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Siplus:

quote: What is the advantage of buying it? The personal edition didn't even come with installation support and only 30 days of basic network setup support. I guess it does have printed manuels though.
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well, the most important reason is that i can not download it, and i don't feel like bugging my friends for the next 4 months to get them to dl it for me...

billy_gates:
having some problems now.  I installed that RPM fine, but when I do apt-get in the terminal it says the command doesn't exist.

slave:
Are you root?

Also try typing /sbin/apt-get instead of apt-get

/sbin is where the system programs are often kept.

billy_gates:
thx for your help, that apt-get thing makes it so much easier to install software.  I even got vncserver installed and running.  Now I can use my Linux box from my Mac, until I get a better monitor for it.  Also somehow Linux automatically installed my printer that was shared from my windows box, just like my Mac, good job RH (or whoever did that)

I do have one ?.  In VNC it seems to drop out the antialiasing and cursor shadow.  Is there any way to keep those?  I like them, and over a lan it won't slow it down much.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by Siplus: *Capitalist*:

well, the most important reason is that i can not download it, and i don't feel like bugging my friends for the next 4 months to get them to dl it for me...
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isn't there some company that will download it for almost cost price in your area? there are three such companies in my area that i have used satisfactorily. (best is www.linuxemporium.co.uk for anybody in the UK) i got red hat (actually from http://smb-computing.co.uk/ ) for

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