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RE: Which Linux?
March 11, 2009 at 5:00 am
(March 11, 2009 at 4:10 am)rjh Wrote: Though something tells me that you'll end up sticking to suse as you can never really escape your first love
I think you're probably right ... for some reason I really like SuSE (I also loved the now discontinued Evil Entity Linux). Maybe I should try it with Gnome.
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March 16, 2009 at 6:24 am
(March 10, 2009 at 5:07 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Bugger! My soon to be ESXi server (DELL 1600SC) has screwed up!
Woohoo! Alive? Flash Gordon's alive!
Nothing wrong with it at all, it looks like the KVM (I use a Compaq server room type KVM) was upsetting it, probably the cable because it was fine some time back on another cable.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 5:58 am
I am trying out Mint now. Do I really have to boot to the Live desktop before I can start the install?
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 6:55 am
(April 13, 2009 at 5:58 am)leo-rcc Wrote: I am trying out Mint now. Do I really have to boot to the Live desktop before I can start the install?
Live CD's are OK but the "install to HD" is not always obvious in my experience.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 7:07 am
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Well I've tried to go to a menu from the cd-boot, but all I could do was boot the cd, boot the cd in safe mode, or boot from hard-disc. No install to HD option. That annoys me, because booting the live cd takes over half an hour to come up on this computer.
(March 11, 2009 at 4:10 am)rjh Wrote: Though something tells me that you'll end up sticking to suse as you can never really escape your first love
If that were the case I'd still be working with Mandriva. 
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 10:23 am
(April 13, 2009 at 7:07 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Well I've tried to go to a menu from the cd-boot, but all I could do was boot the cd, boot the cd in safe mode, or boot from hard-disc. No install to HD option. That annoys me, because booting the live cd takes over half an hour to come up on this computer.
Maybe an option at boot?
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 12:06 pm
OK ... quick answer needed.
I have a really crap PC that I'm getting rid of and I want to install Linux on it, Linux with some kind of GUI (obviously not KDE). I've tried DSL (Damn Small Linux) with no success (TBH I couldn't understand how to install the fucking thing).
So I want a really easy (old?) version of Linux that will install happily on a PIII/450 with 128Mb memory. I'm about to try Puppy Linux.
Any ideas appreciated but it (the PC) is going in about 2 hours.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 12:12 pm
What about the linux made for the netbooks, they are made for lightweigt use.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 12:17 pm
(April 13, 2009 at 12:12 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: What about the linux made for the netbooks, they are made for lightweigt use.
Ubuntu? Where from ... I've looked on the Ubuntu page and can't see anything. Worth bearing in mind those CPU's are much more powerful than a PIII though.
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RE: Which Linux?
April 13, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I just found that Asus uses a version of Xandros.
Then I would try TinyMe. I used it on my 5 year old Laptop and was really fast.
http://tinymelinux.com/
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