They moved/opt (where KDE is located) off / and into/usr. I like this. (DISCLAIMER: I have not installed RH6. However, earlier mariner/venus Mandrake betas had/opt in/.) Keeps / small and tame. I followed it in beta, installed it 8 or 10 times in the last week. Mostly it is Current. 229 is nice & fast. Lots of RH6 bug fixes rolled into it. Full install puts 1148 Megs in my/usr. / was around 28 - 33M and I keep/var in a separate partition.
It became popular prior to RH6 because it was RH +KDE. It has worked well. I am running it on my Thinkpad 600 and on a K6/200/Abit IT5H. Installing Linux on the Thinkpad has been a bit of a chore but RH seems to have figured it out.
The install took less than 20 minutes not including Sound config...
I agree with you. Debian is probably the smartest distro. But that install...
I just got back from Comdex-Chicago. I installed the Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 that someone handed me for free at the show. Wait till you see this installation! THREADED. Play Tetris while packages are loading!
By the way, Linus's speech was funny. Atta way Linus! Sock it to 'em!
I read this a while back, liked it, saved it and now I want people to see it again:
by Anonymous Coward: Linux is gonna slay the billbeast and give him a big f'in wedgie to remember us by. Microsoft has nooooooooooo idea how prepared and spirited the Linux community is. We're an army of Conans wielding the sword of GPL baby, throwing lightning bolts down on Redmond from Mount Olympus!
I installed RedHat 5.2 on my Thinkpad 600. The machine booted off the CD. The install went without any hitches and I was even able to get the sound to work via ALSA drivers. To get vid to work I had to ftp the current neomagic driver from RH but this is now included in the 5.3 images. I later upgraded to Mandrake 5.2 then 5.3 and now life is good:) My version of the machine has no built in modem so I can't bitch about their crummy internal modem chip which IBM NEEDS TO WRITE A LINUX DRIVER FOR!!!
I was sold a remarked PII/400 through the channel and the CPU was not stable. I think it was a 300. The guy who sold it to me took it back and acted surprised. The screening job on the chip was good but not perfect so it was possible he had been had. He replaced it with a boxed PII/400 for no additional charge. (I did email Intel with his name/number cuz I was pissed - wasted a day figuring out why the machine was crashing...)
Yes, this is fud. It is ok to post links to FUD. But put up a FUD icon with them... So as not to spread it any further than needed. Label it something like "FUD".
This notebook has some tricks to getting linux on it but RH/Mandrake installed simply and even worked with the NeoMagic ZV video chip. My DVD drive is working nicely too. Now if I could just find those drivers for the Margi card...
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>is there such a thing as DVD-R or DVD-RW yet? If not, is it technically possible? on the drawing boards?
Yes, as the previous reply stated and they are Expensive. I looked at them at Comdex over the last 2 years. $15,000 two years ago. ~$8000 this year.
They moved /opt (where KDE is located) off / and into /usr. I like this. (DISCLAIMER: I have not installed RH6. However, earlier mariner/venus Mandrake betas had /opt in /.) Keeps / small and tame. I followed it in beta, installed it 8 or 10 times in the last week. Mostly it is Current. 229 is nice & fast. Lots of RH6 bug fixes rolled into it. Full install puts 1148 Megs in my /usr. / was around 28 - 33M and I keep /var in a separate partition.
It became popular prior to RH6 because it was RH +KDE. It has worked well. I am running it on my Thinkpad 600 and on a K6/200/Abit IT5H. Installing Linux on the Thinkpad has been a bit of a chore but RH seems to have figured it out.
The install took less than 20 minutes not including Sound config...
...TGIF!
I agree with you. Debian is probably the smartest distro. But that install...
I just got back from Comdex-Chicago. I installed the Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 that someone handed me for free at the show. Wait till you see this installation! THREADED. Play Tetris while packages are loading!
By the way, Linus's speech was funny. Atta way Linus! Sock it to 'em!
I read this a while back, liked it, saved it and now I want people to see it again:
by Anonymous Coward: Linux is gonna slay the billbeast and give him a big f'in wedgie to remember us by. Microsoft has nooooooooooo idea how prepared and spirited the Linux community is. We're an army of Conans wielding the sword of GPL baby, throwing lightning bolts down on Redmond from Mount Olympus!
Cheers to whomever wrote it!
Or are we above playing on their level?
I installed RedHat 5.2 on my Thinkpad 600. The machine booted off the CD. The install went without any hitches and I was even able to get the sound to work via ALSA drivers. To get vid to work I had to ftp the current neomagic driver from RH but this is now included in the 5.3 images. I later upgraded to Mandrake 5.2 then 5.3 and now life is good :) My version of the machine has no built in modem so I can't bitch about their crummy internal modem chip which IBM NEEDS TO WRITE A LINUX DRIVER FOR!!!
I was sold a remarked PII/400 through the channel and the CPU was not stable. I think it was a 300. The guy who sold it to me took it back and acted surprised. The screening job on the chip was good but not perfect so it was possible he had been had. He replaced it with a boxed PII/400 for no additional charge. (I did email Intel with his name/number cuz I was pissed - wasted a day figuring out why the machine was crashing...)
Yes, this is fud. It is ok to post links to FUD. But put up a FUD icon with them... So as not to spread it any further than needed. Label it something like "FUD".
This notebook has some tricks to getting linux on it but RH/Mandrake installed simply and even worked with the NeoMagic ZV video chip. My DVD drive is working nicely too. Now if I could just find those drivers for the Margi card...
Sorry, but I do it today. Using Java with fields.