Linux 4 newbies

[toadlife]

It has nothing to do with the actual hard drive. It's the hard drive controller that it can't detect.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Oh ... so is there a solution ?

[crazypenguin]

For newbies Mepis 6.0 IMHO wins hands down.  It detects most hardware.  Mepis runs great as a live cd or installed to hard drive.  It is by far the easiest Linux distro to install, use, and update / upgrade.

[Orethrius]

For newbies Mepis 6.0 IMHO wins hands down.  It detects most hardware.  Mepis runs great as a live cd or installed to hard drive.  It is by far the easiest Linux distro to install, use, and update / upgrade.

 

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su -c emerge -auv world


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[cymon]

you forgot the

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compiling, please wait..................................

[crazypenguin]

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su -c emerge -auv world


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It looks like you are a Gentoo android........

[crazypenguin]

you forgot the

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compiling, please wait..................................

No kidding........

It sould say, "just come back a day and a half later."


IF I am going to run a source distro, I would rather run Arch than Gentoo any day.

[Orethrius]

No kidding........

It sould say, "just come back a day and a half later."


IF I am going to run a source distro, I would rather run Arch than Gentoo any day.

Hey now, you said "easy" so I said Gentoo.  Whoever mentioned fast?  :p

...because, in all honesty, if I wanted to compile specifically for my architecture in ANY kind of record time, I'd probably say Arch too.  

[inane]

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correction ~]$ sudo

[Refalm]

Hey now, you said "easy" so I said Gentoo.  Whoever mentioned fast?  :p

...because, in all honesty, if I wanted to compile specifically for my architecture in ANY kind of record time, I'd probably say Arch too.  

I don't get it. Is it significantly faster if you compile everything for your architecture?

[Orethrius]

I don't get it. Is it significantly faster if you compile everything for your architecture?

Well, it's not significantly faster per se, but don't forget that you're talking to the guy that uses Fluxbox because it loads in two seconds rather than two MINUTES.  The more performance I can squeeze out of my hardware, the better.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

If you compile things are they faster ? Not really, at least for small programs with few graphics. Besides, most things are compiled for i386 (except Arch), so unless you have a really new processor it won't matter. The only time I've found it did matter noticibly was when compiling graphics intensive games.

[WMD]

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su -c emerge -auv world


Did you say something?  

You forgot something:

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su -c 'emerge -auv world'


[7031]

I think you forgot the 'The Best' section for ubuntu and maybe SuSE. Maybe not SuSE but you get the idea.

[Van Slanzar de Fanel]

As a linux newbie myself (dispite many years of trying to learn it), I am interested to find out what your recommendations would be for a good distro to use. Unfortunately, as a PC gamer, I'm stuck using windows, except for a few games that come out for linux, and I'm not planning on bying a Mac anytime soo. Personally, as I want to be using it somewhat regularly, I am only interested in installable distros and not live CDs, though they have their uses (I almost exclusively use linux fdisk when I have to muck around with HD partitions now). One major concern I have is while graphical tools are all well and good, I want to be able to really learn the ins and outs of linux, editing confs and rcs by hand and whatnot. So if you experts have any recommendations where I could go to start learning this, that would be great.