Forum: Newbie

First and foremost! I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, so please bear with me... I apologize upfront for my lack of knowledge and lack of use...

Hi all (again),.. I have another problem. I am running ubuntu linux on my laptop and hence, I am the sole user of it (hence, I am the...

I'm attempting to be able to share files between my roomates computers and my own computers. Both of my computers are set up in a dual boot config...

Hi, This might have been covered before, but. I have a system with 2 drives. Windows on the first, Fedora core 5 on the 2nd. Windows on /dev/sda1...

Hi everyone I am a newbie to linux environment. I have a java application which i want to make it a rpm so that it will be installed in another...

Hi , I am very much new to linux. How can i create services in linux? (In windows o/s there are window services which can be configured to...

Hi - I recently inherited a decommissioned PC from work and thought I'd give this Linux thing a try -- I've heard a lot of great things about it! ...

Hello everyone, I am a total nOOb to Linux but I have installed Fedora and am learning more each day by interacting with the OS and talking to...

hello, I am trying to use find and remove to get rid of known viruses by name. I am using: # find -iname "file name" --exec rm -vi {} \;, and...

Hello again , I need help with thunderbird because I can't figure it out. First let me say that I am not a total noob but I know how to get things...

Hi all, I am running a version of ubuntu linux on my laptop. I have connected via usb a western digital hard drive. In linux I can access the...

I am trying to insall a driver for my modem so that it can work with linux. I think i have found the correct driver, but i am having troubles...

Linux & SuSE 10.1 newbie - I built and installed PostgreSQL from postgres.org. The install went well and the server runs fine. Problems is that I...

Hi people, this is my first day using linux, and my first post on this site. I have a laptop and the cd rom drive is broken. Its taken me all day...

Hello, here i go into the land of linux! i'm going to jump into this but i have some questions that hopefully you can help me out with: 1) should...

I recently downloaded a Gentoo LiveCD file off of their site in hopes of starting my Linux experience, but the file seems to be slightly too large...

hi ive been using windoze for soooooooo long i was wondering what would be the best distro for me someone who know very little about how to do things...

hi, i want to install linux on my acer aspire 1692WLMi... but i'm not sure which version to install, or if it will work properly... it seems red...

I need some assistance with a Linux server... Our business has a Linux server, running "SME Server", which is a preconfigured Linux server designed...