Poor Microsoft, Their next load of DRM'ed bloatware isnt even out yet, will require you to have a computer less than 2 weeks old to run their "Aero" interface, is going to be full of "please submit 8 forms of proof you bought this Windows or we're going to switch it off for you", and all the Linux guys are already tinkering with 3D desktops that kick theirs into next week. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:18 am
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Looks quiet nice. I wonder if they have boosted their efforts in GFX drivers with Mandriva, I had a major PITA with getting the video drivers in Mandriva 10.1 to work with my Nvidia 6600GT. Being a Linux newb, it was rather frustrating and a total put off to getting into Linux... So I just went back to Windoze where everything, just works. I had a lot more fun playing with Feather Linux (another Knoppix build) on the AMD K6 and found it was a lot easier to get into. Someday my brain will be able to understand the complexity that is Linux.
But for thos who don't care what they use, here's some good comparisons on PC, MAC & Linux
After a bit of research... This is looking quite nice! The Cedega gaming engine suits my gaming needs and it comes with VMWare as well, which means I can VM Windoze XP/Vista beta and run Rhino3D and some of my Windoze exclusive software that doesn't run in Linux... Will also get around to VM'ing my apache server again...
I think the Mandriva 2007 PowerPack is pretty good value for AUD$125... Guess what I'm getting for me B'day Might be time I bought that Opteron 165 too... A second core will help with the extra VM load _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:21 am
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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i use ubuntu
nvidia drivers are an apt-get away.
XGL is a bit more involved but not hard.
some apps have some issues with it though, or did last time i tried it.
mainly totem (movie player) _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:43 am
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quote:Originally posted by Valen:
XGL is a bit more involved but not hard.
some apps have some issues with it though, or did last time i tried it.
mainly totem (movie player)
I had a lot of issues with Totem back in Mandriva 9. Required a lot of repeated XKill, reopen, XKill, before it would open and run the video I wanted. _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:51 am
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Just use xine or mplayer . . . much more mature players . . . or simply use the xine backend for totem if you still wanna use it.
Never really liked mandrake / mandriver myself (I prefer RHEL / Fedora, or gentoo if you need something slick) . . . always seemed to be missing something, installing apps from source was a pain, since even with a full intall it was missing lots of stuff . . . mind you this was before the widespread use of yum / apt-get, which make life a lot easier in regards to solving deps. _________________ Jeff Ferrara
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Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:32 pm
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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i have totem gxine xine mplayer gstreamer and a whole bunch of other crap.
doing stuff without apt would just be nuts.
the only thing i use from source is my email server, and thats because i'm tracking the development tree.
still building that on a new system is a case of apt-get build essential, svn checkout blahrg, ./autoconf make install
w00t
i installed hylafax the other day, took about 2 minutes including download time ;-> (then 30 to set the flippin thing up but hey) _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:05 am
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apt-get in (k)ubuntu is a nice Debian tool. love it a lot.
But i cant seem to get a descent plugin installed to play windows media files. I always end up with errors no matter what i try.
Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:54 pm
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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read the "restrictedformats" stuff on ubuntu wiki _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:20 am
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My copy of Mandriva 2007 PowerPack arrives in the mail next week I'm preparing for the mass Windows -> Linux conversion... Followed by the massive "ARGH! I don't understand what apt means... What's a foo? Is that da nu rapz j0?" sessions
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I've got it running on one of my Boxen.. Its looking good so far.
I'm now figuring out how to get the software Raid-5 support going. I want to be able to expand my file servers storage without having to repartition, create new drives, shares etc.
Now if we can just come up with a decent replacement for Outlook (for Business).. thats the last pin holding Windows in place in a lot of places IMO. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:28 pm
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Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:49 pm
Valen Experienced Roboteer
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i have raid-5 on my ubuntu file server.
use the "alternate install cd" and setup software raid its pretty simple really, i only did it 5 times ;->.
i boot off a usb flash disk (grub cant read raid5 partitions) formatted ext2.
if i did it over again I'd probably make the system and storage onto seperate drives but i wanted to trial it mainly for system reliability. I have also got a software raid 1 on a client site that i have tested in fault conditions lol. IE a hdd blew up with smoke out (which i thaught was special) pulled the 40gb drive, stuck a new one in, booted all good.
copied the partition table from the good drive and added the partitions to the raid array, about 40 minutes - an hour later the system was at 100% again.
the raid copying on my 920gb array at home (3x360gb drives) took a touch longer lol _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:06 am
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quote:
setup software raid its pretty simple really, i only did it 5 times ;->.
Sounds like my first installation of Mandrake 8.... It only took me 4-5 installs till I worked out what I actually need to do to make it work...
Feather Linux was easy on the other hand... Such a nice little too, just a bit of custom optimation and it's a nifty ++ package with some power behind it... I can see moving to Linux being an interesting experience... As long as I can batch, I'll be happy
what threw me was when you setup the raid it sets it up as a master with an inactive disk then adds the other disk to the array, (for mode 1) and i was having trouble understanding that.
once i was ok with that all was well lol.
(basically just had to learn to trust it knew what it was doing.) _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Well I didn't want to start a new post so I thought I'd put it here
I was looking into trying out linux on my computer (dual booting with windows) but I can't figure out witch one to use ??
I wanted to try out the one Spockie-Tech was talking about but I was also interested in trying out Red Hat on my old Netfinity server, I can't decide
I was going to try out Vista but that needed somthing like 512MB ram and a 2.0GHZ prossesor (somthing along those lines ) even before you start to bog it up with programs.
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