I did not like Mandriva all that much but it I found it to make an easy transition from Windows. I toy around with quite a few distributions and so far prefer Debian based ones. As with Addis I love Apt. I think the best one yet for my aging laptop is Sidux although at the moment I am re-trialling Kubuntu.
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1) When I switch between desktops, the task bar shows all the open applications. Any idea how I can make each desktop have its own task bar?
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Assuming you are using KDE, right click on the panel you wish to configure (bottom in this case) and choose to configure the panel. Go to the taskbar section and untick the 'Show windows from all desktops' option.
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2) I like to stream my music from a Windows PC. Currently I can only do this using VLC Media player (which i downloaded), and playback is sometimes jerky. Also, I cannot play a playlist, just a single track at a time :S.
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VLC plays everything for me. As I never had any issues playing multimedia with Linux (apart from certain streaming videos like asx etc) I do not have experience trouble shooting this. I always use VLC to play m3u lists.... not sure why it will not it for you....
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3) I tried to install a trial of VMWare, it was an RPM, but when I tried to run the command 'vmware' it said it had to compile something, and eventually asked for the location of my C Headers (or something like that). It couldn't find them and installation / configuration stopped!
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Why trial VMWare? Just use free VirtualBox....
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4) To compile software from source, do I need the kernel source? If so, where can I get it? (Mandriva One Spring 2008).
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Sorry.... do not do compiling me....
If it is not prepackaged I do not wanna know! Only jesting. I am not that good with Linux to answer that....
