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February 6th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity
 |  Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. nice little write up! Good to see another linux fan here! If you aren't already folding, feel free to join us under your own name or join TeamPengiun and 50578   Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  | ||||||||||||||
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February 6th, 2008
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| HardwareLogic's Otis Campbell (retired from Mayberry)
 | Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. First welcome to HardwareLogic!!! My biggest problem with all of the distro's is installing software!!! Jeez, can't they figure out a damn way to just click on the thing and make it install like the windows exe!!!  | ||||||||||||||
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February 7th, 2008
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| vincit qui se vincit
 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Upper Michigan
Posts: 451
| Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. Although I found software installation from the Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu problem free and straight forward, some users like Automatix as an easier alternative. (For some reason a lot of forum posters thumb their noses at it. Penguin arrogance?) Home of Automatix openSUSE, on the other hand, comes with just about any software imaginable. Software.openSUSE.org Carl Core 2 Duo E6750 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Abit IP35 Pro 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 XFX 8800GS Alpha Dog 500GB Seagate Barracuda 32MB Cache Coolermaster RC-690 OCZ StealthXStream 600 watt Acer AL2216W 22" monitor Windows XP Pro SP2 Last edited by Carl Martin; February 7th, 2008 at 04:08. | ||||||||||||||
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February 7th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity
| Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. Also for those that use KDE, Adept is a very clean and straight forward package manager much like Synaptic. Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members. | ||||||||||||||
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February 14th, 2008
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| Relativity is fun!
 | Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. I'm running ubuntu 7.10 on one of my computer's, it pretty nice. Defiantly nice looking once you get compiz enabled, lol. But... on my tablet pc, ubunut just doesn't work very well... linux handwriting recognition just doesn't exist, and there are few alternatives, and the real deal breaker is that you can't rotate the screen orientation with the ati drivers (nvidia works fine though, go figure). But ubuntu on my old socket a computer is awsome, old 3200 xp+, 1.5 gigs of ram, and a 7600gs. Oh yeah. | ||||||||||||||
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February 14th, 2008
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| Lover of Linux!
 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 862
| Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. Just curious here, can Linux talk to Windows in a networking environment? I'm thinking of getting a laptop with Linux preinstalled, but I want to be sure it can talk to my current XP machine.  | ||||||||||||||
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February 14th, 2008
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| Functional Alcoholic
 | Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. Quote:
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February 14th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity
| Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. even if samba is not installed or enabled, it is very easy to get it installed and activated on any linux distro... the only ones that may have a slightly different configuration or program needed is SUSE or BSD Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members. Last edited by screwballl; February 14th, 2008 at 08:55. | ||||||||||||||
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February 14th, 2008
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| i love bawls
 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: teh_Earth
Posts: 807
| Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. Quote:
it absolutely screams with my 7400go on my laptop, and 7900gt on my desktop. It also runs perfectly fine on any of the 2 fx 5500's, 7900gs, 7600gt, or 8800gts at work.  Perhaps you missed the nVidia driver?   | |||||||||||||||
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February 14th, 2008
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| Relativity is fun!
| Re: Why You Want Linux, and How You install it. Even with the gnome interface ubuntu ran awesome for me, even when I was still using a 6600. You might want to try the latest release of ubuntu, 7.10... very user friendly when it came to installing drivers and whatnot. Easier than windows, even, since it'll find the right driver and install if for you once you tell it to. | ||||||||||||||
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