Re: [newbie] The unspoken question

Simon Norris wrote: > > I have been aware of Linux for some time now, and am deciding to take the > plunge. I just have one question to ask. How do you pronounce Linux? With an > "I", as in Lin-ux, or a "y", as in lie-nux? > > They did say that this is a realm for newbies!! ;-) Here in Portugal

Re: [newbie] netscape defaults

Rick Murphy wrote: > Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates > icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will > automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape > ended when I went to 4.61. I think you

Re: [newbie] RPMs (?)

"Noonan, Mr Sean P." wrote: > > Not to beat a dead a horse, but http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html > , which is their English-Language > Linux Distributions page, also clearly states: > > "It [Mandrake] actually runs on all Intel and compatibles [sic]

Re: [newbie] About Linux distributions!

Lorenzo Jimenez wrote: > > Hi, > > Again I have this link so you can evalute Linux distributions available: > http://www.cpureview.com/art_distro_a.html Hmm. Mandrake didn't get any score below Red Hat's, and got a few above, yet Red Hat wins??? Weird...

[newbie] Lost my graphical login

Hi. After I installed Mandrake 6.0, I chose (at the end of the installation) to have a graphical login, the one with a blue screen where you log in and choose the window manager. However, due to a crash inside X (I was experimenting with graphic card drivers), now my system has just the text login

Re: [newbie] How to set the keyboard repeat rate?

Pedro Timoteo wrote: > I tried using xset or editing /etc/X11/XF86Config, but it doesn't do > anything, and, besides, the speed is already low in the console mode, > before starting X. So is there any solution for this? Something like "mode > con rate=# delay=#"

[newbie] How to set the keyboard repeat rate?

Hi. I've used other distributions of Linux in the past and have never known how to change the keyboard repeat rate (both the time it takes to start repeating, and the repeat speed itself) in Linux. However, that wasn't really a problem, because it was always set by default as I liked - which is th