Posted on 04/27/2006 2:23:22 PM PDT by freedumb2003
I've played around with it a little. Seems to work better with my laptop, in that 3.4 doesn't give me a battery meter, but 6 does.
I agree, I'm going to wait and make sure it stabilizes before I upgrade, but I think it was a good idea to switch to the Ubuntu repositories, which are on a regular cycle.
I hate it when you want to install one little application and it wants to do strange things, like removing kdebase, etc. I think moving to Ubuntu will fix that.
I know an easier way.
1)Download the Opera Debian Sid package.
2)Open Kpackage (start>system>kpackage).
3) Drag and drop the Opera package into Kpackage.
4)Click Install.
5)Enter root password. Watch Kpackage install automatically.
6)You're done. Yay!
im a linux newbie, so any help is appreciated! :)
Any of you guys ever tried Vector linux? I was going to download the LIVE SOHO but not sure which one is the newest one.. saw that it said RC3 but on the FTP they list a -4... but it doesn't have the MD5 for it. hmmm any suggestions?
Linux will install just fine with no interfence from you at all. Sheesh, don't you read the tech threads?
Not usually, no.
BUt the folks on this thread were helpful and now I have Linux up and humming
Vector Linux is pretty good. It runs fast, especially on low memory machines. Ran SOHO (full KDE desktop) on a computer with 64 mb of memory, and it did way better than I expected in terms of speed. You can use the GUI to install new programs, or you can use slapt-get, which, as you might imagine, works just like apt-get.
You can get Standard, which comes with the XFCE desktop, which should be even faster than SOHO with KDE. I imagine it would be very similar to Zenwalk, which is also Slackware based and also has XFCE (I'm using Zenwalk right now-433mhz K6 with 196 mb ram on my old Compaq laptop). XFCE is fast, but still has a lot of features, and is great for older computers like this one.
Whats the main difference between standard edition and the SOHO?
Opps ATI X800XT AIW
Quite possibly, with those resources, applications will open before you click on them :)
The main difference between SOHO and Standard is that SOHO includes everything that you might need for a small or home office, while Standard is more oriented toward running efficiently on an older system (which it does well).
In my opinion, Vector is nice, and much faster to run than Mepis, but not as complete or easy to use as Mepis, and there aren't as many apps available for it.
I have had some degree of success, however, in using Alien on a Mepis system to convert Debian files to TGZ (Slackware) packages, so if there's something not available in the Slackware repositories, you still might be able to get it, and you can use the live Mepis CD to convert between formats. But not all packages can be converted from one format to another, and you usually don't know until you try.
I have no idea whether Vector includes ATI drivers or not.
Oh, yeah...here's the Vector Linux page that details the different versions...
http://www.vectorlinux.com/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=10&page_id=13
thanks, im DLing it now... wendsday the new version of Mepis is use to come out Mepis 6 beta2
I will probably wait a little longer, until the final version is released. I'm actually running a beta version of 3.4. I've been two lazy to download the current one, and this one seems to work OK.
LOL
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