System Rescue Fedora 14 / Additional SW on Live System

Hello, my Fedora 14 install is not booting anymore, from what I can tell it hangs while trying to mount nfs shares. I am able to boot into a live system (Scientific Linux) on a flash drive. First and foremost I want to know, how can I install ...

Message posted on the January 20th, 2012 - 4:23 AM ET

how to reformat/erase a disk with fedora installed?

I thought this would be easy, and maybe I just dont know the command (s) to do it. Im trying to dual boot a brand new laptop hard drive. I installed Fedora 10 first using half the HD space, then thought it would be easy to put in XP and set the ...

Message posted on the March 11th, 2009 - 8:23 PM ET

KDE Comparison - Mandriva 2010.X vs. Fedora 12, etc...

I'm in a situation where I might need to switch from Mandriva to Fedora. Long ago I switched from Red Hat 5 to Mandrake 7 in order to have a better desktop experience and mostly to have better audio applications. I'll be needing to use Cisco's ...

Message posted on the August 20th, 2010 - 2:51 PM ET

[gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs . Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD, which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or ...

Message posted on the June 4th, 2012 - 5:50 AM ET

[News] Many New Distribution Reviews, Experiences

Message posted on the March 30th, 2010 - 5:59 PM ET

Acer Aspire X1800 linux install error

Does anyone install 32bit linux on Acer Aspire X1800 desktop (AX1800- E9232. Intel Core2 Quad Processor Q8200. Integrated NVIDIA GeForce 7100 graphics card. 4G RAM) successfully? The kubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12 and openSUSE 11.2 KDE4 CD fail to ...

Message posted on the January 8th, 2010 - 7:07 AM ET

Swapping Linux for Windows 8 on Netbook

~~ Swapping Windows 8 for Linux Mint, openSuSE, and Fedora on my new netbook Summary: I've just bought a new Aspire One 725 Acer sub-notebook/netbook - here's my take and my adventures loading it with three different flavours of Linux. ... That's ...

Message posted on the April 6th, 2013 - 5:13 PM ET

[PATCH NEXT]"staging" "rtl8712" Fix typos.

From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> The below patch fixes some typos while going through rtl8712. drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h | ...

Message posted on the May 7th, 2012 - 10:40 AM ET

Troll-Free COLA Stats: Saturday the 2nd of June, 2012.

ngstats.pl version 1.37 Written by Roy Culley. Contributions from Mark Kent. Modifications by Homer, 2007 - 2012. Published under the authority of 7, President of COLA. All Hail the President! This report covers 312 articles received by this ...

Message posted on the June 2nd, 2012 - 4:00 AM ET

[PATCH 0/11] Reduce compaction-related stalls and improve asynchronous migration of dirty pages v6

Short summary: There are severe stalls when a USB stick using VFAT is used with THP enabled that are reduced by this series. If you are experiencing this problem, please test and report back and considering I have seen complaints from openSUSE and ...

Message posted on the December 14th, 2011 - 10:50 AM ET

Troll-Free COLA Stats: Saturday the 23rd of June, 2012.

ngstats.pl version 1.37 Written by Roy Culley. Contributions from Mark Kent. Modifications by Homer, 2007 - 2012. Published under the authority of 7, President of COLA. All Hail the President! This report covers 182 articles received by this ...

Message posted on the June 23rd, 2012 - 4:00 AM ET

[News] Huge Number of New Distribution Releases (Not Just GNU/Linux)

Message posted on the March 30th, 2010 - 2:25 PM ET

Re: Debian Newbie need help - belated thank you to all

I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to say thank you to all of you who offered some guidance - pressure of obligations in may areas cut into my time somewhat. I have decided to give Debian a miss yet again. I really is a bit too cumbersome. I am ...

Message posted on the April 3rd, 2011 - 2:10 PM ET

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