Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (18 Viewers)

[Sheik Yerbouti]

We had that kind of regime too for a few years, T-Com had a monopolly over the whole country and the speeds were low, plus you had to pay for each GB downloaded/uploaded. In the last year or so new operators came and with it more acceptable speeds and prices. I have a 2mbit flatrate connection, for the same money I had with T-Com's 1mbit non-flatrate, and I'm a happy camper now.

Viva la competicion! :toast:

i heard rumours that out ISP will upgrade to 5Mbps soon and will upgrade my unlimited scheme to 2Mbps free of charge! that'd be so cool!


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[V]

i heard rumours that out ISP will upgrade to 5Mbps soon and will upgrade my unlimited scheme to 2Mbps free of charge! that'd be so cool!


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That's how it started here as well, first they upgraded speeds free of charge and everyone was happy. Few months after, new operators came and suddenly it was all too clear what they were trying to accomplish.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

yeah...my ISP was the first to have 2mbps BB. BUT, it's backed by out govt.! so lets see how that turns out!

 

[Rami]

wooohooo 100

Speaking of speeds, ISP's are all raving about the new speeds over here! What are these new speeds? 1 Mbit/Sec , and they cost around $150 per month

 

[V]

wooohooo 100

Speaking of speeds, ISP's are all raving about the new speeds over here! What are these new speeds? 1 Mbit/Sec , and they cost around $150 per month

And I thought we have it bad over here.

 

[Rami]

And I thought we have it bad over here.

There is a saying in Arabic that goes like, "the worst catastrophes are the ones that make you laugh." This is certainly one.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

vlat, how do i install nvidia drivers in PCLOS?

 

[V]

Synaptic? Search nVidia and depending on the card you have, install the appropriate driver.

 

[JCK]

Vlatko, not yet in. I will hopefully do that tomorrow otherwise it will be postponed to another time. At least I have the Live CD now.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

no Add/Remove? damn! yeah....i did search n install it from Synaptic. Beryl is so much smoother here than in Ubuntu!

 

[V]

Vlatko, not yet in. I will hopefully do that tomorrow otherwise it will be postponed to another time. At least I have the Live CD now.

Alrite, let us know when you get in.

no Add/Remove? damn! yeah....i did search n install it from Synaptic. Beryl is so much smoother here than in Ubuntu!

Definetly even with Beryl it's running great.

What I love most, other than the performance factor, is that it comes with preinstalled media codecs. Right after the install I could play all my media, I only had to install win32codecs and libdvdcs2 separatelly. Even flash and java came preinstalled! Opera is the only piece of software I actually installed, everything else I use out of the box. They did a damn fine job.


BTW, Jack shouldn't we remove this ugly poll on the top which doesn't do us much justice?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

how do i auto-mount the partitions at startup? cos now i always have to do them manually for each partition. the Auto-mount option is greyed-out even in teh root account!!!

similar problems with my Keyboard. the ' key and the Super key dont seem to work at the start. i gotta reselect my keyboard layout and keyboard type and THEN it works!


btw, we should restart the poll and see how many users are there now! u seem to have converted a lot of ppl here!

 

[V]

how do i auto-mount the partitions at startup? cos now i always have to do them manually for each partition. the Auto-mount option is greyed-out even in teh root account!!!

similar problems with my Keyboard. the ' key and the Super key dont seem to work at the start. i gotta reselect my keyboard layout and keyboard type and THEN it works!


btw, we should restart the poll and see how many users are there now! u seem to have converted a lot of ppl here!

For pretty much anything go to the PCLOS Control Center, there you can set mounting parameters, the hardware tab if I remember correctly. Though I don't have that problem, all disks, including the NTFS ones, are auto-mounted.

The keyboard works perfectly fine as well, maybe the Indian layout has problems...Go to their forums and see what they say.

I don't think I converted anyone, though I am one of the first converts to linux here.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

For pretty much anything go to the PCLOS Control Center, there you can set mounting parameters, the hardware tab if I remember correctly. Though I don't have that problem, all disks, including the NTFS ones, are auto-mounted.

The keyboard works perfectly fine as well, maybe the Indian layout has problems...Go to their forums and see what they say.

I don't think I converted anyone, though I am one of the first converts to linux here.

i see. but a repoll WILL be interesting! we should do it!

 

[JCK]

I'll see what I'll do about the poll.

As for PCLOS, I am now on the Live CD

The best Live CD I have ever used, what a guided way to set up the wireless connection before loading the desktop. And elegance.

Nice desktop and I am in love with the icons already. I will reboot, backup and make the switch, see you in a while.

Oh and one more thing, even the Live CD is much lighter on the system than Kubuntu's Live CD.

vlatko, I'll rep your ass.

 

[V]

Ain't it great? Just a few clicks and your LAN/WLAN is up and running.

The whole distro looks so polished, as for the icons they are really great, what I most like about them they are not HUGE as they are in quite a number of distros. Small and elegant.

Wait till you boot up from the HD, you'll be stunned after Kubuntu.

 

[JCK]

I am doing the switch now, rebooting.

See you soon

 

[Rami]

I'll see what I'll do about the poll.

As for PCLOS, I am now on the Live CD

The best Live CD I have ever used, what a guided way to set up the wireless connection before loading the desktop. And elegance.

Nice desktop and I am in love with the icons already. I will reboot, backup and make the switch, see you in a while.

Oh and one more thing, even the Live CD is much lighter on the system than Kubuntu's Live CD.

vlatko, I'll rep your ass.

Ubuntu's live CD has always been very lacking very true, it's pretty much worthless. Just compare Ubuntu's to Knoppix and the amount of applications on the latter as opposed to the former.

Anyways I downloaded PCLinuxOS yesterday via torrent, never occurred to me to download a distro using torrents, much much better, a 3 hour download. good stuff

IIRC, PClinuxOS uses LILO, so Vla will it detect my current Ubuntu partition and dual boot it? Or will I need to fiddle around with bootloaders ?

 

[V]

IIRC, PClinuxOS uses LILO, so Vla will it detect my current Ubuntu partition and dual boot it? Or will I need to fiddle around with bootloaders ?

I don't know where you got that from, it uses GRUB. When I installed, I installed it over my Ubuntu partition but it recognised XP with no problems. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't recognize Ubuntu.



BTW, since I already got you all trying out PCLOS, I can come clean about it now. It was based on Mandriva, but with this release they really went their own way.

This is from a few months old interview with Texstar, the lead developer of PCLOS:

KnoLinuxGuy - The 2007 version looks great, how much has changed now from Mandriva
and what else can we look forward too in the coming year? How do you see this year for Linux
as a whole with Vista and new Apple OS X coming out?

Texstar - While the initial code base was Mandriva everything has been examined, updated, rebuilt and worked over. Its taken us 3 months but we are close to what we would consider a stable release. We do our own kernels, customized KDE and build things a bit different than the Mandriva way.

I see Linux continuing to grow on the desktop but I also see a big patent monster who is going to do everything they can to keep Linux down.

For a complete review, check here or here.

 

[Rami]

My only experience with the system was for a couple of days and I think it was kind of outdated, so perhaps they changed to grub. But what I am sure of is that there has been problems with it detecting other linux partitions, I experienced it first hand, and read a lot of people complaining about it. Hope they fixed it

Damn you Vla, I always have wanted to switch to Gentoo, but I know its gonna be hard and I need some time.