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| Thread ID: 90085 | 2008-05-22 12:24:00 | Recommend a Distro, which can - | Murray P (44) | Press F1 |
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| 671691 | 2008-05-23 06:03:00 | We're in agreement then. May I point out that you did not qualify your initial recommendation with Debian 'testing'? No, oh well. Mind, I should have twigged to that sooner. I'm actually a fan of Deb based distros (not previously of Ubuntu though), and have, on occasions, ended up with more Deb testing - unstable by delving into the repositories than the original distro apart from the façade. You almost have me convinced that I should go to the source rather than fiddle around with the pretenders. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 671692 | 2008-05-23 06:04:00 | Haven't been much of a Gnomey myself Agent. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 671693 | 2008-05-23 07:50:00 | We're in agreement then. May I point out that you did not qualify your initial recommendation with Debian 'testing'? No, oh well. Mind, I should have twigged to that sooner.Aah, but I did (pressf1.co.nz), in my first post :p. I'm actually a fan of Deb based distros (not previously of Ubuntu though), and have, on occasions, ended up with more Deb testing - unstable by delving into the repositories than the original distro apart from the façade. You almost have me convinced that I should go to the source rather than fiddle around with the pretenders.What would it take to turn 'almost' into 'actually'? :rolleyes: |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 671694 | 2008-05-23 10:22:00 | What about PCLinuxOS? It seems to be a fine distro with very few problems - my main issue is that my 1440x900 AOC screen seems to disappear from view occasionally and requires re-setting up with XFdrake. Before using PCLOS I used Fedora and Redhat since about 1998. PCLOS is much better at finding hardware in my experience. | johnd (85) | ||
| 671695 | 2008-05-23 13:07:00 | 64 bit in Linux has been a TON better than any other Doze (Vista / XP) OS for so long now.. Even if you take a 64-bit Linux system from like 2 years ago its still probably less likely to have half the problems you get. Driver support in x64 is pretty damn fine! The amount of software that runs as a native x64 app is also superb! I dunno about you, but on a Windows system, half the stuff doesnt end up being 64-bit right (Well for me at least)? Pretty much the *whole* experience with a Linux system ends up being x64, aside from the occasional playback of wmv files which can drop back to 32-binaries of mplayer (Optional) for increased support.. :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 671696 | 2008-05-23 14:35:00 | Bletch. so you did, please accept my most abject apologies, which BTW, don't happen to be particularly abject or apologetic, but at least I made an effort. And, I'm going to grab a copy of Deb testing x64, once I figure out how to get the piece of **** that is Jigdo to work - installation instructions appear to be a bit scarce at the mo, it uses a batch file to initiate, but that falls over, possibly because is won't/can't run on XP x64. I also intend to grab Fedora, then might have a look at one of the enterprise distros for the hell of it. Thanks for that info Chill, that's very comforting to learn. Cheers Johnd, I'll have a read up on it. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 671697 | 2008-05-24 00:21:00 | Aaah - don't use jigdo, you'll end up downloading tons more than you need. Download the businesscard (netinstall) disk from here (cdimage.debian.org), it's usually around 35MB. It will then download only the packages you need, during the install process - this will save you a TON of bandwidth. Oh and abjectness scares me, so it's probably a good thing... :rolleyes: Edit: One other note, the main NZ mirror for debian is utterly crap at the moment (not updated correctly), use debian.orcon.net.nz as the main mirror instead. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 671698 | 2008-05-24 03:16:00 | Have already downloaded the 1st DVD via ftp - Lenny amd64 nightly build . Will install this arvo and then check out what else I may want from the other discs/repositories . . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 671699 | 2008-05-24 22:18:00 | ... has good hardware detection and/or recognises modern-ish video cards (8800GTS) So, unless you're willing to delve into the testing and unstable repositories, you're not exactly going to be dealing with an up to the minute distro are you. I also intend to grab Fedora, then might have a look at one of the enterprise distros for the hell of it.Well I'm glad you said you like up to the minute distros, because Fedora 9 is going to make you bleed with that nVidia graphic card. Fedora 9 has shipped with a bleeding edge X version that isn't supported by nVidia yet - eg no nVidia drivers available. I haven't found out yet when they will be available. I got my fingers cut on this as I was unaware of that wee issue. I initially upgraded (dirty upgrade) from Fedora 8 and the system was busted with many of the non-KDE/non-Gnome apps eg Firefox, Thunderbird, Yumex failing to start due to "The error was 'BadName (named color or font does not exist)'." glitches. I even downgraded X to the Fedora 8 version but the issue wasn't resolved. Rather than muck around more, I formatted / and did a clean install (yay for having /home on a separate partition). Fedora 9 also ships with Firefox 3 Beta 5 which is poorly supported with extensions and themes. If you waited for the first re-spin of Fedora 9, I imagine things should be a lot smoother. Apart from that KDE4 on Fedora 9 looks fab! :thumbs: |
Jen (38) | ||
| 671700 | 2008-05-25 06:33:00 | Apart from that KDE4 on Fedora 9 looks fab! :thumbs:Hmm ... well it may look all candied up and glossy, but it surely has driven me nuts trying to set up the taskbar with my fav application icons and other erratic/flakey behaviour. So much so I've switched to Gnome :eek: for the time being. And this is coming from a hardcore KDE user. :xmouth: | Jen (38) | ||
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