I got a Mandrake 9.2 partition working on my P4 2.0Ghz machine with 512 meg RAM and a GeForce4MX 420 video card.
What cool stuff should I run with it? I already have the xmms player for mp3s working.
Oh, and it should be free, I’m on a budget.
Office things: Mozilla Firebird, Open Office, Evolution(email)
Online Chatting: gaim (or licq), ksirc or Xirc
If you like games: FreeCiv, Frozen Bubble, Enemy Territory, kgames for fun time-waster games.
Kstars is cool, as is Celestia if you like looking at the cosmos.
The Gimp for image manipulation.
Kplayer or Mplayer for video and XCDRoast for burning CDs.
Thats all I can think of. Enjoy!
TUXRACER!!!
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How could I forget TuxRacer?? I LOVE that game, even though I totally suck at it!
Play with window managers. KDE and GNOME are the big ones, and they are nice, but there are so many more choices. Preferences for managing the desktop vary widely person to person. Finding the window manager that just makes you happy is great.
I personally love more minimalist managers (blackbox or fluxbox). WindowMaker is nice.
I just don’t get Enlightenment, but you might want to give it a shot.
IceWM is fast and light and very extensible.
themes
more themes
KDE themes
Beaten to Tuxracer by two people. Add glade as a lovely development environment, and I prefer BitchX for IRC, but as it is solely command line YMMV.
If I recall correctly there is a lot bundled with the drake that is not immediately accessible from the standard KDE/Gnome desktops as well. On that note, once you feel a bit more comfortable, drop both of those for a lighter desktop manager. there are a lot to choose from, although I am not sure what comes bundled with your distro. My own money is on blackbox (works in Win as well people) , light, easy to use and speedy.
For packages that might be interesting [URL=http://rpmfind.net]rpmfind[\url]
Also, using urpmi (run Mandrake Control Center or, from the command line, drakconf or rpmdrake to get to the package tool), you can define sources from which to obtain .rpms. Using urpmi, dependencies and conflicts in packages are resolved for you, rather than you trying to install a package only to discover that you are missing some library file.
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Thanks folks!
I looked for Tuxracer before I realized that it was already installed…
It ran like pure shit. This made me realize that the video driver, although for nvidia cards, was not using the 3D hardware of my NVidia card properly. So I downloaded a Linux driver (actually a big-ass script) from the Nvidia site.
I ran the script, and it failed to find an “interface”, and it failed to download one from the Nvida web site. It decided to compile one itself, but couldn’t because I didn’t have the kernel source installed.
I fired up the rpm tool, and tried to download/install the kernel source RPM, but it kept failing. I downloaded it manually, then installed it on the command line.
After that, the big-ass script compiled the interface fine, but referred to a non-existant document to tell me how to adjust my x conf file.
A web search results in the knowledge that I need to change “nv” to “nvidia”. This is done, and I restart the X server.
Tuxserver is now running smooth as silk.
Question: what is this interface it had to compile?