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... trouble... I have an old pentium-mmx running as a little server, and a beefy athlon workstation, both on debian woody (mostly testing). I want to compile apache with php support on the athlon box, wi...
I just did a fresh install of Debian 3.0, and I seem to have ended up with the usual mess. After fixing the broken X11 config, I find that I can't build a kernel module because there are no kernel sou
... of ram and 40 gig hard drive... Toshiba 486-75 laptop with 4 megs of ram. Console only! OS on all is Debian Woody. 2 other Windows boxes for family members. **********************************...
...nux 'kernel' in its place. As you know, there are many versions of the Linux kernel (the SuSE kernel, the Debian kernel, etc), some of which may not be compatible with your particular CPU. Indeed, t...
Hi, I am using icewm on debian SID. I use pan for newsgroups and evolution 1.4 as a mail client. I'd like to make the widget fonts (menu, buttons...) smaller. I called gnome-control-panel, and
Hi - I am a fairly new Debian user & have been running 3.0 for about 3 months. Over the weekend I decided to try and upgrade to Unstable on a whim and ran into some problems. Firstly, during the u
Someone check me on this... I'm using Debian with 2.4.20 from a Knoppix HD install. It came with Mozilla 1.3.1.2 (I think) and I simply removed all programs using KPackage-Manager that had any 'mo
Debian makes GNU/Linux distributions for 11 seperate hardware platforms and now officially has 10,000 software applications to choose from. http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=702&mode=threa
Hi, I'm setting up a linux machine (nominally Debian woody, but I'm open to suggestions) as a gateway/router/server for our office. Most of the network currently consists of windows machines (especi
It is a SuSE thing. I believe Red Hat does something similar (but of course, not quite the same). Debian is pretty pure: all the startup scripts are in /etc/init.d/ and the numbered symlinks to star
keep info coming, my wife is on 'last release of windows' warning :-)
Hello, y'all. I have a debian unstable system running kernel 2.4.20. It has 128 mb of physical ram and ~128 mb of swap. It was working fine and being very stable, despite the fact that the disk would
... Linux on and off for almost 4 years and feeling the desire to write some linux applications, I installed Debian, which I've done a hundred times. Spent a couple of days writing code in Kdevelop, ge...
...t ARP/RARP broadcasts! I need to get something else on it's hardrive. I don't have solaris so I figured Debian or Gentoo. ??? Thanks or as Cheney would say...
This looks like another HIT!
I boot my Linux (Debian/GNU 3.0 2.4.19) from a floppy. The lilo.conf file below works just fine (created by mkboot) except that it won't take the last two lines, which I added. I have to do this at
...rd, also the newly installed Staroffice has from the very beginnig refused to write to disc. My system is Debian Woody. Any suggestions?...
...terface. Per the GnomeMeeting FAQ, I have opened up the recommended ports on the outside interface of the debian NAT firewall (10.0.0.1), and those ports are being forwarded to workstation on the insi...
Hi All, I recently installed debian-woody on a PI, 233MHz PC after wiping RH6.2 which was there earlier. For configuring an old dotmatrix printer which works with Epson FX105 drivers in windows, I use
...nexant linmodem. Conexant's script requires kernel headers. Where can I download these? Is there a ng for debian? TIA,...
Hello, I've recently bought the Debian Woody CDs and started toying with it. Of course, I'm not an experienced user and I still have a hard time after getting used to Slackware 8.1 and its 'standard
Debian installs exim as an MTA by default if my memory serves me well. It is a no frills SMTP only MTA. Configuration is very easy and it comes with a well commented sample config file. If you need an
...hing I've been missing from the Linux distributions I've tried is a decent BSD like ports system. I tried Debian, but the apps are too old in the stable version, and going to unstable or SID caused al...
...em, at least if you log off (or close Nutscape?) daily. This problem has greatly spurred my interest in Debian. 7.1 is the same. Once you realize that people bond to their decisions, and you sta...
I've recently acquired a five computer networked Debian linux system at our house
I've got Debian from the Knoppix 3.2 build going on my hard drive. All hardware is working fine. But I'm having a bit of a time getting sound into things like games and xmms going. The sound works
Hi there, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) but my sources.list is configured to only update against the unstable branch. So here's the question: since woody's official Linux kernel is 2.2.20,
...it's width and it's size having covered 11 PC platforms. I'm sure they could get it out the door if the Debian development staff would just be a little more committed and show some sense of control ...
Hello, I am using Debian testing. When I run 'startx' command, the window manager fvwm is run automatically. but I can't specify it in any xinitrc or xsession files. I want to know how it happens? and
...ge recompiling Linux is not that important (maybe later). What do I want? (ii) Is it worth trying Suse, Debian etc and why? (iii) I am slightly worried that one of Dells laptop devices (like say C...
...ng Linux for many years now. IIRC I started with the 0.9? kernel. I started with slackware, then moved to debian, then Redhat, now Mandrake. The last version I am using is Mandrake 8.1. I occasionally...
...hat studied the real accuracy of do_gettimeofday() TSC enabled processors Thanks in advance Ulisses Debian GNU/Linux: a dream come true...
...op at various stages asking for PAM libs, or Kerberos libs etc. Upon advice I decided to try SELinux on Debian distribution. When I encountered similar errors I installed PAM, Kerberos....and other ...
Hi I'm trying to install Intel C++ 7.0 compiler on a Debian machine. It comes as a bunch of RPMs and installation scripts, as well as the FLEX license manager. I tried doing
Hello, I've installed the latest emu10k1 driver and configured it correctly on my Debian 3.0 system. Sound works now but with one problem: Music comes only from the two front boxes, the rear ones ar
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