PHP-Nuke comes preloaded with a lot of metatag information, however the keywords pre-installed are not likely to be very useful for your site. The keywords are keywords that are for a PHP-Nuke information site so unless that is what you are creating you will want to change the metatag …

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Ok i boor my PC with the slackware boot floppy, log in as root, and i get an prompt that says my alsomixer may be.. umm not good, and then i startx, and then static comes in over the speaker's. But when i log out of X it goes i …

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I've been tweaking with it. I want to reinstall linux on my PC, considering I just said f**k it to the wireless nic, and purchased a nice 50 foot cat5 cable. lol. I Poped in the CD, and walahhh, im half way there, im run up Fdisk and/or cfdisk, neither …

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Ok i boot up slackware, now it doesnt seem to have an DHCP program to locate all my config etc. Maybe it does and im unsure. Im dual booting linux (slack 10) i put the set up disk in to configure the connection etc. I run of a modem connected …

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[URL=http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/11/16/1846207.shtml?tid=134&tid=106]http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/11/...tid=134&tid=106[/URL] This is the slashdot article about it which will point you to [URL=http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt]http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-curr...S-YOUR-HELP.txt[/URL] the report that Patrick Volkerding wrote himself. Hopefully the doctors here in fargo will beable to help him :)

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Hello all! I've been here on these forums for quite a while... I was thinking of installing Linux on my box to dual boot with my win2k. I'm just not sure what to use... I never installed/used one before... I'm looking for something that's easy to install, configure, and has …

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Hi all, sure hope this is the correct forum for this question.. Not being a C programmer myself, I sure hope someone here can give me some insight into this problem. I have tried to install the Oracle forms./reports toolset on a variety of different Linux distributions, only to encounter …

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I get this error message now when running the command 'strings' on any file. obviously I have the command 'ls' in my $PATH, so that isn't the issue. I haven't made any recent changes to anything except for a GTK upgrade to 2.4.0. 'strings' is obviously not dependant on GTK …

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Have you ever noticed that in this forum under TechSupport...you have more people in the Macro$haft area than in the Linux area? Just thought it was weird. I mean, I know when I got firebird configured just right for slackware...I haven't had to do jack squat for it. And using …

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