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- By Jack Wallen (SolutionBase: Get a handle on GNOME settings with Gconf-edit)
- Different Distro Gconf settings?I would like to see an article listing how the most popular distros handle certain gconf settings and how they affect the desktop experience.ie: Ubuntu does this ...OpenSUSE does this ...Fedora does this ...Then administrators can pick their favorite distro but might like how another distro handles...
- Tags: dagar, distro, GNOME
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- A challenge to the Linux Users of the World
- A recent posting by George Ou about Windows Home Server brought out a lot of responses from the Linux community. I think that Microsoft deserves to get some competition.Here's the challenge:There are a lot of Linux experts on this site. I challenge them to come up with a list...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows XP, Xwindowsjunkie, Linux, Windows Home Server, Linux Distro, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-05-26
- Ubuntu 7.04 with 3D support
- It would be nice but generally it's left to the hardware supplierHardware drivers are something we all wish we could get to work with whatever OS we're running but everyone knows there has to be some pressure on companies to support other OS's aside from Windows. With the strong arm...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, 3D, intrepi@..., distro, operating system, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- linux
- i am not able install linux work station 4.while i am putting cd it is asking for cdrom driver . pls help .thanks in advance.You need to give a lot more info.For instance what is "linux work station 4"? Any particular distribution of Linux?And what type of hardware? ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, mrksamy@..., Linux, distro
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Window's to Linux
- My company is wanting me to learn Linux. I have no problem with this other than the fact that I have dealt strictly with Windows since 3.0 I have degrees in Windows and Cisco but have never taken the time I planed to learn Linux. I was wondering if anyone...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, window, dragonsyre@..., distro, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- Backtrack 2 released
- no link backI didn't see a link back to the distro.although it appears to be down here it is anyway, http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.htmlAlso, this is just one of many security based linux boot distros out there. Here is a list of the top players availible on one DVD. http://www.securedvd.org/distros.htmlI've used PHLAK before,...
- Tags: zloeber@..., distro
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- Ubuntu vs. Everyone else
- My current paramour is Ubuntu Linux. I have been with them since the Dapper Drake release. I have to say that I am a big fan and and becoming downright evangelistic about it.I wont take the point of bashing everything else out there to justify my own. I have used...
- Tags: Linux, Media players, Digital music, Digital media, anchorless.john@..., distro, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Linux- types, flavours, behaviours
- On TR we have SMEs that understand Linux and Free BSD in ways that the uninitiated do not. And I think that those of us who want to learn a Linux have different objectives as well.I propose this- that those of us that are admitted newbies come to the...
- Tags: apotheon, BSD, distro, hal, jaqui, Linux, off-topic, solutions, TiggerTwo, unix, we are all in thi
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- Can Linux Desktops Live in an Active Directory World?
- Since Palmetto has been fighting with this exact issue, I did a search and found the following article:http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/linux-goes-mad/To summarize, Novell has included their own code into the version of SAMBA that they ship with their Suse Enterprise Desktop that enables a linux desktop to integrate with an Active directory domain.unless...
- Tags: SuSE, Samba, distro, Jaqui, tagging sucks, windows, it management, linux, networking, advertisement, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Fedora changing the choices: good or bad?
- I'm luke warm about this.I personally don't like the new installer that started with FC5. I find it to be more cumbersome than the old installer from FC4 and earlier.If there are going to be different versions of Fedora, then, IMHO, it's not Fedora anymore. While my system...
- Tags: distro, Fedora Project, feedback, linux, newby, prplshroud
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- Source Mage?
- I decided to scan the list of distros on distrowatch..Sourcemage gnu-linux?! ~blink~WTF?has anyone else never heard of this one?http://www.sourcemage.org/they are trying to get a distro together, based on what distro I have yet to figure out.They don't use standard names for positions within the team... they call themselves "Mages"I'm not...
- Tags: distro, Jaqui, linux, Mage, tagging sucks
- Discussion threads 2007-01-06
- Ubuntu reaches out to Novell: backlash ensues
- I also favor including non open source drivers in Linux.I agree with the philosophy of including proprietary hardware drivers in Linux distributions for all of the reasons that you stated. As you stated if some GPL purists want a "clean" distributio
- Tags: open source report, ubuntu, off-topic, novice, marketing, programming, hardware, drivers, windows, wireless, networking, shinderpaljandu, Linux, distro, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-01
- What would the loss of RedHat Linux mean?
- riiiight..While being able to buy support is equal to credibility for most corporate purchasing officers, losing Red Hat would improve to quality of the distros out there, since Red Hat is one of the THREE LEAST standards compliant distros out there
- Tags: distro, linux, open source, open source report, Red Hat Inc., software, stress junkie
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
- What's on these SUSE Distro CDs?
- A couple of years ago I attended a free Linux dog and pony show presented by Novell. I received four free CD's at this show, one labeled:SUSE Linux Standard Server 8Will this run as a desktop? What makes it "Server"?The others were CDs 1 through 3 of something...
- Tags: SuSE, server, RH9 CD, United Linux, Palmetto, linux, CD, desktop
- Q&A 2006-07-11
- The magic of Ubuntu Linux
- bahhh!! bloatware almost as bad a rad het's crapuse a real distro, linux from scratch.get rid of the pre packaged microsnot style distros and get back to real linux.I actually would never use any of the *buntu variants because they broke *x security and bloated the os with useless crap.why...
- Tags: distro, Jaqui, Linux, open source report, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- Sun flirts with Ubuntu
- An Ubuntu distro that works?Does this endorsement mean that cdrom and usb ports actually work on this distro? These might be functions that some people would actually like to have.
- Tags: craiglarry@..., cdrom, usb functions in ubuntu, programming, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2006-05-27
- Unix flavor for new server being researched
- We are currently looking to purchase a new server which has the following requirements. 1). Host some web/java applications which have MYsql back end data base's. 2). Be a backup server for Crystal reports which were are currently deployed on a Microsoft Server. ...
- Tags: cost, distro, droolin, GUI, Microsoft Corp., networking, operating system, server, support, unix, upgrade
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Distro that can authenticate to AD?
- I've tried SuSe 10, but I wasn't able to get it to authenticate to AD without creating an account on the Linux box first. kind of defeats the purpose if you have to create two accountsHas anyone had luck authenticating a linux desktop on Active Directory easily?re account on linux...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, cwhitmore@..., Linux, advertisement, server
- Discussion threads 2006-09-22
- Where do you go on the web for Linux help?
- I've been screwing around with Fedora Core 5 for a few weeks now, and mostly pestering apotheon, jaqui, jmgarvin, stress junkie, and the rest of the usual TR suspects when I need help. While the quality and quantity of responses I get from TR members is better than what...
- Tags: distro, Linux, need help, Palmetto, tags? tags? we don' need no steekin' tags!, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-09-22
- Gota Puppy ???
- Has any-one out there in the TR tried Puppy Linux yet? (see: http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3 -or- http://www.puppylinux.com/ -or- the Wiki; http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxMainPage ) Any coments on it? I see there a lot of changes on it since I last saw it. It might be worth a check. Anybody interested? -dawgitPuppy needs to be...
- Tags: linux, small linux, os on a stick, Puppy Linux, dawgit, distro
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
