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why not try Puppy Linux, you can keep your windows me installation intact without it being effected and puppy linux is quick enough, might help you get used to linux as well.
 
biomood posted on May 19 2006 at 01:41 PM said:
why not try Puppy Linux, you can keep your windows me installation intact without it being effected and puppy linux is quick enough, might help you get used to linux as well.
Suggesting puppy linux to someone new to linux is like saying "try out some Japanese cuisine" and giving them a tank full of goldfish and a bag of Uncle Ben's.
 
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Can someone recommend a good linux distro with 64bit support? Ubuntu, brezzy badger one at least, doesn't like my hardware. I think its the onboard graphics. Anyway so I need a 64 bit distro thats good and wont be gay and format my hard drive and windows like ubuntu decided to do.
 
sam fisher posted on May 19 2006 at 02:19 PM said:
Can someone recommend a good linux distro with 64bit support? Ubuntu, brezzy badger one at least, doesn't like my hardware. I think its the onboard graphics. Anyway so I need a 64 bit distro thats good and wont be gay and format my hard drive and windows like ubuntu decided to do.
http://slamd64.com/
 
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sam fisher posted on May 19 2006 at 03:12 PM said:
Is that anygood and more to the point. Is it user friendly?
It's slackware. It's very good, but not user friendly. Those two terms are mutually exclusive, it seems.
 
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Nova did you download abunun or order the Cd? Only I ordered a Cd to be sent to me roughly 3 weeks ago. I know It's got to shiped from South Africa but it still feels along time how long did yours take? (I'm in UK by the way)
 
sam fisher posted on May 19 2006 at 08:19 PM said:
Can someone recommend a good linux distro with 64bit support? Ubuntu, brezzy badger one at least, doesn't like my hardware. I think its the onboard graphics. Anyway so I need a 64 bit distro thats good and wont be gay and format my hard drive and windows like ubuntu decided to do.
suse linux goddammit!!!
 
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Lettuce Dude posted on May 20 2006 at 11:19 AM said:
Nova did you download abunun or order the Cd? Only I ordered a Cd to be sent to me roughly 3 weeks ago. I know It's got to shiped from South Africa but it still feels along time how long did yours take? (I'm in UK by the way)
Mine shipped from Ireland mate....
 
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Lettuce Dude posted on May 20 2006 at 11:19 AM said:
Nova did you download abunun or order the Cd? Only I ordered a Cd to be sent to me roughly 3 weeks ago. I know It's got to shiped from South Africa but it still feels along time how long did yours take? (I'm in UK by the way)

Took 4 weeks.
 
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If you can get it to work, SLAMD64 would probably be the way to go. I never had any luck with it though and just stuck with regular old Slack 10.2 for the longest time.

All the other 64bit distros I tried were really bloated and slow.

I'm glad I went with Slackware, because even though it's the old cliche, it really does teach you how to get your operating system working the way you want. If you've got a modicum of intelligence and know how to be polite on internet forums, the Slack community (try www.linuxquestions.org) is helpful.

All that said, with a fair bit of Slackware experience under my belt I've just switched over to Ubuntu, because I want a 64 bit distro that works, and I want instant hardware support that doesnt require hours of debugging.. I'm busy with life atm, so no time to get it working -just right- :(

On the plus side, Ubuntu has detected everything I've thrown at it. It's slower than Slack though, even running at 64bits. I blame the old version of Gnome on it, and I reckon the next release is going to be blisteringly fast.

Oh, and Sam Fisher - it's a pity Ubuntu was "gay" and blitzed your partition.. but the only operating system install I've used that ever did anything I didn't directly ask it to, or confirm, was some Windows variants. I think whatever you're ascribing the "gay"ness to must be between your chair and the keyboard.

What's the onboard video chipset/motherboard make and model, perhaps we can see if it's actually supported by Linux.. you might be wasting your time trying.. since if it isn't, you simply wont find a distro that suits your machine.

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Feeg posted on May 22 2006 at 09:24 AM said:
If you can get it to work, SLAMD64 would probably be the way to go. I never had any luck with it though and just stuck with regular old Slack 10.2 for the longest time.

All the other 64bit distros I tried were really bloated and slow.

I'm glad I went with Slackware, because even though it's the old cliche, it really does teach you how to get your operating system working the way you want. If you've got a modicum of intelligence and know how to be polite on internet forums, the Slack community (try www.linuxquestions.org) is helpful.

All that said, with a fair bit of Slackware experience under my belt I've just switched over to Ubuntu, because I want a 64 bit distro that works, and I want instant hardware support that doesnt require hours of debugging.. I'm busy with life atm, so no time to get it working -just right- :(

On the plus side, Ubuntu has detected everything I've thrown at it. It's slower than Slack though, even running at 64bits. I blame the old version of Gnome on it, and I reckon the next release is going to be blisteringly fast.

Oh, and Sam Fisher - it's a pity Ubuntu was "gay" and blitzed your partition.. but the only operating system install I've used that ever did anything I didn't directly ask it to, or confirm, was some Windows variants. I think whatever you're ascribing the "gay"ness to must be between your chair and the keyboard.

What's the onboard video chipset/motherboard make and model, perhaps we can see if it's actually supported by Linux.. you might be wasting your time trying.. since if it isn't, you simply wont find a distro that suits your machine.

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One, I'm not gay so shut up. I am now going to moan at you. I have installe dplenty of linux distros. It was a tricky situation due to the way my computer supplier had set up teh partitions. And Ubuntu needed the empty space that windows had marked as a FAT32 partition. Of course ubuntu always decided to format the wirong part of that extended partition and hence 'destroyed' windows. But I needed to reistall it anyway so shut up your are 'gay'. Now im off to do exams....
 
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Translation:

"I fucked up, and theres noooo way I'm gonna admit it"
 
I think you'll find that -you- chose which partitions to change/reformat.

If you want any advice regarding getting a dual boot install working, now would be a good time to ask for it.. since, you know, you're about to reinstall Windows anyway.

If you actually want to get Linux and Windows running together, wipe away those tears of frustration/impotence and partition your disk in the Linux installer, leaving a few gigs free to later set up a FAT/NTFS partition for Windows. Since you've installed Linux "many" times before, it's probably redundant for me to point out that setting up a dual boot system is much easier if you start with Linux.

On the other hand, if you aren't actually interested in learning how this stuff works (in which case why were you installing Linux in the first place?) or you already know everything you need to know (in which case why did you fu- i mean, why did one the easiest to install distrobutions go "gay" on you?) then more power to you and I'll shut up.

In parting though, I think it's probably a good idea to point out that at this stage of its development, Linux in all of its forms is really for people who are interested in taking responsibility for how their machines are set up. You know, take the time to read installation docs and stuff before they potentially fuck up the only drive on their machine. For everyone else, there's Windows, and there's nothing wrong with being a Windows user.

.. good luck on your exam.. I hope it isn't for English.
 
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