Forum: Miscellaneous

Spent a good few hours tweaking Slackware 9.1 to where I'm happy with it. If I need to reinstall or move to a bigger hd what's the best way of...

just today i stumbled across some old news that there will be new distro coming by the name of userlinux from a reputed and well known linux guy . ...

My grandfather and I were having a discussion about Linux, the fact that it is open-source, etc ... Then we got into the discussion that his...

i am having so much trouble instaling packages first of all the self installing ones they ask for the root password i give it then it does the...

Hi there. I'm using RedHat 9, and I try using the "System Settings"->"Display" menu item in KDE to set up my graphics card and monitor. I can...

n Red Hat 7.1 the command "rpm --rebuild <source_file_name.rpm>" is valid. What is the equivalent in Red Hat 8.0? Responders should be advised that...

Whn you open up the cups web page localhost:631 and print a test page how can i find out what's being passed to the command line to make it print? ...

Hi, I upgraded my version of bluefish to the new .12, I installed from rpm using the -U option for upgrade. It works fine, but I cannot open it...

Slackware 9.1 Me printer isn't shown in cups, how'd I update the list of supported printers? Ta

Has anyone used this new distro from RedHat? I have redhat 9.0 and I would like to stick with redhat, but if I must I will switch to SuSE or...

:-? Hi, everybody....Linux newbie here. I'm running Windows XP and Mandrake 9.1 on different hard drives....from Mandrake, I can copy and paste...

hi there i've got a slight problem... about a month or so ago i installed Gentoo on my comp (even though it wasn't quite the mandrake installer i...

dmsg output: root@Grep:~# dmesg | grep CD-RW hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX145E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX145E Rev:...

Is it possible to set up a direct cable connection between a linux and a Windows system?????......How??? :o

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wat are those things??? wat's it mean? remember i am a total newbie so if it involves big words explain it to me

i was reading on the manual for shutdown and it stated there that it is possible to allow none SU/root users to be able to use the shutdown command...

Hi, I have redhat9.0 and kernel 2.4.20 installed. I downloaded kernel 2.6.0 and did the following steps: make config ; make clean ; make...

Hello all, I am running oracle 817 on RH Linux 7.2 and running iPlanet webserver for applications. I keep getting the following errors around once...

Helllo guys Does anyone knows how i can increase the volume on Red Hat 9? I didn't find any options on KDE control panel or somewhere else....