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Yet another screenshot of The Mighty Slackware (12.0). Featuring Aqualung and ROX-Filer.

Thanks hitest, I went ahead and subscribed to the Slackware security update mailing list. Anyway, my issue has been resolved. To get this functionality from slapt-get, you need to have gnupg installed. Absolute 12 has gnupg2 by default, but not gnupg. I installed gnupg 1.4.7-i486-1 and all is working correctly. If you're wondering whether gnupg(1) will conflict with gnupg2, apparently it will not. From the gnupg2 announce: "However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict." source: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-ann...6q4/000239.html Thanks to Jason over at jaos d

Perhaps they were referring to installing the different components of SeaMonkey. In addition to the browser, you can also install the chat client, mail client, etc. I've used SeaMonkey from the release of Firefox 2 (because I liked FF 1.5 so much better). But since Firefox 2.0.0.5 came out, it seems much faster and more stable, so I tend to use it over SeaMonkey now. Some people have trouble installing SeaMonkey, so I'm going to give a list of commands to follow. First, if you're distro uses sudo (like Ubuntu) DON'T USE SUDO to do the install. Extract the SeaMonkey installer with: tar -xvzf s

Absolute Linux 12 (based on Slackware 12) Great distro. Very fast. No bugs to report. (only had problems with slapt-get after updating it - not the distro's fault) I'd forgotten how fantastic K3B was. Absolute home page: http://www.pcbypaul.com/absolute/

I was wondering how Slackware users update their systems. Is slapt-get the best way? If some forum members are using slapt-get, would you tell me what version? Do you recommend using it? I'm using version 0.9.12a and I can't get "slapt-get --add-keys" to work. This is the error I'm seeing: slapt-get: src/gpgme.c:204: slapt_add_pkg_source_gpg_key: Assertion `e == GPG_ERR_NO_ERROR' failed. Aborted I pulled 0.9.12a from cvs because 0.9.12 was giving me a "segfault". Apart from the verification error, it seems to be working correctly. Any help would be appreciated. BTW, I'm using Absolute Linux 12

Here's Zenwalk 4.6.1 running on my old Athlon 750. I had some trouble getting my ancient modem and ES1868 sound card working (both ISA). Apparently Zenwalk comes without any support for the ISA bus, I had to download the kernel source and recompile with ISA, ISA PnP and sound drivers. (first time compiling a kernel, can't believe it works!!!) Minor bug complaint: the menu system. To get to them, you right-click on the desktop. But occasionally the menus will completely disappear while I'm browsing them. Also the "Quit" menu item is reluctant sometimes. I may have to click it a few times before

This should explain how the root account works in Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Aqualung - gapless audio playback for GNU/Linux. HumanAzul icon theme.

No screenshots posted lately, so here's one of Ubuntu Dapper. Working great. Not seeing any reason to upgrade.

In the address bar, type in: about:config Then search or scroll to this key: browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll Right-click and select "toggle", you want the key set to "true". This is for Firefox 1.5 but should be the same for 2.0. (I'm a SeaMonkey user)

If you're interested in trying something else, I recently installed SeaMonkey, and am very impressed. It's a browser, email and chat client in one. Looks and works just like Netscape 7 - my favorite browser from the MS Windows days. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

fixmbr should do the trick. If you'd like more info, I found this explanation very helpful: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p18.htm

Thought some of you guys/gals might be interested in a little light reading. (this was on Digg a few days ago, so you may already be aware) Here's a link if you're interested: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/

Good to know. We'll just stick with FAT then.(Its been a long time since I even booted Windows - its just taking HD space at the moment)

(Copy/Paste from Ubuntu Handbook) If you would like a more specific answer, please post output from: sudo fdisk -l and the file system you would like to use on the 15 gig partition. Note: Windows can (with a little help) read/write to an EXT3 partition. I think ReiserFS as well.

Exaile! is basically Amarok for GTK+. I'm going to give it a try - once I get my other machine working again. (Having a little PSU trouble)

I'm a new Xubuntu user, but I believe it is possible: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=187656

Is Xubuntu any faster than Ubuntu 6.06? I don't really know, I guess it has to be. Though I'm just a noob, I know XFCE is lightweight and built for speed. There's no eye-candy and only minimal functionality built in - You're going to need to add a few Gnome or KDE apps to make in useful, (Gnomebaker for example). I can say that Xubuntu 6.06 at 750 MHz "feels" every bit as fast as SUSE 10.1 on my xp2600. (of course SUSE is pretty feature-bloated).

Xubuntu on my old 750 MHz Athlon. Nice distro - very fast. I'm thinking of Xubuntu instead of SUSE on my main box. Mice fly.

Well, I enabled some repositories in Synaptic (installed by default, but not enabled) now there's Lokkit, Guarddog, Firestarter, and several other firewall tools available. Also found out the proper method to install my own iptables script, and ensure it loads before any network adapters are initialized. So I have many choices. (too many) Still, I think they could have included at least one of these tools with Xubuntu.

I'm playing with Xubuntu 6.06 (Xfce 4.3.90.2) on an old 750 MHz AMD machine, and it doesn't seem to come with any simple way to configure a firewall for my dial-up Internet. My solution (for now) was to add these lines to /etc/rc.local (copied/pasted from a help file included with the distro.) Putting them there was just a shot-in-the-dark on my part. ## Insert connection-tracking modules (not needed if built into kernel).# insmod ip_conntrack# insmod ip_conntrack_ftp ## Create chain which blocks new connections, except if coming from inside.iptables -N blockiptables -A block -m state --state

BIOS password, Admin password in XP, (even root password on a Linux box) - all can be easily bypassed. If you have physical access to a machine, you own that machine. period. If you really don't want anyone to use it, remove the hard drive and take it with you. Or you could encrypt sensitive data with Truecrypt. and there'll be no way for anyone to see it.

I'm wondering if Beagle is causing this, SUSE 10.1 is working great for me, but when Beagle indexes the hard drive - everything slows to a crawl. I'm not using it, so I disabled it. Have a look at top and see if this is the problem.

Hi hitest, From what I've read so far, I'm too scared of XGL to try it. Looks like betamaxman got it working though. I do like everything about this distro (except Yast/ZEN). Very slick.

It was likely my fault - I forgot to unmount /dev/sda1 before formating. I put /dev/sda1 as the floppy drive, checked "Zero out and quick format", and provided a volume label. A box popped up saying "drive must be unmounted" - click OK. Then it asked for root password - which I gave. Then kfloppy crashed, without any error messages, it just disappeared. And the drive was unmountable - unreadable - "hosed". A format from the command line brought it back. Probably my bad. But I didn't try again.