linux

Bonjour, je souhaite réaliser un serveur de fichier pour compatible mac os x (10.4) et win xp. j'ai pour cela un pc donc je suis limiter a win xp ou linux. j'ai d'abord pensé utiliser win xp mais je rencontre le pb des noms de fichiers. comme sur mac os x certain caracteres interdit dans win...

After successfully installing Fedora Core 4 Linux on Microsoft Virtual PC 7.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.2 on a 1.33 GHz PowerBook with 1.25 gigs of memory, I have a problem. When Linux is booting, the command line text gets to this point: Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Virtual PC...

A while ago, I tried installing YDL 2 on my G3 Wallstreet. Didn't work, so I gave up, and my Wallstreet's been eating dust since. Now I wanna put it to _some_ sorta use! I just want to get _any_ flavor of linux working on the book! Could anyone please suggest a distro, and provide a...

I'm running OS X Server 10.4.2 with NFS service having several directories shared for our RedHat Linux ES 3 webservers. I can mount shares (NFS exports) from clients without problems and browse through directories etc. But other applications running on client like webserver, FTP server etc...

Hi, I am a new mac user from slackware & archlinux, I am into programming(c,ruby,zsh)-network security theory. I understand there is a book for bsd/unix users migrating or wanting to learn mac os x which is based on darwin. The transitition shouldn't be too hard but coming from linux, it's...

Hi folks. I used to be a Mac network/support guy, but I went back to teaching just before OS X debuted. So I'm pretty adept, but new to OS X. I finally upgraded two weeks ago. === My situation: At my house, I have an old Digital P-166 box acting as a Linux fileserver for my three Macs...

Hi... Is there any software for osx which allows you to remotely login into a a linux box? I have a workstation with redhat fedora installed and would like to login into the box from my mac. I'm looking for some sort of software similar to remote desktop by microsoft but going from osx to...

Hi. I've got a Wallstreet PowerBook G3 233MHz. I wanted to install Fedora Core 4 on it, just to get my hands clean with it. How do I boot the first CD :P I've currently got OS 8.1 running on the PB. Thanks in advance!

Hey, I have a 3rd generation 15GB iPod and when I try to install ipodlinux on it, it tells me, "An error occurred while installing linux: Could not extract OS portion of firmware." Not much I can really do about that, so I tried to see if there was an update for the software... "An...

I would love to have video play back capabilities on my 1st gen ipod but I can’t figure it out, I have no clue where to start. I don't feel like trying to figure it out because I’m tired, I just started working at sears, full time, and have not been very computer savvy the past couple of months...

I'm having difficulties with my iPod starting up and not being able to find it's system files. I have an iMac at my parents house, no room for it around here and that is what I used to upload songs onto my iPod. I'm trying to access the iPod from my laptop running Slackware (which shouldn't be a...

All I want to be able to do is to open/read my mozilla mail from my works linux machine at home on my mac, I am leaving the company, but I would like to keep my emails for future reference... Is it just a case of copying the inbox directory, then opening it at home on my mac with OSX mozilla...

Hello, Question 1 -- the biggie: I'm running Airport Express as a router, sharing an ADSL connection between a PowerBook (from which I can also stream music to my stereo -- it's great) and a Linux machine running SuSE 9.3, in which I have installed a Netgear WG311T PCI wireless network card...

can someone reccomend the best example of a free linux i can run on my mac? i'm curious and i want to run it. which are the best ones to go for/the most mature, grown up versions?

I was quite disappointed when I read some of the stuff of this article http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436

After many years of development, it's done. An ego-shooter based on a modified Quake engine which they call Dark Places. The source is completely open to anybody, and the game is licensed under the GPL License. A Mac version is coming soon. Enjoy. http://www.nexuiz.com/index.php...

Ok, this is not related to macs, but I know there are some nix-geeks (at least one ;)) around who could help. During the installation of SUSE7 on a pc I get a RPM error. The installation proceeds like there was nothing but later I can't get the kde run. I was wondering if RPM has anything to...

:D Ok, this has been on my mind for awhile and i figure someone here has an answer for it. Anyways, does linux still activite the backlit keyboard? Does act the same as it would if it was running in Mac os x? Are there any distros that don't recgonize the backlit keyboard? If so which ones...

hi guys, i'm setting up a linux box (fedora core 3) at home running sshd for remote access. i can remotely access my fedora linux box from my windows machine using an ssh client (secure crt) and it worked fine. i'm also can ssh from my fedora linux into my mac fine. i have another...

Hi! I know this isnt quite X11 or UNIX related, but Im interested in installing a copy of linux onto my iPod. I was thinking of doing this either by installing linux (YellowDog, probably) onto the iPod hard disk as it is at the moment (ie how it was when set up by Apple) or by formatting the...