What distro give you the heebie jeebies?

OffTopic1

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I have been playing with Debain for a few years now, and recently a Knoppix mouth piece. But, in less time than a doing a load of laundry, I am now a converted Mandrake user.

I torrented Mandrake 9.2 (3 CDs) && finish installed the distro ++ install/config PostgreSQL ++ Apache in less than 45 min. While setting up my favorite Debian from a netinstall took me more than 5 hours to do the same task. However, the default install add a sh!t load of applications that I should have weeded out during the install.

I'll a defector if urmpi come anywhere close to be as good as apt-get/dselect....Yike!

Don't hurt me guys ;)

 

drag

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The only distro that gives me the heebie jeebies was Redhat 7.0
 

pitupepito2000

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Originally posted by: drag
The only distro that gives me the heebie jeebies was Redhat 7.0

I have to quote drag because the first time that I installed a linux distribution was redhat 7.3, and I was by myselft. I didn't know very much about linux. But now I am a happy debian user :eek:
 

OffTopic1

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Installing Debian normally take me about an hour with netinstall, but I had some problem with X11/NV driver therefore I have to update to unstable.
 

sharq

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Slackware is a bad idea for someone who doesn't know much about linux and thinks they own the world :) Yes I mean me, 3 yrs back when I tried it for the first time, bad idea, atleast I had everything backed up.
 

Sunner

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<edit> Never mind me, being drunk...again... </edit>


Taking 5 hours to setup Debian sounds wierd? Unless you're on an nForce mobo, yuck.

Took me a whole 30 minutes or so to get Debian/Unstable, X, and KDE on this box.
 

BurningDog

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Gentoo, definately

boot from the cd, and it starts you w/a a command prompt and tells you to read the installation file w/a text mode browser
 

civad

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Debian. Do the base install from cd and (provided the network card is detected/configured and networking works!) use good ol' apt to install the rest of the packages.
Btw: I was running Debian unstable till (for whatever reason) I decided to set up a dual cpu rig. Been thinking of giving apt-build a try. Anybody tried it yet?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/apt-build/
 

groovin

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none.

ive only worked with Redhat (dead rat), some slack, and Gentoo (my fav) but really now, no distro should be feared as long as you take the time to read the docs! Distros like Gentoo that have a more grueling install generally teach you more about Linux than one with a pretty GUI installer.
 

Vadatajs

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Originally posted by: drag
The only distro that gives me the heebie jeebies was Redhat 7.0

didn't that have glibc problems? I remember there being some big issue with it.

Anyway, mine is lindows.

Btw, it's very easy to install gentoo with knoppix.
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: Vadatajs
Originally posted by: drag
The only distro that gives me the heebie jeebies was Redhat 7.0

didn't that have glibc problems? I remember their being some big issue with it.

Anyway, mine is lindows.

Btw, it's very easy to install gentoo with knoppix.

I think that is when they moved to gcc 2.96 instead of following any stable branches.
 

TalkingMIME

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Slackware. I hear its for SMPs. I've got a Athlon MP rig. I tried it. Then once more I tried it. Again I tried it some more. It never ran. Then I got SUSE and I'm much happier now.
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: TalkingMIME
Slackware. I hear its for SMPs. I've got a Athlon MP rig. I tried it. Then once more I tried it. Again I tried it some more. It never ran. Then I got SUSE and I'm much happier now.

Out of curiosity, what kinds of issues were you having?
 

TalkingMIME

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It fails to read the packages from the source CD. I have to reboot and start over. It sound to me like my CDROM times-out. I have since replaced my TDK CD Burner with a LiteOn DVD Burner. I dunno. Maybe it will work now. Still even when it loaded, I could not resolve the issues with my ATI card. So I say in text mode.
 

Kadarin

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Originally posted by: BurningDog
Gentoo, definately

boot from the cd, and it starts you w/a a command prompt and tells you to read the installation file w/a text mode browser

Heh.. You'll have better results downloading it before hand and printing it out. But yes, the Gentoo install process definitely gives me the heebie jeebies. Once installed, however, it works great. :)
 

n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: TalkingMIME
It fails to read the packages from the source CD. I have to reboot and start over. It sound to me like my CDROM times-out. I have since replaced my TDK CD Burner with a LiteOn DVD Burner. I dunno. Maybe it will work now. Still even when it loaded, I could not resolve the issues with my ATI card. So I say in text mode.

Sounds like a bad download or burn.
 

Megatomic

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I'm very happily using Knoppix 3.3 on a diskless system while I wait for my new SATA drive to arrive. I have FULL functionality although waiting for apps to load from the CD is a bit of a drag. Thankfully my CD is fast. Knoppix recognizes my GF FX, the onboard NIC and the onboard sound in my system. No need to install drivers. :cool:

I have to say I am really pleased with Knoppix 3.3, I can't wait to see what Knopper's got for us in 3.4 (out this month sometime).