I read some of the LFS stuff , I am not that Bright, Is there a way to learn BASIC Linux, by doing, with as few variables as possible? I think what I want is to start from the command line and do one task at a time till I learn what every thing is ,where it is, and what it does.I have a Hard drive in My CD bay, in an after market,adapter,  LL2 sees it now, I partitioned it in half , It will be and aux drive, main drive 0 is 500gb, two partitions. I wanted to start with a simple thing like DMSL and go find what I need and install it. Is this a good plan? Thanks for your help past and future,, daryl de kb5zxm Magnolia Texas.
                                        < oops>
btw I suffer from TBI and struggle to grasp things when I don't have deep understanding.

I need to import my contacts from Outlook EMail into the Linux system. Do I need to access my XP portion of the hard drive in order to reopen OUtlook to grab the file?

I'm having a hard time getting Win7 to access LL's passworded Samba shares. I understand this is a very common problem, and it seems the only solution is a group policy hack available only in Pro level Windows editions. Too bad for such an important function.


I will keep on working on that, but there is another problem I'm having at the moment.


I have configured smb.conf with five of my own shares, and deleted the stock LinuxLiteShare. I also changed the netbios name of my machine to precision, from Lappy. Neither of the two older names exists in the smb.conf file any longer.


And yet upon booting it up today, a Win7 machine not only saw my new shares under Precision, it saw the LinuxLiteShare under Lappy. There must be another source that Samba is reading from? Any insight would be appreciated.


Paul

New to Linux so please reply in baby steps(lol).
I have an inspirion 1525 which I installed linux lite on.
I downloaded some movies mp4, avi etc... and they used to play fine but for some reason(I don't play movies a lot on my laptop) they stopped playing instead the video would never start playing(just a frozen blurred screen). The audio played fine, so I downloaded several players to make sure it was not the program( I have handbrake, brasero, smplayer) none of them worked.
I found a site to reinstall drivers so i did the following.

1) First, you need to open up a terminal shell. You can either start up your computer and go to a virtual shell

Ctrl+Alt+F1

or login and open up the gnome terminal

Ctrl+Alt+t

2) Then In the terminal, run the following commands:

This command will refresh your packages

sudo apt-get update

Then you will need to install the linux headers if those are not already installed.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Next, you will need to do a dist-upgrade, which upgrade some packages of your system

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

When that is all done, you will need to reboot your system

sudo reboot

The Installation of the Drivers

1) Repeat step one to open the terminal.

Now install the Nvidia drivers

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates

You have one more step, or else, you will have a high chance that you just soft-bricked your system. For safe measures, run this final command:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

*There was a well known bug that the Nvidia installation script did not run that command. If that config file is not created, your graphics will not work.

Now reboot your system:

sudo reboot

Congratulations! You should now be using Nvidia Drivers.

Now I can play videos but my desktop settings are only 600x800 and the video is too large for the players screen. any help would be appreciated.

Greg

http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2015/04/o...bit-linux/

Latest is version 32.xxxx

I am running it on my little atom debian based  netbooks and so far so good.

Quote:Changelog and download links

• Opera developer for 32-bit Linux
  

Full changelog

Hi guys,


I'm running 2.4 x64. The monitor keeps going into standby and locking me out. I have the unit to Sleep at 75 min, and the monitor display to sleep at 60 min, with "Switch off display" at 50 min.


Under Extended I have sleep mode set to Suspend, and monitor sleep mode set to Standby. Lock is checked.


I have the screensaver turned off. When I bring up the screensaver prefs, I get that the daemon is not running error. On the Advanced tab I have Power management enabled, with Standby after 120, Suspend after 120, and off after 240. But I've also tried turning off Power Management.


The screen is locking after maybe 15 minutes tops. I would like to use this function, but would rather delete it than fight it like this.


Thanks.

I have a Dell Dimension 310 desktop computer and also an Ipad mini that I would like to print from using a Linux 2.4 OS.  I am asking for recommendations of compatible HP printers that I can purchase.  I am fine with an inkjet style $200 or less.  thnx

Brought a laptop from the dead for a friend.  All is well except the keyboard backlight won't work in Linux Lite.

The keyboard lights when powering up.  Works in the BIOS setup, and as it boots, but goes off as soon as it hits Linux Lite GRUB.  I've tried the Fn+Z combination and it changes nothing.  I've spent a few hours searching online and i've seen nothing definitive.  Some mention turning off ACPI in the BIOS.  They say it makes the keyboard backlight work in Ubuntu, but the function keys and Power Management won't work.  I don't have ACPI settings in the BIOS for this laptop.  But I have set the keyboard backlight to ON instead of 15 second TIMER.

I need help on this one.

For the record, in the Keyboard settings, I don't see a more specific Keyboard Layout than Toshiba Satellite S3000.  I get the same behavior as I do when I just use the System Defaults.  Everything else works except the backlight.

this is the error message that I get in the window. 

<Updating sources has failed.  Refer to /var/log/lite-software.log for more information.>

Also, how do I attach screen shots to my posts?  I notice that others are attaching screen shots to their posts.  thnx,

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars - Native Linux Client 1.5, installed from DVD.

I see only black window, and music is playing in the background.

Log provided, there are libGL errors, I believe it's the problem, how to fix it? I cannot install proprietary AMD drivers.

[attachment deleted by admin, expired]