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I'm looking for a music player and I'm interested in the Cowon D2. Does anyone have experience with this device? I need it mostly for music but the text reader function will be useful. Movie playing isn't a priority but it might be a nice feature. Any other recommendations for a high sound...

For an AOL dialer see here and here. AOL does not officially support linux but they do have a beta version of AIM for download. No reason to do this though because Kopete and Pidgin are light years ahead of AIM.

As Anti-Trend stated, Ubuntu is always a good choice for people new to linux. You will find all the software you will ever need, tons of support and how-to's online and a good community. In addition to Ubuntu there are other VERY good alternatives. MEPIS linux is wonderful and very easy...

Very nice!

Here is a good article explaining some performance tweeks you can to to *buntu Feisty to get a speed boost. Some of it is simple, some of it is a little more technical. Enjoy, all you ubuntu heads.

games like BF2 will work in linux with the help of transgaming's Cedega. See the web site for a list of compatible games. Performance is a sticky issue. You may get better performance in one game and worse in another or every game could be slower. It all depends on your hardware...

lspci that should give you the info you need, but I can't remember if it works on AGP slots.

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Thanks! I will give it a go. I was wondering about swap performance because my girlfriend's computer has only 128 MB of RAM and uses swap just about all the time. The system is running MEPIS 6.5. I trimmed the 'fat' a bit but it still need swap space for most operations. I need to...

AT, have you used noatime with UFS or UFS2? I know that it's an available option but I've never used it. Does it help FS performance in that case? Any other performance tweeks for UFS2 I should know about? Also, would noatime help performance of a USB external hard disc formatted UFS2 (used...

I agree. I thought you were talking about FreeBSD. It's hard to imagine an OSX 'package manager'.

How is the userland limited? Is it the lack of GNU userland tools?

That would be interesting. OSX does seem to be very different though. Only it's UNIX tools are from FreeBSD.

Free Software Magazine has a short article describing the differences and similarities between FreeBSD and GNU/Linux (generic linux). It is fairly rudimentary but good for those that are unfamiliar with the subject. Enjoy

I can give a few recommendations but with one caveat; new user friendly distrobutions of linux tend to be heavy on the resources so the recommendations I will make are fairly user friendly but not the cream of the crop in that regard. Vector linux. Fast, simple and mostly easy to use. It's...

There is no need to call me "special". Resorting to stereotyping isn't productive and it's very narrow minded. It really doesn't matter if the croud is 'simple' or not. Sports advertising is such a huge industry because it works. On another note, technology has become ubiquitous in auto...

Well if they managed to make the $350,000 to be the major sponsor of the car, then it would be HUGE press coverage but sadly, they are at only about $11,200 for now. That's a bit short of the goal. Just think if the car won the race and had linux as the major sponsor. It would be on every...

The Tux500.com team has launched a promo video. Here it is for your viewing pleasure:

I see how this can be misleading. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and on down the line are all the same core operating system; all are Ubuntu. The difference is that each is bundled with different software (on the CD or DVD), although they share the same software repositories. Each...

If you like KDE and you're comfortable with it, then stay with KDE. Ubuntu works fine under KDE in Kubuntu although I think it lacks the polish that ubuntu has with gnome. Both KDE and gnome are complete and full featured desktops. It's just a personal preference. I would recommend...