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I am currently into Engineering, and I am working slowly on my Knowledge / Know-How of Linux. I am eager to know about the Job Opportunities for people who have considerably good knowledge in Linux. This thought has popped up in my mind, due to the reason that I was watching out my Local LUG, and somebody quoted like..."There aren't much Job Opportunities for Linux Knowledge compared to

I haven't configured YUM . How do I do it? Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but I have no idea about it. Moreover, I would also like to use APT afterwards. I really want to try both of these. I have used apt-get before many a times, but never used YUM. Can anybody post the procedure to get this working? Which repositories to be added, how it is to be configured? And yes, how do i

I have Cent OS 4 with KDE. How do I enable an option of starting a new session with the current running? What I want to do is.....If I Lock my Screen, the other user should be able to Login to a new session on the Same computer. I hope this is clear. Thank you. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

I downloaded the jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin files and then run it as ./jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin. It resulted in an rpm file. and then i used rpm -iv jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm Everything went fine and I didn't get any error. But when I do java -version ......i don't get any output. I would like to know whether java is installed on my system or not. PS: I have

What should i do to run multiple instances of Firefox? I mean whenever I click on the firefox to start a new window, it asks me to create a new profile. I use Firefox 1.0.6 on Cent OS 4. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

Can I define a default session for each user seperately? Or do they compulsorily have to follow the Default system session. If this can be done, tell me what all files need to be edited. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

I have downloaded the required KDE files (version 3.4.2)(I know what all files are required), and tried to simply upgrade using the rpm -Uvh command. But i began getting dependency problems. Now, what I did was searched google like a mad buffalo :P to find that missing files, and was successful to a great extent. But the weird thing was I got a few conflicts, which I can't around with. Please

I know this mesage is quite common, but i do get this at shutdown. (Discussed many times on the forums as such.) But still, please provide a "quickfix" acpi power off called, and then the computer simply stays on there, and doesn't shutdown. can anybody help me find a quick fix for this? I am in quite a hurry at the moment, and need urgent help. Thanks . -- "No-one dies a

I have Cent OS 4 installed on my computer, with cable internet. My ISP requires me to login to the account before I can access the Internet. I require to type some commands to get it working. (It comes with a software which I have installed) But that requires root access. I have many users on this computer, who can't access the Internet without my permission ( And I can't tell them the

I am using Cent oS 4 and I would like to setup the YUM repositories. Can anybody help me setup YUM? THat would be to install software, add repositories, and such necessary stuff. I know how to use apt-get, but not on Cent OS ( I will use either YUM or APT, at a time, but learn both of them, sooner or later.) Thank you. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

My wife does and here's the problem. It automatically mounts the flash memory of the player. But it doesn't mount the SD card slot. I used Ubuntu 5.10 recently and it mounted both of them. Both as separate USB sticks. How do I get CentOS to do the same thing? Or can it not discern that two USB flash devices are plugged in? Preston

I recently upgraded to KDE 3.4.2 (all manually) I know this is not a KDE Centric Mailing List, but I tried searching the Web for this error. Moreover, I can't get to the KDE Forum. :( Kicker application crashes on logout. Got a lot of takers, but no solution for that. Does anybody know a solution for this one? (This is a known bug, but I really did not find any solution.) -- "No-one

I know that this is not a Cent OS centric question, but still. I recently upgraded to KDE 3.4.2 on Cent OS 4. Does anybody knows the solution for the Kicker Bug? Whenever I Log-Off, I get an Error saying that Kicker has crashed. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

How do I add Wma support to my Cent OS 4 distribution? I would also like to have GS streamer installed. Thank you. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."