Mandrake or redhat?

[JustMike]

Gentoo's user community is probably different because you need to do a little more to install the system. (ie. it weeds out those who aren't willing to read docs and learn). I just installed Gentoo for the first time earlier this week and aside from the longer installation procedure, it seems like a decent OS.

 

[imported_Phil]

Absolutely; there's only people who are prepared to persevere with it. Still, wish my system emerged a bit faster... sigh....

 

[SUOrangeman]

KNOPPIX (based on Debian, of course)

-SUO

 

[JustMike]

Knoppix is neat, but the bootable CD-ROMs rarely seem to boot successfully on at least one of my machines. I've never done a HD installation.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: DopeFiend
Absolutely; there's only people who are prepared to persevere with it. Still, wish my system emerged a bit faster... sigh....

Heh.. even on my Athlon XP 1800+ box I would have to agree with you.. There's no way in hell I'd want gentoo on an old PII! (Unless I did a Stage 3 GRP, but that sort of defeats the purpose of being able to update..)

 

[imported_Phil]

True. However, I did it and it works!

 

[drag]

I compiled Gentoo on a 200mmx laptop. Ran out of disk space while trying to compile X windows.

I wasn't using the laptop at the time, so the wait didn't matter. It would only sit there anyways.

Took 3-4 days.


As far as the Mandrake vs Rehdat. Get Mandrake. Redhat has dropped it's desktop line, and put effort behind Fedora instead, but that's still pretty new.

 

[Bleep]

Has anyone been able to figure out how to update the BIOS with Linux?

Bleep

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Bleep
Has anyone been able to figure out how to update the BIOS with Linux?

Bleep

Dos boot disk?

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Originally posted by: dude53
I screw up just want to said try jamd much better than red hat and simple for newbie it is base on red hat I cd for install and you can find it here http://www.jamd-linux.com/modules.php?name=Support

I've been using JAMD for a while and I think it is the BEST distribution out there for us GUI guys. It is redhat, but with bloat removed, i686 optimization (makes it much faster in this case), and it uses the apt-get system so downloading a new proggy consists of typing "apt-get install program name (gaim, gcc, etc)!

 

[JustMike]

Originally posted by: Bleep
Has anyone been able to figure out how to update the BIOS with Linux?

Using a DOS boot disk is the only way I know.

 

[zogg]

why update with linux when you can boot to dos and update your bios?

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: zogg
why update with linux when you can boot to dos and update your bios?

When you use a dos boot disk you are booting into dos.