Linux lovers?

CapTVK said:
I'm surprised noone has mentioned Suse yet. Have been playing and running happily next to my Win98 partititon since 5.2 and I'm up to 9.2 now. Plus Knoppix from time, excellent distro...

GNOME VS KDE? KDE, it comes as the standard with Suse so I used that ever since. However the later releases of KDE are starting to really push the limits of my humble cel466 now. I'm thinking of trying out xfce. Light but still good looking http://www.xfce.org/
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Suse? I did mention it a bit earlier in the thread. Should I give it a try :mischief:
 
Hm... the thing died on me, it crashed like an old Windows thing. I am disapointed. All I did was try to open and install a Macromedia plug-in. I'm beginning to lose faith here and I didn't even get started :confused:
 
Aphex_Twin said:
I'm writing this from under Knoppix. If this is just a "demo" of the real thing I can only say WOW :eek:
It only took me 10 minutes to configure the thing. Now to see if it can play 3d games. Can you recommend something to try?

Again, WOW ;)
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Some good 3D games for Knoppix? Well, there's only a small selection games included with the standard Knoppix distro. You could take a look at Games Knoppix that's got a good selection of games.

http://games-knoppix.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/
 
I can't seem to get the sound card, printer and movie player to work. And it crashed again. Knoppix Linux seems much more unstable than Windows XP. Yet for some strange reason I haven't thrown away the CD. I must be crazy :crazyeye:
 
I tested it on a relatively new computer. As I understand Knoppix seems to fail to detect Canon i350 printers and on-board video and audio [ Asus P4R800-V (Deluxe) ]. It cannot playback movies, no mp3 and of course no 3d ("Tux Racer" and "Puzzle Bubble" freeze in full-screen mode). It's essentially an internet machine (by luck I stumbled upon the net-card configurator :crazyeye: ).

The look and feel is a bit "unwieldy", and that may be because I'm not accustomed to it. But it does crash, I'm not exactly sure what I did the last time, I tried to open something... :hohum:
 
I'm getting a little pissed at this Linux thing. So far I have tried Knoppix (fails to detect hardware), Fedora (fails to install) and Unbuntu (no functionality whatsoever). I hope Debian will prove useful, though I'll have to wait 2 days to download it...
 
Aphex_Twin said:
I'm getting a little pissed at this Linux thing. So far I have tried Knoppix (fails to detect hardware), Fedora (fails to install) and Unbuntu (no functionality whatsoever). I hope Debian will prove useful, though I'll have to wait 2 days to download it...
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If Knoppix doesn't detect your hardware, then Debian certainly won't (especially depending on what version of Debian you're downloading - Woody is over three years old).
 
Chairman Meow said:
If Knoppix doesn't detect your hardware, then Debian certainly won't (especially depending on what version of Debian you're downloading - Woody is over three years old).
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No, but Unbuntu does. And I'm testing it on two computers, one with internet access (on which I will only run live CDs) and another without internet connection (which Knoppix detects, but delivers the audio stream to the wrong plug). I don't like Unbuntu because it has no support for mp3 or mpeg and no C compiler. Fedora seems to detect the hardware, but doesn't install (an assertion failure triggered in the installer's code).

Well, here is the error report off Fedora: aphextwin.goldeye.info/anacdump.txt


I'm downloading Debian 3 (r5), right now, along with 2 update CDs. It shouldn't be THAT old, should it?
 
Aphex_Twin said:
No, but Unbuntu does. And I'm testing it on two computers, one with internet access (on which I will only run live CDs) and another without internet connection (which Knoppix detects, but delivers the audio stream to the wrong plug). I don't like Unbuntu because it has no support for mp3 or mpeg and no C compiler. Fedora seems to detect the hardware, but doesn't install (an assertion failure triggered in the installer's code).

Well, here is the error report off Fedora: aphextwin.goldeye.info/anacdump.txt


I'm downloading Debian 3 (r5), right now, along with 2 update CDs. It shouldn't be THAT old, should it?
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Debian 3 is "Woody". It was released in 2002, and the later releases of it (r5 is the fifth) simply fix bugs in Debian 3, they don't add anything new, so if Knoppix, which has newer drivers, doesn't detect your hardware, I doubt Debian will.
 
Chairman Meow said:
I use both (not at the same time, obviously), and KDE has some advantages over GNOME and vice versa. I think GNOME looks better (and its applications tend to blend in better with GNOME's interface than KDE apps with the KDE interface. But, KDE has better configuration options (I don't like Gconf...), and would it kill the GNOME developers to allow a multiple desktop background setup like KDE does?
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There's always the Multi-Backgrounds-Daemon. I have yet to try it... but it is there! I prefer Gnome, generally, but KDE is the only one supported in slack now. =/

And reviving an old thread. Oh my!
 
I run Fedora 3 on a dual-boot with windows xp. Fedora has never crashed on me but a few programs have. I'm thinking about switching to a diffrant distro for the better media support and Gnome 2.10 even though Fedora 4 is coming out soon.

As for Gnome vs KDE: As I have said I like Gnome better. KDE looks like its for kids. I have a second linux computer set up as a Windows file server using Samba using the latest xfce. Its incrediably fast, especially for the 450mz computer its running on.
 
I'm more of a BSD fan, but it isn't installed anyway.

I oppose *nix because I feel XWindows, in the context of home computing, is conceptually flawed.
 
Padma said:
Knoppix? Crashed??? Very odd.

I'm also surprised you can't get things to work. Knoppix has some of the best hardware detection available.
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Linux developers don't stop to consider the massive selection of OEM devices that differ slightly from their retail cousins but carry the same name. Thus a lot of drivers don't work and the manufacturers don't support OEM devices either.

So unless your PC is home made and entirely retail parts, it might not be Linux friendly.
 
stormbind said:
Linux developers don't stop to consider the massive selection of OEM devices that differ slightly from their retail cousins but carry the same name. Thus a lot of drivers don't work and the manufacturers don't support OEM devices either.

So unless your PC is home made and entirely retail parts, it might not be Linux friendly.
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That's a good point... I've got a friend who spent a couple weeks (not non-stop, obviously) flashing various BIOS and firmware versions for various parts in his Dell computer so he could get everything working nicely in Knoppix.
 
I am a Linux lover. Tried Fedora about 3 months ago, now have Slackware. This is how I've always dreamed my computer should be. I am the boss, not microsoft. They can stick that EULA-
 
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