Any Linux Fans Here?

[Piru]

now I'm on Kubuntu... Great ubuntu based distro.

...which in turn is Debian based. A Good Thing (TM)

Dependencies have never gotten me mad

APT rulez ;-)

[trekiej]

Could you tell me about APT?

I hope to find a way to help ease the dependency situation one day.
Having high speed internet is one way.  I could download as I need.  I have modem. : (  Yuk!

[Matt_H]

@ Rabbi

The Amiga version of RedHat is absolutely ancient and probably not worth considering. Dependencies were bad with RedHat a mere 4 years ago, and the Amiga port is even older...

I recently switched from Debian to Ubuntu on my Pegasos as it's much easier to use for a Linux n00b like me (more functional out-of-the-box).

[Piru]

Wikipedia: Advanced Packaging Tool

[da9000]

I'm a Slackware guy, but Debian (or its derivatives like Ubuntu) is also a great distro.

Learning the apt tool chain (like apt-get) will solve most of your "dependency" problems. They only time you'll be having any is if you're hacking your distro by installing stuff by hand. There's not reason you should be getting any problems with the distro supplied installations tools (apt for Debians and pkgtools for Slackwarez)

As for the future of Debian/Linux m68k, it has always been shaky as far as I recall since the late 90's when using it on a 68k Mac... But yes, I would certainly hope they don't give up on it, because that means no more Linux on Amigas, Macs, Ataris(?), lots of Sun 68k machines, etc

[keropi]

 :-D  :-D  :-D

[pixie]

And proud hater too :-D :-D

[mgerics]

I'm slowly coming around. I'm big on open source (read:a big cheapo). Mostly want to get away from micro$oft and its many ways of irking conputer users.
I'd really like to set up Quake2, as I am an addict. Can anyone out there point to a tutrial that explains how to do so?

[Colani1200]

That's why you use something else than RedHat. RedHat is notoriously bad in package management.

Why that? Both yum (Fedora) and up2date (RHEL) work absolutely fine for me.

[skurk]

I've been using Linux since 1994.  I'm no dedicated Linux lover, I love all sorts of UNIX.  Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, OpenBSD, you name it.  When Apple introduced MacOSX I was completely sold.  Switched two years ago, haven't looked back.

Windows is OK too, I use it at work every day, but I wouldn't use it at home, it's way too.. uh.. "not me".

[Piru]

@mgerics

I'd really like to set up Quake2, as I am an addict. Can anyone out there point to a tutrial that explains how to do so?

With any decent distribution, as root:

Code: [Select]

apt-get install quake2

[Colani1200]

mgerics wrote:
I'd really like to set up Quake2, as I am an addict. Can anyone out there point to a tutrial that explains how to do so?

Hmm... shouldn't be too difficult. You might want to have a look at quake2forge. Which distro are you running? Probably there are also pre-compiled packages. On my FreeBSD box I just had to do a "portinstall quake2forge"  :-D

[Piru]

@Colani1200

That's why you use something else than RedHat. RedHat is notoriously bad in package management.

Why that?

RPM Hell

[Colani1200]

Piru wrote:
RPM Hell

You normally don't use RPM directly. There are frontends like yum or up2date. (Like apt-get for dpkg).

[orange]

I'm using Debian (occasionally). I like the aptget system; its ease-of-use. I tried suse years ago, and was frustrated with the fact that NONE of the programs I tried to compile (and 99% of them required compiling) would work. Even if they did, they depended on other-non-installed-software.

I had to waste some time configuring Debian. Biggest problem (on ANY LINUX/UNIX) for me was damn FONTS. Because of Adobe copyright you need to recompile the font software so that you enable real hinting with nonantialiased fonts. Some people like aliasing fonts but sadly I'm used to Windows and anyways sharper text is easier to read.

BTW, my first problem was mouse: " edit XF86Config-4,  Section "InputDevice"  /dev/psaux "

configuring APT to work with active FTP and HTTP proxy took some time, as well as SAMBA for file and printer stuff.
but it was fun..

 :-)

[coldfish]

Ive been using Kubuntu for about a year, and in general I'm pretty happy with it for day to day stuff but I still use Win2000/XP for games and when I need to get things done quickly in a more familiar environment.

Recently started with DSL too, which is a nice quick package.