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Hi Joe, I'm very happy you made the trip over here! I'm not going to LTS either anymore. Welcome to Besttechie.net the best forum on the net!! Take it easy, you'll like it here

I just did a bit of surfing, had a look at the specs required to run Fedora, you've got enough memory, but your processor is a bit slow to run Fedora. So I think another distro may be in order. I run FC3 on a Plll 667 MHz IBM with 256 MB RAM and I had to pare down the services to make it run well. Hardware Requirements The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements necessary to successfully install Fedora Core 3. Note The compatibility/availability of other hardware components (such as video and network cards) may be required for specific installation modes and/or pos

Here's a web site where you can search for linux compatibility information on laptops. Linux on Laptops

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play..................station.....my daughter's gaming rig

I agree with iccaros I think dsl will work better. Slack will run but, not with x windows. Slackware needs at least 64 MB of RAM to run a gui.

Very cool, iccaros. Thanks for the explanation. So if I'm understanding you if I say no to IPv6 and then yes to dhcp my networking should be okay? That's assuming my realtek NIC is recognized. Now I'll be able to properly use your BSD CD

Exactly. If I said yes, which I think I did then I would have by-passed the dhcp set-up. Thanks for the help. That part of the install was always bugging me:-)

aaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh Thanks, man! Yes, I do have a router that acts as a dhcp server. I probably said yes to the first question. That explains it! I didn't understand what the first question was asking me. Did you have to go into the sysinstall options and toggle the dhcp settings at all? Cool. I can take another shot at bsd.

I'm usually pretty good with networking, but, BSD confused me. I do the same thing with my home network. My daughter has an XP Pro box, and I've got two Linux boxes all getting their IP addresses from the router via DHCP. I got confused during the BSD set-up when it asked me these questions: User Confirmation Requested Do you want to try IPv6 configuration of the interface? Yes [ No ] User Confirmation Requested Do you want to try DHCP configuration of the interface? Yes [ No ] I probably answered one question w

Do you network your BSD system through a router, shanenin? I've installed Free BSD 5.2 before, but, had one heck of a time punching a hole through my router. I probably missed a setting somewhere.

Over the last several months I posted less and less at that place. Now that the hangout has been removed I've said my goodbyes to Leoville. Besttechie.net is my digital home

Good to see you again, man welcome back!

Hi iccaros, sorry I haven't grabbed a copy of your distro yet, did bookmark it though...since I don't know what WM it uses, what kind of art are you looking for...kde splash, default wallpaper, kinda stuff? (sorry, I'm not too good at icons, if you need those too...can only seem to modify them to my liking) not sure how good it'll be without my predispostion for softcore porn wallpaper have even done the same to my ksplash...lol thanks hitest...and about KDE vs. Gnome....from looking at the two, I would think that Gnome would be less demanding...I'm definitely into eye candy which seems to

Cool idea.

Hi iccaros, Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate that a lot. I'll read up on the links you gave me. I agree, it would be wonderful if there was a universal package management system in place for most distros. swaret sounds promising to me. Your 100% re-build sounds fanatastic, both systems sound great, LFS, or Gentoo. hitest

Jeesh hitest! some of us newbies like KDE 3.2 (heh, 3.3 won't install for some reason, invalid signatures I think )...but still better than seeing a windows desktop IMO anyway, here's my latest creation (several pics I found around the web, thrown into the GIMP) on mandrake 10.1 Hi tictoc5150, Very cool desktop!! I like KDE very much there's nothing wrong with it at all, I run it with Mandrake 10.1 on my Plll 500 Dell. It uses less system resources than Gnome. KDE is a very stable, mature window manager.

Wow. That's too bad about Leoville. I like it here though.

You're very welcome The distros (Mandrake, Fedora) that I mentioned have window managers (KDE, Gnome) that give a certain "windows" look to your desk-top. But, that's where the similarities end. These are not windows and they function completely differently from windows. The kernel, the heart of the Linux operating system, is not windows. Thankfully. They are good starting points for a first time hard drive install of Linux. I recommend that you take your time and do some reading on the Internet and find out about Linux. Have fun with it. Also, before you install Linux become really fa

Cool. Is that Free BSD?

Yep, the madpenguin review site that you provided a link to. I've got a fairly standard NIC, a Realtek. I agree networking shouldn't be a problem.

Very cool. I'm taking a look at the beginner's gentoo. Sweet. I read in the review that there were some issues with setting up networking and sound. Did you experience that?

Hi shanenin, Thanks for the reply, I appreciate that. Given my system resources do you think a third choice, Gentoo, would even be possible on this system? Or would a stage three tarball take weeks to compile on this unit? I thought updates were a problem with Slackware, thanks for the confirmation. I may go with Slackware as a learning aide like you did when you dropped Red Hat 9. That might be a good starting point before attempting Gentoo and set me up for success. I've used fdisk before when I installed Free BSD 5.2. I appreciate your advice, that gives me information to make a good

Hi iccaros, jcl, shanenin, Two days ago I finished tweaking my Fedora Core 3 install on my Plll 667 IBM 300 PL, with 256 MB RAM. Everything works well. The only beef I have with Fedora is it is a bit of a RAM hog; I had to pare down the services, programs running on start-up, to make it run properly. On a faster P4 system this wouldn't be an issue. I'm trying to decide if I'll keep this system for a bit or run Slackware 10. Advantages as I see it for Fedora Core 3, are a plethora of programs and effecient software updates using up2date and yum. I haven't run Red Hat products for some time. Adv