An excellent book and site on command line and shell scripting
http://www.linuxcommand.org/

@knome That's a very helpful link, thanks. Good to see you around again! Yes, I agree an excellent article and thanks to knome for posting it. In my experience over a few years from almost the beginning of my own transition, I have found the Salix community a tremendously helpful place with very li...

I'm not sure what you mean by selecting exactly the right files etc., but if you are looking for something that will restore your entire system exactly to your last backup, you may want to look at Clonezilla. Clonezilla will create an image of your entire system, or if you prefer, you can select to ...

Just in case somebody else is following this thread in the future - having the same problem. I resolved this problem by using the command suggested by djemos in his earlier post as root. When, I had previously tried using my user name account, I was prompted to enter my root password, and then the i...

Hi djemos, Tried the command and received the following message: 0%... Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE VBoxManage: error: Failed to install "/home/francis/Downloads/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.8-83876.vbox-extpack" VBoxManage: error: The installer failed with exit code 667: VB...

I am having a problem installing the VB extension pack for VirtualBox 4.2.8. I also experienced this same problem with the previous version of VirtualBox. I get the following messages when attempting to load the extension pack. Failed to install the Extension Pack /home/francis/Downloads/Oracle_VM_V...

composite effects are disabled. To enable them delete the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/disable-composite.conf or edit the file and change Disable to Enable Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection Log out and Log in again on kde. go to systemsettings a...

Running the 32b Beta in Virtualbox I get the following message when in: System Manger > Desktop Effects > General Tab Desktop effects are not available on this system due to the following issues: Required X extentions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available. A slapt-get search shows libXcomposite...

But the new beta release is Openbox.

Yep - I was just looking at the 14.Obeta1/14.Obeta2 part of the subject line and assumed it was a new release. I guess those elementary teacher's were right when they said I was 'attention span' challenged..

I loaded this into a VM this morning. No issues, wireless, audio, video all working. .... so my only issue is, as soon as I get back to report my findings, I see a new release candidate is out ..grrr

Ok, it's a good thing