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| 452961 | 2006-05-08 09:16:00 | Cosidering Fedora is up to Core 5 now, it sounds like your local DSE is carrying rather old stock. Fedora is normally a 4-CD set, so you are not required to download anything extra except if you wish to have mp3 support as Fedora does not provide this natively. Seeing as you are in Welly, I suspect Murray is about to pounce with a Mepis CD ... ;) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 452962 | 2006-05-08 13:24:00 | Old habits die hard huh? ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 452963 | 2006-05-08 23:52:00 | Cosidering Fedora is up to Core 5 now, it sounds like your local DSE is carrying rather old stock . Fedora is normally a 4-CD set, so you are not required to download anything extra except if you wish to have mp3 support as Fedora does not provide this natively . Seeing as you are in Welly, I suspect Murray is about to pounce with a Mepis CD . . . ;) Who me??? You do me a grave disservice sir :annoyed: Pssst!! Wanna have the latest Mepis Nomad? Sure you do pal, just PM me ;) ;) ;) What other distros have you narrowed down to? I'm not averse to DL'ing something for a whirl myself . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 452964 | 2006-05-09 00:12:00 | Should Debian Sarge be dismissed out of hand as being too difficult :confused: ? I installed it not so long ago and found it quite easy; not like previous versions and I'm an absolute klutz when it comes to these sort of things. I quite like the Debian philosophy too and when I get totally fed up with windows, who knows......., or maybe Gentoo :D |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 452965 | 2006-05-09 00:15:00 | Sorry, Gentoo couldn't be considered as an option here :horrified as it is rather difficult for beginners (witness all the posts I've made in the past). | jcr1 (893) | ||
| 452966 | 2006-05-09 01:46:00 | Who me??? You do me a grave disservice sir :annoyed:Pssst!! Wanna have the latest Mepis Nomad? Sure you do pal, just PM me ;) ;) ;) What other distros have you narrowed down to? I'm not averse to DL'ing something for a whirl myself.Do you have the latest based on Ubuntu version of SimplyMepis?? I do :p As for Debian Sarge, I threw it on a drive not long ago to have a play round, it was okay but I found it outdated. IN the end I opted for testing repositories. For a beginner, I would suggest Debian (even Sarge) is just a little advanced. Even Arch (which I found quite good) is a bit advanced. Nomad: I would highly recommend SimplyMepis and Ubuntu |
Myth (110) | ||
| 452967 | 2006-05-09 02:25:00 | As always, use Google. Ask it "SATA problems linux" (or use a particular distribution name instead of "linux" ;) . People talk about problems. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 452968 | 2006-05-09 03:06:00 | Do you have the latest based on Ubuntu version of SimplyMepis?? I do :p As for Debian Sarge, I threw it on a drive not long ago to have a play round, it was okay but I found it outdated . IN the end I opted for testing repositories . For a beginner, I would suggest Debian (even Sarge) is just a little advanced . Even Arch (which I found quite good) is a bit advanced . Nomad: I would highly recommend SimplyMepis and Ubuntu No I don't . It's still in Beta 2 stage with perhaps 1 more release to go before the final version . I decided to hold off needlessly upgrading Mepis in the interests of stability . Mind you, the meshing of the Ubuntu (Debian) kernel with Mepis is a great Idea IMO . It allows the folk at Mepis, to leech of the Ubuntu resources (to an extent), improving, what in my opinion is (in Mepis), a superior distro even further . Hmm, nothing wrong with putting it on the financila comptrollers machine though, she's already running Mepis, would she notice much/any diff . or will I get a thick ear? Besides, what could possibly go wrong, it's not as if that data is very important, either :rolleyes: |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 452969 | 2006-05-09 08:05:00 | Gentoo is looking at having some help from Googles Summer of Code which should assist with a few things like installation (hopefully) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 452970 | 2006-05-09 12:20:00 | I'm using Mandriva 2006.0 on SATA drives and have never had a problem. You can buy it here (http://www.lsl.com.au/). If you're on dial-up it would pay you to get the errata disc as well. It's a nice easy to use distro too. |
Mackin_NZ (6958) | ||
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