capnkirby

It's working great for me, I've been on PCLOS for quite some time now and have very much enjoyed being part of it.

7? I guess I missed 6.

There was a 6 kind of, it was released out to the mirrors for some beta testing, but it still had a few too many bugs for full release, so it was pulled within a few hours. Rather than encourage the confusion that went around from this mystery fly by Tex decided to make the new release P7.

I've never had any trouble with the installer, what have you run into that is causing problems??

Capn

It's kinda funny, I posted this to a site a year or so ago that was accepting MS advertising, don't remember what site, the response?

Hey, if they want to give us money to put ads on the site, who am I to argue?

The other comment is who on a linux based site is going to read the ad for MS, we are at the site because we are using linux, let them throw thier money away....

Don't know if this makes it right, just easily justified by the site users and owners....

Capn

Do you have the 3d driviers installed for your video card?

If not, tuxracer looks like a powerpoint presentation....

Just a thought....

Capn

Used both, the biggest difference I see is that Apt has pretty GUI's to work with if you wish, where I've never heard of such a thing for urpmi. In my experience there is really no benefit of one over the other in function or success, only in package volume; there seems to me much more available for Apt than urpmi and in a much wider variety of types. I've found Doom in Apt for example, but not for urpmi.

Just my observations.....

Capn

Simple fix to return it to the 2.4 look is to add "-browser" to the launcher.

I haven't decided on the new style so I have one that launches the new way and one that launches the old...

I'm sure I'll make up my mind one of these years......

Capn

Been using PCLOS for some time now as my main distro, I love it!!

It is very stable, and easy to use (think Mandrake) but much more progressive.

He has ported Synaptic for RPMs as the installer and updater and created stable and unstable directories.

My daughters computer runs the stable and has very few problems in any way. My pc runs the unstable, I have Gnome 2.6, the latest XFree, KDE 3.2 and so on. When there have been problems, not many by the way, Texstar has been quick and responsive in getting them fixed either through a simple "delete this directory", or an entire new RPM to install.

All in all, I have been very pleased with PCLOS and highly recommend it to anyone and everyone. I installed Mandrake 10 on my second partition and just never went there, I just didn't want to.....

Capn

Hmmm, Lets see....

In no particular order:

Lycoris

Icepack

Suse

Peanut

Knoppix

Mepis

Mandrake 8 something thru 10

Evil Entity

PCLOS

Yoper

IPCop

Smoothwall

Libranet

Red Hat

Ark

considering Vector

and a botched LFS

Currently using PCLOS with Mandrake 10 on my testing partition, my firewall is running Smoothwall.

Yes you can,

what should happen is as it boots up you will get an assortment of questions about installing and uninstalling drivers and so on, I've done it from an anchient via based board to a brand new nForce2 board. To me, the biggie is to have the same type of video card (nvidia /ati) otherwise you will not boot into X without having to drop to command line first.

Capn

I reciently was in your position as well, I always told myself and anyone else who would listen that ATI was the way to go. That was before I moved 98% of everything I do to Linux. The ATI support for linux is still young and needs development, where as Nvidia is much more solid. When it came down to it, I bought Nvidia, a FX5200, which while a lower model, is still a very solid card. If you were only looking at windoze, I would still prefer an ATI as the performance for the dollar is much better than that of Nvidia, but with Linux in the picture, it's Nvidia all the way.....

Capn

How about

Damn Small Linux

or

Peanut Linux

or

Puppy Linux

each of these is designed to be very small, and I believe that Damn small is designed to be exactly what you are asking for.

Have Fun!

Capn

95% linux, only reason I have a windoze partition is for games, nothing more, everything else is on linux.

Capn

Try adding this source to your urpmi list, and than try updating either galeon or epiphany, either should cause mozilla 1.6 to also download and install via rpm/urpmi.

Good Luck

Capn

You can find RPM packages easily installed via urpmi here:

Chip's RPMs

Capn

your system is safe for direct infection

Very true, windowz viriuses should have no effect on linux what so ever, however, you can still pass it on to others if it is on your pc, for example e-mail attachments and such.

I've got 2 windowz pc's on my home network, so I help protect them by running a virus check on my linux box a few times a week, just my little bit of sanity.....

Capn

ps: IGGY RULES!!!!!!!!!!!

While I understand your point, isn't it great at the same time????

Just installed it a few days ago,

When turning off the super mount I also turned on the "no auto" and "user" functions, it installed quite normally....

Capn

I don't know what Fedora includes, but be sure to have the Kernel Source, the drivers for the nforce boards do not work properly without it. In my case, I have an nforce2 board, the onboard lan will not work without the kernel source for the drivers to talk to, everything else is fine, just no lan.

Capn

That should work just fine, I've had MDK 9.1 running on a Pentium 233 with 128 mb of ram, with gnome.

It was slower than snot, but it did work!

As far as a faster window manager goes, fluxbox might be worth a try....

Capn

Very nice distro isn't it!

I hasn't supplanted Mandrake as my favorite, but it comes very very close.....

Capn

If you have an old PC sitting around gathering dust, look into:

IPcop

or

Smoothwall

Both are opensource and provide some of the highest quality firewalling available for free!

Capn

Another good one to look at is Mepis, it seems to be kept very up to date, and is a very smooth distro...

Capn

And of course the funny part to me is the "Independent studies show..." yeah, right, independently funded by microstiff that is....

Don't they always have some group trying to prove their worth over linux,

it's amazing the numbers and "facts" that one can come up with when presented the right amount of cash.....

Capn

I must admit that the only time I concern myself with anti-virus software is when I am in windex!

Very true, however, I do run a scan on my Linux box once a week or so mainly to protect my widoze boxes, and those of my friends as well. Just cuz the virus can't hurt me doesn't mean I can't spread it by accident!

The other cool part, is thanks to Linneighborhood, I can use my Linux av to scan the windoze boxes on my network too for double protection!

Capn

Hi,

I'm running an Nforce2 board, and have had the same problems. From what I have found, the sound will work fine out of the box, but hte NIC does not. The drivers from Nvidia (small download) and the Kernel-source (big download) are needed for it to configure. Let's put it this way, it's enough of a hassle that I have a seperate NIC card in my PC that MDK can configure without help, and I keep the Nforce NIC disabled in the bios.

Sorry to rain on your parade.....

Capn.