Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (30 Viewers)

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Rami

The Linuxologist
Dec 24, 2004
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vlatko said:
you use it? how is it? and most importantly how will it install as a tripple boot with ubuntu and xp? :D
No I don't use it vlakto. Jack was just being funny, because I said Mandriva was childish, and he has no idea what I am talking about.
 
Apr 15, 2006
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mikhail said:
I had a problem with that too. I don't know if you can fix it in live CD mode - it's not exactly meant to be configurable. If you've a spare mouse handy, try that. I found that my stone age mouse worked where my new one didn't!
so if i install Ubuntu, i wont have the mouse problem?
 

JCK

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JCK
May 11, 2004
125,366
Rami said:
No I don't use it vlakto. Jack was just being funny, because I said Mandriva was childish, and he has no idea what I am talking about.
I never try to be funny :angel2:
 

JCK

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JCK
May 11, 2004
125,366
vlatko said:
i think i'll pass. :D

so i installed mandriva and stupid grub didn't recognize ubuntu now i can't boot to ubuntu, only xp and mandriva. oh the joys of linux never stop. :rolleyes:
See how childish it is :p
 

Rami

The Linuxologist
Dec 24, 2004
8,065
vlatko said:
i think i'll pass. :D

so i installed mandriva and stupid grub didn't recognize ubuntu now i can't boot to ubuntu, only xp and mandriva. oh the joys of linux never stop. :rolleyes:
That spoiled brat:p
 

V

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Jun 8, 2005
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hey martin, this should be a piece of cake for you. help me configure grub so it sees all three oss. should i post my grub list here? :D
 

Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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vlatko said:
hey martin, this should be a piece of cake for you. help me configure grub so it sees all three oss. should i post my grub list here? :D
A combination of cfdisk and /boot/ grub/ menu.lst should do the trick :smile:
 

JCK

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JCK
May 11, 2004
125,366
One has to admire Martin, he's giving me live support installing Gentoo, helping you here and I am sure he's doing other stuff at the same time.

Shame he can't play tennis while doing all these :p
 

V

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Jun 8, 2005
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Martin said:
A combination of cfdisk and /boot/ grub/ menu.lst should do the trick :smile:
i suppose you mean the files from the fresh mandriva install. if so here they are.
 

mikhail

Senior Member
Jan 24, 2003
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redshift_rider said:
so if i install Ubuntu, i wont have the mouse problem?
I wouldn't think so, but you'll probably be able to fix it fairly quickly. The forums people have been linking to would probably be your best bet (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/). Just search there for the model name of your mouse, or just for mouse not detected.

It's a common problem from the looks of it, though the site just went down on me - :rolleyes:.
 

Juventico

Junior Member
Apr 7, 2005
301
Byrone said:
Is it really that much superior to windows?
It kinda depends what you want to do with it. Windows is an average user OS, it's easy, simple, lets you run the applications/games you want, you may be wasting some resources, and have huge gaps in security and one occasional blue screen when you screw up, but that's it.

Linux on the other hand is more flexible, more stable (though i've heard horror stories from Red Hat crashes that make a blue screen seem insignificant), more secure (again, that may depend, if most hackers were devoted to ruining linux they could and would succeed). The whole application variety thing I won't get into (there's another thread for that), but DirectX and tasty 3D game graphics is one reason why my main OS still is Windoze.

You can think of this whole thing as a car. On one hand there's the factory-new car probably with faults in the breaks, motor etc, that'll blow up in your face and require some downtime in repair. On the other hand there's a trusty car, and lots of part that you can add, or fine-tune if you had the time.

If you don't have time, and don't need it, you won't use it: That's my take on Linux. I use because of school, but i really don't like to get too much into it.

Some of the newer Linux releases (Ubuntu's) are more average-user-friendly than -say- SuSE or Fedora or Debian, but I don't think that Linux will take that niche that Windows has carved for itself.
 

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