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Help Sarn get started wtih Linux!!
2004-02-06, 4:39 AM #41
Ooooh, I like that bad relationship analogy.

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2004-02-06, 3:44 PM #42
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Silent_Rhapsody:
Speaking of KDE...

I'm currently running mandrake, and upon installation chose gnome to try it out. I hate it. is there any way to change it to KDE without re-installing?


Also, we've run into another problem due to choices at installation. Originally, we chose it to automatically log in one person, because I'm the only one really using it in my family. But we can't find a way to log in the other users, or root for that matter. Any help?


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*crickets....bickering...more crickets* anybody?



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2004-02-06, 3:58 PM #43
rpmdrake
and install it?

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2004-02-08, 2:40 AM #44
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Silent_Rhapsody:

quote:Originally posted by Silent_Rhapsody:
Speaking of KDE...

I'm currently running mandrake, and upon installation chose gnome to try it out. I hate it. is there any way to change it to KDE without re-installing?
Also, we've run into another problem due to choices at installation. Originally, we chose it to automatically log in one person, because I'm the only one really using it in my family. But we can't find a way to log in the other users, or root for that matter. Any help?

*crickets....bickering...more crickets* anybody?

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Open Mandrake Control Center, in the "Boot" section select "DrakBoot helps you set up how your system boots." Here, in the section "System mode," select "No, I don't want autologin." This will make Mandrake ask for a user name and password every time you reboot (letting you select other users) and while logging in, you can choose the desktop env. you wish from a dropdown menu. Also, to change users from anywhere in KDE, just press Ctrl-Alt-Del.

To login as root, open a console and type "su" - then the password for root that you provided in the installation process.


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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jon`C:
That's just the commercial distributions. Most of them have only compiled for a generic x86 platform, so it doesn't use any of the special processor features that even Windows uses. Recompiling yourself would make things a lot faster.</font>


Can you (or anyone?) point me to a website or something that explains recompiling with specific processor features enabled?

[This message has been edited by MaD CoW (edited February 08, 2004).]
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