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| 518943 | 2007-01-26 23:57:00 | Speedy, U windoze people have no idea how great it is to boot up and every time all is the same as last time.(but Suse is a WEEEE bit like windoze in that respect) |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 518944 | 2007-01-27 00:00:00 | Well I would try any distro of Linux, but what u can get at a place like DSE is most probably out of date. And since I'm on dialup, I'll be downloading an iso or whatever for the next week lol. Hell, I would even install it on one of the Ipods here. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 518945 | 2007-01-27 01:08:00 | You will not get linux at a store:It is open source and is free.If you like to contact me by PM I will arrange to send you a disk at no cost to you.It is so very much better than Xp and can not be hacked.The main reason linux users run anti virus is because a virus might come in to their puter and then go out again and infect a windows machine.We do not run spybot or anything like those things.There are a few learning curves but this is because there are no exe. files and any alteration has to be installed by the user not by some idiot in Mongolia or Russia or somewhere.Almost all ISP servers run Linux because of the security.I recently read that in man hours put in to building Linux to date it would be 8,000 years and MS would be less than 2,000 years. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 518946 | 2007-01-27 01:14:00 | Yes u can buy Linux on a CD at DSE. As its on their site. Its only a few $ tho. You're only paying coz its on CD. And yup, I know its open source. I may not get rid of XP altogether (I'll put it on the spare 20 gb thats on this), unless some distro knows what a digital video cam is, and can install drivers for it. Thats the only reason I'm using XP. Its got the drivers for this cam, Windows 2000 hasn't got the drivers. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 518947 | 2007-01-27 01:20:00 | Most (and I mean that) hardware will be detected and the driver installed on installation of an up to date Linux distro. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 518948 | 2007-01-27 02:30:00 | If the camera has a DV (aka firewire) link, it is pretty much guaranteed to work with any recent distro. If it's USB, it _might_ work, depending on whether someone has written a driver for the camera. Note that many cameras that use a USB link also have a DV port hidden somewhere. Edit: I would strongly recommend you don't use a redhat-based distro (Fedora, CentOS etc) because of the package management system they use (yum/rpm). Yum is extremely slow and an utter pain to use, and has inferior repository prioritisation. Fixing yum is on the list of things to do for Fedora 7, but it hasn't been done yet. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 518949 | 2007-01-27 02:37:00 | If the camera has a DV (aka firewire) link, it is pretty much guaranteed to work with any recent distro. Yup, its a firewire DV cam only, (Panasonic NV-DS30), no USB on it. Well its also got a serial link but thats only for transferring snapshots/pics. I dont use this connection anyway. And the firewire is a PCI firewire card. Thanx for the heads-up on the Fedora stuff :thumbs: |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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