Posted on 11/13/2007 11:19:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I have not tried Ununtu yet. How does it compare to Debian? That is the one I have been setting up here. I also have Red Hat and Suse. Did not care for Red Hat, have not gotten around to loading Suse yet. Starting to get too comfy with Debian, I guess.
I started playing with linuxes on an old P3-733 clunker doorstop. Surprise, it was not a clunker any more. I do have a few annoyances with network print sharing, but am pecking away at them.
My first machine was a Chameleon.
No hard drive.
Booted off a single sided 160KB 5” floppy.
Booted IBM DOS 1.0
I still have the floppy.
Sure learned alot about the DEBUG command in those days!
BTW, I wouldn’t put VISTA on my toaster. That is not if I ever want/expect toast again!
Got a couple battery chargers for cordless tools to repair and I can’t find any 3.6 volt zeners,,my , uh , supply room has gone since I’ve retired..
Plug and Play with no thought just does’nt get it..
Thinking serious about getting into Hamm..Liked working on radios..
If you got time ,,,got a good supply source handy..?Talk to you later cuz,,
BUMP!
Inexpensive is not necessarily cheap. This product is way overdue. I have just one word to add:
VHS.
I have not tried Ununtu yet.
Sigh.... Me neither. The "just works" Ubuntu won't recognize. It won't boot from disk, just skips it and boots windoze. Still working on the "just works."
I keep hoping that Microshaft never catches on to the slow death.
Some abusive, predatory business models deserve a slow painful death.
Remember when you used to be able to own and run three computers with a single OS purchase so long as you didn't run them all at the same time? I would love to have a computer just for games (fast and robust video, refresh rates and resolution, not connected to the internet, thus unaffected by viruses), another to surf (and easily rebuilt if it is infected by viruses, trojan horses or whatever)and a third for my serious, reliable, robust and secure pay-the bills use.
I could only use one at a time, but presently must buy three copies of Windows to accomplish it. Once upon a time things made more sense.
That's great!
I was going to build myself a "PC" computer just to learn and use Linux. I can't build one for that price.
I would buy a "working" return in a minute.
I'm sure most normal people realize that there is more than the box involved, namely monitor, keyboard and mouse.
LOL!
Two reasons
1) Hardware needed for gaming is far more high end than word processors
2) Not allot of great games for Linux
It’s Ubuntu....and it is mostly using Debian....but it sure is a VERY Different install than Debian...I never really got that one to work...
What’s the motherboard?
Watch out for Motherboard’s with the Nvidia 7150 chipset.......only a few of the Linux Distros seem to work right with that one.
Ubuntu has trouble with it....
And if the chipset is ATI that often gives trouble.....also wide monitors can be trouble....been thru that one....
I have a Compaq Evo N800v laptop. Intel chipset. The drive has no problems booting from CD if I’m using a Windows OS disk, maybe my disk is at fault.
“I have not tried Ununtu yet. How does it compare to Debian?”
Ubuntu IS a version of Debian, with a bit different upgrade schedule.
*Snort* ATI. Is there any system their stuff will run seamlessly on, and has their ever been? Bitter memories.
I did all my Debian installs very easily right down the cable. The URL was posted quite some time ago by a Freeper of Blessed Memory.
www.goodbye-microsoft.com
I have it on 3 machines so far.
I'm amazed at what can be done with technology compared to just a few short years ago. For example, I have three different connections to FR right now. This post is being done on a vista laptop using IE.
Let'see see how fast I can post to you three times:)
This reply was from the Vista laptop connected to Windoze 2003 Ent. via RDC to another server.
This post was done from a gnome desktop behind the firewall at the office. I am connected via an NX client on a Vista laptop (which I did another post with) to a Fedora 7 server at the office so this post is being done from a Firefox browser.
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