Any Linux Fans Here?

[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.

[Piru]

yum indeed helps. RH dependicies were total pain before. However, yum doesn't (well can't) fix some of the other issues with rpm.

[Tempest]

I've been using Linux since '98, started with Suse but quickly changed to Mandrake wich I used for several years. I've tried many different distro's but I find Ubuntu/Debian the best. For the last two years I've been running Ubuntu on my laptop, desktop and Pegasos II.

I am using 3 different window managers, Windowmaker, E17 and Xfce, Windowmaker is my favorite. Yes, I like lightweight window managers.

I even confinced my mom to switch to Linux a couple of years ago. She's loving it and I don't have to fix her Windows anymore :-P

To be honest I even like Linux more than Amiga OS.

Who needs Windows...

[trekiej]

Now look what I started.
 :-D
I want to thank all.

Linux has brought me a way to get into computing without spending alot of money on an OS.  
I like Linux but it is not perfect either.

[mgerics]

@Piru
Tried that, but it won't run afterward.
Using kubuntu.

[Piru]

@mgerics

Works with debian.

Ohwell.

Is there some specific error?

[Tempest]

mgerics wrote:
@Piru
Tried that, but it won't run afterward.
Using kubuntu.

Did you use 'sudo quake2-data' to install Quake2 from CD?
Also you've got to run quake2 from terminal because you have to answer a security question with 'y' to start the game.

[vpamicue]

I have used just about all linux dists. Basicaly I test for easy of installation and if a linux noob could do it.

The two dists that stand out are the new Sabayon (gentoo based) dist, which is the most complete and compatable (with windows funtionality) out of the box. Everything works even DVD playback and all the main plugins for browsers. The biggest draw back is it is a custom compile on install and update so it takes a long time even doing simple updates seems to take forever.
The second dist is PCLinux OS (the one I currently use). It is based on Mandriva (2 years ago it was the best for noobs) which is based on RedHat (completely different development now). This is a live CD based dist. It installs fast and updates fast. It has all you need but most apps are installed over interent. There are draw backs you have to figure out Synaptics yourself and NVidia and ATI drivers have to be installed and activated through Synaptics and then Graphics server settings plus is that dvdcss is an installable package through Synaptics (This is the lib needed to watch protected DVD under linux. They do have a great forums area and the linux gurus seem to live there. Not as nooby as Sabayon.

[Tenacious]

I got a Knoppix 5 DVD months ago and finally got it working several days ago after finding some hardware problems.

I have little experience yet, but it's a huge 10 Gig distro.  It seems that they bundled every software package available into it.  It also includes a number of user interfaces ( KDE, Gnome, etc) and the ability to switch between them on the fly, cool!

I like the "Initiating start-up sequence" during boot-up.  That inspired the VoiceOFAmiga.lha collection on Aminet.

I'm impressed.  I'll be exploring this for a long time.  Free modern  OS and software that runs fast on old, inexpensive hardware.  Hard to not like it.

[Tenacious]

I've heard that a knock-off of the Amiga environment was put together.  I wonder if it includes a RamDisk.

Has any tried this?

[DonnyEMU]

Sounds like Linux Hosted AROS to me..

[Tenacious]

Sorry, I didn't spell it out very well.  I've heard of GUI themes with gadgets and operation that mimic the Amiga's Workbench.  I actually doubt that someone went so far as to code  a RamDisk as well.

As mentioned in another post, however, Worker is a dir util for linux and a very near clone of Dopus 4.xx.

[Tomas]

trekiej wrote:
I am getting back into Linux.  I have been reading on RHEL 4.  
What are your views of Linux?
Rick.

I would not say that i am fan, but i prefer it over Windows.
A distro like ubuntu is also nearly as user friendly as Windows and is even easier to install and maintain providing that your hardware is supported. What takes away a bit, is that each distro use different standards, which means that you cannot simply download a redhat rpm and expect to run it on ubuntu and vice versa.

I strongly recommend ubuntu over redhat

[Tomas]

Colani1200 wrote:

Piru wrote:
RPM Hell

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

Still works much less better than apt on lets say debian or ubuntu. And yes, i have tried redhat recently.

[Piru]

@Tenacious

I actually doubt that someone went so far as to code a RamDisk as well.

Dynamic ramdisk has been in the linux kernel since 2.4.

Code: [Select]

mkdir /mnt/ramdisk
mount -t tmpfs none /mnt/ramdisk

[Fats]

Tomas wrote:

Colani1200 wrote:

Piru wrote:
RPM Hell

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

Still works much less better than apt on lets say debian or ubuntu. And yes, i have tried redhat recently.

dpkg and rpm have similar functionality.
yum, smart, apt-* also have similar functionality.
The problem is that there exists different distributions that use rpm with incompatible structure causing RPM Hell when mixing them. For .deb files luckily there is at the moment only one reference and that is Debian.
I myself have also been in 'DEB Hell' when I tried to upgrade a Storm Linux installation to debian a few years ago. ATM I'm also having serious problems on my AmigaOne with debian after switching packages back and forth a few times between stable and testing.
At the moment I'm using Centos4 on my x86 PC with the smart package manager and ATRpms and a few other rpm repositories without any notice of 'RPM Hell'. I'm also using a remote virtual machine with debian installation without much problems.

greets,
Staf.