hitest

Congratulations, Dragon! You really stuck with it! The gurus here can probably help you tweak it, but, it sounds like you can do this on your own!

hitest, I have to agree. Debian Sid is by far the fastest distro I've run so far...Booting up is a record breaker and both KDE and Gnome are very fast as well as my NFS networking (Ubuntu usually takes a minute or so to find the shares, Deb finds em' instantly). The "just works" takes a little knowledge (sad to say, a bit more knowledge than I have for a couple issues) but it's do-able. I can't say if I'll stick with Debian since this install was just because I was bored and waiting for Dapper but so far everything is stable...not bad for something labeled as unstable. And to stick with the

sour

That's a bummer with your Gentoo install. I never got that far with Gentoo; I got about halfway through the install before I boinked it all up. I can't really offer an opinion about Gentoo, I kind of like the idea of portage it sort of reminds me of apt in a way. I frequently wreak my Slackware install by trying new things and then I get frustrated and over-write it, re-install, heh-heh:-) For now Debian is my distro of choice, it runs really lean and fast, and just works once you set it up, as you know:-) I find it odd that Debian sets up a mail transfer agent as part of the install proce

invasion..............................okay................I'm dating myself again......those of you 40+ know what I'm talking about:-)

Heh-heh, yes , I remember those days:-) I think you are correct....you installed LFS once as an experiment......and have stuck with Gentoo ever since:-) As a moderator I can say I am happy that you and the other experts are here! I can solve a number of issues, but I'm glad the experts are here to do the heavy lifting! The Linux Experts at BT rock:-)

I remember those days man....those were the days when you used Red Hat 9 for about three months....switched to slack, and then LFS......and then Gentoo. Yes, Gentoo is solid, no question......I should get off my butt one day and learn it! I think the Tech TV forums were about two years ago or so........wow time has sure gone by:-)

I'll take your word on that one, naraku9333, I don't have any experience with Gentoo, so I can't comment. I've been running Debian for a bit now and like it.......perhaps more than slack....egad:-) I'm sure I will eventualy find something that bugs me about Debian......but.....nothing yet............it is all good, rock solid:-) Suse 10.0 worked okay for me I just got really sick and tired of YAST:-)

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.......yes..........you're correct........that image is better.................................I'm sure my wife would like me to have that as my desktop:-)

I'll bet you're right on that one, jcl! I did a clean install of Debian Etch, not an upgrade. I think the next stable release of Debian will be released in December of 06......which will be Etch.....heh-heh. At that time I will most likely upgrade to Sid.......they will have worked out the bugs by then. Gentoo is a very robust system as is Unix (Dragon fly), do you have any upgrade, install woes with those systems ( I've never used them)? I'm very happy with Debian..................so far.......I tend to hop from distro to distro because something will eventually annoy me with what ever

Yes Dragon, I also read that Dapper will be available in June on osnews.com. Dapper looks to be quite the OS, an enterprise level distro offered for free..........man I love Linux:-) I'll definately give it a test drive when it is released. The penguin rules.

Dependency hell is one of many reasons I've stopped for the most part using rpm based distros. My server runs Mandriva, it works okay. The good people at Debian have worked very hard to ensure that Debian packages that are installed, upgraded will not boink your system, I haven't encountered as many weird things as when I ran Fedora........things seem fairly stable in sarge and Etch anyway. Etch seems to suck much less than other distros I've run.

Hey Dragon, yep I'm running FF 1.0.7 so I should have the current fixes for that. Yes, I'm sure it is 1.0.7 as it doesn't have the features that I've seen in FF 1.5.0.1 on my Slackware box. No need to apologize, I've enjoyed this thread. Here's a shot of Debian Etch again, KDE 3.5.1 and some tunes:-)

If Etch is meeting your needs, I'd hold off a while...I was only using a few apps from the Sid repo when I decided to go all out by changing all Etch repos to Sid and doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. Well, after about 20 minutes all seemed upgraded...then after about an hour of fixing X, then fixing a missing font issue (apparently the font used for everything in gnome...lol), I was back to a working system. All seems to be ok...but I'd definitely not be using this on my main system or any system with vital data on. anyway, here it is all upgraded and a rarity for me--> Gnome 2.12 with stoc

if it is 1.5 but listed as 1.07 then you can change the useragent in ff to 1.5 Browse to about:config Change the "general.useragent.vendorSub" value to "1.5.01" although, since i don't use Debian, i'm not sure if that is how they have it set up. I know this was how we took care of a similar issue in ubuntu, it was listed 1.0.2 when it was actually 1.0.4 and we couldn't get any of the extensions or themes. hth

conformists

If you just ordered Ubuntu it will be version 5.10.

Yep, I ordered 5 ubuntu cds, and got them after 4-6 weeks. I gave out a bunch to my friends. I've run Ubuntu off and on for a year or so. Right now I'm running Debian which is virtually the same as Ubuntu. You will like Ubuntu it is a rock solid version of Linux.

You will get your free CDs from Ubuntu. But, it takes several weeks for them to show up. The free Ubuntu CDs are a good first choice to install Linux.

Great news that your daughter is okay, marty!!!!

Very cool, Carnevil!

I'm actually not using the current stable version of Debian (sarge), but, Etch which is the testing branch. So far I've found it to be very stable and haven't encountered any bugs yet. Etch is quite modern, it is using the 2.6.15 kernel and KDE 3.5.1. But, yeah Fire Fox 1.0.7 won't have all of the bells and whistles that 1.5 has. Have you encountered any bugs in the apps from the SID repos, t0c? If SID is okay I'll upgrade to the unstable branch in awhile.

LOL, I feel like a geriatric case in this thread........you guys are lucky:-) I was born before 1960...........................ye Gods I'm old...................48 to be precise. Excellent observations, Dragon, reminds me of when I was a kid!

I hope your daughter weathers the storm okay, marty. I think she'll be fine:-)

Cool, very nice t0c! So far I haven't had any issues with Etch. I've read that they're going to be releasing the next stable release before the end of 06, people got very angry with them taking three years to release sarge. Like you I tend to use a more experimental version although I haven't tried sid yet:-) Interesting to note that their versions of software, take Fire Fox 1.0.7 on Etch, do have the latest security fixes built into them even though the number is lower (ie, it isn't 1.5). So far I like Debian. I've run sarge before, but, like this better.