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Zilulil
Gallente Traders of Pain
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Posted - 2007.03.01 03:44:00 -
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Well I'm a little tired of Ubuntu... It's a great OS but some things just don't seem to work properly (CedegaCVS for instance) and I was wondering what another good linux distro to move to is. I know Ubuntu is based off of Debian so that would be an easy switch but I'm wondering if maybe another distro would be better. I'm open to all suggestions.
Originally by: Tuxford when a standard tech 1 item and a basic item love eachother very much...
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JadeO
Caldari W.A.S.P
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Posted - 2007.03.01 10:06:00 -
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Not really into Linux (more like BSD :P) but i've recently had to install Fedora for college purposes and from what i've seen, it looks pretty good. I know SuSE is good too, so you might want to take a look at that one also. ______________
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tylerwylie
Gallente Obortam
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Posted - 2007.03.01 10:21:00 -
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Fedora FTW! I'm running it atm, great distribution.
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Hapexamendios IV
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Posted - 2007.03.01 10:27:00 -
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You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
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tylerwylie
Gallente Obortam
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Posted - 2007.03.01 11:12:00 -
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Originally by: Hapexamendios IV You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
Yea but the way Ubuntu is set up it's hard to figure out what's actually going on, that's what Gentoo is for. The best resource are the distribution-specific site wiki's. And, no matter what distribution you use, you can almost always find an answer on the Gentoo forums that is relevant to your problem. Either do a search or post in the Off The Wall section and you have a high chance of being helped.
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GouldFish
Unscoped Myriad Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.01 13:24:00 -
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Originally by: Hapexamendios IV You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
Well Unbuntu is not Linux which is the point (It's based of debian, which does not use Linux kernel). Which is why apps for Ubuntu / debian need to be back ported to work.
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Dark Shikari
Caldari Imperium Technologies Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.03.01 13:28:00 -
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Originally by: GouldFish
Originally by: Hapexamendios IV You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
Well Unbuntu is not Linux which is the point (It's based of debian, which does not use Linux kernel). Which is why apps for Ubuntu / debian need to be back ported to work.
Uh, what?!
Debian most certainly uses the Linux kernel. You're thinking of GNU/Hurd, which has been, lets say, quite delayed over the years . There is a version of Debian that uses Hurd instead of Linux, but its not widely used.
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Whirleybird
FW Inc
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Posted - 2007.03.01 16:27:00 -
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I recently swapped from Kubuntu to sabayon on my laptop, and it seems to work out just great. Sabayon is based upon gentoo, but the install media is precompiled so the install won't take a week.
Every item you install from the repository will be compiled to your computer, to get you that elusive 5% higher speed. :)
It also comes with beryl as default, so if you're looking for a distro that is as customizable as lego, more fancy than vista, supports most hardware and don't need the uptime of debian I'd strongly reccomend at least testing out the live dvd/cd.
It is a bit bleeding edge, so stuff might crash. However soo far it seems to be rock solid on my laptop.
Or you could always try out linuxfromscratch and get Zilulil-linux :D
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Ziu
Wraith Recondite
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Posted - 2007.03.01 20:10:00 -
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Originally by: GouldFish Well Unbuntu is not Linux which is the point (It's based of debian, which does not use Linux kernel). Which is why apps for Ubuntu / debian need to be back ported to work.
o.O
My Ubuntu install claims to be running .. v2.6.17 of the Linux kernel. Are you calling mah laptop a liar? -- [WREC] is recruiting. | IGB Applications |
tylerwylie
Gallente Obortam
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Posted - 2007.03.01 22:12:00 -
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He probably got it confused with OpenSolaris
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xOm3gAx
Caldari Stain of Mind DAMAGE INC...
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Posted - 2007.03.02 00:33:00 -
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Fedora FTW oooo and slackware but its not very user friendly =D ----------- "Mercinaries never die, we just go to hell to regroup." -xOm3gAx '99
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.02 01:02:00 -
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Originally by: GouldFish Well Unbuntu is not Linux which is the point (It's based of debian, which does not use Linux kernel). Which is why apps for Ubuntu / debian need to be back ported to work.
You made me lol --------
Originally by: Constantine Arcanum most problems can be solved with chloroform.
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Zilulil
Gallente Traders of Pain
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Posted - 2007.03.02 01:38:00 -
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Originally by: Hapexamendios IV You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
It's not that I don't know what's going on. It's that it's code is a bit different. It reads things a bit oddly... And finds errors where they shouldn't be... And thanks for all the recommendations so far... I'm gonna try a few of them out in VMWare
Originally by: Tuxford when a standard tech 1 item and a basic item love eachother very much...
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.02 20:04:00 -
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Originally by: Zilulil Edited by: Zilulil on 02/03/2007 03:16:40
Originally by: Hapexamendios IV You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
It's not that I don't know what's going on. It's that it's code is a bit different. It reads things a bit oddly... And finds errors where they shouldn't be... And thanks for all the recommendations so far... I'm gonna try a few of them out in VMWare
EDITED: I'm sort of jacking my own thread for a minute. I need a free windows or linux partition manager that can move and resize and create NTFS partitions. I need to enlarge my Windows partition now that the new EVE patch borked my wine.
GParted should do the trick, shouldn't it? Theres a copy of it on the Ubuntu Live CD boot. --------
Originally by: Constantine Arcanum most problems can be solved with chloroform.
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Anatolius
Amarr PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2007.03.02 20:29:00 -
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For rock-solid stability: CentOS
For bleeding-edge features: Fedora Core
If you're tired of weird bugs and the dependency hell of other distributions: Gentoo.
If your computer sucks and you can't compile a new version of X in the background: Not Gentoo.
If you're insane: Debian. (Sorry, Debian folks. )
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Zilulil
Gallente Traders of Pain
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Posted - 2007.03.02 22:49:00 -
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Originally by: Patch86
Originally by: Zilulil Edited by: Zilulil on 02/03/2007 03:16:40
Originally by: Hapexamendios IV You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
It's not that I don't know what's going on. It's that it's code is a bit different. It reads things a bit oddly... And finds errors where they shouldn't be... And thanks for all the recommendations so far... I'm gonna try a few of them out in VMWare
EDITED: I'm sort of jacking my own thread for a minute. I need a free windows or linux partition manager that can move and resize and create NTFS partitions. I need to enlarge my Windows partition now that the new EVE patch borked my wine.
GParted should do the trick, shouldn't it? Theres a copy of it on the Ubuntu Live CD boot.
No unfortunately gparted doesn't do that trick. It sees that NTFS partitions are there but it can't do anything with them...
Originally by: Tuxford when a standard tech 1 item and a basic item love eachother very much...
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.03 01:55:00 -
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Originally by: Zilulil
Originally by: Patch86
Originally by: Zilulil Edited by: Zilulil on 02/03/2007 03:16:40
Originally by: Hapexamendios IV You can learn more by figuring out how to make ubuntu work than you can distro hopping. Linux is Linux. figure out what is holding ubuntu up, and you know more about how to fix the next problem, you keep the distro you know and love, and you get a little bit of pride as well.
It's not that I don't know what's going on. It's that it's code is a bit different. It reads things a bit oddly... And finds errors where they shouldn't be... And thanks for all the recommendations so far... I'm gonna try a few of them out in VMWare
EDITED: I'm sort of jacking my own thread for a minute. I need a free windows or linux partition manager that can move and resize and create NTFS partitions. I need to enlarge my Windows partition now that the new EVE patch borked my wine.
GParted should do the trick, shouldn't it? Theres a copy of it on the Ubuntu Live CD boot.
No unfortunately gparted doesn't do that trick. It sees that NTFS partitions are there but it can't do anything with them...
Weird, it worked just fine on mine. I just repartitioned an XP machine to dual boot with Ubuntu, and I resized the NTFS partition with GParted. Sure its not a defrag issue? --------
Originally by: Constantine Arcanum most problems can be solved with chloroform.
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JadeO
Caldari W.A.S.P
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Posted - 2007.03.03 02:22:00 -
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where's the good old fips? ______________
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