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 Mageia7 does provide a pre-compiled package for DOSBox, but does not provide any graphical frontend for it. Since DOSBox may typically need special configurations for specific application, a GUI frontend is handy for managing these configuration files. DBoxFE is available; version 0.1.3.0 dated 21 September 2007 is the most current. Both  32-bit and 64-bit RPM packages are available as well as a win32 version . This installs on Mageia7 with only a warning about the package being unsigned. When launched, the following screen displays. You must create a Profile (here named "Basic") and also provide the path to the dosbox executable (  /usr/bin/dosbox , in the Preferences tab). The named configuration files are kept at ~/.dboxfe Once configured, select the appropriate profile and click Start. But what about configuring DOSBox itself? The default configuration file is found at ~.dosbox/ and named dosbox-0.74.conf . It is well commented and provides a set of sane defaults....

On February 2, 2000, Maxis Software released the first of a series of life simulation video games, The Sims . Microsoft XP was released on October 25, 2001. There were several expansion packs released for The Sims and several Service Packs released for Windows XP. My goal is to install the most current version of Windows XP on 32-bit hardware and install the DVD version of The Sims Complete Collection . The motherboard used is a Microstar MS-7061 with an AMD Sempron 3000+ and 2GB of RAM. There were no IDE hard drives or CDROM drives available, so IDE to SATA adapters were used on SATA drives. The video card is an nVidia GeForce 6200  compliant with Microsoft DirectX 9.0c specification and OpenGL 2.0. This is adequate to run The Sims satisfactorily. Installation began with an on-hand copy of Windows XP SP2, but it turned out that the game would install but not run on that, so an update to SP3 was needed. I did find an unofficial "SP4" and installed that without issue. Se...

Zoom is a popular, if somewhat insecure, videoconferencing application in wide use. It does offer Linux support, just not for Mageia7. However, if you head over to the Zoom Linux download page , and access the Download center for Fedora 21+, you can install the appropriate 32- or 64-bit RPM package which will install all the correct dependencies and Zoom will work on your Mageia7 system! Back on the site's Zoom Overview page, there is adequate help to get you started with the app itself. I'm using an older Logitech USB camera and had it working with cheese , a good way to test out your hardware. If you have video/audio issues, get them worked out before you install Zoom. That kind of hardware troubleshooting is beyond the scope of this short article. Remember that  Google Is Your Friend . There are some FOSS alternatives to Zoom , but unless you're just videoconferencing with your Linux buddies, you'll probably be forced to use Zoom. Google Meet seems to be po...

Not much has been mentioned about urpmi-proxy for Mageia. In theory, urpmi-proxy works as a local proxy for a Mageia repository. You set it as the source repository for all your machines and it downloads and distributes only what packages you need. For the most part, little configuration is needed "out of the box". It is configured by default to use the existing repositories that are already configured on the host/server machine but as pointed out, this creates a recursive loop should you update the server itself. The Wiki docs explain how to circumvent this issue. There are other package management systems available from Mageia, notably dnf which will become the standard system only after the Mageia build system, dependent on urpmi, can be translated to dnf .  Configuring the Server Simply invoke $ sudo urpmi urpmi-proxy And this will also install the apache webserver, which is used to serve the files to your other machines. Then restart Apache. $ sudo systemctl...

The Onion Router (TOR) is not a server frequently run by most Linux users, especially North American users. Many countries actively persecute their citizens for their beliefs and anonymity is important for their safety, so I wanted to participate in the effort to assist this project by running a TOR relay server. I have a dedicated computer that runs a webserver for a hobby site, so I felt that it would be the logical hardware to run the TOR server. It is important for TOR to have access to the correct and accurate time, so the NTP client needs to be installed and configured for your timezone. Configure the NTP Server $ xsudo drakwizard ntp and follow the instructions here  to install and configure it. You can launch X-applications over ssh using xsudo . Install the TOR Application $ sudo urpmi tor This will also install the SOCKS proxy software. You may also install a GUI configuration tool, vidalia . We won't be using vidalia , so it won't be covered here. How...

This is just a placeholder for relevant links until I can get around to installing the game. http://www.carmageddon.com/forum/topic/18741 http://www.glidos.net/carma.html?lang=en#instvoodoo http://www.tower.net.au/~robsol/carma/carm_faq.html#3dfx https://www.cwaboard.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5793 http://www.patches-scrolls.com/search.php?game=carmageddon&platform=1&cnt=25 http://ykhwong.xo.st/ http://1amstudios.com/projects/ http://www.carmageddon.com/forum/topic/337 http://hifi.iki.fi/carmageddon/ Stop using the so-called "XP patch" fo C2... You must use the latest patch, V2. More about patches there: http://www.cwaboard.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8060 And for Carmageddon 1, just use hifi's ddraw.dll (unless you 100% want glide). http://www.cwaboard.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8060 Does this game run in WINE?

As extensive as the Mageia RPM package repositories are, they don't include every application possible and it makes sense to create a local repository of these additional RPMs since I have several Mageia workstations. Using a remote workstation running lighttpd that acts as a webserver for a car club, it is also configured to allow each user to use ~/public_html as their personal webserver, and so added mageia as a user and will host the custom RPM files there. Configuration for lighttpd can be found here . There must also be a way for urpmi to know what files are available, so install repoctl which includes the application genhdlists . There is also a stand-alone application, genhdlists2 that accomplishes the same thing and that's what was used here. $ cd /home/mageia/public_html $ genhdlists . If you also use yum of dnf , install mrepo to accomplish the same thing. Add a Local Repository To add the new http repository, use urpmi.addmedia.  For example, ...