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im going to say debian i just switched to it not to long ago, and my favorite thing for that is apt-get and the amount of pacakages you can get for it the install isnt the hard just have to know a bit about the computers and the computer is customized to what u want now albeit debian still doesnt have the easiest installer so these are debian variants i know of ubunutu excellent and easy enough to install knoppix mepis alright other than debian ive tried fedora core 2 good distro as well, my main complaint for that is up2date not real stable id have to say, but good news is you can get apt-get for fedora as well and that will make it easy to have it comes with alot of different packages, and the install is a breeze with anaconda, only thing is i beleive core 3 is coming out soon those are my favorite 2 distros (note for debian im using sarge)

yeah even in the testing area they are a bit dated but configure some more repositories or you can do this under sypnatic tools repositories new i prefer doing it the text way /etc/apt/sources.list then you can head over to http://www.apt-get.org/main/ then at the bottom of each entry it will have something like this deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/debian-openoffice/ woody main contrib now just copy and paste it into /etc/apt/sources.list i beleive each entry should have a # sign in front of it i did that because the originals did maybe somebody could tell me what the repository is for debians offical site for testing and unstable ie on the debian site and then packages there official package list not someone elses also the more repositories you add the longer it will take to update but then youll get more software on

totally agree will make transfers much easier i could used this from when i transfer from a 15 gig to a 160 gig

im running debian sarge and my dad wanted to set up a sharing point for a 56k internet connection there will be two windows machine anyone have a guide as how to go about this or software to help with this my main issue i think will be connecting the windows machines up distro debian sarge

thanks thats pretty much what i was looking for i havent read the whole article but it seems to help thanks again

i agree with egorgry im using debian sarge and tried ubuntu for a while and would recommend the only thing im unsure of is about 64bit compatibility it should have 64 bit support gentoo is fast and good but is a pain to setup id recommend trying ubuntu i beleive they just came out with a live cd

all right first could you please tell us what your sound card is onboard if so mobo type etc. secondly when i used mandrake 10.0 official and community i had the same problem on my computer no sound for anything, cds i never cracked that one for any version but heres what i did mandrake has kde set as the default desktop manager um i just switched to gnome and i had sound went back to kde no sound i dont know why so try that if that doesnt help which i doubt it will post your card and we can go from there

All right i just finished rebuilding my computer ill give the specs first then explain the problem i440 BX motherboard chipset The board has soundblaster 5.1 platinum built into it geforce mx 2 32 mb video card DLINK ethernet Creative 12X DVD drive Smart Fast CD writer no idea about the speed 160GB hard Drive 4X 128MB PC100 SDRAM 650MHZ SLOT 1 P3 all right the problem is my computer is very selective with linux it wont boot mepis 2004 RC2, yoper, gentoo/gentoo based,knoppix,mandrake, slackware, etc. essentialy it will only boot fedora or redhat even with those they come up with errors consistently. So i guess what im asking is would there be a way to fix this. Like possibly get another cd drive would that rectify the issue. to give a picture of what i want to use is NAVYN OS ive been using it on my laptop for a week and a half its gentoo based, wheni try to boot it just reboots, with the other distrobutions they would just get errors and reboot. So is there anythingi can do.

The errors are saying file is not present, file is corrupt i fixed it by putting a weight on the enter key and 8 hours later new system um thanks for the interest but im not real worried the computer is in need of way to many repairs right now the main issue is the cd drives as stated is royally screwed it all started when i saw it smoking and heard noises resembling a gunshot coming from it um needles say im still using the thing second hint all fedora discs tried are failed tried on two other computers pass third hint is that it doesnt install key system components um i installed ubuntu after 30 times and it was missing xfree86 not even going to guess that one but the errors for fedora arent starting up its keeping it going and my average install is about 3 hours for one disk all right the last thing as well is if i reboot sometimes ill get a good three times usage and then it comes up with No operating system found or grub error 18 right now im just debating as to whether i should repair it

i just finished installing ubuntu and i was wondering if there is an easy way to install x11 through synaptic or apt get the reason is so i can use fluxbox and thats bout it thanks in advance

thanks dapper dan ive tried icewm but my favorite has to be fluxbox and gnome fluxbox for unbloated gnome for a more polished enviroment thanks give that a try later

all right i found it i had to mess around with the login and in doing so i set it to xdm so how do i get it permanently back to gdm

alright i read through the stuff for samba and tried working on connecting a windows folder to no luck i have a basic windows file and printer sharing network set up all using xp home first the hardware name LAPTOP workgroup Company now i wanted to transfer over a 9.5 GB folder of my music files over to linux any help would be appreciated.

oldspiceap i got them to see each other through scanning as user but cant mount the folder ive tried changing the directory it just says error should the id be my windows id or what

thanks for the compliment ill give that a try i havent had a chance to try the other one but thanks again

i grabbed a copy of it but my system wont boot off of cd right now it looks really interesting to me the one thing ive heard was great was its speed how would you rate it in speed

all right im new to the gigabit lan hopefully danleff can help with hardware and ill shoot my opinion on the distro as well because im still sorta a noob as well anyway heres some links to gaming on linux Article on cedega and ease of use or lack of it(not saying cedegas bad) http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1628452,00.asp Cedegas site Cedega isnt free though it costs a subscription http://www.transgaming.com/ all right though ill try and look around some

All right i just finished rebuilding my computer ill give the specs first then explain the problem i440 BX motherboard chipset The board has soundblaster 5.1 platinum built into it geforce mx 2 32 mb video card DLINK ethernet Creative 12X DVD drive Smart Fast CD writer no idea about the speed 160GB hard Drive 4X 128MB PC100 SDRAM 650MHZ SLOT 1 P3 all right the problem is my computer is very selective with linux it wont boot mepis 2004 RC2, yoper, gentoo/gentoo based,knoppix,mandrake, slackware, etc. essentialy it will only boot fedora or redhat even with those they come up with errors consistently. So i guess what im asking is would there be a way to fix this. Like possibly get another cd drive would that rectify the issue. to give a picture of what i want to use is NAVYN OS ive been using it on my laptop for a week and a half its gentoo based, wheni try to boot it just reboots, with the other distrobutions they would just get errors and reboot. So is there anythingi can do.

ive been playing around with these thing for the part of 5 days and nothing there is a new problem though i installed grub to the mbr and now it cant boot off cds any help would be appreciated and the drives are still read in core 2

thanks alot for the help i forgot to mention its core 2 thanks ill give that a shot later on.

i knew you were i was just joking round though thanks for the explanation on the board issue though

yo danleff were you sorta making a angry point at me, because i didnt mean to say as that it doesnt thats why i asked also how he connects to the net if this could be clarified that would be great

hey id be willing to help first how do you connect to the net ethernet network what sort of thing dial up that way we can figure that out gaming your either going to be using cedga or just booting up xp cedga emulates the direct x feature but is a bit slower for music and graphics linux usually comes preloaded with apps to cover that your nvidia card should be covered real quick i couldnt find info on your board but by chance does it have a nforce2 chipset but yeah sure there should be plenty help here

Thanks Black Page I was poking through the bios and i found something really odd the processor speed was set differently listed in three places during the post screen it said 650MHZ during the boot where it lists all the hardware it lists the processor at 450 and in bios it said it was 550 ill try to turn off what i can theres no really nothing onboard but the sound and a few ports serial parrallell etc. network and graphics are pci but ill try that thanks and ill keep up my findings i got fedora 2 on it and its running fast though and lastly once i get the cash ill try getting a new drive i was thinking it was that because it took 7 and a half hours to install core 2 thanks

i just got a issue of pc mag and it was about is windows at fault anyway gates said linux had more holes and a outside source did a study and find only 128 in xp and 268 in debian the get the facts ads are bad though my computer teacher points them out to me just because i use linux