Re: [techtalk] laptop on linux

2000-10-17 Thread nagreen
a lot of people I work with have debian, redhat, and freebsd running on their dell inspirons. I have a toshiba satellite, and the only distro that seems to work here is redhat 7. (debian worked with several hours of tweaking by a local linux guru.) be aware when you buy a laptop to look at the

Re: [techtalk] Distribution problems

2000-10-10 Thread nagreen
agreed. stormix was actually the first successful install of a linux system I had. it went very smoothly, and it seems to readily install on more systems than some of the other distros I've found. (we're talking prior to massive configuration on those other installs). n. -Original Mess

[techtalk] kxicq

2000-10-02 Thread nagreen
hey, all. I was helping my girlfriend try to install kxicq on her caldera 2.4 system last night. it ended up being a bit of an annoying install, but the biggest problem we had was that it gave an error that Qt >={something} (I don't remember what the version number was) was not installed.