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pintoca

pintoca

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I'm happy to announce I'm just now making my first linux-based post on EF...

The installation was flawless, but the DAMNED WLAN configuration took forever (what with kernel recompiling, mobprobe, insmod and all the other shit that digger loves...)

I have Suse 9.3 Pro in my home box, as a dual boot, that one still has some flaws with the USB WLAN adapter.

I'm running knoppix 4.0.2 on this laptop (kernel 2.6.12)... this is the SHIT!!! (KDE, konqueror, the works)... Even knoppix was not happy with this setup and had to do a lot of WLAN reconfiguring with iwconfig. Currently testing with ethereal, capturing all this traffic mofos.

ok, enough of thr :nerd: x Bran
 
Yup and by the time you install all the middleware to get it to run the same amount of apps that a Windows XP box runs out of the box.. it will crash just as much.

LOL as if it had anywhere near the application suite MS does. The whole linux crowd just irritates me.
 
Congrats, what caused you to go for Suse?

I ended up on Fedora a few months back due to needing to run a proprietary binary. Still, I think I like Gnome over K.
 
Pintoca, i could have told you a much easier way to do that if you had just asked.



:P
 
blut wump said:
Congrats, what caused you to go for Suse?

I ended up on Fedora a few months back due to needing to run a proprietary binary. Still, I think I like Gnome over K.
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I just happened across the 5 CDs at work.

Knoppix I downloaded... it took me the whole of 25 mins to get the full 700 Mb
 
That's an excellent reason.

Get yourself some decent bandwidth ;)

They've started to advertise 24Mb in some regions here.
 
milo hobgoblin said:
Yup and by the time you install all the middleware to get it to run the same amount of apps that a Windows XP box runs out of the box.. it will crash just as much.

LOL as if it had anywhere near the application suite MS does. The whole linux crowd just irritates me.
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shup

this is a Live-Cd... one single CD has over 4Gb of Data, using on-the-fly compression, the whole equivalent to Office is installed out of the box, every time you boot, not to mention, firewall, network anylysis tools, etc.

It is not as dumb-proof as Windows, then again, that is not the market this is aimed at.

Im a MS user, I'm just testing this... have to be objective enough to know what is best of what is available. For your regular user, you cannot beat MS, the numbers are there.

Its the same with digital cameras, point-and-shoot have the most market, doesn't mean there is no market for Digital SLR
 
jnuts said:
Try the Ubuntu distro.... it's worked well at the house for our desktop machines.
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dude, you the bumpasaurus?

In the meantime I played with Linspire... settled at the end (after endless attempts) for a debian core and KDE 3.4

I tried Gnome and hated it as well
 
KillahBee said:
For the business unit.
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I hope you understand there is no Linux Company

This being Open Source and all.

There are a number of Companies out there that try and take something that is free and market it under their name, Novell, Sun and IBM to name a few.
 
pintoca said:
I hope you understand there is no Linux Company

This being Open Source and all.

There are a number of Companies out there that try and take something that is free and market it under their name, Novell, Sun and IBM to name a few.
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There is a Linux BU within one of those companies. We manage events for them all the time. We just had one this weekend at Sawgrass
 
pintoca said:
racist

on the other hand, I see you don't need to attend in order to organize
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We always "attend". On-site management is a huge part of our scope of work. But it's not like we are having fun playing golf or anything.
 
Gnome > KDE

Although, Aqua > all

I run Fedora Core 4 at home. It's pretty good. One gay thing, I use a MS explorer mouse and have all the buttons working. My video card died the other day, so I put in a new one. Xorg.conf changed, so my mouse quits, and I have to go edit it again. Linux is nice, but it can be such a pain in the ass too. Gnome is great, but some things just don't work right. KDE works a bit better, but is too cluttered for me. It is getting better every time as a whole.
 
Ish said:
Gnome > KDE

Although, Aqua > all

I run Fedora Core 4 at home. It's pretty good. One gay thing, I use a MS explorer mouse and have all the buttons working. My video card died the other day, so I put in a new one. Xorg.conf changed, so my mouse quits, and I have to go edit it again. Linux is nice, but it can be such a pain in the ass too. Gnome is great, but some things just don't work right. KDE works a bit better, but is too cluttered for me. It is getting better every time as a whole.
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FreeBSD & Gentoo when I want to tinker....Ubuntu when I just want shit to work.
 
I haven't tried Ubuntu, but I've heard good things. I think I'll give it a shot. I'm getting a new laptop for work, so I'll put it on there.


Dial_tone said:
FreeBSD & Gentoo when I want to tinker....Ubuntu when I just want shit to work.
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I like a distro I can keep updated without buying a new version.
 
blut wump said:
What's this word 'buy'? I remember hearing it but not in connexion with software.
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Buy - to purchase....as in to go buy blank CD's to burn all the software you found free on the internet.
 
pintoca said:
dude, you the bumpasaurus?

In the meantime I played with Linspire... settled at the end (after endless attempts) for a debian core and KDE 3.4

I tried Gnome and hated it as well
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Yeah, been out of town for a bit, so I'm getting caught up.

Gnome/KDE.... I'm flexible. Ubuntu is debian based, so it's got the apt-get niceness w/it.

I'm still having some printer driver, scanner, and web cam issues to clean up, but its all good :)
 
Dial_tone said:
FreeBSD & Gentoo when I want to tinker....Ubuntu when I just want shit to work.
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True, but Ubuntu has been pissing me off with a couple of driver issues.
 
KDE is the reason I first tried unix 8 years ago. It looked like win95....it didn't work like it but it was enuff to get me to try it. Now i'm firmly a Gnome guy but sometimes I like the sparse look of Fluxbox.
 
Dial_tone said:
KDE is the reason I first tried unix 8 years ago. It looked like win95....it didn't work like it but it was enuff to get me to try it. Now i'm firmly a Gnome guy but sometimes I like the sparse look of Fluxbox.
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You ever try any of the tiny distros? DSL, etc? They work pretty good on low end machines.
 
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