The DNS that Pardus uses by default can be slow. You can try the DNS of your Internet Provider.

Namings of hard disk drives depends on the nature of their interfaces :

SATA hard disk drives are named sda, sdb, etc.
PATA (=ATA=IDE) hard disk drives are named hda, hdb, etc.

What do the messages say ?

3.5 GB is the minimum. 5 GB is what I choose by experience. It leaves enough room to extra programs and to big updates (updates fill the /tmp repository).

KMail already has a notifier.
What do you find in Korn that is not present in KMail ?

You should redo your partitionning, with 5GB for the system partition (named "/" and formated as "ext3"), 1GB for the swap partition ("swap") and 10 GB for your documents ("/home", "ext3").

If Pardus fails again, you may use MandrivaOne LiveCD which includes a better partitionning tool in the Control Center, complete the partitionning and formatting (except your Windows partition) and then exit.

Your disk will be partitionned and the partitions should be recognized by the Pardus CD.

Here is how to install Google Earth on Pardus :

http://en.pardus-wiki.org/HOWTO:Google_Earth

This command line creates a (hidden) directory for getmail.

I don't know whether there is a german repository.
Anyway you can install it from our french one : http://depot.pardus-fr.org/contrib

To add this repository, just type :

Because no one has updated this english wiki page yet. Anybody can do it.


There is no fixed release date for Pardus 2008. It may be released in june, so I think you should reinstall Pardus 2007.3 and make the updates. Unfortunately, there is no "Pardus 2007.3 SP1" to avoid downloading several hundreds Mb of updates.

There is another ranking where all of you could make the difference. It's the ranking of hardware4linux.info.
There is 497 members on this forum and there is only 10 Pardus 2007.3 PCs and 8 Pardus 2007.2 declared !

Let's make Pardus n°1 !

I got an explanation for this.
Special device files used by ALSA and those used by OSS are actually different. The special device file /dev/sequencer is related to an OSS configuration, not to an ALSA's like mine.

Hello,

I wonder why there are two different files in /etc/modules.d, aliases and aliases_modutils, instead of just one, since they have basically the same purpose.

"Pardus 2005" adds the production year information over "Pardus 3". Can you tell which year Debian 2.2 was published ? I can't remember exactly, although I used it.
Year information is valuable for the user, because he knows where he stands when he uses Pardus 2009, for example.

"Pardus 3" , may be ok, but "Pardus 11" ? "Pardus 17" ?
Mandrake (now Mandriva) adopted year-numbers before Mandrake 10, because "Mandrake 10" is not as appealing as "Mandriva 2005".
Version-number denomination sucks because it's not sustainable in the long run.

I disagree. I just love year-based distribution denominations. It's far more readable for the public.

"Pardus 3.0" is not ok for me, because it implicitly says : "Pardus is for geeks, not real people", as real people don't know about major numbers and minor numbers. Moreover, it soon tends to become much more complicated, like "3.1", "3.1.1", "3.1.2rc1", and so on.
To have Pardus 2007 in year 2008 is not a big deal as far as I am concerned, and yes, it puts pressure on developpers, but that's good pressure

I don't know wether you can use a DVD instead of a CD, maybe you could try to burn a CD.

What happens exactly when you boot your DVD ?
Do you see a blank screen or do you see some informations ("grub" for example) ?