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Can anyone help me find a good distro ?
toadlife:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---what about dvorak ?
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lol. Every OS supports the dvorak keyboard layout.
piratePenguin:
If you're BIOS is buggy you MIGHT be able to try linuxbios.
http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
Do I wish mine was supported or what..
It mightn't be able to boot FreeBSD yet.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---If you're BIOS is buggy you MIGHT be able to try linuxbios.
http://linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
Do I wish mine was supported or what..
It mightn't be able to boot FreeBSD yet.
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It is not supported ... and if it fucks up ... game over :D
Anyway ... using slackware 11.0 right now. It's actually quite nice ... it only took me 4 tries to install it ... here's some install notes in case someone else has problems:
I recommend using the "huge26.s" kernel unless you're trying for a server or a minimalist distro ... it's the only one that supports my Logitech USB mouse properly. (would also recommend JFS since you have the option)
Install lilo to MBR despite the "unsafe" warning.
If using the huge26.s kernel, after you install you gotta mount the DVD or CD again and installpkg /extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules in order for ethernet and other things to work (might also wanna install kernel-source and k3b while you're in there).
Had to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf for:
# dvorak keyboard
Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"
# allow mousewheel
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Remember to "adduser"
Damn lilo timeout is set to 1 min something by default ... had to change /etc/lilo.conf then run /sbin/lilo for a more reasonable value.
Other than that ... it's pretty straight-forward.
toadlife:
So how is slackware treating you Tex?
I wanted to install it and try it out, but the install CD didn't support my Areca RAID controller. There might have been a kernel on there that would have supported it but I didn't get into it that far.
H_TeXMeX_H:
It's great ... the first distro I really like ... cuz everything works as it should (with a bit of tweaking). I got everything I need to work perfectly ... hplip (hp-toolbox actually works unlike in FC), madwifi, nvidia drivers (hate to have to use em, but I can't play games without it). And, its very stable so far. It's really just what I need, supports many filesystems, has logical, easy-to-use packaging system, has many choices of packages ... with many more on the net, many window managers to choose from ... etc.
For RAID support you could either use the ataraid.i (2.4.x kernel w/ IDE, ATA, RAID support), raid.s (2.4.x kernel w/ SCSI, RAID support), or huge26.s (2.6.x kernel supports pretty much everything ... but is huge :))
Pre-built slackware kernels are here in case I missed one that also supports RAID:
ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/kernels/
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