Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (27 Viewers)

[JCK]

I am on Mandriva. It is fine, it is complete, it is KDE and everything worked as smooth as a baby's butt. But I don't like the RPM, emerge is much more powerful. The Gentoo way is still much more superior and I think the apt-get is even better than RPM.

Why I installed Mandriva? Because I wanted a functioning system, I can't spend days configuring, I have stuff to do on my computer other than installing Gentoo.

I will come back to the Almighty again but when I have a vacation. Now in two days I might install Kubuntu.

 

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[V]

I am on Mandriva. It is fine, it is complete, it is KDE and everything worked as smooth as a baby's butt.

that's what i like most about it. imo so far it is the best out-of-the-box distro i have tried. looking forward to trying out fedora core 6 tommorow, and edgy kubuntu in 3 days.

fun never stops.

 

[JCK]

It is fun to try distros, I agree but not if you have one computer that is capable of handling one distro at a time.

 

[V]

why don't you partition the drive? i have one drive partitioned in 5 parts. 2 are for xp and 3 for different distros, mainly for trying out.

 

[JCK]

Because I have a 40 GB drive that I need to store data on.

 

[JCK]

V, how can one install anything not installed on Mandriva?

 

[V]

V, how can one install anything not installed on Mandriva?

did you enable extra repositories?
mandriva control center>software management tab>'Select from where software packages are downloaded when updating the system'>add>choose distribution sources>choose your nearest mirror.

go here to set up other sources, such as plf-free and plf-nonfree, you'll need this for example, win32 codecs.
http://urpmi-addmedia.org/index2.php
note: you don't need to select core sources here, as you done it in the first step, just plf sources.

 

[JCK]

I don't have a software management tab in my control center :S

Never mind, I wa in that link you posted and added the mirrors via Terminal, it is not downloading using #urpmi

But that Control Center is something I couldnt figure out.

 

[V]

you do have it, maybe you went into kde control center, you need to go to "configure your computer". when you open that the first tab is software management. you can open it with "mcc" from terminal as well.

you need it to stop looking at it the gentoo way, here everything is done with buttons.

 

[JCK]

I am using the whole system the gentoo way, it is more fun

 

[Martin]

I am on Mandriva. It is fine, it is complete, it is KDE and everything worked as smooth as a baby's butt. But I don't like the RPM, emerge is much more powerful. The Gentoo way is still much more superior and I think the apt-get is even better than RPM.

My work here is done.

 

[V]

downloading fc6.

 

[Martin]

Btw any of you boys tried SUSE Entr. Linux 10? They have a 60 day trial for their commercial product, you sign up and get a code, download the ISO and you get 60 days updates. I installed just to see what a top class commercial product looks like these days and I have to say it's pretty sweet. It comes with XGL out of the box (I heard last week that FC6 will also), just enable it in the settings and you get all those effects on your desktop with no hassle. First time I tried it actually.

Of course SUSE being SUSE, I could not for the life of me figure out how to install software that wasn't in their official repositories, like mplayer.

 

[JCK]

You should see how much it took me to figure out the RPM.

And they say Gentoo is complicated.

 

[Martin]

Fedora Core 6 is the bollocks. My wifi card of course not even detected, no room for ipw3945 on the 3.3gb dvd. The ethernet card was detected during install, but on the first boot the driver fails to load with a wacky error ('no DMA channel found' or some witty comment like that). So I got a brand new distro with no network, how fun. Obviously, the evil fglrx would never be allowed foothold on this sacred territory of free software, so I'm stuck with the crappy vesa driver, so much for the new XGL stuff. And I can't install the binary ati driver, because both my network cards are dead.

Other than that, I really cannot see why Fedora Core is so amazing, it seems to be pretty damn similar to the last one I tried a few years ago. Noteworthily, Eclipse runs waaay better on this dualcore laptop than I've ever seen it run (slow as ass), kudos.

As for Fedora Art, I can't say much has changed visually. Font might be a little better, the icons are still the same they always had. So what's the big woop?

 

[gray]

'no DMA channel found' or some witty comment like that

Need some tips...

(if you can't be bothered reading the following, my simple question is: how much hard disk space does Ubuntu require to run comfortably ?)

I've been doing the spring cleaning to prepare for my reformat, backing up personal data etc. etc, but I was wondering about a couple of things (actually it might just be one thing, but I'll add more if I think of them along the way)

I'm planning to dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows XP (partly out of necessity, and also because of the added sense of security in the option of falling back on it :embarasse My first question is, how much HD space should I allocate to each partition?

I have a single 60Gb HD, and I download a ridiculous amount of data in the form of documentaries, audio books, video learning systems and the like (which I have to periodically burn to DVD-R's or dump on my portable HD) I'm planning to switch over my torrenting activity to Ubuntu, so I'm assuming I'll have to allocate a large chunk of space to that partition.

I don't know how completely or quickly I'll be transitioning to Ubuntu, but unavoidably I'll still have to use Windows XP for a lot of my Multimedia/Video work (I can't really think of much else that I can't do comfortably once I become accustomed to Ubuntu, but as you know, multimedia stuff takes up a considerable amount of space).

I don't plan to fiddle around with NTFS write access in Ubuntu, so would you guys be able to recommend a sensible amount of disk space to allocate to each partition?

Cheers; I must say I'm looking forward to the experience, and this time I'll be a little more resilient when things don't work the way I've been used to for the past 15 years or so

 

[V]

if you're planning to do all the downloading on ubuntu, make XP a 20gb or even 15gb partition, and ubuntu the rest. as a minimum i think ubuntu requires around 1gb.

 

[Chxta]

For those who love trying distros out, just do it the way I did and install VMware. That way you won't have to keep formatting...

 

[JCK]

I love formatting

 

[JCK]

Fedora Core 6 is the bollocks. My wifi card of course not even detected, no room for ipw3945 on the 3.3gb dvd. The ethernet card was detected during install, but on the first boot the driver fails to load with a wacky error ('no DMA channel found' or some witty comment like that). So I got a brand new distro with no network, how fun. Obviously, the evil fglrx would never be allowed foothold on this sacred territory of free software, so I'm stuck with the crappy vesa driver, so much for the new XGL stuff. And I can't install the binary ati driver, because both my network cards are dead.

Other than that, I really cannot see why Fedora Core is so amazing, it seems to be pretty damn similar to the last one I tried a few years ago. Noteworthily, Eclipse runs waaay better on this dualcore laptop than I've ever seen it run (slow as ass), kudos.

As for Fedora Art, I can't say much has changed visually. Font might be a little better, the icons are still the same they always had. So what's the big woop?

So what's the big fuss about it then?

BTW, I have the FC5 DVD, I can send it anywhwere if anyone wants it, it didn't like my computer at all.

Marts, do you have any suggestion for trying a distro, I don't want to try Suse, I have a thing against green creatures