iamroot

Welcome to the Free Software world! Why do you use RedHat 9? It's abit outdated. You might want to get APT from www.rpmfind.net to update your OS since i believe up2date no longer works on RH9. What emulator are you referring to? I assume you are talking bout a Windows emulator to run your Windows programs. In that case you would want to go to www.winehq.org and download WINE. It's not really an emulator as the name suggests (Wine Is Not an Emulator). It creates a fake Windows environment within your GNU/Linux OS. You can get the RedHat 9 RPM from the downloads section and install it by going rpm -Uvh wine-20050111-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm Once you've got it installed, then just type in wine in the terminal to run it for the 1st time. It will automatically create a fake Windows drive and install the Windows system files. To install software, you just do this in the terminal wine name of install .exe For example, if you want to isntall Quicktime, then you cd into the directory where you downloaded the Quicktime installer into and type in wine iTunesSetup.exe Do post any other questions you have here.

You might want to go to the Fedora Core website which is the community release by redhat. (http://fedora.redhat.com/) The free redhat releases no longer exist for the community.

The location of the directory isn't really important izzit? And i'm sorry ernie, you should do ./firefox-installer not ./install.sh Sorry.

Please don't feel embarassed bout posting problems with GNU/Linux here. We do it all the time. I've been using GNu/Linux for years now and im still getting problems every few days. The Firefox installer is a tar.gz package which you will have to unpack. You can do so by right-clicking on the package and selecting unpack from the drop-down menu. Once thats done then you enter the terminal, use root access and navigate to the unpacked firefox directory by doing this su (enter password) cd (firefox directory. example.. /home/emccornack/Desktop/firefox) ./install.sh Then follow the instructions. I might be wrong cos im using Fedora Core 3 now which includes Firefox by default so i havent installed Firefox manually for some time already. I might be wrong so pls post the results here:-) Are you using KDE or GNOME as your default GUI? To change the icon i believe you can just right-click the icon, select Properties then Custom icon.

Is XFree86 still being developed? Most distributions nowadays with the exception of Debian use X.org leading most to think that Xfree86 is dead. Is it still "alive"?

Hey, i did some checks and gues what? XFree86 is still alive.

Thunderbird or Evolution. I don't really have much experience with email programs cos my email is HTTP-based, but i think that these two r the best.

Whether yahoo POP3 is free or not im not so sure. But i did try it out once though.

If I'm not mistaken, Thunderbird install for GNU/Linux is a shell script-based one. If it is then unpack the tar file and cd to it. Then type in ./filename

Well, Creative cards work really well. I'm using a Live card on one of my boxes. Funny that your AC 97 doesn't work cos i'm using FC3 and FC2 now and my VIA AC 97 works perfectly with these distros. Maybe its your distro. What r u using?

Kind of disappointing. The GNU/Linux release is really below the Windows one.

Does anybody here want a gmail account? I've got a couple of invitations...

Anyone who still wants an account pls PM me. I've got 50 invites.

Did you try to mount the cd manually? Maybe its a copyright thing.

Hotmail doesn't have POP3 access. Yahoo and GMail have though.

You might want to find RPMs off the net and install them manually. I presume that you have a GUI installed already. You can go to rpmfind.net or rpm search to find these packages and install them manually. arts-1.3.2 kdeaccessibility-3.3.2 kdeaddons-3.3.2 kdeadmin-3.3.2 kdeartwork-3.3.2 kdebase-3.3.2 kdebindings-3.3.2 kde-i18n-3.3.2 kdelibs-3.3.2 kdemultimedia-3.3.2 kdenetwork-3.3.2 kdepim-3.3.2 kdesdk-3.3.2 kdetoys-3.3.2 kdeutils-3.3.2 kdevelop-3.1.2 kdewebdev-3.3.2

You can even use APT for up[censored]. So you no longer need to use the lousy up2date with its slow speed and broken links.

The no. 1 must get is APT. Hassle-free installations.

Its a chicken and egg situation. Game developers don't want to develop games for GNU/Linux until the platform gains popularity for gaming which will require more games to built for GNU/Linux. It has to start somewhere.

Use "rpm -Uvh" if you want to update software. Personally, i just use "rpm -Uvh" to install all software.

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html Use the mirror closest to your location. It's FTP. Just navigate to the updates directory. All the latest updates are there in RPM format.

Sorry to say that you can't. The default driver that comes with the OS is not optimized for openGL. You're gonna be stuck with the 1-frame per second gameplay till ATI releases a driver for Mobility Radeon.

Geez. Sorry to say that ATI doesn't have GNU/Linux drivers for mobile graphic cards. You better stick with the generic driver that comes with the OS.

You can check the box. I was at my local computer mall recently and i saw quite a number of software with the "linux-compatible" sign on it. Was really quite glad to see that.

Quite true. GNU/Linux is a multi-user system. Many software if not all, allow you to install in your home directory without root access. But this will result in other users on the system not being able to access that software.