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I have to dissagree with almost everything he states.. first he is missing some standard Linux distrobutions Gentoo Slackware Debian next he equates easy or more matue with (it how windows does it).. not out loud but the ones he gave better scores like, the red hat installer, shows what he is looking for.. last easy is in the eye of the beholder.. I personaly find it simpler to install Slackware when I am tring to fit the entire OS on a 512 compactFlash try that with Red Hat or ubuntu.. youll be unchecking boxes all day long. now if we are talking about a statndard desktop (work type) then, t

ubuntu wil be in ext2 or ext3.. but if you are using vmware it can be fat.

I would install it in vmware (it's free what do you have to loose right) and if its too slow then you can do it the normal way, I just think vmware will let you not feel traped if something is not working..

really it should be as fast as your ram.. (which could be realy slow in that old systems) plus memtest86 never ends.. you need but one pass to see erorrs. unless you are paranoied then run it two or three to see if things change when they get hot from memtest guide

according to this site.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/de...ay_controversy/ its true.. but I don't by dell as I find there hardware cheeply made. where I work they lease dell laptops for us. in the last two years my mother boards been replaced twice and the dvd drive once. according to our its guys this quite common, but since its covered in the lease they could care less.

defrag is nessary even if you never install anything, or deleate a file or add new files. the poor implamenation of the microsoft swap file along with jurnalizing only to increace search speed, and to protect the file system struture not the files.. means that for no good reason the drive will be fragmented. get fragmented enough and you have programes time out while looking for information.. this caues programes to hold memory they should not and you can get random crashes..

here is my Linux box running windows in VMware with a minimized window... you would be running it the other way around.. you can also full screen the os and it looks liek you are just running the vm os

vmware is a virtual machine that runs inside of another machine.. they have a version for windows http://www.vmware.com/ the vmware server is now free (some people use player but server lets you do more) you install the application and start it, create a new machine. it has a real BIOS and will run most x86 os's inside of it (some of us have osx ruinning in it....shhh) you can start and stop the virtual OS with out booting.. plus it lets you bridge a connection like a modem so you dont have to have drivers in linux..it will look like a network card...

here is from my back deck , Gentoo running GNOME with osx theme

Well if I click on System > Preferences > Theme I find the theme manager with no problem.. and I chose the theme "Glider" , it says to "Install Theme" , the Theme Installation window pops up and ask me for A Theme Install location or to browse where it is.. Where's the location? and how do I accomplish this? if the theme is listed its installed... just select and hit ok.. you may have ot log out and back in depending on how your linux distro set it up, mine I wait 30 sec..

click on computer→desktop preferences. there you will find a theme manager. in there, all your themes are stored and changed. you can add more themes by downloading them at e.g. www.gnome-look.org. there you will get the tar.gz files for the themes. simply drag and drop them into the theme selector window and they get automatically installed.

the term bridge means to connet two wireless access points to each other, a access point does not connect like a client to you must bridge the networks.. if you are just going to allow wireless connections (making your system the acsess point) then only one card is needed and it is put on the same subnet or has a gateway assined.. This is network 101 and has nothing to do with linux.

really, I have 5 nics and two wireless in my devil-linux and 3 nics and one wireless in monowall.

wow Canadians have there own language.. I thought it was just English and French.. the world is changing.. here in america, we don't have a language.. we try to mix all the languages together.. LOL, yah, it is news to me too! Strangely enough when I installed Debian I selected Canada as my location so I guess open office 2.0 selected my language as Canadian as well. But, there is no Canadian version of myspell, the spell checking program. So when I went to check spelling of course it wouldn't work. This is a strange anomaly in OO. I'm glad I figured this out because I've encountered this

a 10 gig drive is old.. and would be slow, plus is probaly past its 3 years mark (ide drives become more unreliable after 3 years.. ) try doing it in vmware (server is now free) and use an image..that way you can use the modem in windows and it will share that connection to vmware.. (use the nat setting) plus, you can easly get to the internet from windows, and not have to worry about sutting down linux to ask a question (or reboot or mess with boot loaders) you can put the drive image on the 10 gig drive or tell vmware to use a real drive and point it to the 10 gig drive.. I think vmware is

you will need two wireless cards set to diffrent channels (one to server ips and a connection and one to bridge) need to learn iwconfig command.. agian monowall and devil-linux should help.. here a a good resource(instrutinos for red hat but easy to use on any distrobution) http://www.roseindia.net/linux/linux-firewall.shtml

I use monowall (BSD not Linux) and devils-linux (devil as in the BSD mascot).. both make good firewalls and both have wireless support. but if you want to learn linux as a goal ... you need to learn iptables.. then any linux/bsd distro can be a firewall.. if you want it up fast and work monowall I think is the best.

sorry can't help it.. but it was easy on gentoo.. echo "net-im/gaim ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords echo "net-im/gaim gnutls" >> /etc/portage/package.use emerge -aDuv gaim

from the site you pointed to.. ?? Ubuntu (Warty 4.10 & Hoary 5.04) If you want to compile from source, make sure you have libgnutls10-dev installed. Lars-Erik Labori provided a nice easy to follow guide: First of all, you need to remove the old ubuntu Gaim version: $ sudo apt-get remove gaim 1. You need to download the latest Gaim source from here. 2. You need to install the GNU TLS library development files: $ sudo apt-get install libgnutls10-dev 3. Compile Gaim: $ ./configure --enable-gnutls=yes $ sudo make $ sudo make install Your new Gai

I see a lot of file systems stuff and writing to sockets, are you talking about read,close ,open,fcntl64, write,mmap2 are all user space kernel calls.. and why you should create a user with no shell that runs apache. with fcntl64 are you running perl or PHP?

FC4 , Are you running in permissive mode or do you have SELinux extentions off, also what parts are you allowing through iptables.. most likely its iptables set to block out side connections. at the command line I belive as root the command is lokkit to get to the firewall and set ports... here is the SELinux patch for NX http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0502/10433.cfm here is how to tune SELinux http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9820/sam0508a/0508a.htm this is for fedora core 3 but it you may see something you missed. http://www.linux-tip.net/cms/content/view/177/6/ also did you just t

heheh .... great way to start a blood war... I feel windows is not secured because 1) a MCSE does not teach best security methods (I have two of them.. one for NT4 and one for Windows 2000), it teaches best way to sell your management people on Windows. I have meet lots of MCSE's who really know nothing about computers.. they know the key words.. maybe even build a computer, but when it comes to the guts, what the kernel does at boot, do they know windows does not ask for an address until you login, do they know that a windows network mount is in user space and as such is really hard to writ

Linxu from scratch and beyond linux from scratch are two of the best learning tools I have foudn on the web, plus if you subscribe to the message lists, you get to find out how many people can not read. also a word of caution... LFS and BLFS boards use a strict top post rule.. which means that if you reply to a message put your reply at the top or no one will talk to you.. good luck

wow Canadians have there own language.. I thought it was just English and French.. the world is changing.. here in america, we don't have a language.. we try to mix all the languages together..

your probaly getting the irwbalance OK at boot because th eprocess was statrted, then see it fail later because it's not doing anything.. try services irqbalance stop