Yay Linux!!!

**Potato** · March 2nd, 2005, 10:52 PM

I'm excited, sorry, just wanted to share with lots of people!

I'm using Fedora Core 3, nice and dumbass friendly. ;)

**mcovey** · March 3rd, 2005, 03:07 AM

lol good :)

I use debian, but I may switch to mepis because it's so nice.

**g-smooth2k** · March 3rd, 2005, 03:20 AM

good 2 hear potato.

mcovey, I never tried debian. have you tried anything other than debian.

anyone tried freebsd.

**cpugeniusmv** · March 3rd, 2005, 06:19 AM

I managed to get Debian running on my Thinkpad (a real issue without a cdrom or floppy...), so that's what I'm using at the moment.

I really really liked FreeBSD, g-smooth2k. It has a few fundamental differences from Linux, but it's extremely well documented.

BSD vs Linux
FreeBSD Handbook

**black_magiic** · March 3rd, 2005, 06:52 AM

I have Mandrake 10 running on a second hard drive. My only problem with it is I seem to have loads of trouble installing most things. I have only been able to install a few things sucessfully. :-(

**evilmegaman** · March 3rd, 2005, 07:22 AM

Yay potato!! She did the best thing I can think of :) Fedora core's my favorite distro since everything just works. I always come back to it. (in fact it's the distro on my comp right now)

I congradulate you :)

**ducttapeBigSexy** · March 3rd, 2005, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by black_magiic

I have Mandrake 10 running on a second hard drive. My only problem with it is I seem to have loads of trouble installing most things. I have only been able to install a few things sucessfully. :-(

If you're talking installing RPM files, just make sure you include some extra servers - Mandrake will work out all the dependencies for you then. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ makes it really, really easy to set up extra sources (especially for n00bs like me :) )

On a different note, I used to use Red Hat / Fedora, but I dropped it after Core 2 didn't work correctly with my nVidia card. However, I'm curious to see if Core 3's any better...

**Deegin** · March 3rd, 2005, 11:44 AM

I'm a big fan of FreeBSD as well Cpugenius..

..as for Linux, I run Fedora Core 3 as a hard drive installation and my own re-mastered SLAX as a LiveCD. SLAX is a very good LiveCD that's less than 200mb (fits on the tiny CD-R/CD-RW's).

**ducttapeBigSexy** · March 3rd, 2005, 09:16 PM

Slax really is awesome, actually - it's in my signature! Actually, I'm working on creating my own live cd off of Mandrakelinux - i'm working with the scripts from livecd.berlios.de. I'm getting pretty close to having a working finished copy, too :D

**black_magiic** · March 3rd, 2005, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by ducttapeBigSexy

If you're talking installing RPM files, just make sure you include some extra servers - Mandrake will work out all the dependencies for you then. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ makes it really, really easy to set up extra sources (especially for n00bs like me :) )

On a different note, I used to use Red Hat / Fedora, but I dropped it after Core 2 didn't work correctly with my nVidia card. However, I'm curious to see if Core 3's any better...

Im talking about installing from tar.gz files. But I will look into that RPM thing tommorow.

**FrozenShadow23** · March 3rd, 2005, 10:53 PM

I'm running slackware for my linux distro. I love it.

**Potato** · March 3rd, 2005, 11:03 PM

After screwing stuff up that I don't even understand, everything is fixed and happy and I'm happy again. :)
-
(thanks cpu, for everything)
(thanks evilmegaman too)
(thanks psilaxs too)
(special thanks to the boyfriend of mine who got it all fixed)

**cpugeniusmv** · March 3rd, 2005, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Potato

(special thanks to the boyfriend of mine who got it all fixed)

I wish I had a boyfriend that knew grub.

Don't take that the wrong way.

I don't like boys.

I just had to say that.

**nymph3a** · March 5th, 2005, 04:18 AM

Linux is great its the worlds platform to open source operating systems.
Freebsd is great but it all depends on what someones needs are to what operating system they will choose. I for myself rate netbsd is in the top simply because its the most raw operating system around and its main feature is the security unlike in windows its very blowted and it gives you a nice blue screen more often then not and the firewall for windows is highly ametuer.

Im in full support of open source and I hope in the future it will kick bill off his throne!!!!

:upside