Download Libranet 2.0.@ www.libranet.com Do a little Googling and find out how to update your/etc/apt/sources.list to update to Gnome 2.0 and KE 3.0 Or just buy Libranet 2.7 and get more programs than you can handel, an easy X setup program and allthe power and grace of debian. Dude, I'm serious. This distribution rocks. Cd burning, Java, everyting's there on the install cds. Email me at baxshepatcox.net if you want ot ask questions.
Things aren't as bad they say at least here in the Marine Corps. We're much more standardized in the Corps but you still find a Pentium 133 hidden somewhere and people using desperately trying to open an Office 2K document since Office 2K is the standard.
What really irks me is this Wintel monopoly we have in the military. What can I tell a user when Office 2K was installed via SMS on his ancient Pentium I machine and now it takes 10 minutes to open any Office app including Outlook? "Sorry, I don't any memory to speed up your machine, I'm not allowed to put an older version of Office on your machine, the only way to fix this is to wait on the supply system to catch up w/ you and issue you a newer machine that will be antiquated in 2 years?"
I have never seen Open Source used in the Marine Corps. Not in a production environment. We used Redhat 6.2 in school to setup BIND since we didn't have enough Sun boxes but that's it. I know some Navy guys who are given much freer rein over their networks and all they do is run out to Fry's, build a nice Athlon box, setup some form of Linux on it, gloat to their superiors about the how much moeny they saved, and in a month call me asking me to help them out since their mail server got hacked. We need more training. By the time one of my Marines knows the routers and troubleshooting well, he's almost out of the Marine Corps. Solution: make them enlist for longer than 4 years and train them properly, not just how to reinstall Office.
On a side note, when this NMCI get going,ALL of our "old" computers will be up for gov't auction since it's in the contract for the civilian companies to replace everything. Lots of nice computers for cheap, guys.
Now let's see what I get modded... Been getting -1 for too long.
My best friend is going to New Guinea for 20 months and taking his laptop. He'll be doing Peace Corps type work and language surveys. After seeing Linux at running at my house and learning about it, he asked me to put it on his laptop as he felt he wouldn't be able rely on Windows for that amount of time.
How is that any different than apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian? I'm not trying to be a smartass; I've just got Debian up and running to where I want it and haven't had time to play with FreeBSD yet. Basically still a newbie:)
I just found out that my little brother, a Marine Scout Sniper currently deployed to the Middle East WASN'T the Marine killed today in Kuwait! Woohoo! I will note that Marines gave as good as they got to those terrorists.... I still feel like hell about the Marine wo was killed but I'm glad to have my brother around still. Go ahead and mod me down....
I use Libranet 2.7 and love it. In my eyes it is kind of a "niche" distribution. You can't be a complete newbie to use it but you can get all of the benefits of Debian. As noted in the article, the amount of packages that comes w/ this distro is amazing. The install is extremely easy to use-just as easy as a GUI one if you know how to use Tab, Space, and your arrow keys. It was kind of a surpirse to me to see that Libranet supported my ATI Radeon M7 graphics card in my laptop whereas Mandrake didn't until the final release of 9.0. After using Mandrake, Suse, and Redhat for over 2 years, apt-get is a joy to use. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have about it.
Now if some kind soul would help me w/ my CDBakeOven problems, I'd be much obliged.
Obviously if I want to have the godlike status and ego that the above poster has, I MUST run Debian.
Of course, if you can't run Debian or even worse, choose not to, you are an "idiot newbie user"
"But Linus himself runs Redhat" you say? Doesn't matter in the sheer omnipotence of the uber dh003i.
I wonder if this guy has ever contributed to any Linux distribution. That is the real reason I bought Libranet. I tried it. I liked it. I support it. Well maybe he's helping by castigating newbies on Slashdot.
My dad's a cattle rancher and I haven't anything remotely resembling a factory on his ranch. Of course it's in Wyoming, not Texas. Maybe they have beef "factories" in Texas that you've visited?
gftp keeps retrying the download every 30 seconds until I get into the ftp site I use. That's why I'm almost done w/ downloading disc 5 as we speak. Also, look on the gnutella network. The isos are out there.
So what? Maybe it's not as detailed as you would like. Bob Cringely makes the frontpage because peope like him. I think he had a pretty good point but that doesn't matter. If just one person's eyes are opened by Bob Cringely and he happens to read you post and click on the link to the EFF that's a GOOD thing, right? If you don't like Bob Cringely, don't read his articles. Not here, not on PBS.org.
Is that all you've got? What are you-a ROTC cadet or something? Too bad you're not on the west coast. We could see if you can walk the walk. Although I doubt you can backup your big words. So were you just trolling or what?
Why don't you do a little research? How about the Army scattering to the winds in Korea and abandoning their wounded and dead? The Marines picking up Army wounded and fighting their way out? If you really want to talk shit, let's go for some PT, little man. Run, swim, hike, whatever. By the way, which branch has the highest physical standards? Let's see here, I criticize an A/C for a really terrible post and you criticize the Marine Corps? That makes a lot of sense. Don't talk shit about the Marines unless you've done what we do. I've been to the BAC and actually worked enough w/ the Army to form an opinion. Are you even serving in the armed forces?
And only incompetent A/Cs post just to talk shit instead of maybe extolling the virtues of their favorite distro so someone might try it over Windows. How about helping out someone try Linux instead of talking shit? Or maybe learning how to spell/type?
i'm going to hope that you're not trolling... Go to www.linuxquestions.org and register so you can search THEN ask questions. Most of your questions will have already been answered there. Good luck!
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Download Libranet 2.0.@ www.libranet.com Do a little Googling and find out how to update your/etc/apt/sources.list to update to Gnome 2.0 and KE 3.0 Or just buy Libranet 2.7 and get more programs than you can handel, an easy X setup program and allthe power and grace of debian. Dude, I'm serious. This distribution rocks. Cd burning, Java, everyting's there on the install cds. Email me at baxshepatcox.net if you want ot ask questions.
Things aren't as bad they say at least here in the Marine Corps. We're much more standardized in the Corps but you still find a Pentium 133 hidden somewhere and people using desperately trying to open an Office 2K document since Office 2K is the standard.
What really irks me is this Wintel monopoly we have in the military. What can I tell a user when Office 2K was installed via SMS on his ancient Pentium I machine and now it takes 10 minutes to open any Office app including Outlook? "Sorry, I don't any memory to speed up your machine, I'm not allowed to put an older version of Office on your machine, the only way to fix this is to wait on the supply system to catch up w/ you and issue you a newer machine that will be antiquated in 2 years?"
I have never seen Open Source used in the Marine Corps. Not in a production environment. We used Redhat 6.2 in school to setup BIND since we didn't have enough Sun boxes but that's it. I know some Navy guys who are given much freer rein over their networks and all they do is run out to Fry's, build a nice Athlon box, setup some form of Linux on it, gloat to their superiors about the how much moeny they saved, and in a month call me asking me to help them out since their mail server got hacked. We need more training. By the time one of my Marines knows the routers and troubleshooting well, he's almost out of the Marine Corps. Solution: make them enlist for longer than 4 years and train them properly, not just how to reinstall Office.
On a side note, when this NMCI get going,ALL of our "old" computers will be up for gov't auction since it's in the contract for the civilian companies to replace everything. Lots of nice computers for cheap, guys.
Now let's see what I get modded... Been getting -1 for too long.
I'm wondering if I've already added fonts via KDE, will they show up in Phoenix? Of course i'll get modded -1 for this right?
You're kidding, right? SP1 JUST came out! Maybe you're a beta tester....
Now it is referred to as GNU/India.
My best friend is going to New Guinea for 20 months and taking his laptop. He'll be doing Peace Corps type work and language surveys. After seeing Linux at running at my house and learning about it, he asked me to put it on his laptop as he felt he wouldn't be able rely on Windows for that amount of time.
How is that any different than apt-get dist-upgrade in Debian? I'm not trying to be a smartass; I've just got Debian up and running to where I want it and haven't had time to play with FreeBSD yet. Basically still a newbie :)
I just found out that my little brother, a Marine Scout Sniper currently deployed to the Middle East WASN'T the Marine killed today in Kuwait! Woohoo! I will note that Marines gave as good as they got to those terrorists.... I still feel like hell about the Marine wo was killed but I'm glad to have my brother around still. Go ahead and mod me down....
Well, go cry about it.
Have you got wireless up and running in Libranet? If you have, I'd like to trade notes w/ you.
I use Libranet 2.7 and love it. In my eyes it is kind of a "niche" distribution. You can't be a complete newbie to use it but you can get all of the benefits of Debian. As noted in the article, the amount of packages that comes w/ this distro is amazing. The install is extremely easy to use-just as easy as a GUI one if you know how to use Tab, Space, and your arrow keys. It was kind of a surpirse to me to see that Libranet supported my ATI Radeon M7 graphics card in my laptop whereas Mandrake didn't until the final release of 9.0. After using Mandrake, Suse, and Redhat for over 2 years, apt-get is a joy to use. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have about it.
Now if some kind soul would help me w/ my CDBakeOven problems, I'd be much obliged.
Obviously if I want to have the godlike status and ego that the above poster has, I MUST run Debian.
Of course, if you can't run Debian or even worse, choose not to, you are an "idiot newbie user"
"But Linus himself runs Redhat" you say? Doesn't matter in the sheer omnipotence of the uber dh003i.
I wonder if this guy has ever contributed to any Linux distribution. That is the real reason I bought Libranet. I tried it. I liked it. I support it. Well maybe he's helping by castigating newbies on Slashdot.
You can only download their older release from linuxiso.org. You HAVE to buy 2.7
I haven't seen that in Wyoming... Another reason to move back there.
My dad's a cattle rancher and I haven't anything remotely resembling a factory on his ranch. Of course it's in Wyoming, not Texas. Maybe they have beef "factories" in Texas that you've visited?
gftp keeps retrying the download every 30 seconds until I get into the ftp site I use. That's why I'm almost done w/ downloading disc 5 as we speak. Also, look on the gnutella network. The isos are out there.
I'm not happy when I can't download my Britney fix either! This is getting serious....
So what? Maybe it's not as detailed as you would like. Bob Cringely makes the frontpage because peope like him. I think he had a pretty good point but that doesn't matter. If just one person's eyes are opened by Bob Cringely and he happens to read you post and click on the link to the EFF that's a GOOD thing, right? If you don't like Bob Cringely, don't read his articles. Not here, not on PBS.org.
I just uploaded a pic of myself to gtk-gnucleus. No spyware and it's FREE PORN! Feel free to download a pic of my one-eyed, helmeted reptile.
Is that all you've got? What are you-a ROTC cadet or something? Too bad you're not on the west coast. We could see if you can walk the walk. Although I doubt you can backup your big words. So were you just trolling or what?
Why don't you do a little research? How about the Army scattering to the winds in Korea and abandoning their wounded and dead? The Marines picking up Army wounded and fighting their way out? If you really want to talk shit, let's go for some PT, little man. Run, swim, hike, whatever. By the way, which branch has the highest physical standards? Let's see here, I criticize an A/C for a really terrible post and you criticize the Marine Corps? That makes a lot of sense. Don't talk shit about the Marines unless you've done what we do. I've been to the BAC and actually worked enough w/ the Army to form an opinion. Are you even serving in the armed forces?
And only incompetent A/Cs post just to talk shit instead of maybe extolling the virtues of their favorite distro so someone might try it over Windows. How about helping out someone try Linux instead of talking shit? Or maybe learning how to spell/type?
The name for cowards and trolls.
Anybody tried wireless on any of the Mandrake 9.0 betas or RCs? Or installed it on a ATI Mobility M7 laptop?
i'm going to hope that you're not trolling... Go to www.linuxquestions.org and register so you can search THEN ask questions. Most of your questions will have already been answered there. Good luck!