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I tried freebsd a long time ago. It was long enough that I could not tell the difference b/w that at linux. (what a noob)

Now I use OSX. which is arguably just another bsd flavor. I have also been screwing around with opendarwin. That I really like.

I have not used it for a since 8.0. I can't stand it actually. It has never worked for me, so I just avoid it from the get-go.

kid seems a bit beyond "reasonably bright" if he is stearing clear of gui's already!!

we normally have some docs that are great for understanding that. but the links appear to be down right now. you can always go into mandrake control center and install software from there.

from a terminal as root:

mcc

or you can do:

man urpmi

the latter will help you learn to do it from the command prompt.

I'm having the same problem. except for me its with moz 1.5. I cannot for the life of me figure it out either.

ah...home sweet new home.

that is a little under what I make, and I have horrible credit. So, if I can get it, you can probably weasle your way into one.

yeah 5k a year will not be getting you that loan. I work full time for my school, and pull a lot more than that. So that probably helped out a lot. you could always lie! thats a bit illigal though. second option: hit the parents up!!!

convertin the mods....oh yeah!!!

yes it can. I have gnome 2.4 on it right now!

I ordered mine via apple student loans. I got a halfway decent interest rate, and relatively low monthly payments.

OSX is rediculously nice. I currently have 10.2.8, but panther is on the way. If you want to be able to move around the directories like a unix-savvy user and not a mac user, it takes some configuring. but thats the fun right? I also set it to boot into single user mode in order to allow me to choose my gui at boot. you know replace aqua with fluxbox for a little while.

But that is rare. I have been staying in aqua mode more and more. Every now and then, I'll run KDE on top of aqua. thats cool. instant access to all my X11 apps, and all the cocoa apps.

I really like OSX. I will probablu stick with this OS for a while. I still use Linux at work; less and less as I take this laptop everywhere.

tyme if you can get your hands on an ibook, I say go for it. you'll love it.

the poll probably just ran for a few days and then ended. But thanks for the input. I have actually just kept OSX, and added the X11 extensions. works perfectly for me. And I never installed linux. I made a seperate partition and have been toying with opendarwin. Thats the open source underlying OS of OSX, the seperate partition is just for rescue ops. no GUI, just cli and network. I may add flux to it though.

i got 9.2 without being a club member. heh, just took one day  :D

you should feel good about it too. :roll:

screen is 11.1 inches, capable of a crisp 1024x768.

I have 512mgs of ram, I wish I had upgraded to 768. or even the 1.26.

It runs the mac stuff very smoothly. they take a while to start up, but once the program is running, the run nice and fast.

anyone can use osx. its still idiot proof. the blessing is that it is unix inside, so if you know what you are doing, you can still dig it to just like any other kind of -nix.

As far as your question about running linux apps? - I wrote a paper for my English 341 class in Open Office, while listening to www.bassdrive.com in XMMS. Mplayer works perfectly, and so does gaim. Xchat, KDE, GNOME, all of it. check out the fink project or opendarwin.

nvmnd. its just a big pic.

riddler just told me that 9.2 is giving him the $hit$

pic now worky. but thanks, I'll find it!

where in kcontrol is that? i have never seen that.

i have put the application launcher on the taskbar, but the run command is not even on the kmenu. this sucks. now I'm glad i bought a mac.

well, they took the run option away from the right-click menu in KDE. wtf? this looks like libranet or something. It is esthetically pleasing, but it seems to fool proof for me. I am not impressed yet.

well...talked the boss into letting me go home to get the isos ripped, and I gonna install it on a P4 w/ hyperthreading. that oughta speed it up nicely.

this is what is known as dependency hell.

one option you can do, is if you can get your hands on the rpms by themselves via www.rpmfind.net (be sure to grab the mandrake rpms for 586)

you can move to the directory where they are in a terminal as root and do

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

hopefully, that will go through with no problems.

If it does not, look at the man page for rpm, there are other more risky switches:

rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm

will not look for package dependancies when it upgrades.

rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm

will force the packages to install regardless of error messages.

I do the latter 2 occasionally with no repercussions, but your mileage may vary. So be careful and think it through before you resort to the latter 2.

not me. its been 9 hours since I started downloading these isos. I'd be long since done by by. but nope...I'm still at 10 hours remaining, despite every trick I have tried.

Sarah, which revision is yours? is it one of the new 7450's or is it the older revision? I am in absolute computing heaven with this thing. I have yet to try linux on it, my new kick is integrating X11 and OSX so seamlessless you can't tell what system your on. its harder than I thought, but I guess that makes it fun.

yeah I went home to eat lunch and started it there. downloading ISOs is frowned upon by my boss until after 5pm. it was at 200 hours remaining when i left home.

wahoo! only 103 hours left till completion. by the time I get this, it'll be released to the public. way to go mandrake. way to score another winning gameplan!! oh wait...its 111 hours now.