Just upgraded to a new 80 gigabyte hard drive to replace my old and worn drive which was quite small and not very fast. Here is my partition layout. 2-:$> df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 33G 2.4G 30G 8% / proc 0 0 0 – /proc sysfs 0 0 0 … Read more
Just tried to use the Gnome rhythmbox program to play some mp3’s and it will not work properly as it needs to use OSS and I am using kernel 2.6.16.2 and I have an ALSA based system now. And I need to configure it for ALSA but I do not have gnome installed so I … Read more
Here is a screen shot of my aforementioned Linspire desktop. http://www.geocities.com/hungry_mancubus/1.jpeg 1280×1024 Jpeg. This desktop uses quite a good theme and well worth the 5 minutes or so it takes to load it up and get it running. Site powered by RSS.
I have just started using a Linspire 5.0 live CD when I am browsing the web and it seems to be the best way to browse the web safely. It has Mozilla 1.6 and OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 as well as an outstanding Kde desktop. And it auto-detects the network settings and mounts my USB thumb drives … Read more