I'm looking to switch distros again and I'm not sure what to look to or if maybe I should try something new. I'm looking for something that's simple, builds up from a minimal install, but isn't SO minimal that I have to tweak settings just to install new packages. It has to have a version for amd64. I don't mind if I have to compile some things from source since I end up with that on any distro for some things, but it'd be nice if I can install JOE or Nano right off the bat so I don't have to suffer with vi. Arch and Debian are the best things I've tried, but I have certain beefs with both of them, as described below.
Stuff I've tried in the past:
Ubuntu - It's one of those things that's nice at first and starts getting in the way after a while, plus it installs by default a bunch of shit I don't want (pulse audio, their crappy media players, etc.) I don't like the apt package system either.
Debian - Nicer that Ubuntu in that you can build it up from a more basic install, but still apt based and I run into problems with their stuff's outdatedness and/or non-standard patching sooner or later.
GNewSense - Pretty much everything that sucks about Ubuntu with none of the advantages. Blech.
Mint - See Ubuntu as it's pretty much just a minorly tweaked version thereof.
Arch - I really liked this one at first, but after a few months my install of it had become more unstable than the time I had Windows ME, no exaggeration. Maybe this is atypical but it's kind of put me off to going back to it so far. I really like their package manager though.
freebsd.
Have you tried using FEDORA? I prefer fedora than ubuntu..
>>2
Gave it a try, looked promising from the install, but gave up on trying to get keyboard and mouse to respond in X after the first couple of pages I Googled up on Lynx didn't help.
>>3
Yeah, I still had the disc I'd burned before and everything. Gave it another try since it was recommended, had a little trouble getting sound set up the way I wanted it but now it's working out so far. No sign of the weird graphical glitchiness I remembered... maybe I was thinking of some other distro or it was on my other comp. Thanks.
> Gave it a try, looked promising from the install, but gave up on trying to get keyboard and mouse to respond in X after the first couple of pages I Googled up on Lynx didn't help.
really? last time i installed freebsd i didn't have any trouble... i just installed[1] and configured[2] X, installed KDE[3], then set up KDM[4]. everything just worked.
You are complaining for naught.
What's wrong with Ubuntu/Mint? It installs shit you don't want? Then uninstall that shit!
Who cares about he initial package set if you can configure it later? Ubuntu/Mint have excellent hardware support, from there you can remove shit like crazy.
While I hate things I don't want in my box, I love things I wanted but didn't know I did. Like Bluetooth support, plug dongle, it works, didn't had to Google for shit since Ubuntu did it for me.
So I learned to stop complaining about bloat, rather uninstall only when you KNOW you don't want it.
What's wrong with apt? Too easy to admin?
If you want a rolling distro that's always updated go debian sid, if you irrationally hate apt or want to try a BSD style distro with the hardware support of Linux, go Gentoo, if you want Gentoo for sane users go Sabayon.
> What's wrong with Ubuntu/Mint?
define ``support''. there's always a hack.
shitty package management? what? i could show you bash one liners that resolve that problem.
full of security vulns? maybe, but at least they get fixed quick
use slackware, or LFS. i personally highly recommend a variant of LFS.
Have you tried Damn Small Linux? It's a bit outdated but it's nice for slower PCs like my own.
Maybe I might get an answer here. I have been using Opera for three days now and so far everything is going great. However, I am currently having problems with the thread watcher on the 4chan X script I downloaded. Whenever I try to watch the thread I want, it doesn't save when I return to it. For example, click the watch button, click the thread in the thread watcher, the page reloads, thread watcher is empty. It worked before and now it doesn't. Some assistance please?
I can't reach Sankaku Complex, neither directly not with a free webproxy. Could somebody tell me if they are all right?
Direct link: http://www.sankakucomplex.com
It's ok for me (from France)
Ok, I get this whenever I try to copy something from my CD-Rom drive, It sounds like it's working ok, but after it reaches somewhere around 40% it just gives up on the file and shows this error message saying "Error Cannot Copy <filename> Invalid MS-DOS function". The computer is brand new and I was wondering if anyone else has had the same trouble with this? thanks!
>>28
You sound like one of those linux lover. Go join them.
use any program converter according to your cd file .it works for me
ya i m too getting this problem...
bt there is no soln foe this either change your os or copy every thing to pen drive through command prompt....
may this link can too help you..
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=949073
i just had d same problem w/ u guys..after 2 days of exploring i finally got it. its funny, because its too simple. lols, mine is drive D. what i did is i dragged d whole including the drive to my videos, my new folder. :D
I had the same problem. EASY FIX. I unmounted the virtual drive then remounted and could copy the stuff over fine. If its a real disk drive (which i doubt) try ejecting and and... um rejecting...injecting... what ever. lol
when i copy fifa 2007 into my computer i get invalid ms-dos function.can i do something?
have you tried to shortcut it to my computer
Thank you very much to Latheef!!
for your solution :
"Best solution
Inj win2003 Right click any where in your drive or dirctory then from the popup
select
new-> ziped folder
then a new zipped folder is created
Drag and drop the the contents of CD up on the newly created icon after a short time whole the dragged contents are ziped to your disk then upzip it. Then you will get all contents without any errors
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once more, your rock dude!!
I am thinking about it. I see a lot of web sites going both directions. What say you?
gizmo5 + google voice
Is there any interesting appli?
Unless you have a strange fetish for tip calculators and flashlights: no
And Robotic Unicorn flash games...
iPhone sucks. Apps are just worthless shit to make people think they got value from a $600 PHONE.
Hi, I would like to ask you guys what kind of backup software is out there that you like. I'm currently using Areca, but development is a bit slow and judging from the tracker stats it looks like the devs are getting swamped.
So that gets one wondering - is Areca still the best for me? What is out there? To qualify for me, it must:
Nice to have would be:
If it were me, I'd pick up a decade old PC, throw some server variant of any popular linux distro on it, and have rsync and cronjobs configured to perform all of those actions. No GUI afaik, though :-(
That doesn't meet the requirements, it would be a step back from Areca. Plus, I'd need an extra computer for no good reason.
Noob article question here..
I'm looking for a light and possibly free software for editing articles with the end product being a .pdf. I'm interested in making my own zine. I don't know how this can accomplished with Open Office or something similar. My main problem is making the text stop evenly on the left and right side, so that the text is a clean line vertically.
You can use the OpenOffice.org word processor for all of that stuff.
You'd probably do best to call kinkos or whatever printer you're thinking about using and asking them what formats they accept.
Thanks a lot! I think I can manage now :)
So I have this laptop I got recently, a 2.2GHz Turion with 4 Gigs of RAM running Windows 7 64bit. I've been using it for a couple months, mostly playing flash games on Newgrounds and the like, but also installed some games like Unreal Tournament III and The Bard's Tale. Odd thing is, a few weeks ago the framerates slowed to a crawl no matter what I play, be it Bard's Tale or a simple flash game. At first I suspected some Flash fuckup due to programming errors in a game, but uninstalling and reinstalling my browsers and Flash Player had no effect.
Any ideas what it could be, and how to fix it?
Outdated graphics driver.
>>2 Maybe not just because of outdated graphics driver, but also because he has a low-end video card...
Direct Draw error in vidinimo_PC.cpp line 160
SetDisplayMode
Starcraft can't change the resolution and colors. It suggests me to do it manually. It used to work before I try beginning to learn OpenGL. What do I do ?
Check to make sure you don't have any 'projects' running oin the background, and that you didn't alter any oGL libraries. Do other games have this problem?
I don't have anything special running... Is there something I should search for in the task manager ?...
I don't think I've touched anything in OpenGL, I just installed it for DevC++.
Changing the resolution normally doesn't work either, it asks me to reboot. It used to work without rebooting, though I haven't tried doing so.
>>Changing the resolution normally doesn't work either, it asks me to reboot. It used to work without rebooting, though I haven't tried doing so.
Check that you can "Apply new display settings without rebooting" in your advanced display settings. If that's no help, sometimes graphics drivers need reinstalling. Get new ones from ati/nvidia (whichever is applicable)
Yeah, I did that, following some other board's advice, and it worked. Case closed, move along.
thanks for saying which board so others might be able to fix it aswell