Forum: Miscellaneous

I'm struggling to find any info about how to implement a hdlc stack. I'm interested in things like which functions you need for a basic...

I'm getting ready to install Linux on an old laptop that will never, ever be suitable for running X. Its screen is natively 800x600. What options are...

I apologize for sounding whiny, but I've been looking for half a year for a program to back up directories. The two beers probably doesn't help...

hi there, i am looking for a system that runs with old hardware (P350/128MB) and should do nothing more than starting a webbrowser. that`s all. ...

I know that Windows can be made to run inside Linux, which involved getting WMware or QEMU and installing a sort of fake Windows. I've for a few...

Hello I would like to know, if I build my own distro from scratch, or I modify it from another distro, how do I make an installable iso like all...

Has any one any idea how can we reduce the size of standard libc, as it has to be used on system with very less memory

I am trying to use antiword to parse MSWord documents on the fly - a person uploads an MSWord document, script loads it into a temp dir so antiword...

I'm having a problem rearranging the partitions on my hard drive and have not been able to find useful information anywhere else - so I was hoping...

Is swap itself a file system at all?

hi, this newbie question, after install and set every thing, how to backup the entire linux system? Thanks.

Hi all, Have anyone encounter a case whereby you start an application once and using ps -ef | grep, it displays a few instances of that...

How do I find out which distribution I am on my machine?

After loading and installing Gentoo 2.4.20r6 I get what seems like a generic command line.. I.E.... Now if I: source /etc/profile

So I started copying a large amount of data from the command line via a ssh terminal. Since the command is tied to the controlling terminal, I...

Hi all I need to backup entrie linux system without any downtime. Now I using dd utility to do it. I halt my system, then boot gentoo-livecd,...

was just wondering if it was possible to just install and run yahoo voice 8.1 in wine? has anyone gotten close? I was looking around in windows...

Hi everybody, I just found a new calling :D making instructional videos on Linux. This is a video that teaches how to recover deleted files or files...

Hi all, I'm running openSUSE 10.2.. I installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL with YaST this weekend, and when I tried to install SMF via their...

Is it possible to start a process in such a way that it cannot access a particular file? For example, I would like to mute all sounds in Firefox. I...