linux laptop update...

[l a u r e n]

well... linux easy? not a chance thats for damn sure but... i finally found a good distro for people who just want to use their computer rather than spend all their lives fiddling with it ... morpix (i think thats how its spelt) still not easy and talk about dll hell??? what about pkg hell!!! i think im finally getting there but there is NO WAY id give up my gorgeous xp laptop for day to day stuff thats for damn sure

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[leppie]

The new Knoppix 3.4 has just been released, with a whole lot of goodies on 1 liveCD. :)

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[BrockVnm]

It isnt all that bad....is it?? I love Solaris, it rocks! :laugh::laugh::laugh: There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

[l a u r e n]

i think i just told it to update all packages and i thought waiting for xp sp1 was slow :omg:

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[BrockVnm]

You'll get used to it. The good thing is you dont have to do an update twice a day. :laugh::laugh::laugh: There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

[andyj115]

I'm in day 40 trying to install my Linux "personal [edit]trainer[/edit] machine", I'm trying a lot of distributions: . Debian (trouble with SCSI and a Matrox G400 DH) . Lorma (Red-Had...) . Mandrake (good, but no way to make it work in a virtual machine . Gentoo (no way, my PROXY doesent permit me to install) until now... :suss:

[l a u r e n]

try morphix and do the hard disk install it kinda is usable :) *makes a note never to knock windows again*

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[BrockVnm]

As much as I love using my Solaris box and my Red Hat partition, I could never give up xp! :omg: There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

[Tomas Petricek]

You're a realy cool linux ]-[4x00r !! You have installed it in only 11 days ! Clickety[^] w00t ! :rolleyes:

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[l a u r e n]

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[leppie]

I have also tried alot, and the one I still like the most is Slackware.

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[BrockVnm]

I hear that alot about Slackware. Is it that much better than Redhat?? I have only used Redhat. There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

[l a u r e n]

oh well *sigh* i tried to upgrade a package and it all went south *gets out the install cd again* :suss:

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[Ryan Binns]

BrockVnm wrote: I love Solaris, it rocks!

• where editing the /etc/hostname file doesn't actually change the host name at all :confused:. You have to change /etc/nodename for that...
• where NTP very rarely works properly :mad:
• where if you have a terminal window spewing out lots of information, the system clock can lose half a second every second. The problem is the that the clock-tick interrupt has lower (!!) priority than most other interrupts in the system :rolleyes:
• where hard drives get corrupted at random X|

Personally, I'd prefer using a hair dryer as my OS but hey, whatever takes your fancy :)

Ryan

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[Steven Hicks n 1]

I would recommend gentoo, it is the solution to package hell, yes it does take some tolerence to install, hey you know exactly whats its doing though. -Steven Hicks

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