Comments on echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: Happy first time Linux users, with Mandriva 2010

I have found that first time users can use Mandriv...

2011-03-23T12:39:28.518+13:00

I have found that first time users can use Mandriva on laptops or desktops quite easily. With printers and other items working out pretty nicely. Now I do have java program issues sometimes and in google chrome some windows plugin issues for codecs. However, overall it all works pretty smoothly.

Patrick

Thanks to all of you for the the help. I'll tr...

2009-12-01T20:07:30.081+13:00

Thanks to all of you for the the help. I'll try to setup sudo right after i get my mic and camera to work on skype.
As to alternative encryption, because LUKS seems to be the standard, I would really like to be able to burn a LUKS container to a DVD

Good article. I still haven't chosen a good r...

2009-11-27T19:02:06.239+13:00

Good article. I still haven't
chosen a good recovery program.
Yet, I should given the fact
I so often tinker with Mandriva.
Have had issues with my graphics
card in the past.

Hi Fri13, Picasa was simply to provide an option,...

2009-11-25T22:24:54.526+13:00

Hi Fri13,

Picasa was simply to provide an option, as he is keen on playing with photos. I setup digiKam as the default.

He's also used to use windows, so might have used Picasa before.

Re the problem you had with draksnapshot, it's configured by default now to not create the snapshot directory. I also created a directory
on my backup hard disk, for it to use, so that it did not try and do a backup if someone else plugged in a portable hard disk of the same name.

As for improvements with Draksnapshot, it's in the Mandriva ideas page. http://ideas.mandriva.com/en/idees/show.php?id=358

Can I ask why did you install Picasa and not digiK...

2009-11-25T12:54:50.039+13:00

Can I ask why did you install Picasa and not digiKam? If digiKam would be too difficult for some reason (I know many old users who have computer experience now just a few months, who can manage well to use it to manage photographs like they have used for paper photos. Tagging and writing comments and even sending them to picasa and exporting to emails.) you could always set just gwenview + dolphin. Gwenview has support for kipi-plugins so you can easily export photos to picasa from there.

I have used backintime KDE version and I have liked about it on my computer. But on some computers it fails totally working. It hangs out, does not execute backups and does not even allow making one by manually. Only fix is to remove configs and start from start.

But I hope MDV would fix the draksnapshot so it would work well with removable drives. My friend set up a 1Tb removable USB drive with. Lived happily next few weeks until needed to restart system and noticed terrible problems. Needed to call me to solve it out. First things what I ask them to check is diskspace. That is usually reason why system does not boot longer way than just booting the OS and starting INIT. The draksnapshopt was copied all data multiple times to /media/mountpoint/-1/-2 etc. Reason was simple. Every time the draksnapshot was needed to make a snapshot, it did not check does the path exist. because the path did not exist, it created such. I have not got idea why it made so many -n versions of that as well, other than when mounting the drive itself, it got new name because there was existing directory already.

Hopefully someday we get easy backup function integrated to dolphin. Backup and encryption/decryption with kleopatra.
As far the cryptsetup-LUKS works great, but only on Linux. Truecrypt would be nice if it could have good UI and automounting like cryptsetup.

If you are having problem with vi using visudo, yo...

2009-11-24T04:37:06.949+13:00

If you are having problem with vi using visudo, you can enter an alternative editor using VISUAL.

For example, you can type:

VISUAL=gedit visudo

and you will be able to edit the sudoers file with gedit.

Hi tanclo, sudo is fairly easy to setup on Mandri...

2009-11-23T19:13:45.926+13:00

Hi tanclo,

sudo is fairly easy to setup on Mandriva. You switch to root using
su -

then type visudo [enter] to open up the sudoers configuration file.

I usually enable sudo for the %wheel group, by removing the comment mark from the line in the sudoers file. You'll need to learn a little on how to drive vi, if you've never used it before, to make the change in the file.

Then, add yourself to the wheel group using: gpasswd -a username wheel

After doing this, when you login next time, you should be able to use sudo.

as far as I know, truecrypt is not part of Mandriva, but Mandriva does have other encryption tools that are not restricted by an unusual license.

Here is a link regarding disabling the distro upgrade in mkdapplet

http://fixunix.com/mandriva/552531-not-wanting-upgrade-2009-a.html

I've never been able to setup sudo on mandriva...

2009-11-23T17:26:36.194+13:00

I've never been able to setup sudo on mandriva, and so i can't seem to use truecrypt. could you point me in the right direction please.

one more thing, i setup my friends netbook with 2009.1 and i want to disable the "upgrade to 2010 version' without disabling the usual security and other updates.

If draksnapshot runs by virtue of a script that it...

2009-11-22T13:42:41.630+13:00

If draksnapshot runs by virtue of a script that it places into /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}/, then installing anacron will ensure that if any of those jobs were missed due to the system being off, they will run shortly after the next boot. I put it on every system, even ones that normally run 24/7.

BackInTime looks nice, thank you ruel24, I'll ...

2009-11-22T11:24:47.849+13:00

BackInTime looks nice, thank you ruel24, I'll have a look at it.. maybe it makes draksnapshot obsolete.

Forgot to add the link: http://backintime.le-web....

2009-11-22T08:11:22.658+13:00

Forgot to add the link:

http://backintime.le-web.org/

Could have installed and setup BackInTime, instead...

2009-11-22T08:10:16.222+13:00

Could have installed and setup BackInTime, instead. It's in the repos. It's based on the same idealism as Apple's Time Machine, only not as fancy, and I think it still lacks network backup support. Probably on the way, though.

I'm using kwallet without password. Just provi...

2009-11-22T03:32:54.443+13:00

I'm using kwallet without password. Just provide a blank password.

Did you open some bug report ? I'm interested to follow them