Forum: Newbie

My brain is seriously in danger after spending all day trying to solve this little problem. I think it's melting down as I type. I am a newbie...

Hey people, I just read DaBruGO's tutorial on the Ubuntu forums for installing ubuntu breezy onto an external USB hard drive, although I do have a...

Hi A mate his tft-screen a few days ago. I lend my crt-monitor. But now I have to learn for my exams. SO I need the screen or... I could...

HI, i am new at linux is it true that X window is the core system of linux? it can be displayed by the desktops of Gnome KDE or XFCE4? What is...

I'm trying to install archlinux, but it wants me to set up which modules I need to put in my modprobe.conf. hehe only problem is I don't know the...

I'm big into security and trying to break into the penetration testing (ethical hacking) field. The problem is that I don't know anything to do with...

How do I launch the LISa newtork deamon? Also, is there any way to make it automatically launch each time I boot the computer? I'm running...

I am about to have a server and run linux on it. The test to find out the distro(from the sticky) said Mandriva would be best for me. Before...

I have a few questions regarding a Linux server. Can I run a server from my home destkop for free that will allow me to host my webapge(s) and other...

Hi, has anybody tried Ubuntu free CDs from this link? I wonder if it is really totally free or their are hidden costs( sorry to say). ...

I have a few apps that I want to use which use GTK+ - Debian's apt-get cant find this library and googling the web doesn't shed much light about...

First post on this forum guys :D I'm not a TOTAL linux noob, but I haven't been able to find a linux distro that...just works. I mean windows just...

I'm new to Linux and I need help getting connected to our house's network. We have two routers, one which is configured as a wireless access point....

Hello everyone, im new to Linux and have been tinkering around with it for few days now. ive gotten it to install properly on my system. i am having...

I'm trying to setup the fstab file so that any user can mount my flash drive, not just root. I used "user" under "options" like you're supposed to,...

I use FC4, KDE 3.5. I went to the KDE-look website and downloaded some window decorations. They come in tar.gz files. So I unpacked them into some...

ok so i recently just dled the version of AIM or aol instant messengin. the version of it is 1.5.286. Now here the problem Im on Linux Suse 9.2 pro....

i've been looking at distros and i have already selected the ones i would like to try...but while looking at them they say things like "i386" ,...

Hello, I'm trying to mount some shares (from a windows 2003 server) on a centOS 4.1 machine to no avail. I keep getting "Operation not permitted"...

Hi, I am trying to change DocumentRoot from the default directory of /var/www/html to my chosen directory /home/www. I changed the DocumentRoot...