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MarathoN:
Hmmm, I use XFCE and it's fine for me. :D
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I don't see how anyone could possibly measure which is the fastest distro... Some of the packages they use are common to most other distros and some aren't. You can always disable (and uninstall) services/stuff you don't want.
Slackware with GNOME and a few extra bells could end up as slow as Fedora.
A system with all/most of the binaries compiled with optimizations for speed (-Os) for that CPU would be the fastest possible.
Should you be crazy enough to try it, this will help.
--- End quote ---
Ahhh ... I see, so I think I'll stick with FC for now, it works great on my machine :thumbup: .. I've heard about optimizations for speed, but I think stability is more important than speed (I dare not try it even though it sounds tempting)
dmcfarland:
Im having problems installing fc4 (Fucking Crap 4,) and somehow I ended up frying my dvd player. Im working on getting my pc up.
I kept getting install media corrupt errors, depsite getting no burn errors or crc bad checksum. It might be my cd burner which is old and a piece of shit. Its a 4 x x4 x16, and philips. I didnt have any problem burning all the other cd's I made with it, nor a problem with burning solaris 10 on it which I am currently installing. I dont like it, but I might be able to dl and burn suse or debian (If I feel like dl'ing 10 disk and burning them,) or some other distro-"sigh" slackware.
Anyway there is something wrong with the fc (fucking crap 4) images. I might just buy a dvd burner, bc I am sick of burning a million cd's.
Whips me, beat, humiliate me, mistreat me, and fc4 me.
PS: From here on out fc4 will always mean fucking crap 4:fu:
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---Im having problems installing fc4 (Fucking Crap 4,) and somehow I ended up frying my dvd player. Im working on getting my pc up.
I kept getting install media corrupt errors, depsite getting no burn errors or crc bad checksum. It might be my cd burner which is old and a piece of shit. Its a 4 x x4 x16, and philips. I didnt have any problem burning all the other cd's I made with it, nor a problem with burning solaris 10 on it which I am currently installing. I dont like it, but I might be able to dl and burn suse or debian (If I feel like dl'ing 10 disk and burning them,) or some other distro-"sigh" slackware.
Anyway there is something wrong with the fc (fucking crap 4) images. I might just buy a dvd burner, bc I am sick of burning a million cd's.
Whips me, beat, humiliate me, mistreat me, and fc4 me.
PS: From here on out fc4 will always mean fucking crap 4:fu:
--- End quote ---
I think them media errors are either something to do with DMA or else you need an 80-pin IDE cable for the CD/DVD-drive you're reading from. I had problems with both them before. For the DMA errors, I had to pass some option to the kernel at boot time to disable DMA, IIRC. Can't remember what it was exactly. Google might tell you.
Also, http://www.google.com/search?q=media+error+dma&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficialLooks like some people are having trouble with GNU/Linux and their burners. Something there might help you out.
H_TeXMeX_H:
I've had some trouble burning suse, it kept saying the disks were corrupt even though all hashes / checksum were good (md5 and others)
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