If you are a minimalist then try Vector Linux. It runs quite smoothly.

 

One thing went wrong after the install though. Where normally in Gentoo and Redhat the onboard NIC on my box would come up as eth0, and the PCI NIC would come up as eth1, they were swapped in Vector Linux. This was quite confusing. Though, i simply had to do a "dhcpcd eth1" to sort it out.... Works like a dream now. The whole thing runs very fast.

 

just ran into a silly little feature... When i minimize a window in fluxbox, the only way to restore it is right-click on the desktop and find it in the fluxbox menu under worspacelist - icons... Kinda confusing for me, and I have used fluxbox before. I suppose it would be incredibly confusing for anyone who hasn't used fluxbox before.

 

SoftwarePlaza is VL's gui-version of apt-get. It lists available packages for local installation or FTP download, and installed packages for uninstall. I'm pretty sure you have to run it as root (duh), otherwise it downloads but doesnt install the package you want it to. The software options are very limited, with such software titles as gnome, gaim, xine, xmms, and some others. There are about 60 packages available for download and install. Some packages I didn't see but would like to see in future versions are mplayer, mozilla (vector comes with firebird), gdesklets, the 2.6 kernel, various games...

 

IPTables is a default module, so if you have a premade firewall script, it's a breeze.

 

The Vector Linux ISO is approximately 229 MB in size. After installation (with X), it takes up approximately 600 MB of hd space. It is easy enough to set up, allthough you might need to read a partition HOWTO if you are completely new to linux and dont know how to use any partitioning software. And lilo is a PITA unless you want to have it boot from a floppy (which I have done), probably the only use left for floppies anyways...

 

This is a great alternative to XP (which I have deleted, finally, just so I could install VL). It has everything a casual user would really need. Web browser, Gaim, XMMS, Xchat...

 

Rating: (out of 10)

 

If I were more of a noob than I already am:

Installation: 4.5

Post-installation: 6

Connecting to the Net: 2

 

My personal opinion:

Speed: 8

Installed Packages: 3.5

Installation: 7

Installation Speed: 10

Post-install (Firstboot): 5

Overall: 8

 

In comparison:

RH9: Overall: 8

Gentoo: Overall: 6

via lokkit, in the 'Other Ports' field, type:

 

https:tcp

 

then apply the changes. or if you want to do this in the console,

 

type:-

 

Sup Guys,

I just took the harddrive an netcard from my old box and put it into a 1ghz hp box. it the only

harddrive and it went smoothly sorta. For some reason my comp wont shutdown from a gui side. when i logout it brings me to the login screen when i click shutdown it trys and come back to the same screen.

thoughts? ideas? have i givin enough info ? any help would be greatly appreciated.

have fun,

tek

I've seen SGI at University of Teesside once. but never try it. so i dunno if there is any good. Have ya try it?

q.

 

how do i see what filesystem i have

 

a.

 

type mount and look at the output :)

 

cheers

 

anyweb

 

Hello, i don't have Linux yet. But I plan on getting it sooner than later. Only problem now is there are other people that use the computer that wouldn't have a clue. They have problems with Win ME so. lol I can imagen the complaining I'd hear if I setup Linux. Besides the fact my computer isn't too great, and i have a bit to learn yet before I can actually feel comfrotable using the OS.


 


Any way online friend told me to check this site out so I'll save it and check back in time to time. So I thought I'd say SUP!.


 


~Xolajin

Hi.

 

I'm having trouble with my old 'puter, it's a 800MHz intel P3. I decided to try Linux for the first time, and I was recommended RedHat 9 or Fedora. I've tried both, and I'm having trouble getting it installed. The media check passes and fails randomly (I've tried two different CDR units, and at least 5 different discs.)

Then, when it starts cpying files to disk, it says that it's having an error installing xxxx.(see pic), it seems like it's not the same pack that fails, and one time, the screen went black, and a lot of un-recognizable letters appeared.

I think maybe it's a I/O problem between the CDROM and the Mainboard, but MS WIN XP installs just fine. Anyone with some tips or experience ?

 

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Hi,

 

Please can u read this Unable to view websites

and let me know what you think.

 

I am sorry that I have posted the same topic twice but I am still using this forum in windows XP and I am getting more and more frustrated.

 

Thanks in advance

Hi Friends,

My system consist of following peripherals along with Operating sytem as LInux Redhat 9(shrike)kernel version 2.4.20-8 i686.wiith dual booting (1st partition with Win ME and 2nd Partiion with Redhat 9)

1>HSF conexant Internal Modem

2>Inbuilt AC-97 sound card with Motherboard - ASUS-P4B and Processor P-4(intel 1.5GB).

3>AGP card Ge Force -2 MX 100

4>Pixel View Play TV Pro tv-tuner card (bttv878)

 

For viewing the TV on LInux . I have already downloaded bttv driver bttv-0.9.12.tar.gz.Now for viewing TV through Xawtv-3.8.1 ,i will have to recompile my kernel with the video for linux as option 'module'.

Kindly suggest me about the other configuration option to be enabled in each section so that i may recomplile the kernel without any error message at boot time.

 

CDKN