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    Installed Raklet last night. After a hiccup I reinstalled it this morning and it's not so bad. (I found meself in possession of a 6GB drive)
    [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
    Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
    Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
    Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
    Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

  • #2
    I've got the beta 3 now. So far it's SWEET, runs great on my machine. Though the default gtk theme is now just the normal GTK, as opposed to the one Mandrake usually has as the default. I use gnome all the time, never bothered with KDE2.

    Leech
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    In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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    • #3
      I was supposed to have installed beta 3 today, only I was sick and didn't go in today. I'll try for tomorrow though. I'm a kde man myself, I find gnome "weird". I guess it's been all this playing around with win2k.
      [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
      Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
      Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
      Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
      Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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      • #4
        That's funny, that's WHY I like Gnome, it's NOT windows-like. Actually if you love KDE, WindowsXP is for you. It reminds me so much of XP it's sad. I swear Microsoft stole code from them (well stole as in they released it as their own and did not keep the free software license.)

        Leech.
        Wah! Wah!

        In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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        • #5
          Gnome x KDE2 x others?

          Yeah, Leech, you'r right. But despite the kde2 looks like XP or vice versa, the KDE2 runs on linux. The kernel is so different. So if someone goes to linux from windows and don't want to change the look, let them use KDE BTW I use E and I'm happy ;-), no icons, fast enough and waiting for new E 17 which should be really cool (or bad? new X shell :-()

          Have a good day
          PeS

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          • #6
            Konqueror

            I use KDE for Konqueror. Plain and simple. I like Gnome too though, and Galeon is certainly shaping up to be a fine browser. I don't like the direction Gnome is taking with Nautilus though; seems to be the last thing we need is a memory hogging desktop shell. Gnome + E was plenty pretty for me. Still Nautilus does look good, and should improve performance wise with time.

            Oh and KDE does not look like Windows unless you want it to. It, like Gnome, can look like CDE, Next, OS X, Windows or anything else you might want.

            Seriously, I like the fact that we have two mature desktop environments for Linux today. I hope they can decide on common interfacing mechanisms so one can choose one or the other without compromising.

            Can't wait to try E17. OpenGL accelerated @D desktop should be a sight to behold, though I am not sure it would run too well in software mode on my ATI Rage Mobility M1. The Matrox cards should be fine.

            -Rahul
            Porsche: MSI K7N2-L, Athlon XP 2100+, G400 32MB DualHead, 1G RAM, 2xMaxtor 20 GB, Gentoo Linux
            Quicksilver: HP Omnibook 500, PIII 700 MHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB, RedHat Linux 9.

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            • #7
              At home, I use Gnome, at work I use KDE 1.1, because it's the best thing that's ported to this OS so far.

              I used to use Gnome + E, but there's a lot of overlap between the two. My desktop got a lot faster when I switched to Gnome + Sawfish. I only lost 1 or 2 features (and it's more correct to say that I couldn't do some things the same way, not that I couldn't do them at all), but I got quite a speed improvement, and sawfish has a much smaller footprint.
              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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              • #8
                The one thing that I don't like about KDE is even if you change the theme on it, it still generally looks like windows, where as Enlightement is completely changeable, you don't even have to have square windows! I too used to use E+Gnome, but have gone to Sawfish, simply because it's faster and feels more 'complete'. But E 17 looks SWEET! I played around with a CVS version of it awhile ago on my old Debian Install. It was interesting. I guess maybe I'm just kind of biased against KDE since the 1.1, I haven't really used 2.2 yet. But whenever I install a new Distro, I usually just not install KDE, and stick with Gnome. Maybe when the Xandros distro is released (the old Corel stuff was bought by them in case no one here knew) I'll probably switch to that, since I prefer a Debian based system over a RPM based System. Laters.

                Leech
                Wah! Wah!

                In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                • #9
                  I of course like square windows for most things. Just a personal choice. I find kde easy to use and fast enuf on my Duron 700@950. I installed raklet beta3 at work yesterday. I get some "error installing x package" messages but upon reboot (i chose not to go into X automatically) all was more or less well. I then copied the latest savage4 drivers from the windows partition into the relevant module dir. X works fine. I can't get on the net though. I have a machine running Win2K AS, Proxy Server 2.0 and Exchange Server 5.5 SP4. Before putting on the DSL I had got linux boxen on the network to go on the Internet by simply inputting the proxy server address in the prowser preferences. That doesn't work anymore. The Cayman DSL router is connected to a RT8029(AS) NIC in the Win2k AS, and assigns it an address of 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0. The 3Com NIC in the same machine has a static IP of 192.168.0.1, and the DHCP scope is 192.168.0.3-192.168.0.254. I think I'll let the linux box use DCHP and see what happens.
                  [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
                  Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
                  Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
                  Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
                  Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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                  • #10
                    There is the proxy set-up at install on Mandrake. It'll set up pretty much all your networking stuffs. Though under the Mandrake Control Center I've never had much luck getting the Internet Connection Sharing working. So I just install Squid manually and set that up, works like a charm. I use Wingate under XP now and it works quite well too.

                    Leech.
                    Wah! Wah!

                    In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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                    • #11
                      I aways got ICS to work at home with 8.0 . The problem I have always found is getting the linux box to behave like a windows client, be part of a workgroup etc. I suspect if I were able to do that then I would have no probs getting on the Internet here at work
                      [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
                      Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
                      Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
                      Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
                      Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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                      • #12
                        Denty/Leech,



















                        I found that with all the 'playing' I do on 'my' machine at home
                        that I eventually set 98SE ICS up on my wife's PC instead but it always seemed to me kinda ridiculous to tie a 'working' machine up with ICS.








                        I looked at Winproxy and a few other Windows based servers but they all require:








                        * a licensed copy of Windows








                        * a licensed copy of the application








                        * a machine with enough grunt to run Windows AND the application.








                        all of which, except for the box, you can 'get around' one way or another.








                        Then I found SmoothWall on a a Linux mag called Linux Format (a UK publication).








                        I ended up downloading the version we're using (0.9.8) from www.smoothwall.org around late April and have been using it since May.








                        If you have at least a spare 486 box with 16Mb RAM, ~120Mb HDD, and 16550 UART, you can give it a go.





                        We've had SmoothWall running on a Digital 486 DX2/66 and a Digital Pentium 133 and the performance is the same on both machines.









                        We use it to share our 56k net connection between 4 machines at home.









                        I've set it up as the DHCP server and neither whine-doze nor linux complain at all.





                        KDE 2.0 (I still prefer using Mandrake 7.2!) has no problem accessing the shares on the windows boxes even tho' Samba is NOT running.
                        (That's another project...)






                        When using L-M 8, I found I <b>had</b> to type smb:// followed by the machine name to access the Windows shares... I never figured that one out...









                        I'd like to add that it runs so well that my wife has been reluctant to let me do anything which might upset it !

















                        Regards

















                        zaphod

















                        Oh... and I forgot to mention... it's Linux-based <G> (RH I think...), and once the install is complete, the operational set-up is via a web-page... and while it's free they ask that users donate to their nominated charity.







                        We believe it is far better to face reality than it is to stick our heads, sand-like, into an ostrich - Dr. Fegg

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                        • #13
                          I haven't tried SmoothWall yet. One thing I have noticed, between using Wingate on windows and Squid on linux, is that Squid is a LOT faster. Web pages just pop up faster. That's interesting about the smb:// part. Perhaps I should have tried that when I was trying to browse a share on my friend's computer. He was running Windows 2000 and I was trying to transfer some files over from his computer to mine. In WindowsXP it was taking forever. So I wondered if I had something set up wrong, so I dual-booted to linux and tried it there, and it wouldn't even allow me to browse his mounts. But then last night I learned that his Ethernet cable was bad! Explains why linux wouldn't even see the shares, and WindowsXP just took a lifetime to copy something over. I haven't had a chance to try it since we replaced his cable, but I bet it'd work flawlessly now through Samba. I always just mount it with Gnomba, then browse it just like any other directory. Works great. Well at least across WindowsME, and linux. Since that's all my mother and brother have here, than that's great for me. That was the first time I'd tried Samba with Win2k.

                          Leech
                          Wah! Wah!

                          In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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