Originally posted by: Praetor
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Install gentoo.
Only after it has pecked your balls into the shape of a papaya, will I hear your crys.
Heh, it is tough to set up but soooo easy to maintain.
emerge -UD world
Ugh. I'm still fighting Gentoo to recognize my GeForce ti4200 with 2.6. I've tried the minion.de patches, the patched installers, the nvidia-kernel ebuild, nada. But I know X will work, it works with Knoppix perfectly fine. I just have to find the magic combination.... I'm beginning to dream about it now....
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Praetor
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Install gentoo.
Only after it has pecked your balls into the shape of a papaya, will I hear your crys.
Heh, it is tough to set up but soooo easy to maintain.
emerge -UD world
Ugh. I'm still fighting Gentoo to recognize my GeForce ti4200 with 2.6. I've tried the minion.de patches, the patched installers, the nvidia-kernel ebuild, nada. But I know X will work, it works with Knoppix perfectly fine. I just have to find the magic combination.... I'm beginning to dream about it now....
odd,
my fx5600 works great with the nvidia kernel module (are you using the right driver...once you get the nvidia-module, you gotta change the driver from nv to nvidia). 2.6 was a major pita to get to work with my pcmcia wireless, i recompiled that thing at least 20 times
It took me good 2 -3 days to get it fully compiled on the p4 2.8 machine, my sparc ultra 5 300 took maybe a week of playing around.... Comiling x on that thing did take about 16 hrs
Originally posted by: jumpr
Gentoo is most certainly NOT instant gratification. Have you ever tried to install Gentoo? I did, two years ago. It's still "emerging" today.Originally posted by: atom
I think Debian is #1, but it's not for noobs. For people who want instant gratification (ie. eye candy), stick to Mandrake or Gentoo. Haven't used redhat since 6.0. Bleh.
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
While there's a Linux thread about, could people please give me their opinions on RedHat?
Also, rank these distros (I put them in no particular order) if possible:
RedHat
Slackware
Debian
Gentoo
Mandrake
(specify more if you like)
Just that there's a lot of people in one of my classes who seem to think that RedHat is the BESTEST LINUX EVAR - and I don't think it got the handle "DeadRat" for nothing.
- M4H
Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
While there's a Linux thread about, could people please give me their opinions on RedHat?
Also, rank these distros (I put them in no particular order) if possible:
RedHat
Slackware
Debian
Gentoo
Mandrake
(specify more if you like)
Just that there's a lot of people in one of my classes who seem to think that RedHat is the BESTEST LINUX EVAR - and I don't think it got the handle "DeadRat" for nothing.
- M4H
redhat sucks i installed 9.0 at home and use 7.2 at work its a piece of garbage, in fact all linux is a piece of garbage, the difference between all these distros is stupid screen saver or background. the kernel is stupid and the shell is stupid and so is perl. i hate poor quality opensource garbage that people shove down your throat, if i had my way everyone who has contributed to opensource in anyway is struck down with lightning. stupid pos wannabes
Originally posted by: KingNothing
Originally posted by: Ameesh
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
While there's a Linux thread about, could people please give me their opinions on RedHat?
Also, rank these distros (I put them in no particular order) if possible:
RedHat
Slackware
Debian
Gentoo
Mandrake
(specify more if you like)
Just that there's a lot of people in one of my classes who seem to think that RedHat is the BESTEST LINUX EVAR - and I don't think it got the handle "DeadRat" for nothing.
- M4H
redhat sucks i installed 9.0 at home and use 7.2 at work its a piece of garbage, in fact all linux is a piece of garbage, the difference between all these distros is stupid screen saver or background. the kernel is stupid and the shell is stupid and so is perl. i hate poor quality opensource garbage that people shove down your throat, if i had my way everyone who has contributed to opensource in anyway is struck down with lightning. stupid pos wannabes
Skoorb much?
Thanks for the info. I'm looking to upgrade the video card on one of my linux boxes. Rage 3d looks like a good resource.Originally posted by: BullsOnParade
lemme know if you need help with the ati drivers. check rage3d's linux forums, there's an ati howto that
gives you what to do for each distro.
dM