UK Linux

Which Kubuntu?
I want to upgrade a machine from Xandros 3 OCE (which seems to be entirely neglected by its vendor) to Ubuntu with KDE. The machine is on expensive dialup and I rarely have access to it so having something that needs minimal post-installation updates is important. The Xandros install is 3-4 years old and I hope t... 24 Apr 2008 11:51

Best fast-booting text-console Linux?
What's the best small linux distro for booting up very quickly to a text console on a very old and slow PC, that can be installed with no X-server, and has a reasonably generous set of linux commands? -- Dave Farrance ... 21 Apr 2008 18:09

Problem getting Server Side Includes SSI to work on Fedora 8.
Please can someone put me out of my misery. I have come back to this problem several times over the last couple of weeks and have Googled extensively but can't find the solution. One of our applications uses a web interface for control purposes and amongst other things uses a server side include to display a sim... 23 Apr 2008 10:55

Security for the desktop user
What would you suggest as sensible security measures for desktop Linux users, who won't be running such things as PHP websites or an array of vulnerable services? Thanks, Daniele ... 18 Apr 2008 10:14

Web site login problems
Has anyone else had trouble logging in to 18185.co.uk? The site is a nightmare of JavaScript (required even for navigation) and badly-formed HTML so I am not exactly sure what is happening and why but I get a connection timeout when I try to get past the log in window. This is with a fixed IP address, routed t... 17 Apr 2008 10:09

Offered: various Linux and related books
* sendmail (also known as the bat book) 2nd ed. (O'Reilly) <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail2/> * Linux Unleashed 4th ed. (SAMS) * Teach Yourself SQL 2nd ed. (SAMS) * Stopping Spam (also known as the pig book) 1st ed. (O'Reilly) All in good to excellent condition. Free to a... 14 Apr 2008 14:36

Distro recommendation
Chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: Richard Lamont wrote: Hold on for a few weeks until the next LTS (long-term support) version of Ubuntu (8.04) is released. Ubuntu's LTS editions come out about once every two years and have three years support on the desktop, five on the server. You can upgrade ... 12 Apr 2008 05:22

Extracting keywords from text
I'm trying to find some way of parsing text files and extracting "keywords" from them. "Keywords" is hard to define, of course, but i guess it means nouns that are used relatively infrequently. I've tried to install TextMine - but didn't have any luck with it, and couldn't be bothered going any further down th... 13 Apr 2008 09:33

tar / zip query
I have directories [0-9a-z], in those directories are .jpg files and thumbnails of those .jpgs, these are identified by having the same file name but prepended by 'th'. There are about 60MB of images in total so, to make them more download friendly, we tar and gzip them into files about 20MB. It turns out that our ... 15 Apr 2008 18:43

Clipboards In X - Why Do they Vanish?
Hi folks, As we're on a clipboard theme I have another question. Why is it that when I copy (CTRL+C) some text out of an application to the clipboard and close that application, the text vanishes from the clipboard? How can one stop this from happening? I'm using KDE 3.5.9. -- Regards, Sheridan Hutchin... 12 Apr 2008 11:06