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Brooks
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03 Nov 2007, 1:34 pm

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Custom Knoppix Live CD - no gui
Debian with icewm


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04 Nov 2007, 3:17 am

Backtrack 2 and 64 bit Ubuntu 7.10

I'm waiting for kde 4 to come out. Then maybe I will use it with Linux from Scratch or Gentoo in VMware Server.



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04 Nov 2007, 5:15 am

I spent 10 hours yesterday 'upgrading' from Feisty to Gutsy (Kubuntu 64-bit). The upgrade stopped twice, second time when it was already installing the packages. So I decided to install 32-bit Gutsy from alternate CD this time. That worked on the third time... until reboot, now either KDE or don't-know-what is messed up, graphics are totally scrambled.

Writing this on Win XP, where I haven't had any problems in years :P. Maybe Linux hates me or something, the last version was a pain, too.



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04 Nov 2007, 7:46 am

I'm poised on the brink of updating to Gutsy, Josa. I have a friend who just went through the pain you described. He eventually installed to a fresh partition, and that is now OK. His upgrade was from a clean, but "well used" Feisty install. Mine will be from a well used Edgy, via a fairly traumatic upgrade to Feisty, with lots more usage - i.e. rather more like your upgrade path. Sounds like I might not make it!

Current uptime > 26 days.


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04 Nov 2007, 8:19 am

I use Puppy and Ubuntu 7.10 and am very happy with both. The only complaint I have is that I'm having a difficult time getting my winmodem to work despite getting Slmodem and wvdial to successfully detect it. Oh well, that's just something of a side challenge since I don't depend on it. It's good to see lately that a lot more people are finally realizing that Windows isn't the only OS on the block and that much better software can be had for free.



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04 Nov 2007, 6:38 pm

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04 Nov 2007, 6:47 pm

I would use either Ubuntu or Sabayon if/when I use Linux again.



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05 Nov 2007, 7:01 pm

ahayes wrote:
I would use either Ubuntu or Sabayon if/when I use Linux again.


Sabayon is for the lazy who don't want to learn. You're better off installing Gentoo if you like Sabayon.



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06 Nov 2007, 11:29 am

I have a lot of distros and os. Many of them are running in VMware and qemu. I've got more OS since I took this picture, and I plan on getting 2 more.

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14 Dec 2007, 9:25 pm

Saybayon Linux. It rocks.
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/



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21 Dec 2007, 12:54 am

I'm now using Ubuntu 7.10 with XFCE.


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22 Dec 2007, 6:09 am

I've used Kubuntu since 6.06, now using 7.10. I love it to bits. Had a hell of a time every time I tried to upgrade it but once I did everything was hunky dory.



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24 Dec 2007, 12:46 pm

I use ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop and red hat 7.2 on my desktop



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27 Dec 2007, 3:54 am

I'm still using my original RedHat 6.1 ( Linux linus 2.2.24-7 #1 Tue May 3 15:13:04 PDT 2005 i586 unknown) as my daily-desktop, as it's slimmer and faster than contemporary distributions, with X-Free86 and the original KDE 1 and a ICE-WM desktop.

Vector Linux 5.8 on another partition, I use that when I need newer kernel stuff like FireFox, USB-mass storage, etc. Use both of these on a daily basis now. It's a little slower than the older RH, what with running the newer Open X and 2.6 series kernels.

Have these hangin' about; they were installed for trying out:

mdk82 slack suse feisty woody

Ubuntu is slower on this box than VL5.8; VL handles pretty much everything I need that isn't handled perfectly by RH6.1.

Hardware

500MHz, 768MB AT, 52X CD-ROM, CD-RW, 8.5GB primary and 80GB secondary HD

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linus:/u2/home2/johnpipe$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Apollo PRO] (rev 12)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 08)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3050 (rev 20)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
00:14.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 08)
00:14.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Daughterboard (rev 08)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 215GB [Mach64 GB] (rev 5c)


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00:14.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 08)


This last needs a comment; this is a "Designed for Win9x" board with an address in the VGA space, and will be non-functional on boot, unless the X configuration file is modified to disable interrupts (which otherwise resets the analog/digital output jack so you can't get analog sound out), since Open X can handle multiple video cards, which is what this SB looks like to the X-server. Not a problem with OLDER XFree86, single-head servers.

That card had puzzled Linux users for years, but thanks to searching diligently, I found one person who found how to get it to work with a work-around, requiring a manual command from an X-term to set the card every time you logged into X.

I started reading through the X configuration file, and deduced that two entries sounded promising. I experimented after reasoning things out, and Voila! Sound working on boot-up, every time.

I sent the info to the maintainer of the Linux Sound HOWTO at tldp, so it should save folks some grief who happen to be given one and try to get it working under a modern Linux distro. Some poor sod suggested in a post online in a Linux forum a few years back to try to de-solder the prom and re-program it, then solder it back on the board; he was not an aspie.


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28 Dec 2007, 8:53 am

Debian.



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02 Jan 2008, 5:57 pm

I use Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) on my PC, CentOS on my makeshift server, Gentoo on my personal workstation, and Xandros on my ASUS Eee.


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