Confirmed, Mandrake 8.2 is the bollocks!

[Calum]

I just installed Mandrake 8.2

It autodetected all my hardware, even the USB cdwriter, and the SIS630 GRAPHICS CARD!!!!!!!

but no support for the SIS 630 modem, so that's a project.

And it was all up within an hour, compared to the 2 days it took to get WinME + apps up and running.

back to the old drawing board re: modem though.

[voidmain]

BTW, XP sucks.  An hour is a long time for a Linux install, must be a slow machine. Last one I did took about 10 minutes.

[voidmain]

Your g/f must be as bloated as your OS or you'ld be spending more time with her/him rather than making a fool out of yourself with these comments. XP doesn't support a fraction of the hardware that Linux does.  We've been over this.  Remember there is life beyond your little Intel PC. Take your Windows shit into the Windows forums..

[voidmain]

Or your privacy is worth a lot. You're just pissed because your daddy is in hot water with the government and the fact Windows is about to be replaced on the Desktop with Linux. Like I said, there are plenty of people over in the Windows forums that can talk you through formatting your drive and installing Linux. Maybe you can get a head start and still have a job when M$ closes their doors.

Zombie: XP supports 40x more hardware than Linux
VoidMain: Remember, there is life beyond your little Intel based PCs
Zombie: but, um, I mean, uh, I'm not talking about servers
VoidMain: Is a Mac a server?  Hell, Linux even runs on a Mac.
Zombie: but, um, I mean, uh, waa, I'm smarter than everyone else

[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[voidmain]

Seems to me IBM had these thoughts when M$ was in their infancy. History repeats itself. And I never have trouble with Linux and hardware.  I don't buy M$ proprietary hardware. And I don't know how you figure porn into the privacy issue. What the hell does porn have to do with anything?

You probably work on a help desk. I've met a few help desk kids like yourself who think their the sharpest tack in the box. It's usually just sharp enough to burst their own bubble.

[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[voidmain]

Yep, you are truly one lost sole. Maybe some of these good religious users will pray for you.

[gnomez]

Zombie you are truly a mongoloid.  I just built a brand new computer with extremly recent hardware, and guess what?  Windows XP didn't detect the GeForce 4 correctly.. called it an unknown generic display adapter and it ran like crap until I got the drivers my self.  Linux, on the other hand, knew what it was right away, and the accelerated drivers would have come with the distribution but it said I had to download them due to licensing reasons with nvidia.  But at least it installed the opensource drivers and it didn't chug like XP made it.  Yes, Linux may have some hardware that it has problems with, but if you get past winmodems and other crap there isn't much Linux doesn't support.  This is truly amazing for such a minority desktop OS like Linux.  Furthermore, why are you bragging about a monopoly supporting the majority of hardware?  Get a life, you twat.  Linux users may have to put up with a very slight amount of hardware incompatibility but on the other hand they don't have to put up with product activation, forced upgrades, outrageous licensing fees, or privacy issues (which, bonehead, some people value even if they don't look up porn)  So shut up about your love affair with XP.  If you think XP is so great then why don't you marry it?

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:

What is this? Do I have VoidMain beat? I see he didn't have anything to debunk my post with and I also see that he failed to show any proof of MS software spying on it's users. Well Void, lets set this argument aside and go smoke out of the peace pipe.

Have me beat? Dream on. It's just pointless arguing with a bone head. It reminds me a lot of of my son's neighbor friend who happens to be partially retarded. He likes to argue too, and then I remember that he has a disability and drop it. Arguing with you goes pretty much the same way.

[voidmain]

Heh heh, well there's one thing for sure. There's plenty of laughs when Zombie's around. I guess it's the humor that you M$ Nazis spew that keeps me coming back for more.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:



Hmmm, I see that you didn't deny the fact that people have problems with conventional everyday hardware like modems, sound cards, DVD Rom drives, etc. in Linux. BTW, I'm not losing any of my privacy using MS OSes because I'm not one of those idiots who actually register thier products and I'm way ahead of XP Activation. It isn't like I'm so concerned about my privacy anyways..it isn't like I have gigs of porn on my drive and it isn't like I visit porn sites(because I have no need for the shit). This goes to show that you Open Source people are way too paranoid. Only people who have stuff to hide think they are being watched(when in reality MS doesn't give a fuck what you do on your computer).

I don't need anybody to tell me how to do anything with my PC because I'm already several steps ahead of you smartasses. Anywho...an OS that only holds like 0.25% of the desktop OS share is not going to replace what holds over 85% of that same market. No hardware manufacturer or software writer(who wants to make a profit) in thier right business mind will throw it all out the window for an OS that can be
considered a joke when you look at it's user base percentage compared to the *MONSTER OS*.

[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

The only hardware that i have had (numerous) problems with is my sound card, but i had the same problems with my sound card in windows and had to go searching for drivers for it. I fucked up my DVD out of shear stupidity (didnt bother to check if it was set as a master or a slave).

DO you block your windows from connecting to the internet or something? Even when i used windows 98 it would contact the update site to check for M$ updates (that was probably harmless though).And win XP contacts MS if you use hotmail, it tells MS what your searching for using thier "search assistant" thingy, i have never actually used XP so i am going by what i have heard.
And i have more private things other than the Gigs of porn on my hard drive, those people at MS can copy all my porn if they want to.

[gnomez]

quote: The love affair comment and the marriage comment can easily be flipped around. You guys spend countless hours of your time trying to convert people into Linux users, you devote alot of your time to write app/game ports and hardware drivers for your so called great OS.

True, but you don't see me going into Windows forums and stirring up shit like you obviously like to do. (can't say the same for EVERYONE on here of course)  I respect your choice of OS but it seems every time someone mentions Linux in a positive way you seem to swoop down with your random shit about how great XP is and how bad mozilla/linux/mac/etc. is.  And I don't think people in a forum called "the microsoft eradication society" take kindly to your antics sometimes.

 

quote: ...truthfully you all are infatuated with Windows and are jealous of Bill

See this is the shit I'm talking about.  I think it's safe to say that none of us here are jealous of Bill Gates (except maybe you), a man that I find a less than decent roll model unless you want to be the richest man in the world or something.  How can I be infactuated with Windows if I rarely use it anymore and the only time I think about it is when you bring it up or I see Microsoft in the news?


 

quote: I garantee you devote more of your time to your OS than I do  

Yes, I and others want to help make Linux a better operating system.  Linux is a community effort and everyone should help in some little way if they can.  However, most of the time I just use it for a wide variety of computing tasks like programming, gaming, word processing, web browsing, cd burning, etc. just like you do on your Windoze based PC.

I don't know why you enjoy coming here and stirring us up like this, Zombie89325829, but it is obviously due to some deep emotional problems or the fact that you are jealous of the powerful Linux operating system and secretly want to use it yourself!    

[Calum]

sometimes i think that zombie416511423131432 has two larynxes inside his anal sphincter, so he that when one of them finally gets tired, he can continue to talk out of his ass without a break.

This topic was originally about how mandrake 8.2 is at least as good as what everybody is saying red hat 7.2 is,
i have tried win98 on my machine, it had an even harder time with the hardware than red hat 7.0 did, and i have tried win200, and it was a TOTAL nonstarter. I have performed this reinstall of winME many times. Many drivers, that say they are working fine need updated, some by unzipping files, others by executing DOS programs. Neither of these methods works from the "Update Driver" thing in the control panel, so you have to remember how to install each driver individually.
Also, I was talking about a complete install, including the removal of IE, the installation of other alternative browsers, and also the installation of all the apps i need, such as WinRAR, Winzip, Acrobat Reader, 602ProOffice, Opera, Netscape, ACID, Sound Forge.

Now with linux, ALL the equivelant apps come with the system so their installation time is included in that hour.
It usually takes me a bit longer to install linux because i read through each of the thousand or so components and decide what i want individually, this time i went for a default install, and it actually took about 45 minutes of real time, but i was hoovering and forgot to change to disk two.
It's a 'Coppermine' P3 850Mhz btw fyi.
With WinME, it would only have taken me one night to install except that after the first night it was unstable and fucked up, so i elected to format c: and reinstall from scratch, that is the only thing you can do to fix windows.

Now! that aside, back on topic!
A couple of things about my new install, it makes me realise how rusty i've become forgetting even the simple things i have learned about linux in the last week or 2 when i have been going without! My computer takes a bit of a while to start up and the reason is as follows:

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or something very similar. I will need to sort out what is what and take that out of the starting up stuff, i have no need for eth0 anyway.
Also, do you know the default installation doesn't even have 'make' installed?!?!? it's on the CD but is not installed as default. I think i'll be finding some other things that i want that may not be in the default install...
Pico isn't even included on the CDs! i'll have to go and get my red hat 7 CD to get some of my favourite apps!
I narrowly missed getting OpenOffice too, apparently CD3 has it on (that's just what i've heard) and i only have CDs one and two...

I couldn't actually install AbiWord either. I'm having a problem with the old
./configure
situation, but i'm sure i'll figure it out. It looks like make is having a problem finding a C compiler too, although i know i have gcc installed.

Anyway, i am sure i am boring the tits off you all, but i thought i'd just let you know how mandrake 8.2 is, since everybody seems to be on SuSE, Slackware or Red Hat.

Okay, you can all start bickering again now......

[Nobber]

Maybe Zombie2348975689034765789365893765897365893765938709346347112 is right when he says that XP supports more hardware than Linux does, but what I do know is this: Mandrake autodetects and configures/sets up drivers for my TV tuner, sound card, modem, graphics card, CD rewriter and printer while installing. However, with Windows, I've always had to spend about 83 hours after installing the OS (if we can call it that) hunting around for the individual CDs containing the vendor-supplied drivers and other software for these particular bits of hardware that Windows is too stupid to recognise by itself.

15-0 to Mandrake!

[Calum]

he isn't right about the hardware! it's just that the people who use winXP are more likely to own certain hardware then those who use linux.
Linux runs on a wider variety of hardware even if XP runs on a wider selection of kit within a small bracket of hardware (usually i386 based stuff et c).

Also, i was asked to reboot my machine 3 times during the winME install, another 3 times while installing the drivers, then 4 or 5 times while installing the apps and utils! ridiculous. Mandrake just installed, then ran. No rebooting, no hassle. The hardest bit was taking CD1 out of the drive and putting CD2 in about halfway through the installation.

[Calum]

Also, when i say linux doesn't support my modem, i mean that it doesn't support it right out of the box. By those criteria, windows doesn't support half of my kit out of the box! when windows is first installed i get 16 colours, a screen 480 dots across, no sound, no recognition of my cdwriter, this support all comes from the makers of the hardware, NOT microsoft, NOT windows. Mandrake linux detected virtually ALL my kit and configured it automatically with no problems at all.