Forum: Newbie

Just as a pre-caution i'm new to linux therefore do not know much about it. I downloaded Mandrake 9.2 and installed it ... works fine ... These...

i am trying to use slackware 9.1..... lol and i want to know how to do something because its annoying me! How can i stop my computer trying to...

I have a few questions... 1) When logged in as a regular user, why can I now use ssh? When I use command: ssh 192.168.1.101 I get response that I...

Hi to everybody, did install RedHat 8.0. I want to read X11 'man', but don't know how. When I have: "root@localhost X11R6# man" I get: "What...

So, over the past few weeks I've d/l'd three tar.gz's and after ./configure they all complained I don't have a C compliler. This seems silly. I...

i got all 3 disks for fedora and when i try to boot from cd 1 it will boot and find the disk but it wont give me the option to reformat with the disk...

hi..guys, i m using redhat 9.0 and installed the workstation from the setup.sound card is configured properly and i m able to play audio...

Whats up with slackware? is it realy good? im just wondering because everybody seems to say so. If it is i wan't to try it :D

hi..guys, i hav got a series of questions that kept my mind bogling...i m new to linux 1.) Can anyone suggest me which flavour of linux...

Hello I'm going to install RedHat Fedora onto a PC here, and I'd like to know if my PC font catalog will work in Linux. Thanks, ...

First off I posted a profile about myself in the coffee shop area of this forum under "New Kidd on the Block". That might help some of you helping...

hi.. i am using fedora core 1... I was using the default sound system that came with the distribution. When i ran aMSN or Kopete and xmms, if i was...

Ok, i just installed redhat linux 9, using a dual boot with windows xp. However, I have to chmod the files I restored from my windows computer (off a...

Hi everyone, I'm new to linux and I am trying to get my wireless card working. It is Dlink DWL 520 with realtek rtl8180 chipset. I got its source and...

Well, sshd is running on my system, but I cant seem to log on using putty or webmin's ssh terminal. Webmin prompts me for a password then promptly...

when editing grub.conf i neglected to remove a comment from the line 'title....." on the linux part of the config... now i just see windows on the OS...

I have quite a few problems/questions actually Note that i am using KDE 3.1 1.> How do i use mozilla instead of konqueror? 2.> Where can i...

i learned how to extract rpms in the terminal and it looks like 0----------------------------->%100 done but now where does it go? and how do i...

I have managed to get a ftp server up and running. The problem is that the different users can't delete or move anyone else's uploads. There are...