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MS Windows through QEMU
by Paul Smith 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

Dear All I have just learned that MS Windows can run under Fedora through QEMU. Has somebody here used that? And if yes, what about its performance? Is it simple the installation? Thanks in advance, Paul

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MSI K9NGM2-FID Kernal won't boot after upgrade to 2174
by Tom Bishop 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

I am using fc5 on a brand new MSI MSI K9NGM2-FID AM2 pc, I have installed the x_64 vers and the installation went smoothly. However, once I booted and performed a yum upgrade, the latest kernel (2.6 2174) will not boot, I get the following error: pci:bios bug;mmcfgarea@e0000000 is not e820-reserved pci:not using mmconfig This happens shortly after selecting in grub and the system just hangs. I can however boot the orginal kernel 2.6.15 and I don't receive these messages. Since this is a new board MSI doesn't have a newer bios to test, has anyone seen this? Is there a workaround? Thanks.

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Curious yum problem
by Timothy Murphy 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

I just installed FC-5 on a new disk, and when I tried "yum update" it failed because, it reported, kdebase required htdig . On the other hand, I can update kdebase on other FC-5 systems which I have kept up-to-date. It doesn't particularly matter - I as able to update nearly everything by "yum update [a-j]\*", etc, but I am puzzled why this problem arises, and interested to know if there is a simple way of determining exactly what is looking for what? (It seemed that other packages were looking for htdig.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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vi editor
by Kaushal Shriyan 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi ALL How do i select the entire contents of the file using vi to copy and then paste it to the other file For example vi copy --- > select the entire contents on one machine vi paste ---> paste it on the second machine Thanks Kaushal

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Adding FC5 to an XP computer -
by Bob Goodwin 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

I'm about to add an 80G sata second drive to a Dell 2.8G XP computer that I wish to boot to both Linux and Windows XP. I have the FC5 DVD from which I intend to do the install. What do I need to know before I start? XP Home is already installed and I have no way to reinstall it, no o/s CD's are provided. There will probably be choices for locating boot and grub, what is best to do there? Any suggestions, reference material, etc. appreciated. Bob Goodwin

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Coding Error in ./net/tux 2.6.17-1.2174 FC5
by R. G. Newbury 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Compiling 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 fails: CC [M] net/tux/proto_ftp.o net/tux/proto_ftp.c: In function ‘ftp_accept_pasv’: net/tux/proto_ftp.c:897: error: ‘icsk’ undeclared (first use in this function) net/tux/proto_ftp.c:897: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once net/tux/proto_ftp.c:897: error: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [net/tux/proto_ftp.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [net/tux] Error 2 make: *** [net] Error 2 I have no idea what needs to be done to fix this. Geoffrey

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Re: What is the language "British"?
by Mike Wright 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hi all, (Sorry, I was overzealous in cleaning my maildir and can't find the beginning of this thread) but I seem to remember that the OP objected to the use of "British" as opposed to "English". Granted, this is from an American dictionary but it does show that "British" is an acceptable American usage. From Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary: Briticism, n. ...peculiar to British English. British, n. 1. British English 2. the language of the ancient Britons And certain to fan flames: Since we were also discussing the -our vs. -or we have this. An excerpt from H. L. Mencken's 1921 "American English" The logical superiority of American spelling is well exhibited by its persistent advance in the face of all this hostility at home and abroad. The English objection to our simplifications, as Brander Matthews once pointed out, is not wholly or even chiefly etymological; its roots lie, to borrow James Russell Lowell’s phrase, in an esthetic hatred burning “with as fierce a flame as ever did theological hatred.” There is something inordinately offensive to English purists in the very thought of taking lessons from this side of the water, particularly in the mother-tongue. Ouch! :m)

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Seven Percent
by Andy Green 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Results from the 2006 Desktop Linux Survey 15,000 voters... still, self-selected. Anyway --> ''... Ubuntu, with 29.2 percent of the vote, has been the hottest community Linux since early 2005. While this Linux has had its problems lately, such as the update fiasco on August 21st and 22nd, users continue to download, install, and love it. And, why not? It's an excellent distribution. It's not just users who think this; reviewers have also labeled it the Desktop Linux Champ. A little closer peek at the data, and some comparison with the Distrowatch page hit list, reveals that "classic" Ubuntu with the GNOME interface is the real winner. Kubuntu, with its KDE desktop, and the educational Edubuntu distributions have their fans, but Ubuntu is what a plurality of Linux desktop users appear to be running today. In a distant second place, with 12.2 percent, we find Ubuntu's ancestor, Debian. Close behind it, there's openSUSE with 10.1 percent of the users. If you included in openSUSE's totals its corporate big brother, Novell's SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) numbers, 2.9 percent, the SUSE-twins would be in second place with 13 percent. After this, we come to what I think of as the first surprise in our survey. Gentoo took fourth place with a total of 9.6 percent. Gentoo, to me, is a Linux expert's Linux. I know many serious Linux users who work with Gentoo to better understand Linux, but almost no one who uses it as their first choice for day-to-day work. In fifth place, we find Fedora, Red Hat's community distribution. Fedora, while still somewhat popular with 7 percent of the vote, seems to have lost some of its charm to users in the last year. ...'' http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5816278551.html Does it matter, so long as there is some arbitrary population of users? Is ubuntu up there, with basically the same stuff in it as Fedora, due to PR alone? Should Fedora compete, does it having any meaning with a Free OS?

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Gnome Disapeared from the boot menu
by Guillermo Garron 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hi all, I have just missed my Gnome from the boot menu, i only have KDE as option, any clues? sorry i can not give you any more details, but i really don't know where to start. Will i have to remove and reinstall all Gnome? hope not it will take my lot of time on the internet :( regards, Guillermo.

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Unable to detect network cable unplugged event
by Ankur Saxena 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi All, I am new to Linux, I have one Client-Server application which I have ported from Windows 2003 to FC5. But while testing the application if I am plugging out the Ethernet cable Both Client and Server applications Are not able to detect that network connectivity is lost, Client application is able to send data on connected socket but Server is not able to get it (here at client side send API is not returning -1) and after putting the cable back they start receiving data again. Can any body help me out? Regards, Ankur.

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