Recent content by GandalfGrey

http://ltp.sourceforge.net/ I just found this last night. I ran it for 8 hours and my computer failed 588 of 800 tests It looks like the longer you run it, the more you fail. For 5 minutes my computer only failed 80

Prim95! That is the program that I was telling you gave my system lots of errors

I used to pirate almost all my software (I di buy WinXP though). Then I discovered Linux, and realised typing emerge gimp was alot easier, and more legitimate than spending hours in a mirc queue. Now I am 100% legit :D

Gentoo Linux

I use kwrite for editing, kdevelop for programming, and konquerer for file-browsing. thats it

Personally I prefer gentoo. It really teaches you alot about linux, the community is GREAT (the best distro specific community of any distro IMAO). The packages system is wonderful, although it takes some time to install, the result is well worth it. Gentoo is fun. That is why I like it the...

Personally the biggest reason why I can't stand to use mandrake is because I find that it runs like a hog. Alot of ram is a must for X. I have 640 but 256 is fine. Once you get below 192 X slows to a crawl.

512 mb for redhat 7.3 should be fine. I don't believe that Redhat 7.3 can see NTFS partitions by default (someone correct me on this?) and it may require you to recompile your kernel, which is actually a (relativly) painless procedure.

Kernel: Vanilla 2.4.21 Distro: Gentoo I have been using linux for ~1.5 years. I moved from mandrake, to redhat, to suse, to debian, to slackware, then finally found my home with gentoo :) For those of you who have tried the 2.5x kernels: How stable is it? I would like to play around with it...