Unlike Windows, the system requirements generally don't go up between each new version. ;) Actually, the next release of KDE requires significantly less resources than the current KDE 3 -- about 40% less memory to run vs. KDE 3, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I've heard about KDE 4, but when will it …

Feisty won't receive any more updates to the DOSBox package via getdeb because it [Feisty] has been superceeded by Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. So there's a way to get an Ubuntu DOSbox source into my repositories? This should not be a problem since at some point before the next version of DOSBox you will …

It seems you added a full Debian sid mirror to your list of repositories, which is bad. sid is the "unstable" branch of Debian, so it will have newer packages than Ubuntu 7.04, but even though Ubuntu is based on Debian they are not compatible. So don't do that again. :) Thanks. Warning appreciated. …

eric@eric-linux:~$apt-get update bash: aapt-get: command not found Watch that error message carefully: It is just a weird typo. You somehow typed "aapt-get" (plus some special keys) Yes, I noticed it later, tried the correct command, and got the result I reported in my response to dougdahl Your apt …

(probably off-topic) Are there any process that seems to be taking up too much of CPU/memory at those times of slowing, by using the 'top' command from a console?....An extremely good idea to know what the processes are before you start doing anything. There's an application on the system for …

The "-/+" line gives the amount of memory that's really used by processes, which is only a bit more than half in your case, so no worry here. Thanks. That's reassuring, though -- and this is off-topic, too -- I'm still puzzled about the slowness of my system, although yesterday and today it seems …

open a console and type free That's simple enough. I do have a swap file: eric@eric-linux:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 483468 476548 6920 0 9472 205812 -/+ buffers/cache: 261264 222204 Swap: 465844 34328 431516 eric@eric-linux:~$ This raises another question. For the memory I …

Qbix wrote: it's not related to dosbox Thanks. the second error sounds like that you ran out of memory do you have a swapfile ? Dunno. Dunno how to know. Like I said, absolute newbie. [Well, getting to be less so, but still dunno.] Regards,

I am currently running DOSbox 0.65 under Ubuntu 7.4. Following instructions on the Debian website I attempted to add a respository to my sources list and upgrade to 0.72. Specifically, Using Software Sources I entered: deb http://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian sid main After which Software Sources …

wd wrote: There's a readme, should even be accessible from linux stuff... I'll check it out. Thanks,

ubuntu 7.10 comes with 0.71... Well maybe I should just wait then. Ubtuntu's been an experiment for me that seems to be working. After I upgrade my machine -- or buy a new one -- I'll upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10. Glad to hear that DOSbox is on 7.10. As I say, I don't remember where I got my copy, but as …

Dunno. Maybe some of site mentioned here? http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9306 Thanks. They seem a little too cutting edge for me. I'm new to Linux, using DOSbox to run a DOS application, a very special text editor/outliner/idea processor that I've been using since 1985. And I use it a lot. …

I was planning to download and install DBoxFE. DOSbox 7.2 is recommended. I have 6.5. I don't remember how or where I got my copy, but I at present there's no download specifically for Ubuntu or Debian on the BOSbox website. Which one should I use?