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In desperation I asked for any recommendations about a replacement for Linux's file manager/browser since I haven't had any luck finding anything, but was wondering if anyone knew of a good site to go to when looking for Linux apps? Googling has turned out to be very time-consuming and not necessarily productive. For Window$ freeware, I have a set of freeware sites that I rely on. I'd like to know what Linux resources others...

Ohmster wrote: > I was trying to update firefox and ran into some fc6 rpms installed on my > fc9 platform so I could not update firefox. As it turns out, firefox itself > was an fc6 rpm! > > So this time I updated the fc6 file that was causing the problem, as well > as the yelp fc6 file that was stopping me from doing that, in est, this is > what I did: > > sudo yum update...

Jasen Betts wrote: > On 2009-12-30, bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: >> Anyways, I ran through the steps of SuspendKernel debugging guide that >> Florian Diesch provided in this thread, and it looks like I'm the victim >> of this bug: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/386641 > > so...

Bill Marcum <marcumbill@bellsouth.net> wrote in news:nqu717-0rv.ln1 @marcumbill.bellsouth.net: > Maybe it's time to install a more recent distro. > Well the update to xorg did not work, failed dependencies. But, me fixing bash and ncurses seemed to fix all the email I was getting about libtermcap and now the clear command works. Xwindows works too now but even though I got firefox updated, it won't run!...

RodMcKay wrote: > I've been fed up with Windows ever since I switched from a Win98SE box > to WinXP a couple of years ago. But I haven't made the switch for > various reasons, one of them being the sheer numbers of Windows > programs I use. I'm ready to see how to do the switch anyway and see > how Wine works. But that seems to defeat the purpose. > > So thought I'd ask for...

On 2010-01-05, Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: > >> On 2010-01-04, Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: >>> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: >>> >>>> ["Followup-To:"...

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:01:12 -0500, RodMcKay wrote: > The only problem I have so far re the Linux interface is something I'm > very picky about, I'm afraid, the file browser/manager, which in Window$ > is called Window$ Explorer (WE). I don't actually know how that's > referred to in Linux but I really need to find one to use over the one > native in Linux since I don't like...

RodMcKay wrote: > The only problem I have so far re the Linux interface is something I'm > very picky about, I'm afraid, the file browser/manager, which in > Window$ is called Window$ Explorer (WE). I don't actually know how > that's referred to in Linux but I really need to find one to use over > the one native in Linux since I don't like Linux's look and feel much. >...

On Sunday 03 January 2010 19:17 in alt.os.linux, somebody identifying as RodMcKay wrote... > In desperation I asked for any recommendations about a replacement for > Linux's file manager/browser [... There is no such thing as "Linux's filemanager". As explained to you by others already in the other thread - which I have not replied on, given the high degree of troll'ishness in your original post -...

On 2009-11-13, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote: > > > Rikishi42 wrote: >> On the other hand: you use Autocad. Is there a program that reads DWG >> drawings? Not likely. There are to few users that use CAD, so you'll need >> some luck there. There are drawing softs, but wether you can exchage designs >> with someone else ? > >...