Indeed, the only thing that keeps me from recommending K/X/Ubuntu to everyone I meet is the stupid way they handle the admin account. Other than...
Yes Nic, I took your critisizm to heart. :)
Anti-Trend's Home is finally back up, since I've completed my move and the broadband has finally been turned on. Sorry for the downtime guys.
There's always plain old xv. Pretty standard stuff, been around for a very long time. Meh, just BASH :) But the new file manager which comes with...
Mandrake 10.1 on my wife's desktop, Mandriva 2006 on my desktop, Mandriva 2006 on my old junky laptop, CentOS 4.3 (RHEL derivitive) on both my web...
Excellent, it's nice to recycle old hardware with a fully modern and functional OS, isn't it? :) For reference, I also did something similar with...
Yes, I've tried it and use it occassionally. After all, the price is right. :) KOffice used to really be a toy compared to other office suites,...
Yeah, I'd sniff around on the motherboard for bad caps, that could be a possible culprit. Also, it's probably worth weighing the rails on the PSU...
Mandriva and Lycoris are the same company now. :) Mandrake Linux merged with Connectiva and Lycoris a while back, hence the name change to "Mandriva".
If you do what Megamaced suggested, unfortunately you will not even be able to enter your home directory, as far as I can tell... :( Actually,...
Hey Dave, I just wanted to jump in and say don't worry too much about installing Mandriva, I think you'll be fairly impressed with the...
Addis is absolutely right. There are more AV's for Linux than there are virii for it. These include AVG, Trend Micro, Sophos and Avast, both on...
vim for most things, Kate when it's convenient. Kate is a superb text editor all around, and even carries the KDE continuity with it's tabbed...
It's no big deal, it's very different going from Windows where every bit of functionality comes in the form of 3rd party (often commercial)...
Honestly, it wouldn't be fair to say. I did a review on it years ago, but I haven't used it once since then. My initial impression was "polished...
Firestarter is a graphical interface for Netfilter, which is built right into your kernel. If you don't believe me, check out their kernel...
NP man. By the way, it's Xandros, not XandOS
Note the following: Selecting previously deselected package skype. Unpacking skype (from .../net/skype_1.1.0.13_i386.deb) ... dpkg-deb...
Linux and most Unices have their firewall built right into the kernel. Programs like Firestarter and Watchdog are GUIs for the firewall you...
I don't know what the problem is here, as my Hauppage cards always worked out-of-the-box with Mandriva, as is your experience with Suse. I have...
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