General :: 'apt' For PCOS On DistroWatch?
Nov 24, 2010What is this 'apt' for PCLinuxOS on DistroWatch where version should be?
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General :: Printing To Windows Machine From PCOS?
Mar 16, 2011I have not been able to print from my PCLinux box through my Windows machine (printer connected and working on that machine).
There are shared files on the Windows machine that can be seen with PCLinuxOS and accessed. PCLinuxOS can supposedly see the printer, but will not print a test page.
General :: Getting Out Of Dependency In PCOS / Can't Double-click Mklivecd.rpm?
Jan 7, 2011I use PCLinuxOS. I want to install mklivecd. I can't double-click mklivecd.rpm to install its dependencies. rpm -ivh mklivecd.rpm shows me a list of dependencies that have to be installed manually. What now?
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: PCOS 2007 Version / Cursor Is Blinking But Does Nothing?
Feb 8, 2010I am running PClinuxOs 2007 version. It will not fully loaded during start up. it prompted:
enter runlevel: input: Imex PS/2 Generic Explorer mouse as / class / input / input1.
the cursor is blinking but does nothing more.
General :: Running Synaptic On Pcos 2009 / Error Failed To Fetch?
Jan 20, 2011when I run synaptic I can open the list of apps. and select but then I apply to download and get "error we failed to fetch etc etc." Seems to be an rpm problem but not sure. ????
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Alternatives To "Distrowatch" Where The Various Distributions Are Responsibly And Unbiasly Discussed?
Dec 24, 2010I was wondering if there are alternatives to "Distrowatch" where the various linux distributions are responsibly and unbiasly discussed?
View 7 Replies View RelatedDebian :: Distrowatch Gave Squeeze A Poor Review?
Feb 21, 2011I thought of leaving a comment below the story, but figured why bother. The main complaint appears to be about the appearance of the desktop, and the graphical installer "feels old." Then he goes on to recommend Trisquel instead as a "better Debian-based distribution" than Debian.
View 14 Replies View RelatedHardware :: HP F4280 All-in-one On PCos / Printer Stopped Working?
Nov 4, 2010Trying to figure out why my printer stopped working. I thought it might be a usb problem, but when I moved it to another machine and reinstalled, I have the same problem. I can configure the printer and queue up jobs. I see cups starting gs, but nothing going to the printer. I've installed the latest packages from hp. Used to work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHardware :: PCOS Gnome And Conextant Video Capture?
Nov 24, 2010Has anyone experience of using a Conextant video card on PCLos ?I have a V-stream DV/AV Expert video capture card (not tv, only for vcr) based on the Conextant CX2388x chip which I have used successfully in Win XP to capture videos from the vcr, followed by converting and burning to them dvd with Ulead Video Studio 9.I would like to be able to do this in PCLos, removing yet another Win dependancy.To start with, I used tvtime to see if I could actually receive a signal from this card. A signal is received using Video source of Composite2, but there is no sound. The external audio cable is connected from the card to the sound card.
lspci | grep -i cx238 shows
03:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
dmesg | grep -i cx238 shows
cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.7 loaded
If I do manage to receive a video and sound signal from the card, could anyone advise me of capture and conversion software to transfer the video to dvd ?I have tried Cinelerra, Kino and LiVES, but as far as I can see, (please correct me if I am wrong) these apps will only capture or load digital video.None of the apps pick up the V-stream analog capture card.
Slackware :: Is Distrowatch's Description Of Slackware Fair?
May 22, 2010I was browsing Distrowatch and reading the various distro descriptions. Of course it mentions the text installer (although I really think it can be called graphical, just not X) and the vanilla packages, etc. But then I got to the last paragraph which says:Quote:
While this philosophy of simplicity has its fans, the fact is that in today's world, Slackware Linux is increasingly becoming a "core system" upon which new, custom solutions are built, rather than a complete distribution with a wide variety of supported software. The only exception is the server market, where Slackware remains popular, though even here, the distribution's complex upgrade procedure and lack of officially supported automated tools for security updates makes it increasingly uncompetitive. Slackware's conservative attitude towards the system's base components means that it requires much manual post-installation work before it can be tuned into a modern desktop system.
I know that many of these things are the typical idea of slackware, but I was wondering if other Slackers felt it was a fair assessment. I run current and with slackpkg I don't find upgrading to be difficult in the least and while there is of course some configuration to be done, I don't find it to be particularly heavy. I mean the common extra configuration I can think of is basically alsamixer/alsactl and changing inittab if you want a graphical login. The rest is just customization which I would do with any other distro, I'd just have to use distro-specific tools to do it instead of the vanilla "most of these things will work with most other distro" that Slack uses.
Now to be fair, I'm new to linux (9 months) and started using Slackware with 13 after first using Mandriva and Ubuntu for a few months, so maybe I'm missing some history. But I was wondering if people that actually use Slackware find the quoted bit to be fair.
General :: Ubuntu: Tool For Displaying Disk Activity In General And By Process?
Oct 12, 2010My Ubuntu system is occasionally becoming very sluggish. I'm running many things simultaneously and it's very difficult to tell which program is the culprit.
I suspect that the sluggishness is due to disk activity since the CPU usage is consistently under 50% on each of the 4 cores of the CPU, and over 30% of the 6GB of RAM are free.
Is there a tool that can show me in real time the number of disk IO operations per second and the amount of data read/written per second? Can all this info be broken down and displayed per process?
General :: Write A Script To Send General Mail To Users At 9AM Everyday In 4?
Mar 3, 2010I want to write a shell script, so that at 9AM every morning a general will be sent automatically to my network users E-Mail ID. My users are as follows: akhtaruzzaman@a[URL], ariful.[URL] etc.
Below is my little effort:
# !/bin/bash
userlist=`cut -f 1 -d : /etc/passwd`
mail -s "mailbackup" << END
keep mailbackup in another drive daily for security purpose
General :: Samba File Permissions For Multiple Groups In The Same General Path?
Nov 4, 2009I'm using my Linux (SLES 10) server as a File Server at this point. I need to set File Permissions to nested folders differently to different groups. For example:
homesharedengineering* should be read only for groupA
homesharedengineeringadmin should be read & write for groupB Plus read only for groupA
homesharedengineeringautocad should be read & write for groupC Plus read only for groupA
I've been using Webmin and Putty to set permissions but Putty only allows me the Default Group, it won't allow me to set several groups on the same directory. Webmin seems to allow me to add multiple groups (Webmin --> Others --> File Manager --> Info & ACL tab will provide extended abilities) but when I add multiple groups, they don't seem to take effect? I'm wondering if my setup at the 'Share' level or at the hierarchy of my folder structure (unix based) needs to be set specifically?
General :: Will Having A Dual-boot Windows On My Laptop Cause It To Slow Down In General Use
Jun 18, 2011I have Windows 7 on my Dell Xps laptop, and I want to install Ubuntu or Fedora as a dual-boot. Will that cause my system to slow down?
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Ubuntu / Suse Red Hat Are Developing General Update Tool
Jan 29, 2011PackageKit is a system designed to make installing and updating software on your computer easier. The primary design goal is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions, and use some of the latest technology like PolicyKit to make the process suck less.
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Windows - Version For General Use + Interface Development?
Jun 6, 2011II'm a front-end web developer, I've always developed on Windows with technologies like XHTML, CSS, Javascript and Flash, I've dabbled with PHP and MySQL. I am well used to Windows workflows and tools, from Photoshop to Notepad++, Filezilla and WAMP server stacks to After Effects, and a swathe more - but always on Windows.I'm at a point where I think I need to start seriously developing on a Linux box, specifically at the moment to create web apps based on Node.js, but compiling tools and programs has become a task I'm more frequently required to do.
My question? I need to get my hands on a user-friendly install of Linux, but which one? I need common interface developer tools (lists welcome) to replace... well as many tools I have on Windows as possible.I need to be readily connected to the internet, I need OS updates to not destroy my workflow by crashing the OS, as I've seen Ubuntu do to various friends. I want efficiency, I need to be able to customise what I need to in order to perform development tasks.I guess this could be a long list, but - I don't have practical working knowledge of the Linux OS, nor how it "compares" to Windows (excuse my faux pas). I'm obviously willing to learn, but I'm far, far more keen to just... continue interface development, just on Linux instead of Windows.
General :: Access To Squirrel Main Without A KDE Or General Account?
Jun 27, 2010A friend of mine helped me set up a server which includes Squirrel Mail.It?s CentOS 5.3.I have a person who would like to access Squirrel Mail at remote sites.My questions is, I can create an account on the server which has KDE and the usual general applications and he would have the remote access Squirrel Mail but he doesn?t need nor does he want to access KDE or anything else on my server. He just want an account so he can use Squirrel Mail.
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Limitations Of GNU General Public Licenses?
Mar 23, 2010I have the impression that not that many people understand the scope and limitations of GNU General Public License. This is somehow my basic understanding of it. If I take a program covered under the GNU license, first of all I have the right to get the source code. Second, I can modify it at will. Third, I can redistribute it as will too but the new code will necessarily will have the same GNU license. This made me wonder how people actually can charge for software derived from Linux, for instance, Red Hat. Well, my impression is that they really make profit only out of services. In this thread [URL] I think I found a lot of confusion, even from a moderator (not intended to offend). Red Hat is based on Linux and it is necessarily covered under GNU. Somebody probably bought the program from RHE and can make it available at no cost.
Nevertheless, the moderator decided to warn the user. In this article [URL] it says the following:"Our training is not designed to promote vendor lock-in. Though these courses are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the source code for [RHEL] is available to the community via the GPL [GNU General Public License]," said Red Hat spokewoman Leigh Day. This thread [URL] shows yet more confused people. Is there is a glitch in this type of license that prevents programs like RHEL to be redistributed for free? Why their license page doesn't mention GNU license? Or the problem is just that people get overwhelmed by this license and are afraid to be penalized and get paralyzed? By the way, RHEL is just the example. The key question is about the license!!
General :: Start A Daemon As General User?
Sep 9, 2010I need to allow certain users (who do not have root access) to be able to stop and start specific daemons
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: General Impression Of Certain Distros?
Jul 16, 2010What is the general opinion of the Mandriva and Debian distros? Mainly asking what kind of user you consider the distro to be for (beginners, advanced, total newb, whatever), and whether you think they offer as much to an extremely experienced user as they would to a newb.Those are my two favorite distros, and I really like Mandriva a lot. I'm trying to pick one to stick with throughout, but I'm not really sure if Mandriva is too automated and Windows-user oriented like Ubuntu (I haven't really delved into the deeper aspects of Linux so I have zero experience in this area now). This might sound a little elitist but I don't want to be using Mandriva and just be automatically dismissed as a newb on first impression just because I'm using Mandriva (although admittedly I am a bit of a newb at the moment, I don't plan on staying one).
View 4 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Get A General Understanding Put Simply?
Apr 3, 2010Im trying to get a general understanding put simply.
View 6 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: General Regarding Available Software?
Jan 9, 2011Friends i am facing some issue with Linux i want to know how many kinds of file do we have in Linux and what are soft link and hard link mean and the difference. However i want to know also why do we use it in Linux
View 1 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: How To Run KDM Or GDM Over Ssh
Mar 27, 2010I have a computer on LAN running ssh. I can normally tunnel the GUI application usingssh computer-name -X program-nameBut I wam my full desktop to be running on a remote computer using ssh so that I can just use that computer remotely like a local desktop. For this I think I will need to run KDM (or GDM ) remotely, what configuration do I need to do to make this happen?
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: IE Tab 2 Vs IE Tab Plus
Jun 15, 2010I'm wonder what the differences are, especially as it pertains to SharePoint. Why should I pick one over the other or does it matter? Also are there any Linux browser solutions for SharePoint, besides Wine + IE 6.
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Using Old PC As NAS?
Aug 5, 2010I have extra P4 PC (Dell Dimension 2400). And I would like to use this PC as NAS. What is the best way to make NAS from a PC.
View 3 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Tar-ing / Should Use -C / .or Just /
Jun 7, 2011tar cvf backup.tar -C / / # or tar cvf backup.tar /
produces an archive like etc/ and gives warnings
On the other hand produces an archive like
And gives no warnings. I got the last one from a Debian tutorial.
Which is best for a system backup, do they work exactly the same?
Is there no difference between tar -tvh producing
And tar -tvh producing
From an archive
General :: Cannot Get Into Dir?
Jul 23, 2010At this dir /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/ have dir on the name build, if i use the command "DIR" i can see the it there but when i try to cd into this dir it's say " No such file or directory" i Need this dir cause i want to run vmware and it's the c header / kernel dir
View 6 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Whose Bug Is It Anyway?
Jul 28, 2010I'm not sure to whom I should report certain bugs, to the program developers, or to the WM developers. More confusion if plugins are involved.Flash, in opera, behaves quite bad on openbox, but in fluxbox it's substantially better (usable). I don't know about KDE or GNOME. So, whose bug is it, openbox', opera's or flash's?Conversely, chrome's and chromium's flash will behave badly on fluxbox (and somewhat similarly to flash's problems on opera under openbox!), but almost perfectly on openbox, it will just "go crazy" sometimes playing videos, but all you need to do is to kill flash (just flash) and reload the page, or even open and close the part where flash would be shown (like individual items on google reader), and it will work normally again. This case isn't much of a problem of bug "ownership" because fluxbox is, sadly, discontinued, as far as I know.
The develpment version of gimp, 2.7, again, behaves somewhat strangely with openbox, regarding window management, while gimp 2.6 was normal as 2.7 is in fluxbox. Gimp's or openbox' bug?
At some point specific distributions may have something to do with the bugs too, I was forgetting that point.Would be interesting if there were a sort of "unified" bug report place, where developers from all the involved software could decide whose "fault" it is and exchange the bits of information they may have on how to solve it universally. I think that otherwise, bugs being solved more independently, could produce collateral bugs somewhere else, I guess. Like using an hypothetical fluxbox' fix for opera's flash problems on openbox culminating in the problems that chrome has with flash on fluxbox. But hopefully developers have something more or less organized to deal with this sort of contingencies, I can't be the first person to think of that, but still, I'd like to know whom to report the bugs to in this sort of situation. "Everyone" involved? Well, at least the main suspects I guess, as I hardly can track the cause of a problem to some obscure library that is at some point used by some program or WM.
General :: SSH Using The Same Key?
Sep 13, 2010I SSH into a server from my windows partition using putty. The connection requires a private key that is in my widows partition. This all works fine.
Now, How can I do same from my linux partition? Can I copy the key to my linux partition somewhere so I can connect from my linux partition as well? Or do I need to setup separate public/private key for my linux partition?
General :: CPU% In Top ?
Sep 11, 2010In output of a top utility, why summation of CPU% is much greater than 100%?
I have RHEL 5.2 with two processors.
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