Here's the thing...

 

My wife has been using a 200mhz computer running Windows 95 for some time. Last week it died on her.

 

Someone had given me a 500mhz system 128 meg of RAM so I figured to upgrade her. (Yeah not much of an upgrade but free and I'm poor).

 

It already had Windows 2000 on it and I installed Firefox and OOo and it worked fine except when I tried to use MicroSoft update I got told that I couldn't. Now I know there's a workaround for this, but I don't want to be a pirate so I format and do a Fedora Core 4 desktop install. Get everything working and everyone is happy right...

 

Not quite.

 

Everything works but everything takes FOREVER to open. 2 munutes or more for Firefox. Over 3 minutes for OOo. Evolution anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes. Even small games like freecell take over a minute to open. Heck, a terminal windows takes over a minute to open. Additionally switching between aps takes forever as well. I can't think of why this should be.

 

Ok so here's the questions...

 

1. Is there a way I can speed up Core 4 to work for her?

 

if not ...

 

2. What distro would someone suggest keeping in mind she needs the following apps.

a)OpenOffice.org

b)Email client (Preferly Evolution)

c)Firefox

d)gnuCash

 

 

 

Other things may be needed as well but I haven't identified them yet. Those are the biggies though. Samba is needed to the extent that she needs to attatch to other computers on the network for printing and shared files, though as I move more of my computers (All free and between 200 and 800 mhz) to linux it won't be as important.

 

Also, she uses a wireless Xterasys PCI network card that I may or may not be able to make work with the 2.4 kernel.

 

Ok so any Ideas would be appreciated on making this system usable.

[img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_ph34r.png[/img] Hello all,

 

I'm Samhain, and I'm a Linux Noob. I've got Fedora Core 4 installed, and online, got Samba doing it's thing back to my windows boxes, and just now got winamp on the Liniux box and am jamming out even as I type.

I'm new as heck to Linux, but an old pro at effin Dos and Windows, so hello everyone! I'm sure I'll have a ton of questions to ask as I start this endeavor to move away from windows, so please bear with me. :)

Say you bought a song from iTunes. As you know, songs from there are all protected such that you cannot copy them and play them on another computer (not even Linux). Considering that you PAID for the rights to use this file, do you feel that you should be allowed to use your file in any way you please (minus redistributing the file), even if you do break the DRM and violate the DMCA?

 

I think I should be allowed to break DRM because it is also a method of lock-in, and being taught the open-source philosophy and how everyone is free to choose what they want, I believe that it's time we start fighting for our rights.

He's a quick tip to force a process to always keep respawning. Basically if the process dies, another will start in its place.

 

Save this as, respawn.sh:

i came across this link which is very expanatory with screenshots and all

 

[/url][url=http://www.fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index....ide:_RealPlayer]http://www.fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index....ide:_RealPlayer

Here is a step-by-step with screen shots to change the default OS in your bootloader using Mandriva.

 

For example, if you are dual-booting Windows and Mandriva and you didn't select one of the OS's to boot, the bootloader will load the default after a few seconds.

 

Please see this PDF (made in OpenOffice beta):

[/url][url=http://www.geocities.com/kingttx/Linux/BootLoaderDefault.pdf]http://www.geocities.com/kingttx/Linux/BootLoaderDefault.pdf

 

Tom

During the fall I'm going to write a series of articles detailing on how you can succcessfully install / dual boot Debian GNU Linux 3.1 Sarge, and Windows XP Professional on a Centrino laptop. Stay tuned for more...

 

Table of Contents:

 

I. Prerequisites

A. Hardware Requirements

B. Software Requirements

C. Time Required

 

II. Installation of Windows XP Professional

 

III. Post-Install Configuration of Windows XP Professional

 

IV. Installation of Debian Sarge

 

V. Post-Install Configuration of Debian Sarge

 

VI. Final Thoughts

 

VII. Appendix

I have a SuSe9.2 and I wanted to try out wine.

 

got both the rpm and the src/tar and installed it (as root)

 

everything went ok

 

afterwards I decided to take a look in the config file and, surprise! there's no config file in the /root/.wine/ ... THe folder itself exists but no config. I checked the manual and followed the advice there and copied the config from the source package.

 

I tried wine on some older games for start - RedAlert(1) and TotalAnnihilation. It works, to some extent, fine, especially RA.

 

now I wanted to install some software with wine. THe installer starts ok but then sais I don't have the correc version of windows - it sais I have win95 and I need at least 2k or XP.

 

fine. i opend the config file and modified from 'win95' to 'win2k', saved and.... nothing.. the wine is still in 'win95' 'mode'...

 

i used the provided conifg tool - the one with a gui - selected 'windows 2000' in the drop down box, applied the changes and... nothing...

 

I tried, for example PaintShopPro 8 which a I saw on the winehq apps db that both insalls and runs (with bugs, though) but I get the same error 'incorrect OS. you need at least win2k/winxp'....

 

Funny thing is that the wine gui setup tool remembers the settings (actually saves data somewhere) but NOT in the /root/.wine/config

 

In fac I discovered that wine won't use the /root/.wine/config file!

 

I deleted the install, tried againg both with rmp's and compile from src but it goes the same way.

 

I tried looking for (any) files that contain exact expressions (variable names) from the provided config file but there are none.

 

Any ideeas about this.

 

10x

I would like to run a Ubuntu server (in server mode; which doesn't have an X display) and access it via VNC. when I try to start the vnc server it complains about X not being there. Is there a way to run ubuntu (on a single board computer) without X and access it via vnc??

hi mates

 

i am currently running a winxp suse 9.3 dual boot. my hd is partitioned this way:

 

winxp: 8.4 gb ntfs (disc c: in windows)

swap: 512 mb

linux ext2 (suse): 6.2 gb

and a fat32 partition (d: in windows)

 

what i want to do now is reinstall windows xp in c: and then install fedora core 4 in the linux ext2 partition as dual boot.

do u think its easy to be done with the current partition scheme?

will i be able to dual boot?

 

also i have two xtra hds (now ntfs but soon fat32) on which i want to read and write data through linux. will i have any trouble doing that or will the fc4 install do it for me?

 

id like to state that i m gonna use fedora mostly for multimedia ( video & mp3) & internet ( irc, museek & firefox).