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Firefoxfanphill

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Distro Help? [EDITED]
« on: 14 October 2005, 01:19 »
Ok, so basically I made a deal with my dad, If i keep my average in Algebra to 80+ I can do a dual boot with linux! HURRAY!

Anyway, in other words.

I'm thinking of getting Gentoo with fluxbox as an X window manager.
Any comments on this?
[If yes, get me something with tabs]

Furthermore a partion/dual boot guide [and software [thinking Radish] would be helpful.

Any recomended info for getting some funky ubuntu setup would be nice as well!

Also, I'm just ganna use linux as an IM [Gaim]/GIMP/server testing ground.

Also, heres some specs,
160gb harddrive,
512MB DDR SDRAM,
2800+ AMD Athlon XP processor
NVIDIA Geforce4 MX Graphics card.

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Oh yeah, another thing is, I'm thinking about completatly wiping me computer, and than haveing Windows on one partion, Linux on another and all other files/folders on a third partion, any comments bout this?
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #1 on: 14 October 2005, 18:33 »
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I'm thinking of getting Ubuntu with fluxbox as an X window manager.
Any comments on this?
What's wrong with GNOME? I'm sure it'd run fine on your computer (most people that don't use GNOME and KDE don't because they're slow on slower hardware).
Ubuntu comes with GNOME by default, although I'm sure it's not hard to switch it to fluxbox.
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Oh yeah, another thing is, I'm thinking about completatly wiping me computer, and than haveing Windows on one partion, Linux on another and all other files/folders on a third partion, any comments bout this?
Make sure the partition that you're sharing between the two is FAT32, so both Windows and GNU/Linux can read and write to it.
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #2 on: 14 October 2005, 22:34 »
This link might be helpful... and a little fun too :)

The Linux Distro Chooser
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #3 on: 14 October 2005, 22:55 »
Quote from: Narf Man
This link might be helpful... and a little fun too :)

The Linux Distro Chooser

 I matched up with Slackware and Gentoo, one of which I have used, the other of which I am using.
Pretty accurate when you answer honestly.  ;)
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #4 on: 14 October 2005, 23:08 »
Yeah, it is surprisingly decent. I came across it a couple of months ago, and now whenever I see some n00b asking "what distro???" I just point 'em to the url. It's a lot easier than trying to figure it out myself for them.

Interestingly, it keeps giving me Mepis and kubuntu, which I have used on other machines, but not my own. Oh well... batting .999 isn't bad at all.
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #5 on: 15 October 2005, 01:07 »
You've got a similar system to mine.

I bought a 80 gig HD for $60US, made a FAT32 partition (with Downloads/Images/Movies/Documentation folders) and installed Vector Linux SOHO 5.0.1.

Works a charm. It uses KDE, and is much nicer/faster than XP.
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #6 on: 15 October 2005, 01:44 »
Hehe, I took that test, I got Slackware/Gentoo as well. :D
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #7 on: 15 October 2005, 01:44 »
Quote from: Narf Man
This link might be helpful... and a little fun too :)

The Linux Distro Chooser

Interesting...I got it to match up with my precious Slackware only by insisting that it be free, with all other answers the same.  But this could be great!
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #8 on: 15 October 2005, 10:37 »
lol it recomended one i allread have, well i have mandrake, but its nearly the same.
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #9 on: 16 October 2005, 01:54 »
matched me with mandrake pcl & suse.  Seeing how suse rocks the entire known universe, i must say, this test is fairly accurate.
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« Reply #10 on: 16 October 2005, 02:26 »
I ran this test by my buddy Rob, and it told him to use Fredora. He's so happy with Fredora that he actually destroyed his XP install disk.

Seriously, I hope any newbies to Linux look at this when choosing a distro. It's a great tool (I'm glad I came across it).
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #11 on: 16 October 2005, 11:36 »
My advise was Kubuntu and Mepis, and I was planning to switch over to Kubuntu actually.
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #12 on: 16 October 2005, 19:51 »
Phil,

Is this your own computer? If it is, why do you need someone's permission? If not, why not get a summer job and buy your own box?
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #13 on: 16 October 2005, 20:50 »
Summers gone Jimmy, ;) anyway providing you don't run a big and bloated distro you can easilly run Linux on a cheaper old machince, so I recommend you go and buy a cheap P500 add more than 128MB of RAM (preferibly 256) and you'll be up and running in no time.

Why is everyone going on about FAT32? Firstly it is shit and secondly Linux can read NTFS (and can write to it using captive). The only reason you'll ever need a FAT32 partition is to copy data from Linux to Windows.
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Re: Distro Help?
« Reply #14 on: 16 October 2005, 23:09 »
Yes I am thinking of a job, but on the other hand I think I rather use this computer, its cheaper and I'm the only one ever on it, so why bother getting another one? Also, the age old "I need to play games" comes up so I'm just going to do a dual boot :-), though I am hoping to get my friends broken pc sometime soon. Run an apache server or something for kicks.

Anyway, It keeps saying "Gentoo" as my distribution of choice, theres no livecd that I can use to check hardware support which is why I'm thinking on "not" getting Gentoo but again try SuSE.


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