plus i'm running a 3-year-old laptop with 512RAM and a 1.5GHz...so even XP can be a bit strenuous on this old thing
dual-booting ubuntu feisty fawn and windows XP Pro
i only hit up the XP side for doing certain programming i can't fluidly do on linux...and if i'm feeling bored, ventrillo
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited April 2007
I tried Fedora Core and I actually loved it except for game compatibility
my laptop was a simple install and go...i had next to no problems with drivers
when i set up my roommates compy i had to spend a few hours getting the video drivers working through the console...which was a bitch...and the wireless drivers...also a bitch
Actually.. the older the comp.. the better chance someone has spent some time to develop drivers for it.
as far as I've seen the only thing that's a pain to get working under linux is suspend/hibernate on a laptop. as well as some wifi drivers might be harder to find.
Excellent! I doubt the wifi will be a big problem, since it's not built-in, just some add-on D-Link card.
Try ubuntu first. it will autodetect quite the range of hardware.
Also.. knoppix has saved me at work so many times on windows drives that don't boot. Knoppix + mount drive + save peoples data.
plus i'm running a 3-year-old laptop with 512RAM and a 1.5GHz...so even XP can be a bit strenuous on this old thing
dual-booting ubuntu feisty fawn and windows XP Pro
i only hit up the XP side for doing certain programming i can't fluidly do on linux...and if i'm feeling bored, ventrillo
shit, i'm running an old HP junker with a PIII 966 MHz and 512 MB RAM and I do audio recording
Well fuck me sideways. I close X and login as root and still it wont install.
Says it doesn't have any precompiled kernel interface layer for my system or some shit.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
edited April 2007
I was dabbling in masochism for a while. I am currently dual-booting vista and Sabayon linux on an old Dell 1.6 GHz 512 MB RAM laptop. I have ubuntu on my external hard drive that I boot from when something is messed up with my other partitions. I really do like Ubuntu though. I have just not messed around with it for a while. I still need to learn how to use it more.. I rarely use command line.
Sabayon is also pretty neat. The only reason I really love it though is because of Beryl. Beryl = very pretty computer. Actually the dual booting does not even work so well anymore. Back when I had XP as my windows partition, I used Acronis OS Selector, but it does not detect vista and there are a few hoops I would have to jump through to get it to work. So I think I will try Grub or something when I get the time. So for now Sabayon is kind of stuck in a section of my hard drive I can only get to using the UltimateBootCD. (That thing is very useful by the way, just google UBCD, free download, a ton of useful features.)
Vista has actually worked rather well for me. The only problem I really had was installing Office 2007 (what the hell?) Only reason I bought it was because university was offering it for $11.
I ran Ubuntu recently for a few months because my Windows drive shit itself, and I just didnt really want to re-install. I got Beryl/Compiz runnning on it and it was like a fucking PC wetdream.
Then I re-installed Windows. And now you've made me miss Linux. I used to run Slackware all hardcore, and loved it, but it took days to set up completely.
I ran Ubuntu recently for a few months because my Windows drive shit itself, and I just didnt really want to re-install. I got Beryl/Compiz runnning on it and it was like a fucking PC wetdream.
Then I re-installed Windows. And now you've made me miss Linux. I used to run Slackware all hardcore, and loved it, but it took days to set up completely.
I tried installing Ubuntu, both v6 and v7 (a few days ago) but I am having a shit ton of trouble getting the boot set up properly. I think it's because the HDD I'm trying to install it on is >300 GB etc. LBA etc.
Man, one of my friends, who is going to work for Microsoft, said "Piss on Windows all you want, but at least that shit installs properly."
And I am totally in his camp on that one. Granted OSX installs better...
Man, one of my friends, who is going to work for Microsoft, said "Piss on Windows all you want, but at least that shit installs properly."
yeah, after 7 hours, 15 reboots, and 95 driver updates
As silly as it sounds. Vista installed almost perfectly onto my laptop. I put the DVD in, answered a few questions, and it rebooted a few times automatically. 25-30 minutes after I put the DVD in, Vista was installed. It detected my ethernet card right away, installed the available updates, one more reboot, and everything was running fine.
i like using linux in class when i'm taking notes so the other CS majors will suck me off
I like using Microsoft OneNote.. from the Office 2007.. I know it sounds really screwy, but since my university has things like that as a free download, I just love using them. Never even liked Office before. I always had OpenOffice or Abiword on my comp. OneNote is pretty sweet though, you can type text in and rearrange it by dragging it anywhere on the page, also different pages and notebooks.
I did try booting into Sabayon once during class but that was just... it took forever to boot and when it did the music plays for like 20 seconds and there was no way to mute the damn thing.
my laptop has a little volume control scroll-wheel that i crank down when i boot up
and, ubuntu boots in about 1/2 the time as XP for me
that whole free MS downloads through school is hot shit...that's where my XP Pro came from
(MSDNAA?)
My laptop does have volume control buttons on the front, they just do not work during startup.
And it is not MSDNAA, we don't just get Microsoft stuff. I go to Indiana University, and there is this thing. IUWare Online. I am not exactly sure what the deal is, but we get things such as Office 2007 and Norton Antivirus for free. We get everything else at discounts. Photoshop still costs around $300 though, and most other software is still rather steep. However, we do have Vista Business for $11 and Vista Ultimate for $15. (Windows XP was $10 but I do not know if that is the deal anymore.)
I tried installing Ubuntu, both v6 and v7 (a few days ago) but I am having a shit ton of trouble getting the boot set up properly. I think it's because the HDD I'm trying to install it on is >300 GB etc. LBA etc.
Linux handles large disks pretty well, I would be surprised if that was your problem.
I tried installing Ubuntu, both v6 and v7 (a few days ago) but I am having a shit ton of trouble getting the boot set up properly. I think it's because the HDD I'm trying to install it on is >300 GB etc. LBA etc.
Linux handles large disks pretty well, I would be surprised if that was your problem.
Well, GRUB won't load that shit!
I've been using SuperGRUB, and that loads both Windows and Linux fine, but I get some bullshit GRUB 17 errors when I try and run that shit off HDD.
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plus i'm running a 3-year-old laptop with 512RAM and a 1.5GHz...so even XP can be a bit strenuous on this old thing
dual-booting ubuntu feisty fawn and windows XP Pro
i only hit up the XP side for doing certain programming i can't fluidly do on linux...and if i'm feeling bored, ventrillo
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
when i set up my roommates compy i had to spend a few hours getting the video drivers working through the console...which was a bitch...and the wireless drivers...also a bitch
Try ubuntu first. it will autodetect quite the range of hardware.
Also.. knoppix has saved me at work so many times on windows drives that don't boot. Knoppix + mount drive + save peoples data.
shit, i'm running an old HP junker with a PIII 966 MHz and 512 MB RAM and I do audio recording
fuck i need a new computer
jesus i played through HL2 on this thing
luckily it only took a day to beat :roll:
sudo ./scriptname.sh
what is the command to temporarily kill the xserver?
if you go to the command line you can just do:
sudo <commandline>
init 3
ctrl-alt-backspace should restart the xserver
if you want just black a screen with the only the terminal, ctrl-alt-f1
OSX, XP, and a half-ass copy of SuSe.
I may nuke that partition and redo all 3 to equal it out and install Ubuntu.
That puts me in a new echelon of horrible nerd
it's exciting to try new things
You 'Gotta KILL -9!
Or failing that, most linksys wireless NIC's are well supported under Ubuntu.
Says it doesn't have any precompiled kernel interface layer for my system or some shit.
Sabayon is also pretty neat. The only reason I really love it though is because of Beryl. Beryl = very pretty computer. Actually the dual booting does not even work so well anymore. Back when I had XP as my windows partition, I used Acronis OS Selector, but it does not detect vista and there are a few hoops I would have to jump through to get it to work. So I think I will try Grub or something when I get the time. So for now Sabayon is kind of stuck in a section of my hard drive I can only get to using the UltimateBootCD. (That thing is very useful by the way, just google UBCD, free download, a ton of useful features.)
Vista has actually worked rather well for me. The only problem I really had was installing Office 2007 (what the hell?) Only reason I bought it was because university was offering it for $11.
Then I re-installed Windows. And now you've made me miss Linux. I used to run Slackware all hardcore, and loved it, but it took days to set up completely.
slackware wasn't so bad.
I used to use gentoo :P
Man, one of my friends, who is going to work for Microsoft, said "Piss on Windows all you want, but at least that shit installs properly."
And I am totally in his camp on that one. Granted OSX installs better...
yeah, after 7 hours, 15 reboots, and 95 driver updates
As silly as it sounds. Vista installed almost perfectly onto my laptop. I put the DVD in, answered a few questions, and it rebooted a few times automatically. 25-30 minutes after I put the DVD in, Vista was installed. It detected my ethernet card right away, installed the available updates, one more reboot, and everything was running fine.
but whenever i do XP, i make sure i have a movie or two lined up to watch while i'm doing it
I like using Microsoft OneNote.. from the Office 2007.. I know it sounds really screwy, but since my university has things like that as a free download, I just love using them. Never even liked Office before. I always had OpenOffice or Abiword on my comp. OneNote is pretty sweet though, you can type text in and rearrange it by dragging it anywhere on the page, also different pages and notebooks.
I did try booting into Sabayon once during class but that was just... it took forever to boot and when it did the music plays for like 20 seconds and there was no way to mute the damn thing.
my laptop has a little volume control scroll-wheel that i crank down when i boot up
and, ubuntu boots in about 1/2 the time as XP for me
that whole free MS downloads through school is hot shit...that's where my XP Pro came from
(MSDNAA?)
My laptop does have volume control buttons on the front, they just do not work during startup.
And it is not MSDNAA, we don't just get Microsoft stuff. I go to Indiana University, and there is this thing. IUWare Online. I am not exactly sure what the deal is, but we get things such as Office 2007 and Norton Antivirus for free. We get everything else at discounts. Photoshop still costs around $300 though, and most other software is still rather steep. However, we do have Vista Business for $11 and Vista Ultimate for $15. (Windows XP was $10 but I do not know if that is the deal anymore.)
mines just a scroller wheel thing (like on the old school gameboys) which i would guess just goes to a potentiometer on the hardware itself
prolly after i upgrade my motherboard and CPU
plus, NEEDS MORE RAM
it's the main reason i can't go back to XP full time
i guess the new MacOS will have them too
so...that's cool...
Well, GRUB won't load that shit!
I've been using SuperGRUB, and that loads both Windows and Linux fine, but I get some bullshit GRUB 17 errors when I try and run that shit off HDD.
Ubuntu has not been kind to me.
Then again, those live CDs are damn fun to play with
Can't install it though, my HD is way to full with... not porn
Ubuntu doesn't really need beefy hardware