Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (12 Viewers)

[Martin]

Martin, what is vanilla gentoo?

sabayon is pimped gentoo. gentoo is regular (vanilla) gentoo

 

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[V]

Btw vlatko if you run:
$ equo install --pretend undvd
..you'll get a half baked dvd ripping/video transcoding app by yours truly :eyebrows:

Yeah, I know of that little app for a long time, because of your numerodix blog. Too bad I don't rip anything anymore, it's much easier to just download it.

Bleh, this is no good. The kde4 desktop frickin lags on my dualcore with 3gb of memory. It's terrible on this old laptop, insane amounts of pointless io on an old, slow harddrive. kio_thumbnail just refuses to die.

Wait, an OLD laptop with dual-core and 3gb of RAM? That doesn't sound old.

It runs great on my PC, E8400 + 4GB of DDR2. And I mean great. Sabayon was always one of the fastest distros I tried, always faster than Kubuntu for example.

 

[JCK]

You guys are driving me to Portage once again

 

[V]

Entropy is the new shiznet.

 

[Martin]

Yeah, I know of that little app for a long time, because of your numerodix blog. Too bad I don't rip anything anymore, it's much easier to just download it.

Wait, an OLD laptop with dual-core and 3gb of RAM? That doesn't sound old.

Nah, the old one is a Pentuim-M 1.6GHz with 512mb RAM.

 

[V]

Nah, the old one is a Pentuim-M 1.6GHz with 512mb RAM.

Oh, well what did you expect then? Load up some XFCE distro and be quiet.

But seriously, how can it lag on that other system with 3GB of RAM?

 

[Martin]

Entropy is the new shiznet.

It looks like a really nice technology. I might install it on gentoo later.

 

[Martin]

Oh, well what did you expect then? Load up some XFCE distro and be quiet.

But seriously, how can it lag on that other system with 3GB of RAM?

Because the intel video driver that comes with ubuntu 9.04 is garbage. Either that or kwin-4.3 is garbage.

 

[V]

Because the intel video driver that comes with ubuntu 9.04 is garbage. Either that or kwin-4.3 is garbage.

I'm So you didn't try Sabayon on it(yet)?

 

[Martin]

I'm So you didn't try Sabayon on it(yet)?

I wasn't trying sabayon on my latest box, but on an old one that I'm reviving now. And there it didn't run well (the kde4 desktop).

For the moment I'm set with kubuntu on my latest one.

 

[V]

Aaah, I see. Well give it a whirl on that prehistoric Gentoo partition of yours. Or is that your holy grail?

 

[Martin]

You got it wrong

toshiba dualcore - kubuntu
dell 3 years old - gentoo (harddrive died)
old HP - now installing gentoo, sabayon was too slow

 

[V]

I thought you dual-boot Kubuntu and Gentoo on the same machine.

So, basically now you're Gentoo free? (install pending)

 

[Martin]

I thought you dual-boot Kubuntu and Gentoo on the same machine.

So, basically now you're Gentoo free? (install pending)

Yes, that's why I need to get it back

 

[JCK]

You got it wrong

toshiba dualcore - kubuntu
dell 3 years old - gentoo (harddrive died)
old HP - now installing gentoo, sabayon was too slow

Your Dell was a disaster buy, right?

I am running Kubuntu on Lenovo dualcore 2GB RAM
Linux Mint Gnome on 6 year old Acer Celeron M 1,5 GB RAM

 

[Martin]

Your Dell was a disaster buy, right?

Utterly so. 1) Battery dead after 9 months 2) Screen fitting frickin cracked so it doesn't close properly and probably not safe to transport 3) Harddrive dead

I want to replace the harddrive because the screen is nice and large 1680x1050 and I can keep using it on the desk. But as a laptop what a failure.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Great to see an old HP still working!

 

[V]

I have and old HP with a Sempron 3100+ and 512MB RAM still going strong.

Also have a newer HP 6830s and an Acer in my firm. But HP all the way.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

OMG

 

[V]

I also do all my printing on like a 5 year old HP LaserJet 1010. Only feed it with original cartridges and it is yet to let me down.