Forum: Newbie

According to Gillian Farquhar, Red Hat's representative, the company plans to include Apple's Intel based Macs to its list of supported platform for...

hi, i just installed Linux Mandrake 10.1 and noticed it has issues with my X300 PCIxpress 16x card. while installing the OS, i said it wasn't...

I have Virtual PC and have read about running virtual operating systems from Linux or Windows. These apparently create new OS images. My question...

I'm very new towards Linux environment. Currently, I am facing a problem where, my company wants me to transfer an existing new module (in Windows XP...

So I will be copying a whole load of files onto my (newly) linux box (suse 10), but I just realized that linux is like dos in its dislike of spaces...

Samba is failing to start. The problem started when I could just could not get samba shares to work with Suse 10. So I took my old smb.conf file from...

Does anyone know how I can edit/delete my distribution lists in K-Mail. It has the option to save a new list but no option to edit or delete it. Is...

This is just a quick question. How do I remove the "Home" icon from the desktop? If I delete it, it just appears again on startup. The command for...

i am new 2 linux, been using knoppix 4.0 for a week and want to install linux as my os, would like some tips as to what distro to use and where to...

I (we) have: 2 desktop macs (osx 10.4) , 1 windows laptop (xp home) and a pentium 3 midtower i built years back (currently has old install of xp pro,...

Hi! Tried to configure MPlayer on Debian, got the following errors: Checking for kernel support of mmx ... failed It seems that your kernel does...

hi guyz i am planning on deplying an RMI based java server on ubuntu based linux machine, and i'll be deplying it as a linux service. right now my...

Well, I've figured out how to get my live CDs to boot in my Powermac G5, but after they load the kernel, a problem occurs. For about half a second,...

I recently put a creative sound blaster audigy 4 (not pro) pci card in my computer and IT IS NOT WORKING. I can't get it to work. I don't know how...

Hi I have a question... does linux start automatically in the multiuser mode? and to remotely connect, if there is someone already working on the...

I have Knoppix linux -- can you tell me is it Debbian or not? I am trying to install Cinelerra and that is one of my problems. Any advice...

Hello, nice site and everything. I would like to know when I type in the terminal .configure it gives me this: checking for a BSD-compatible...

hey frnds, is there any gui to configure squid ? or do v have to configure it by editing its conf file in text mode ? is anyone aware bout any...

I have posted in debian post regarding my airport extreme card not being recognized wth my kubuntu 5.10 install. In the meantime, my newbie question...