After two years, the relatively popular PCLinuxOS distribution has finally put out a new major release, imaginatively called PCLinuxOS 2009.1. PCLinuxOS is a release originally based on Mandrake (now Mandriva), but which has taken on a life of its own. The distribution has one selling point (for some, at least) few other popular distributions have: it eschews KDE4 (for now).

 

This new release comes with all the bits and pieces you expect from a modern Linux distribution: Linux kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, KDE 3.5.10, OpenOffice.org 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Ktorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D, and loads of other stuff. The pclos-gnome team has also put out its 2009.1 release, which is essentially the same except for the inclusion of GNOME 2.24.3.

 

It's interesting to note the KDE version included: KDE 3.5.10. PCLinuxOS is a KDE-centric distribution, so why aren't they focussing on the latest and greatest in KDE land? The team explains: "We decided to use KDE 3.5.10 as our default desktop as we could not achieve a similar functionality from KDE4."

 

more > http://www.osnews.com/story/21128/PCLinuxO...ed_Eschews_KDE4

I have just acquired a terratec aureon dual usb plug-in sound card which works ok in windows xp but gives no sound in Linux Fedora 10. The instructions say the driver is in the Fedora Core. Should Fedora be able to recognise and deal with the card or do I need to activate the driver in some way?

Fedora, For You.

 

This is pre-release software. The Fedora Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. All issues should be reported via the Red Hat Bugzilla. Read the Alpha release notes for more information.

 

download it here > http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth has announced the plans for Ubuntu 9.10, named Karmic Koala. Jaunty Jackalope isn't out of its cage yet (April 2009), but the Ubuntu team is already planning for 9.10, which will see the light of day in October 2009. The desktop side will focus on beautification and an improved boot-up experience; the server side will target cloud computing.

 

more info > http://osnews.com/story/21016/Ubuntu_9_1..._Announced

Red Hat has announced it's virtualization plans for the future which includes a switch from Xen to KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, three new virtualization products based on KVM, Solid ICE and the spice protocol. Red Hat which acquired these tools as part of the Qumranet acquisition will be making them free and open source software and develop them into a cross platform management tool.

 

more > http://osnews.com/story/21026/Red_Hat_Sets...lization_Agenda

Internet News writes about a major mark for Fedora 10 release. Fedora remains the only distribution to publish it's statistics and gathering methods openly and transparently. In any case, they reached 1 million active installations of Fedora Linux 10.

 

Red Hat's Fedora Linux 10 has been out since the end of November 2008, and is now hovering around the 1 million installations mark. Fedora uses a system to measure active installations that check the update repositories in order to determine how many installations are in use.

 

When combined with other actively used Fedora distributions as of Feb 16, 2009, Fedora's counting method reports 12,188,598 Fedora Linux installations across Fedora 7, 8, 9 and 10 releases. Obviously, some of those have been updated to later version already, and might have been counted twice.

 

On Fedora 10 in particular, in contrast with adoption for Fedora 9 for a similar period, Fedora 10 is at 115 percent adoption (that is a greater adoption rate for the first 12 weeks of release for Fedora 10 than Fedora 9).

 

via osnews.com

I have a sata drive split into four partitions and they are: windoze xp64 (FAT 32), Linux Fedora 9 (native format), a partition for my games (FAT 32), and a very tiny slice for Linux swap. Then I have an external HDD (USB-NTFS). I have a dual-layer DVD burner (IDE). I have an internal HDD (IDE-NTFS).

 

Windoze does not recognize the Linux partition as a formatted partition. I am fine with that.

 

Linux can see all these drives and partitions, but can only access the data of the Linux partition, the DVD burner, and the external HDD. It can not access, read or write the data of any of the other drives or partitions.

 

I have told Linux to mount them and I am still not able to access, read or write the data.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Bakshara the Linux noob!

why does it keep doing this ????????????????????????

 

try this. open firefox, open some tabs, do some surfing. close firefox.

 

start it again, now its in offline mode, at least it is for me....

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Ok, I want to install Linpus on my notebook. Yes, Linpus, not Ubuntu or SuSE XD, but I got no Live CD.

 

I got no access to a DVD burner atm either, so I thought about installing it via USB. I downloaded the .iso from the offical site (linpus.com) and tried installing it via UNetbootin on a 4 GB USB stick and start from it via F12, but somehow it a) doesn't start (get a black screen with just a "_" blinking in the first line, my laptop running silent and no activity for about an hour) (with the 9.6 version) or it starts installing and gives me error messages that something is missing (with the lite version). I dunno, am I using the wrong program or is the .iso file known to be incomplete or is it not possible to do this via USB device in the first place?

 

And before you ask, I googled various times now how to do this but mostly I got a) what I just tried working or B) comments like "go for Ubuntu/SuSE/Fedora" etc : /

i build custom linux cd with kickstart and create directory in this below

 

CentOS 5.2 DVD

 

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 40960 Feb 12 07:40 CentOS

dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 11 06:05 images

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 06:05 isolinux

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1394 Feb 12 07:43 ks.cfg

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 07:06 NOTES

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 12 07:40 Pack --> include my program

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 12 07:42 repodata

-r--r--r-- 1 root root 438 Feb 11 06:06 TRANS.TBL

 

i'm build repodata and isolinux it's work perfectly:razz:.. and i create ks.cfg in this below.

 

lang en_US

langsupport --default en_US

mouse generic3ps/2

keyboard us

install

timezone --utc Asia/Bangkok

rootpw --iscrypted JBxtfQL27O.XE

network --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.2 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.1 --device eth0

network --bootproto static --ip 172.168.1.1 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --device eth1

cdrom

selinux --disabled

firewall --disabled

clearpart --all --initlabel

zerombr yes

bootloader --location=mbr

part /boot --size 75 --fstype ext2

part / --size 1500 --grow --fstype ext3

part swap --size 512 --fstype swap

 

%packages

@admin-tools

@development-tools

@development-libs

@system-tools

@base

@core

@dns-server

@editors

@ftp-server

@java

@java-development

@legacy-network-server

@legacy-software-development

@legacy-software-support

@mysql

@network-server

@server-cfg

@text-internet

@web-server

dhcp

kernel-devel

lm_sensors

net-snmp-libs

net-snmp

mrtg

iptraf

mc

php-mysql

php-cli

php-common

php-dba

php-devel

php-gd

php-imap

php-ldap

php-mbstring

php-ncurses

php-odbc

php-pdo

php-snmp

php-xml

php-soap

php-xmlrpc

bind-chroot

bind-devel

bind-libbind-devel

bind-libs

bind-sdb

bind-utils

binutils

binutils-devel

caching-nameserver

system-config-bind

ypbind

rar --> extra rpm it's install working after "createrepo" command

%post

/bin/mkdir -p /etc/test/install/

/bin/cp /mnt/source/Pack/test.tar /etc/test/install/

 

 

kickstart config for %packages and all config server it's work perfectly.

 

!!! but.... %post section it's not working:-(

i can't copy test.rar form "Pack" directory it's same cd linux to harddisk

but system can be create /etc/test/install and i see "?" in directory only(must be test.rar)

 

i try change %pre,%post --nochroot not working also.

 

** in test.rar include install.sh shell script file i can run it or not.

 

help me please i try about month it's not work....:-(

(i post this question all linux forum on internet. but not answer!!)

 

thank you for advance.