Hi Thank you all for the help that I have been given to date. It has enhanced my appreciation of LL 2.0. immeasureably. I can now browse the internet with Firefox and enjoying the experience. I have also solved the problems I was having with Thunderbird Mail and am now able to send and recieve mail from Karoo with no bother whatsoever. 
Sadly I am having to re enter all the data everytime I load LL 2.0 and thats a pain. I remember that years ago when I was using Knoppix 5 I was able to save all my settings on a thumb drive and not have to re enter them every time I boot up.  I have a spare thumb drive and am wondering if and how I could do this in LL 2.0.? Could anyone guide me into the details of how to? If I can get these things sorted out I think maybe, before long I would be willing to remove Win XP and replace it with LL 2.0.

I installed 2.2 Beta a few days ago and now it's my favorite Linux distribution: easy to use, fast and versatile. So far I have experienced no glitches, though I can't get the weather screenlet to work for my address.
I gave up Windows a couple of years ago, feeling I had no control over the processes in my own computer. I especially  like LL's lack of the paranoia that makes free access to my network files difficult in many other versions of Linux.

I started using a dual boot of LL 1.06/W7 SE about a year ago on my netbook and love it so much, i rarely log into Windows....except for when I "have" to.
I have several programs that run on Windows, like Garmin Connect and Itunes, that supposedly have to be run on Windows/Apple.


Is there any way to run these on LL? If i can figure this out, I'm taking the plunge and going all the way with 2.0 ;-)


Thanks,
Steve

If you've seen some of Richard Stallman's talks, they generally go anywhere from 1 1/2hr to 2 1/2hrs.
This is a great, concise summary of free software, and one of my personal heros in the software world and the main reason why all LL custom software, is free software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM

I have just installed [color=rgb(51, 68, 102)]Avidemux 2.5[/color].4 which is the current version in the repository .Whilst looking in tutorials I read that it had been updated to deal with a problem I have . Searching the Web there is a newer version that  has been out for over 12 months

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News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu LinuxAvidemux 2.6.5 Released: Install / Upgrade in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.04 September 1, 2013

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Colin

I press Alt+Tab in dota 2 and it doesn't switch so I have to use the guake terminal key to get out without closing. Is there a way to enable the alt+tab function in OpenGl games like dota 2.

Virus free, damn straight, it's linux baby!

You now need to read the rules, especially the new rule #15 to ensure your music is allowed.

If you get this error when runing "install-updates"

Let me start with i know next to nothing about linux systems.

computer, 2008? macbook with new 1TB hard drive and soon new logic board with 16GB ram.

I have installed wine, and I've installed or i think i have directx9c. click onlive to launch and get , Failed to create Direct3D. Please ensure that you are running Directx9.0c or later. (status code: a44a)

I know basically nothing about bash and the terminal. I have used it to install with, but only with a tutorial to follow.