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Can anyone help me find a good distro ?
worker201:
--- Quote from: Calum ---ha! and all you people saying how easy windows is to customise make me laugh!
customising windows is simply a case of getting some shitty nagware from tucows or download.com (probably with a name like TweakPC or XPConfigPro or some shit) and hoping it doesn't screw your PC up too much when you try it.
With open source software you get software that has been tested and bugfixed by a number of independent respondents, doesn't contain nagware or malware (for the above reason, generally speaking) and i also find that *ix software is easier to configure, like in rc files and with CLI switches et cetera. also, i have yet to see a windows package with a decent man page.
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I was more referring to graphical customization. There's not much that Gnome/Metacity can do that unmodified Windows XP cannot do. Probably a couple little things, but nothing major.
Then again, I haven't downloaded little shareware programs to extend Windows in a long long time. Actually, that's not true - I put EditPadLite on every Windows computer I use - cuz Notepad is so useless.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---As it turned out, Slackware's older kernel worked well with Tex's hardware. And my definition of "shitty" here kinda includes stuff that is so old that support for it has been taken out of 2.6.x kernels. I'm not sure why Slackware doesn't use the 2.6 kernel yet, nor what the implications would be of backing FC6 out to a 2.4 kernel. So installing Slackware just to get the 2.4 kernel that's compatible with your hardware might be the quickest way to get things moving.
(I suspect that if the 2.4 kernel from Slackware worked, it's because some particular module was included, and thus building a 2.6 kernel with that particular module installed would solve the problem - however, that doesn't always work)
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But, I'm running the 2.6.x kernel. I tried the 2.4.x, but it wouldn't support my Logitech mouse. BTW, my hardware is only 3 years old, and is probably better than that of most people here.
--- Code: ---$ uname -r
2.6.17.13
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yahurd:
got that *cough*11 years old*ahem* right
worker201:
Okay then, why did Slackware work for you where others did not? If it's not the kernel, what is it? X11 version? Drivers available on the installation media? A kernel module not being installed? It seems strange to me that Slackware would just magically work for you where nothing else did.
H_TeXMeX_H:
It's probably the kernel I'm betting ... at least from what I got from this post:
http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showpost.php?p=120046&postcount=26
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