After some difficulty (see my other thread on this forum), I have installed Mandriva One 2009 from a live CD. Unfortunately it will not boot. It sits for ages at the splash screen (other distros boot in a fraction of the time), then I get a repeating error message scrolling - ata 3: exception Emask ...

I have mentioned, many times, various Live CDs to use for giving Linux a try or installing Linux. I have had some feedback asking to explain just what a Live CD is. Some users are hesitent to use a Live CD for fear of deleting their data or damaging their hard drive. My hope is that, upon reading th...

Unless you search it out, you’re not likely to come across a PC that comes with Linux pre-installed (exception being the wide-variety of netbooks being sold). Because of this if you want to use Linux you are probably going to have to install the operating system yourself. To hard-core geeks th...

All Linux distributions have their own home base: their homepage. How well is this homepage taken care of and how well does it perform? To answer these questions we have monitored the uptime and load time of the homepages for 16 Linux distributions for a month. And since it is a question we can’t ...

I’ve just had quite an ordeal getting my GNU/Linux installation to utilise all my RAM. It’s the first time that I’ve had such a problem and I went for the hard solution rather than the simple one (GUI-based), which would have worked fine. For the record, here’s the process of...

⋙⋙ Post from: nababu.org. Vou falar de uma fera em Linux: Rubem E. Ferreira, meu colega de trabalho, que é formado em Engenharia Eletrônica pela UERJ e possui certificação Conectiva, que batalhou bastante e conseguiu publicar seu primeiro trabalho: “Guia do Administrador do S...

This is a strange problem. I had a problem with my hard disk and using mandriva linux live cd. I downloaded a file and i wantto store it on a pendrive but when i try to copy it the transfer speed shows 4KBs per sec. This is f**king slow what do I do. I need this file. Please help me....

A little background. I had Mandrake 9.2 on my hard drive along with Win XP and all was good. Did a recent rebuild and put hard drives in a new machine with new MB, etc. Couldn't get into Mandrake and my thoughts are there are drivers missing but as I am inable to get it to load I cannot install anyt...

(billet publié avec 48h de retard) Le représentant du ministère de la défense a présenté des transparents (format PDF) le mercredi 30 janvier 2008, transparents qui mentionnaient les points suivants, très novateurs à mon sens. Voici quelques notes prises pendant la conférence ce matin et (r...