Darth Yoshi

I have version 0.60 of NVU on my Mandrake system which came as an RPM. Love it to death. Downloaded 0.70 and it came as a Fedora core and it has a bunch of scripts, which beyond me. Does anyone have any idea how I can load this? Check out the update at www.nvu.com Thanks! Chris

Oh, but I do use Firefox and Thunderbird on my XP system! That is how I first came in contact with the wonderful world of Linux and that is when my buddy, who had experience with Red Hat, told me about Mandrake. By far Firefox and Thunderbird are much better alternatives than anything I've used in the past and i highly reccommend them to anyone looking for a great alternative. What I can say, as well, is that the advice about not worrying about new programs is good advice. Getting into a new system, well, it feels like opening presents on Xmas morning! I am very happy with what I have learned here (I fixed my Real Player problem in a snap) and I hope to have some very good experiences with Linux. I cannot express how thankful I am and I hope to communicate more with you guys as time goes by. Chris

Hey! FYI I am running KDE. I got wine installed from my Mandrake disks (when I try to install the latest 12-01-04 version, it gives me an error message - I read somewhere that it had something to do with the kernel, but that is beyond my understanding level). Regardless, I get how to use wine; pretty straightforward. I am using a dual boot system with XP so I can use my Windows games no problem, though I am completely switched over to OpenOffice. I get the idea of adding items to the menu; done it lots of times in windows (am I using that word too much?). But I think I have screwed the pooch somewhere. I downloaded Firefox and it is in my Home directory, which is no problem because I took the "executable" file and put a shortcut on my desktop. Runs great and I like it much better than IE - which begs the question why linux has two browsers (or is there more?). Firefix is the way to go and I'm convincing people left and right about it. Getting back to my pooch molesting, I tried to install RealPlayer 10 for linux using their advanced install feature. It is on my system - do I need to add a menu item for it as well? Anyway, I do appreciate your time. Try getting people to respond to XP questions...brrrrr... Chris

Hi, I'm a former member of "Users Loyal to Bill" and have loaded Mandrake 10 onto my machine at the behest of a good friend who told me, and has convinced me, that there is a whole world outside the Windows... My problem is when I download RPM files and install them (i.e. F-Prot and Wine) they don't appear under my applications. There is nothing, so far as I can see, to tell me that the software is loaded except when I try to reload it, I get a message saying the program is already there. Needless to say this is annoying because I am excited about trying all of the new programs out there for me to find. My friend loaded the latest Wine and he said that his computer has a section on the "start" menu that says "Emulators", not so for me. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

I just made my laptop into a dual booter, with XP and Mandrake 10 and have no problems booting up once I got my graphics card configured correctly. In fact, I like it a lot and it was not very hard. First I reformatted my hard drive because it was too fragmented and then loaded XP on and nothing else. Did not even bother to remove the parts of XP I didn't want to prevent file fragments. Then I put in Mandrake disk 1 and did a custom partition (I have a 20GB hard drive) and basically let Mandrake do the rest of the work (I split the hardrive down the middle 10 GB for Windows and 10 GB for Mandrake). Previously I had tried a full Mandrake system but could not get any Windows games to play no matter what I tried. This way I am able to get to learn Linux while still being able to play my games.