Ronin Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 heh, okmaybe I'll go the Debian way and install Kanotix, I have fond memories of it ----- still, if someone can tell more about SUSE, please do, or Fedora Core Or just install Debian instead of one of the knock offs. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 right.... I actually have 9 partitions I'd like to keep intact, I don't feel powerful enough for the satanic debian install it's been compared with Dante's 9th circle of hell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 I installed debian once, and then apt wouldn't let me update the system correctly, so I wiped it and loaded something else. Could be just because I didn't have the patience, but when the option is unselectable when it should be, kind of worried me. Might have another go when I'm feeling free with plenty of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 You just weren't satanic enough, Ian :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Hmm.... installing debian ain't that hard. And if you need some nice tool for help, you can always use GenieOS for installing a basic and 100% Debian KDE or Gnome desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Thanks for the info.And how about xorg? I'd really like to have X with my ati. :) p.s. It was not bought with Linux in mind, and I don't have the money to buy nvidia What kind of card do you have? Is it supported in other xorg 7.0 distro's that you have tried? I would assume it works, but I dunno, I have one ati and thats my laptop and it works. But you give me the model number I will see if others are using it. The latest debian is just as easy to install as anything else imo. So that shouldn't scare you off from giving it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 (edited) That would be wonderful, cybrjackle! I have ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and I haven't tried it on xorg 7.0 at all, but that review mentioned that the author had to hack his way though xorg.conf Actually I can hack my way through xorg.conf quite well (as most ATI card users can :D ), but, as I said, I don't have the time to play with that now (deadlines!!). Edited March 16, 2006 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 I'm sorry if this has been mentioned here before, but is there a good Fedora Core based live cd so that I can check out the general Fedora feel? p.s. Now burning latest Kanotix live cd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 (edited) trying out Kanotix, quite cool, has KDE 3.5.1 and xorg 6.9, kernel 2.6.15-6 seems that the installation to hd app is quite easy too (almost too easy), recognized my digicam with no problems, all hardware detected correctly Edited March 16, 2006 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 That would be wonderful, cybrjackle!I have ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and I haven't tried it on xorg 7.0 at all, but that review mentioned that the author had to hack his way though xorg.conf Actually I can hack my way through xorg.conf quite well (as most ATI card users can :D ), but, as I said, I don't have the time to play with that now (deadlines!!). $ /sbin/lspci -v | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Sounds like yours isn't extremly new so I would say with 97% that it would work, 3% just cause I needed a number and didn't want to make a 100% promise :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 I'm sorry if this has been mentioned here before, but is there a good Fedora Core based live cd so that I can check out the general Fedora feel? p.s. Now burning latest Kanotix live cd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi This will be, but I don't know if it will fully be ready for fc5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 I have used suse 10 oss, quite good, I am giving a try to Opensuse SLICK now and will keep u posted... Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 You'll be pleased with Kanotix... loads of packages, great+fast kernels, easy package management... a litle care is needed before doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" though. But it's very stable, considering it's bleeding edge Debian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 I've tried OpenSuse 10 and what I like on it, it has 5 CD which you can download and burned and carry and install in your pc that has slow or no internet connection at all, so it has a lot of software to choose, you can also install yum and apt on it if you like those than its default yast2 software manager ( but of course that if you have a fast internet conenction so you can add more repos). I just dont know about what if my card is ATI or Nvida since its not :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 Arch Meh, I read your post, you said you didnt want to dig through configs, but Arch's are about as dead simple as you want them to get, well documented, and..... well just plain obvious. Arch has all the packages you would want in its mirrors, and even more on it's AUR. There isnt any paranoia about things like media and mp3 and stuff that other distros like fedora have -- it's all in the repos there to be used. Arch is stable, in the sense that programs arent going to crash on you all the time, things arent going to be bugging out, and if they ever do, file a bug, and it will be fixed very very soon. Unlike other distros, the developers listen to and are respected members of the community. A majority of the problems people have on arch, are all things they could have solved by looking at the wiki, which has an amazing amount of easy to understand documentation on it. If that fails, you could always go on IRC, and get help instantly (or a link to the wiki if you missed it), or get a quick response on the forums. Anyway, /end biased promotion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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