ALL THE WASTED YEARS!

[Prometheus]

I just installed Mandrake and so far im loving it i have it partioned 2gb swap file

Im lovin it :D (please dont sue)

if anyone has any useful tips/progs that would be good

thanks!

[StinkyMojo]

See pro... told ya Mandrake was the shiat

[vee_ess]

Kind of a big swap partition don't you think? LOL. I hope you stuck with 9.2 and not 10.0 (on the new Linux kernel) as I've heard it's been very problematic so far.

[Jason425]

lol just noticed.. 2 gig swap? What do you have negative 1 gig of ram? :lol:

[vee_ess]

:lol:
And a need to justify his 200GB HD, too, I think!

[Jason425]

it'd be funny if someone had a 100 gig swap on a 120 gig drive.. just for kicks.. ;)

[Prometheus]

david(omega) suggested it since i have a gig of ram

[Jason425]

ok.. i know they always say double your ram.. but i have to disagree with him here.. the idea is that if you have that much ram.. you probably have a big enough hard drive to be able to afford more swap..
as you know swap is used when there is no more ram. It is unlikely you will run out of ram. It is possible, not to mention some programs REQUIRE some swap.. if it were my system i'd try it w/o any and if that caused problems i'd add a couple hundred mb

[xMerCLorDx]

why the fuck would you setup 2 gigs of swap?

i suggest learning:
vi
awk
sed
nmap
wget
nc
grep
nessus
ssh (the tunneling and openssh (http://www.openssh.com) suite features)

and specifically wsconsctl -w keyboard.encoding=us.dvorak if you're really 1337.

try using programs in /bin
for help on how to use the syntax for programs type
man ls replace ls with whatever you found in bin for some good reading.
read the contents of /etc and try to understand those configs, knowing those is they key to knowing your computers' setup.

somewhere to start anyway. get those things down and you'll be coo.