I recently got an old PC for free (not too bad though, 1.2ghz amd 40gb hd and a decent video card, but thats not the point) It currently runs windows me but I think that linux could do better (I tried DSL on it and it was much much faster). Here is what I want to do. I want to have it be a fileserver (for some extra storage on my ibook) and ftp server (for downloads from either a direct connection to the ftp or from links from my...) webserver with PHP to really show off some new design ideals I have bouncing around in my head. Windows me is working OK as a fileserver and ftp server but the copy of windows is pretty screwed up (person randomly deleated some things and a microsoft update screwed it up even more, although it still boots and runs fine) and I get a error message when trying to install apache (If I cared I could fix the problem or reinstall me but I don't care)

 

So now what I want to know is which distro would be best to do these things, and can I get it to share the disks (like my ME currently is doing). Also, when can I get some complete noob help (I coudlent figure out how to get Samba to work)

 

Also, what software do you suggest to maintain the system and possible allow me to controll it from my mac so I don't have to hook it up to a monitor anymore.

Well, I just tried installing OpenSUSE 10.1. I have a custom-built PC consisting of the ASUS P5N32 Sli-Delux motherboard, an Intel Centrino D Duo Dual Core Processor (3.0 gHz), an NVIDIA GeForece 7300 GS graphics card, a Digimon HR + 70 - monitor (tried both that and the closest VESA configuration), 1 GB DDR2 SDRRAM (just one Dimm, though, though that shouldn't make a diference in this case) and of course, a copy of X86 Architecture OpenSUSE 10.1. The problem is that when I click on test Video settings during the hardware configuration in YaST (still during installation, haven't logged in yet), it won't work. My monitor just turns off. When I turn it on, all I see is what looks like an out-of-focused/scrambled TV station (only no guessing about images) and the big Unusable Signal thing built into my monitor. This also occurs should I just decide not to test configuration and attemtp to go things the way they are and try to log into Linux via GNome. Is this a monitor issue, or a graphics card issue. I have a copy of the graphics card driver downloaded and on a seperate disk, if that might help, but I'm not familiar with how to go about uninstalling the driver (if my driver is corrupt or something) from my OpenSUSE DVD and reinstalling the one I downloaded. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

William

hi,

 

i installed suse 10.1 and now i can not play embeded music or videos in mozzilla browser. I had same problem with suse 10 but found a solution for which i have forgotten.

 

any help would be appreciated.

 

thank you

I get an error while trying to use kTorrent. Under: "Status" I get: "Invalid Response" under the Tracker heading.

 

Do I need to set up my SuSE firewall somehow to allow P2P programs? If so, how? I know what to do in Windows but not in Linux. MUCH Thanks for any help.

Hi all installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my pc a couple of weeks ago and love it. Once I have a few things sorted out will be dumping xp altogether :)

I've been trying for a while now to set up the multimedia keys with lineak or just even using XMMS built in support but nothings worked. I used the command in the terminal "showkey" which allows me to see what the key codes are for each keys pressed, but when I put them in the xmms plugin and enabled the plugin, they didn't work.

 

I just want to be able to use my media keys, Play/Pause, Next and Back on any music player (preferably Rhythmbox)

 

I'm using Fedora Core 5.

 

Thanks.

I just partitioned my second slave IDE HD from NTFS to ext3 and moved all my files... when I restarted Linux couldn't find the Hard Drive, it's not under /dev/ at all. I checked in the bios and its still there, some I think it has to do with the way I partitioned it... I just used mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/...

 

Please Help!

I've been searching everywhere for a guide/program/drivers for this, but can't find them anywhere... when I try to install the drivers, I don't know which type of chipset it is, when I try to install MythTV I get a qmake problem, nothing seems to work, I need help :(

 

Fedora Core 5, latest kernel, devel, etc.

Powercolor Theatre Pro 550 (Same as ATI) running on PCI-E

Since I got so much info from this great site, thought I show a screen shot off Steam downloading games on Fedora Core 5 using Cedega 5.2.3..

 



 

Was easy to do so far, apart from remembering my username and password.

Taken from ---> [/url][url=http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_frog]http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_frog <---

 

Fedora Frog can:

 

* Install extra repositories [RPMForge]

Note: Not all repositories are mutually compatible. See the Warning mixing repositories

* Install GUI frontend for yum [yumex]

* Install commonly needed multimedia codecs

* Install DVD playback capability

* Install Java JRE and its plugin for Firefox

* Install Macromedia Flash plugin for Firefox

* Install extra fonts (including msttcorefonts)

* Install graphics drivers for nVidia and ATI cards

* Install Gnome Configuration Editor

* Install numlockx to turn on NumLock on startup

* Set up Gnome to open System Monitor every time you push Alt-Ctrl-Del

* Disable CD blocking in CD-ROM

* Set up Nautilus to open new folders in the same window

* Install rar archiver

* Install Adobe PDF reader

Note: This is not necessery to read PDF documents, you can read them using Evince too.

* Install Gwenview and digiKam imageviewers

* Install XMMS (analog of Winamp)

* Install amaroK media player

* Install stream directory browser Streamtuner

* Install CD ripper Grip

* Install Xine, VLC, Mplayer multimedia players

* Install RealPlayer 10

* Install Skype

* Install Thunderbird e-mail client

* Install Liferea RSS reader

* Install Opera web browser

* Install CD/DVD burning utility K3b

* Install FTP utility gFTP

* Install File share utility DC++

* Install P2P BitTorrent client Azureus

* Install P2P eMule Client aMule

* Install P2P Gnutella Client LimeWire

* Install KDE Edutainment programms

* Install Photo-realistic nightsky renderer Stellarium

* Install Some additional games

* Install Alacarte Gnome menu editor

* Install Shortcut to browse files as root

* Install Some desktop backgrounds, icons, themes and screensavers

* Install fortune and make Gnome Fish-applet to use it

 

To install Fedora Frog run these commands in terminal [Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal ]