well ps3 and wii came out this week and my friends are buzzin about their new hardware. though i'm too broke to get either, i feel like i just got a new computer. i finally got Puppy Linux on my harddrive, and i'm amazed. super streamlined, blazing fast, oh i could go on and on. where windows made me feel like screaming and hucking my monitor across the room, puppy makes me jump for joy! sure there's a bit of a learning curve... but hey, that's the fun of it, plus, it's FREE! what more could you ask for?
so what distro's do you use? what was your first experience with linux like?
Originally posted by slickhareMy first experience was horrible. I needed a gentle and caring
so what distro's do you use? what was your first experience with linux like?
introduction but it just went haywire on me and left me with a great
feeling of loss, not to mention frustration. 😕
But then, over time, as I got more and more used to it being the way it
is, I've had far more pleasant experiences. It's all just a matter of
learning how to control its moods and whims, and then it's the greatest
"OS" (guess the acronym) anyone could ask for. 😀
Seriously, I first met with Red Hat sometime around '97, and it was
actually a pretty good start for someone who didn't know too much about
*nix. Good community, good books available and I had a great time with
it. Of course, nowadays I'm almost completely anti-anything Red Hat. I
think it's because I don't like the fact that they're trying to be some MS
equivalent which annoys the hell out of me since MS isn't exactly what
anyone would strive for (in any sense of the acronym). Now I mostly use
my homebrewn live disc with a USB stick. It's based on Knoppix.
I first used Slackware and I think that is a great distro to use if you want to learn about linux.
Now I just want to use it without working so hard so I am using Ubuntu and it works perfect.
I am trying to install my newly arrived Fritz 10 using wine as we speak... I'll let you know how it goes. edit... full install failed at direct x... i will try a custom install later, for now Im in windows to see what it looks like.
I use eboard for FICS and scid for the database and analysis. I have a thread a ways down the pile here on this subject.
For anyone who wants to check linux out... go to www.ubuntu.com download it and reboot with it in your disk drive.
It will run as a "live CD" so you can check it out without harming your computer.
Originally posted by briancroni used to use ubuntu live. i really don't like the larger distros. mainly because i'm impatient...
I first used Slackware and I think that is a great distro to use if you want to learn about linux.
Now I just want to use it without working so hard so I am using Ubuntu and it works perfect.
I am trying to install my newly arrived Fritz 10 using wine as we speak... I'll let you know how it goes.
I use eboard for FICS and scid for the database and ...[text shortened]... k drive.
It will run as a "live CD" so you can check it out without harming your computer.
Originally posted by briancronThis guy's got it right. Ubuntu is so easy. I want to emphasize easy again. To quote Stanton Finley, "It is no longer necessary to become an expert practitioner of the arcane dark arts of the Unix command line in order to get a complete Linux distribution working on your PC including all of the productivity, multimedia, and entertainment applications you will need on your desktop..." I installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (long-term support, which guarantees drivers, etc., for three years) in minutes. Found my sound card, network card--everything. I'm wirelessly connected to this site right now, streaming MP3s from the Web, and editing photos. The cool thing is I don't have to worry about anti-virus or spyware updates. If you want to give that same version a try, I've got a really good link that will walk you through installing it. Go here:
I first used Slackware and I think that is a great distro to use if you want to learn about linux.
Now I just want to use it without working so hard so I am using Ubuntu and it works perfect.
I am trying to install my newly arrived Fritz 10 using wine as we speak... I'll let you know how it goes. edit... full install failed at direct x... i will try ...[text shortened]... k drive.
It will run as a "live CD" so you can check it out without harming your computer.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper
Please let me/us know about your Fritz install! Very curious to know if it works.
Originally posted by slickhareMy first experience with *nix was with Red Hat 7 back in the '90s. Finally got it to work after I found drivers for my CDROM--31 pages into a Goooooooooooooooooooooooogle search on some guy's personal Web site. Ugh. Then I didn't touch Linux until Fedora Core 4 (about 2004). I have to say that version 6 of Fedora is sweet. I'm liking Ubuntu so much that I'm not really gonna play with Fedora anymore, though.
...so what distro's do you use? what was your first experience with linux like?
use SunOs a lot at work, for the last 15 years ...
in late 93, installed slackware, had trouble getting the sound/scsi card to work but finally got a fix ...
played with it for a while then dropped it til redhat 7.3, around 2002.
(actually i seem to pick up linux everytime i'm out of work and have free time to play with it.)
recently tried several distros as rescue disks. think i wound up with insert and ubuntu and maybe DSL and puppy.
check out www.distrowatch.com.
Slackware in '95 through a couple of distro's sadly no longer around then to Red Hat 4, then to SuSe around verion 5 and finally fed up with all the non-standard rubbish these distributions sprinkle around that actually make the thing more difficult to trouble shoot I went back to slackware and that's where I stay.
Unix has lasted so long because it's art!
I've tinkered about with Linux for a few years now. In fact, when I bought my PC I wanted to install Red Hat Linux only on it - but the installation DVD I had required me to have another operating system on my PC first, so I had to get Windoze.
Now I'm running a dual boot with XP and Ubuntu, in a day or two I'm gonna reformat everything and make Ubuntu the main OS with a 30Gb partition for XP. I just need to get some painting done first.
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I tried slackware out in '95, quickly moved to freebsd. Ended up programming and sysadmining Solaris and BSDi boxes in '97. Ever since win2k I haven't had a need or desire to touch a unix or linux box. Except for a brief time when I had OSX on an apple laptop in 2003 -- ended up giving it away to my brother in '04.
Edit: for a brief stint I did java devel on SCO OpenServer in '98