kristi Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Just some thoughts/experiences. Debian Sarge (3.10) came out It installed easily, but tended to lock on every other boot on my usb scanner. gnome. It comes with a 2.4.27 (or something like that) kern. It gave me 800x600 res on my monitor. It didn't recognize a printer on USB1, It didn't recognize my CX 880 TV card. I give it a low C. Ubuntu just came out with "Breezy", but there were warnings all over the forums not to load it for a few weeks. So I d/l'ed Hoary on DVD and tried that - looked nice. gnome. hi res, but again wouldn't recognize my printer or TV, both things you need a 2.6.8++ or something for. I guess I'll give it a low B - It looked nice, but was useless for me. I want to try core 4 when it goes final, but that is stretching into the distance. That's what I did this past 3 or 4 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 How about you give Arch Linux a try? I have been helping develop Archie, the Arch Linux Live CD, my role has been the kernels, and currently the GUI Hard disk installer for it. I would be grateful if you, or anyone else were kind enough to test my hdinstall, I am confident it is safe and relatively bug free, but you can never be sure. I hope to have a version ready by next monday, the queens birthday, or almost for sure the weekend after. Thankyou in advance. iphitus ps: some screenshots of the hdinstall in development: http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd1.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd2.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd3.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd4.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd5.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd6.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd7.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd8.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallowed Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 How about you give Arch Linux a try? I'd be glad to give it a try, I was going to reinstall Mandrake today anways as I was doing some spring cleaning and formatted my HD as a matter of course, but what odds which distro I install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 I had Breezy for a while, didn't have any problems with it. It might also support more of your hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 (edited) Running Arch for months and couldn't be happier- it's an "install once" distro, absolutely easy to manage once you are familiar with cli/vi. My only problem currently is that the current (2.6.11-10) stock kernel has minor issues with VMware 5 (the CD writer can only be used in legacy mode, so burning from the guest OS is impossible) and I'm a bit lazy rolling my own "fixed" 2.6.11, else than that it works perfectly. Also quite happy with the latest Kanotix 2005.3. Not as fast as Arch, but pretty good and reasonably fast, while everything works right out of the box- including Wine, Win4Lin, VMware, xorg, everything- I just had a minor issue with the post-install Grub configuration, but the fix was rather trivial. Surely enough the best Debian I have touched since ages. Of course I also like Slack and its derivatives (Vector) including the buggy ones (Frugalware), but I fail to see their advanatges over Arch. Sarge is too outdated, and Ubuntu too crippled for my likings. Edited June 9, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 I'd try Sarge with the 2.6 kernel, not 2.4.27. I have had no problems with its picking up my usb scanner or my printer (which is on another Linux box). My hardware is pretty old. I also don't think Sarge is too outdated, KDE is 3.3.2 and all the other apps are pretty up to date. The Debian thing will be the long release cycles, but once all is settled you can go to the new testing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Iphitus: eh, you know me. You got me into Arch, so I'll be more than happy to give it a try for you, although I don't use Arch anymore, I was giving it some thought and might go back to it, or just to mess around with it. So if you catch me in #musb, just give me the stuff, btw I need some help with python!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 I was enjoying Ubuntu, but I don't know it just lost its luster. I went back to Arch now. I might give the hdinstall a shot on another laptop I have. Won't need to hook it up to the internet then. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 How about you give Arch Linux a try? I have been helping develop Archie, the Arch Linux Live CD, my role has been the kernels, and currently the GUI Hard disk installer for it. I would be grateful if you, or anyone else were kind enough to test my hdinstall, I am confident it is safe and relatively bug free, but you can never be sure. I hope to have a version ready by next monday, the queens birthday, or almost for sure the weekend after. Thankyou in advance. iphitus ps: some screenshots of the hdinstall in development: http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd1.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd2.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd3.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd4.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd5.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd6.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd7.png http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd8.png <{POST_SNAPBACK}> When the version is ready, PM me with a link to get it and I'd be happy to try it. I don't know - is there an automatic way to get Sarge to install with the 2.6 version??? I didn't see it and was clearly disappointed with the 2.4 I'll wait a few weeks and try Breezy again - there are indeed some users of Breezy that had no probs but apparently an update of X went badly awry. I'm tired of trying distros that are "not complete" like core 4 test 347 Mandriva comes up and sees my printera d can "support" it as a 7004, and sees my CX 880x TV card and can run it perfectly with TVTime.. Heck, Xandros could do that months ago. - what's the mattere with the supposed top distros??? ARG! Kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowe Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 (edited) When the version is ready, PM me with a link to get it and I'd be happy to try it. I don't know - is there an automatic way to get Sarge to install with the 2.6 version??? I didn't see it and was clearly disappointed with the 2.4 I'll wait a few weeks and try Breezy again - there are indeed some users of Breezy that had no probs but apparently an update of X went badly awry. I'm tired of trying distros that are "not complete" like core 4 test 347 Mandriva comes up and sees my printera d can "support" it as a 7004, and sees my CX 880x TV card and can run it perfectly with TVTime.. Heck, Xandros could do that months ago. - what's the mattere with the supposed top distros??? ARG! Kristi <{POST_SNAPBACK}> uhm yes quite easyily. When you boot the cd, instead of bashing Enter type linux26 That's what i did, then upgraded to testing (etch) and installed the 2.6.11 kernel since the 2.6.8 seemed to have problems on my hardware for some reason. For other boot options press F2, F3 and so on.. Edited June 10, 2005 by Lowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Thanks for the interest guys, I *really* appreciate it. I will hope to have the installer finished on Monday, though it may take a week or two to get the ISO with it out there and ready. I will let you know of any updates and my progress over the next few days :) Right now im writing the crux of the install, the bit where it makes the partitions and copies the install onto them. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 fine. i am interested in testing arch with the installer. although i doubt that it will be better than our yoper release once it is out in august. :P just kidding. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 (edited) Kristi, for Sarge 2.6 just boot linux26. Should be listed in the options from F1. Edited June 10, 2005 by polemicz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 (edited) Kristi, for Sarge 2.6 just boot linux26. Should be listed in the options from F1. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks, I appreciate that! I grabbed 2005A (KDE3.4 just to be current - I'm playing with that now,.[[ okay, just located the 2 Sarge DVDs. Maybe tomorrow, cause I can do that w/o disrupting my mdv build. Thanks!! Kristi Edited June 11, 2005 by kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 FC4 will be out today, grab it and go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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