A Linux Thread

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:46 am

Woot! Got Linux Fedora Core 2 installed. This is it running thru XDMCP on my windows machine.

Got firefox installed, finally. Bring out the gimp!

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:26 am

Cool. I would like to do the same when I find that unlimited time vault that I left around here somewhere.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:40 am

How does it work? Is it emulated, doing something "remote"ish, or is it actually running somewhat natively? (Which I would think would be difficult with NT running the show.) I'd like to do that when I have more HD space. Then I can run Linux demos. They may not run too well though if it's not fairly similar to running it by itself. (timing reasons)

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:45 am

I, too, recently installed Fedora Core 2 on my machine to check out the progress of the project...not product! It looks really good! But much like every other recent installation of Linux on my machine, I run into the problem of having nothing to do with it. I just can't find a reason to use the free OS alternative somewhat frequently when it shares a drive with my free windowsXP pro OS, all my free windowsXP software, and all my free media. I need to build a cheapy little $200 box and install linux on it, then I'd take the mcnevin's route of using XDMCP and would probably use it ALOT more. But while installed on my windows box, there's really little benefit to using it. The IDE for the java compiler is fresh and new and I likes alot, so I may still use it for that. And I love orange fanta.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:58 pm

Beeeph pretty much answered your question.

The linux is running on a separate box, and XDMCP is kinda like remote desktop for linux.

Beeeph: What were you using for the XDMCP client? I'm using Xwin32.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:00 pm

Yuck!

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:02 pm

I'm not using an XDMCP client, I only have one funtional computer at the moment which has both OS installed. My Free BSD little beeeph machine finally kicked the bucket.

Kev, are you using GRUB or the windows bootloader?

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:14 pm

Grub...

The windows boot loader will run linux?

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:21 pm

depending on the order in which you install the OS, the windows bootloader will run fine. If you install windows first, then fedora, it'll change boot.ini and fuq things up. But I like grub better anyways.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:25 pm

LILO!!!!!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:26 pm

Lilo is dead, he was eaten by a grub

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:28 pm

Just wait a few more minutes. Lilo will burst through his belly, screach, and run across the room. He will then be back, and damned near unkillable. Stupid Grub. Grubby.

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:39 pm

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and that person screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:41 pm

My favorite deep thought.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:17 pm

Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:41 am

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:46 am

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:29 pm

The latest Fedora is not complete yet? Was thinking of installing the latest SuSE (v9.2) but maybe t'would be cool to try Fedora out?

Other than Red Hat what's one of the better distros?

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:48 pm

I didnt like mandrake. too drab.

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:54 pm

!!! P.H.L.A.K. !!!

www.phlak.org

The best linux distro ever! Super light-weight (it doesn't have four different apps for everyone one thing you wanna do), super fast, and super bootable. That's right, a mobile linux distro that fits on a cd and has only the best development, hacking, and wireless linux tools included. That's it for my review of P.H.L.A.K., I hope you enjoy.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:10 am

I just installed it...I was a decent fan of the two previous versions and the new kernel seems to have made a huge improvement on speed. The only problem is I cannot connect to the intarweb...I had no problems with the previous two distros and the hardware I am using has not changed... so what teh fuck....

Downloading Phlak now! Is tiny!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:05 pm

Think i tried debian before...

I cant remember if i liked it though.

Id like to try gentoo http://www.gentoo.org , but i think its BSD based...

Free BSD is teh suck, it was lightyears behind fedora

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:01 pm

Have installed it and am actually using it right now. There is a new kernel with this release done by the SuSE guys themselves instead of using someone elses core and there are a lot of speed increases. Like the other versions of SuSE that I used didn't respond as fast as this one so it's much nicer. They also trimmed things down a bit so the minimum install isn't totally bloated - although I do have three web browsers installed...which is kind of ridiculous... Pretty happy overall with this release though. The only thing that kind of sucks about it is that if you download it the boot.iso is only 7MB and the rest has to be done via a network install. That's not that big of a deal if you are running your own ftp site and can access it locally but I don't know what you would do to install it if you couldn't do that. I mean they do have two smaller packages that are single ISOs but I wanted it all so I had to DL 7.7GB of stuff...took only 5 hours with my new connection though...hehe!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:37 am

I downloaded the DVD iso of fedora core, and i did it rather quickly (400KBps.)

It went rather well, no need for disc swapping or remote installage...

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:58 am

been using the current distribution of SuSE (v9.1) and it is very nice and very complete. Is almost too easy to set everything up via YaST...

The current challeneges are setting up Samba, Apache, and some kind of ftp servar...

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