okay i should have been clearer… someone just asked ‘dont you hate when another woman steals your mandrakes?" she talked about getting pregnant in her question. so i guess i should be asking her what she meant, so if you are reading this, what did you mean?

I currently use RedHat Cygwin to provide a viable Linux emulator on my Windows desktop. It is very lacking. I have a lot of migrating from Window to Linux to do still, so I need an emulator that is more like Linux than Cygwin.

I thought about writing a Windows app, and calling it “FredHat”, or “Duck Linux”. It would run in a window under Windows. I hope .386 RPM files can be installed on it. I would closely follow RHEL were possible.

Windows could copy file to and from the file system. I would emulate the Ext4 file system by creating a “que” file that holds the permissions, for the files. If you attempt to access a file that was not previously known to the Linux emulation, the “que” file will be updated with a user defined default owner, and permissions.

What do you think?
I am already using VMware to run Centos. At present it is better running my two PC’s. One is Linux, and the other is Windows. I can samba between them.

Recently installed Debian and completely new to linux. Installed Samba package and selected the shared folder. On my windows machine, I can see the linux box but not a folder or drive under it. The folder is shared under linux with SMB (also tried NFS). The Windows machine has TCP/IP, IPX/SPX and Netbios protocols. When I bring up the add network place window, I can see the box but no folder/drive. When I right click to add it, I get a login window but no login I type in works. Tried the root and user I set up with installation.

Need help with this but also could someone recommend a complete noob guide to linux? All the sites I’ve read are not easy for complete beginers.

i read somewhere, that abby fine reader 6 have linux version, but it is just the engine. i have to recognize hungarian caracters.

I have one desktop, a netbook, and an old laptop. I no of many linux applications I like to run and have trouble getting rid of some of the ones that come with linux distros that i have no need for. Especially with my netbook only having 4gb of space i would like to be able to have just the ones I want installed. I want to be able to install one linux system on all three that will allow me to afterwards add a desktop enviorment or window manager as i see fit and then apps. If there is an easy way to take a distro and then change the desktop enviornment wheather terminal commands or gui that would help any ideas will be appreciated ill write messages if you need more info.

Alright I tried Mandrake,It had a nice user interface..etc but didnt run well with my hardware and some software..etc like my verizion Dsl..etc.. What would you reccomend to use..red hat..?
Would like something that has nice interface,feats. and can run win xp software and my hardware,also what type of dual boot software would be best but not alot of Mulah?
‘ Im running win xp,256mb,and roughly 667mhz
Figured that would help.’ I dunno what type of motherboard I got..srry,-Chris

The way government works today is so last millenium: we register to vote, we elect people to represent us, and they govern from a centralized bureaucracy. Can we improve on this, esp. given modern technology?

Specifically, can we apply the "open-source" model that’s increasingly popular now in technology (Linux, Wikipedia, etc.)? If so, what would that look like? And what are the main challenges, other than massive switching costs or disruption as we migrate/updgrade from one system to another?…

Hey guys,

I’m finishing a program, and the professor wants us to create a script file which basically records everything the command prompt prints to the screen, and puts it all into a text file. In linux, you can start this with the command:

script scriptfilename

Is there any MS DOS equivelant? thanks!

I have recently installed suse 10.0 linux on my lenovo 3000 J115. As great as it is, I am quite dismayed that my integrated sound card (by the company soundmax…lenovo is a bit cryptic about giving the type, but the windows driver is labeled "q4aud23us13.exe"…default embedded sound card.) is not being recognized. Can anyone give me a step by step on where to find a driver and how to install it?

ALI Soundmax Card
There is a little icon on the top bar (running gnome) that looks like a speaker with a little red x next to it. I tried clicking it, and it says my sound card isnt configured. I tried configuring it, but i cannot find my card in the list of drivers that are preinstalled.

Puppy is definitely one of my favorite distributions. I love the community, it’s easy to use, you can install .deb, .rpm, and the custom .pet files, and it runs really quickly on any hardware.

I’ve used Ubuntu since 2007 and then in December of 2009 i installed Linux Mint and i love it!, but how would i make software for Ubuntu,Linux Mint or Debian? I have no idea. Where do i start what programs do i need?
I already know c but how do i do it in GUI?
I wanna make gui apps too though, how do i do this?

I recently installed Linux….and by mistake both my emergency hard drive and windows boot files were deleted…i reinstalled Windows but the problem now is i dont have the system files that come with a Vaio originally… i also dont have the CD recovery set….is there anyway i can get these applications back can i download it from any site??? thanx in advance

i am having a virus on my windows XP, it is called SCCVIHOST.exe, i am not able to delete it by any means, i even formatted the C partition but with no succes also

so i installed LINUX Mandrake 9 on the same PC having the virus so that i can delete the virus from linux by logging into the other paritions dealing with windows:

i was able to install linux and log into the windows partition, but i am not able to delete the files of this virus, the system tells me, that these are read only file system, how can i solve this? if it helps, i got this error when trying to delete the file from the WINDOWS folder !

another question which may sound stupid, i am not able to log into into folders with (spaces) in their names, for example, if i have a folder named (new folder), i write (cd new folder/) but it does not work! linux cannot find the specified folder !!

PLZ any help will be great, i dont want to format the whole Hard disk, thx a lot

I’m not meaning this as if they are bad, they are both great. It’s just that whenever I use them I get an odd feeling in my stomach. My mother told me that sometimes colors and designs make some people feel a little woozy.

I only get this feeling when I’m looking at extremely high detailed and clean looking interfaces. Now with Microsoft Windows XP I can look at it and not feel woozy since I can look closely at the task bar and see the grain of the granite. But with Ubuntu and Vista, I cannot. Why is this?

And no I’m not prone to seizures.

Linux is a free open-source OS in which the user has access to the source code which the program is written, but how do I modify it? What do I need?
Other people is creating their own OS, why can’t I?

My PC has both operating systems, but sometimes I only need to do a small stuff on linux while running windows, and I have to restart with linux, and when done restart again with windows.
So I was wondering if I can possibly start my Mandriva Linux in a window while running windows without the need to restart?
What the best program to do that?

I hate stupid normal linux softwares, if there any best softwares rathar than windows utilities, plz inform me.

I downloaded Java from the Java website, and went into the root to try and make it an executable file, and it says "chmod: cannot access `home/Non-Admin/Downloads/jre-6u25-linux-i586-rpm.bin’: No such file or directory". Is there some sort of program I can install that will automatically turn the rpm.bin/.bin into an executable file? This is frustrating, but persistance is key.

I am running Windows Home, and I am trying to connect to a Debian Linux computer using winscp382 (A program that allows you to brows the files on another computer if you know the computers ip, username and password). I use it to connect to 2 other Debian Linus servers from the same Windows computer, and it conneccts just fine. but when I try to conecct it to the other Debian computer it gives me and error saying " Network error: Connection refused" I know that the Debian computer is conected to the same network as the Windows computer and it is conected to the internet, and I know I have the username password and ip all correct. And one more thing, the user name that I am using for the debian computer is an addministrative account.

if linux doesnt let you use microsoft office are there any other softwares other than windows and mac which let you run microsoft office.

I’ve got Ubuntu, the newest

I already have Suse Linux 10.1 and would like to install Vista. How can I do that? Are there any free partition application out there?