Source questions

2002-10-31 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just noticed when cleaning out my home directory that I still have builds of qt-3.0.5 and kde 3.03 which I built using another distro, optimized for my particular machine. My question is this: 1)Is it required to make .debs out of these for total

Re: MXXS Problems

2002-10-28 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Assuming it's XMMS. I had this problem for a bit. Apparently the xmms-cdread isn't grabbed as a dependency, which is fine if you're not using it for cds. It's not going to show anything in the /cdrom directory without that package installed though.

Re:Speed

2002-10-27 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's actually just a piece of crap Gateway I got for my wife. It's always booted up at lightning speed. As a matter of fact thats about all its ever done at lightning speed, because after you start playing with the software, it's an anchor. I was ha

Speed

2002-10-26 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following may be unappetizing to trolls: - From power on to KDE- Mandrake 8.1=1min 52secs RedHat 7.1= 1min 35secs Debian 3.0= 47secs (with setups as close as possible by distro) The power of what sucks is closely related to the vacuum applied.

Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I found the a few site on setting up te true-type windows fonts, but this covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon fonts? Anti-aliasing fonts and icons (through KDE), do I need it? What is the purpose? And if it's a good thing,where to fin

Re:Configuring?

2002-10-25 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the tip! I had the prompt option in, but as usual I had forgotten the /sbin/lilo -v, as usual. I guess I'll have to muck about on the fonts and kde issues, as I have not yet recieved any info on them yet, or maybe it was too off-topic fo

Configuring?

2002-10-24 Thread C. Brewer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently switched from Mandrake 9.0 to woody, because of many reasons, mostly because mandrake was getting slower than molasses in winter. I've run across some things I'm not used to and was wondering how to adjust them to my taste. First, I know t