I'm using SuSe 9.1. I'm pretty happy with it for the most part except that it doesn't initially load tar, so I'm not even sure if I can load files from tarballs, even after installing it. RPM searching is pretty easy though with the help of YaST. My major complaint is that I can't really change away from KDE with this and sometimes newer distributions of software doesn't work for some reason or another (like firefox 0.9). If you're a windows user that's toying with the idea of switching to Linux without any prior knowledge, I'd say SuSe is the way to go.

i am using Fedora

 

and i am a totally newbie , yesterday i installed for the first time linux

 

but know i dont know how to install some files.

ik know that i must just the terminal and rpm -ivh namexxxx.rpm

 

but that he say : no such file or directory

 

the files are in /home/user/download's/blalala.rpm

 

 

 

second point

 

how to install tar.gz

 

are there no good install clients

 

 

thx !

DCOM is a a very little used technology that has been built into the

Windows operating system so as to allow the various software components

to inter-operate across any network... worms and viruses.... ;)

 

DCOM in Windows XP has always been a bad idea! It is a potential source

for trouble.

 

You see DCOM is a new name for the old OLE.

 

OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) was a bad idea that Microsoft tried to make happen... Now they call it DCOM...

 

How Do You Disable DCOM in Windows XP..?

 

1. Click Start menu, and then click the Run icon.

 

2. Then egedit then click the OK button.

 

3. You Must go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE

 

4. Now You will see there is a String Value called: EnableDCOM

 

5. Set the value to: N (it should currently be Y)

 

6. Close the Registry Editor. Shutdown and Restart your computer.

 

7. That's it :)

 

Note: This has been tested only for LAN user's but it probebly work's anywere .

 

Good Luck.

 

:P:P

anybody know how to get cross over office working agian. After you upgraded the newest security patch for fedora.

Well, being Canadian, I decided to give my local neighbour ATI a shot to replace my NVidia card, which was a Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro, based on of course the GeForce II GTS Pro. It's been a great card and still is...though its sitting in another box now.

 

So, I pulled my new ASUS ATI Radeon 9550GE (Gamer Edition) from its box (Yes, I'm cheap and didn't spring for a 9600XT or 9800 series card) and expected to be able to install the new 3.11.1 series drivers and be on my way....that assumption was my first big mistake. First off, there are no drivers for XORG's version of X, so you have to force install the drivers. Secondly, you have to use the "-replacefiles" option because the drivers conflict with MESA as well. So, after finding this out and using the appropriate options to work around the problems the drivers installed....which was great until it went to load the module and I got the following message:

 

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): No such device

 

Which is odd, because the 9550 is on the list of supported cards........

 

So, I did an lspci to see what that turned up for the card ID:

 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4153

01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4173

 

Which to me, looks normal.

 

So, what is it, that ATI doesn't support this variant of the 9550 GPU even though its really no different from the normal 9550? I don't know, but I"m very frustrated and might load XP on this thing tonight in order to have Video support....not something I'm looking forward to doing.

 

Has anybody else come across this problem and discovered a solution?

 

If so, please let me know!

Nowadays many private persons have a dedicated server somewhere. Of course there sometimes is the urge to upgrade the kernel to a newer version in order to fix holes or even add new features (like grsec). And here comes the problem for many people: if you misconfigure something your server might hang after the reboot stating "Kernel panic.". Now you have to call support ($$$) and wait until they fix the machine (in most cases reboot with the old kernel). But here comes the trick: this doesn't have to happen!

 

So here comes a howto for a kernel of the 2.4 branch - the steps for the 2.6 branch are pretty much the same (except for installation stuff of course). I also won't go into detail about how to compile the kernel as we already have tutorials about this in the forums.

 

 

 

1. Download and extract the latest kernel sources from www.kernel.org to '/usr/src' and enter the freshly created directory '/usr/src/linux-<release>'.

 

2. Open 'kernel/panic.c' with the editor of your choice.

 

3. Scroll a bit down until you see a line stating 'int panic_timeout;'.

 

4. Change that line from 'int panic_timeout;' to 'int panic_timeout = <seconds>;' (in example 'int panic_timeout = 5;' - this causes the kernel to reboot on a kernel panic after the number of seconds you specify).

 

5. Compile the kernel and its modules like the other howtos here tell you ('make mrproper', 'make menuconfig', 'make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install') and copy the kernel ('cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-<release>'), the System.map ('cp System.map /boot/System.map-<release>') and the current configuration ('cp .config /boot/config-<release>') to '/boot'.

 

6. Some of you may need an initrd image so create it with 'mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<release>.img <release>' (in example: 'mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.27.img 2.4.27'. See the manpage for more information.

 

7. Install the LILO bootmanager. This is important as GRUB does not have the feature we rely on soon!

 

8. Edit LILO's configuration file ('/etc/lilo.conf'). An example below:

I have fedora core 2, but when I try to setup my wireless network setup I don't see anything that has orinoco on it. I see orinoco drives in fedora though. I was wonder if anybody can tell me how to set it up? I have my gold card is model 8460-03.

Can somebody please guide me the steps to create ftp user account. One account with upload/download/delete and one with just mainly download.

 

 

Thanks!

I have a 80 gig hard drive on this computer, running XP, mandrake is on the other one (older comp) but I did partition this comp, with c: and d:, but somehow, bill gates only knows, I managed to have 119.4gigs of memory on those 2 drives... if any one has an explanation I would like to know.

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Ok, so, the never ending struggle to actually find someone that knows how to install configure/use tomcat has begun..

 

Basically i got fedora core 2. and i need to get tomcat installed and running on it.

 

I've apt-get'd tomcat, and its installed about 13 packages.

 

i've started the service. but now. what do i do? how can i test it? i've googled to death and back. everyone says connect to port localhost:8080

well, i get blank, no connection..

 

HELP?!