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I give up! there is no winning against cybrjackle. You win.

Selinux from what i've read causes more problems than it's worth. Care to enlighten me why redhat is Sooo great for servers then?

I've also tried everything, linux is just slow at loading webpages and i don't know why. I have faster browsing in winxp but i then lose the stability, the nforce drivers are terrible and the network always disconnects, not to mention they limit tcp connections or something so when running torrents it would kill my connection. So although linux is slower it's a hell of a lot more stable and doesn't disconnect every 8 hours, when i use the opera browser it's a lot faster though. bvc why are you going back to dial up? Dial is evil, have fun uploading your new themes on dial up.

No, even natively it's awful, if you have an audio setup like mines which costs thousands of pounds then maybe just maybe you would understand. The only good audio player i found for windows that sounds good was foobar. If your using KDE i would have to agree with scarecrow that amarok would be the best, has awesome playlist management, OSD, coverart and other goodies. If your using xfce, gnome or anything else there is quodlibet which plays flac, ogg, mp3 and mpc it also has cover art and OSD (it's a little better than amaroks osd and more customisable.)

No the bloat is not necessary for running a server, i consider mines fast, stable and secure but mines doesn't have any bloat. Selinux = overrated and buggy. I have no idea why fedora and redhat are considered great for servers, they're not any better than arch, debian or even gentoo.

Bloat = Services that are not needed. Applications that are not needed. Not to mention the slow start up it suffers from, my archlinux box starts up so fast it's kind of scary and that's with apache, php and mysql too. Fedora isn't a bad distro, it's just heavier than the likes of arch and gentoo.

Nice review, to be honest i think it deserved it's own topic since this one is so old. Redhat and fedora kernels were always bloated, i don't think that's something that will ever change. I still consider fedora too buggy as a main desktop OS, every new fedora release is the same something is fixed and something is broke.

So use xmms or bmp? As far as i know they can even use winamp skins. I personally thought winamp was an awful player and the audio quality was terrible, but hey that's only my opinion.

I think this just proves how important it is to backup our files, saves a lot of headaches later on. DVD's are so cheap these days, anyway. Good luck getting your data back. :)

Toys that hog all your resources?

I used to run gnome on a machine with 256mb ram and to be honest it was plain awful, the slowest loading program was nautilus, so if you do decide to go with gnome use a different file brower like rox. Still i think xfce would be the best to use on that computer.

I'm using arch for my desktop and for my server, my server used to run debian but i find arch a whole lot more easier to maintain. Of course im only using it as a bittorrent tracker. (php,mysql) http://xuse.no-ip.info:8080/

Yeah, could be reiser4 i read some stuff that just scared me off reiser. I'm happy with ext3 though, so no need to change. :)

Well after reading the horror stories about reiserfs on the gentoo forums i'll be staying far away from it. Nothing wrong with ext3 anyway, it's stable, fast and i see no reason to change.

That's really intresting, could you tell me the exact model of your motherboard?

I REALLY love this wallpaper. Makes a change from all those ones with moons, but i do love moons too. :P I wanted to show off the quodlibet OSD aswell. (on screen display)

From what im reading, you have an nforce motherboard (correct me if im wrong). nforce 3 and 4 don't work with mandrake, period. I recommend you install another distro, ubuntu and fedora core 4 should work (they work with my nforce4)

Open a terminal and type "lsmod" and paste the output here.

Oh and the nvidia driver doesn't work with alsa, not that i know of anyway.

I think there is a mplayer plugin that does that. Search around.

Don't use the nvidia driver, it's rubbish. Linux provides an open source version of the drivers and should be in the mandrake kernel.

Check out http://www.xfce.org/ looks really good and will work really well on your setup. I recommend installing the rox file manager aswell, good combo.

Well xine has problems with certain subtitles, the only player that can play everything flawlessly for me is vlc and the GUI looks great. Voted vlc! (dur)

Yeah that's what im saying, there is no 64bit ones and chroot is annoying.

64bit is quite limiting in other areas though, it just annoyed me. Never noticed a speed gain either. It still lacks stuff like the win codecs, i think.