Ubuntu HELP!!! (3 Viewers)

[Martin]

Well not terribly user friendly I mean it usually takes people quite a bit of time to get familiar with it (not because it's complicated, but because they are new to it) but most of those are happy with the time spent once they have it working well.

The thing is that most distros have trouble installing certain things like mplayer, vlc etc because of patent/copyright restrictions. Gentoo handles that much better, will allow you to install all of that.

Gentoo is more command line based than RedHat, Ubuntu for install, setup, maintenance. That may seem more difficult but frankly it just gives you more control.

 

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[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
Well not terribly user friendly I mean it usually takes people quite a bit of time to get familiar with it (not because it's complicated, but because they are new to it) but most of those are happy with the time spent once they have it working well.

The thing is that most distros have trouble installing certain things like mplayer, vlc etc because of patent/copyright restrictions. Gentoo handles that much better, will allow you to install all of that.

/me downloads Gentoo..

 

[Martin]

The first thing to do is look in the handbook, it explains everything: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml

And if you use gentoo, be prepared to read some docs, manuals etc rather than clicking yourself around with trial and error, took me a while to get used to but I'm much more efficient now

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
The first thing to do is look in the handbook, it explains everything: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml

And if you use gentoo, be prepared to read some docs, manuals etc rather than clicking yourself around with trial and error, took me a while to get used to but I'm much more efficient now

Oh, great, then!

There won't be many commands to remember, though, right? :nervous:

 

[Martin]

well, it would probably help you to take a note of the most commonly used ones for now in time you'll remember the important ones

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
well, it would probably help you to take a note of the most commonly used ones for now in time you'll remember the important ones

aaight.. Thanks a lot, Marts..




Expect a lot more questions from me after I install gentoo..

 

[Martin]

You know where to find me

 

[/usr/bin]

Oh, hey Martin.. What do you think of Dyne:Bolic?

 

[Martin]

say what now?

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
say what now?

Oh. My. God. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd know something about Linux that Martin doesn't..

http://www.dynebolic.org/

Educate yourself..

 

[Martin]

++ [ originally posted by Nawaf ] ++


Oh. My. God. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd know something about Linux that Martin doesn't..

http://www.dynebolic.org/

Educate yourself..

In this day and age when everyone and their grandma is making their own distro, it's not exactly a shocker that I haven't heard about every single one I have tried a lot of them, some 10-15 different ones, it was a phase I went through looking for the holy grail. I landed on the existing grail, Gentoo.

Here are the most popupar ones though (list on the right): http://distrowatch.com/

 

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++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++


In this day and age when everyone and their grandma is making their own distro, it's not exactly a shocker that I haven't heard about every single one I have tried a lot of them, some 10-15 different ones, it was a phase I went through looking for the holy grail. I landed on the existing grail, Gentoo.

Here are the most popupar ones though (list on the right): http://distrowatch.com/

Well, I haven't made my own distro.. :undecide:.. and I'm pretty sure my grandma hasn't attempted one either..

*sigh* .. 24:46:12 for gentoo left....

 

[Chxta]

One more thing Martin, how do I access a network folder (Windows) using the terminal?

 

[Martin]

++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
One more thing Martin, how do I access a network folder (Windows) using the terminal?

This is a bit more complicated, hence I suggested you transfer the files from the Windows machine with a gui client like WinSCP. But you can access Windows network shares with samba (presumably installed). With a share called \\machine\share, you simply

# smbmount //machine/share /mnt/share
(or some other mount point)

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html

 

[Chxta]

:thumb:

 

[Martin]

So Nawaf, any luck with linux and/or gentoo?

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
So Nawaf, any luck with linux and/or gentoo?

TBH, I've decided to put gentoo and linux aside for the time being.. We have a vacation a few weeks from now, so hopefully I'd have time then.. :undecide:

 

[Martin]

Good call

 

[/usr/bin]

Yeah.. I should've guessed that when you of all people started warning me about Linux..

 

[Dragon]

The new iPod nano is pretty cool