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MarathoN · « **Reply #30 on:** 17 November 2005, 00:27 »

Hmmm, I use XFCE and it's fine for me.

H_TeXMeX_H · « **Reply #31 on:** 17 November 2005, 03:57 »

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.

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 · « **Reply #32 on:** 18 November 2005, 03:04 »

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 · « **Reply #33 on:** 18 November 2005, 03:19 »

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:

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 · « **Reply #34 on:** 18 November 2005, 06:10 »

I've had some trouble burning suse, it kept saying the disks were corrupt even though all hashes / checksum were good (md5 and others)

dmcfarland · « **Reply #35 on:** 18 November 2005, 20:48 »

My cd burner is a working burner. Its old and it only seems to read disk at burned at its speed. I can put in another disk and it wont read. Ill probably be looking into a new dvd burner next month anyway.

I did find an command line option to run and Ill give that a try.:scared:

dmcfarland · « **Reply #36 on:** 19 November 2005, 19:22 »

Ill take me crow with tobbasco sauce on it. I got FC4 (not fucking crap 4,) it turns out that one of my memory sticks was shot. It took me a bit to figure that out, but Im on linux, no windows partitions, or anything else ms related.

Thanks all. Ill be posting more. I am learning slowly. Take care

dmcfarland · « **Reply #37 on:** 19 November 2005, 19:29 »

I tried that when I had windows on my machine and sure enough it crashed.

187nimd4 · « **Reply #38 on:** 21 November 2005, 20:09 »

Quote from: dmcfarland

I dont want to pay for a linux distro when I can get another one for free on the net.

.. and of course I also never, ever will

some people just don't get it ..

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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) Logged dmcfarland Member Posts: 156 Kudos: 123 Re: Alternatives to the Borg AKA Microsoft « Reply #32 on: 18 November 2005, 03:04 » 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: Logged Whip me, Beat me, Humiliate me, Mistreat me, and Windows XP me.:fu: piratePenguin VIP Posts: 3,025 Kudos: 775 Re: Alternatives to the Borg AKA Microsoft « Reply #33 on: 18 November 2005, 03:19 » 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: 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. 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H_TeXMeX_H Member Posts: 1,988 Kudos: 494 Re: Alternatives to the Borg AKA Microsoft « Reply #34 on: 18 November 2005, 06:10 » I've had some trouble burning suse, it kept saying the disks were corrupt even though all hashes / checksum were good (md5 and others) Logged dmcfarland Member Posts: 156 Kudos: 123 Re: Alternatives to the Borg AKA Microsoft « Reply #35 on: 18 November 2005, 20:48 » My cd burner is a working burner. Its old and it only seems to read disk at burned at its speed. I can put in another disk and it wont read. Ill probably be looking into a new dvd burner next month anyway. I did find an command line option to run and Ill give that a try.:scared: Logged Whip me, Beat me, Humiliate me, Mistreat me, and Windows XP me.:fu: dmcfarland Member Posts: 156 Kudos: 123 Re: Alternatives to the Borg AKA Microsoft « Reply #36 on: 19 November 2005, 19:22 » Ill take me crow with tobbasco sauce on it. I got FC4 (not fucking crap 4,) it turns out that one of my memory sticks was shot. It took me a bit to figure that out, but Im on linux, no windows partitions, or anything else ms related. Thanks all. Ill be posting more. I am learning slowly. Take care Logged Whip me, Beat me, Humiliate me, Mistreat me, and Windows XP me.:fu: dmcfarland Member Posts: 156 Kudos: 123 Re: Alternatives to the Borg AKA Microsoft « Reply #37 on: 19 November 2005, 19:29 » I tried that when I had windows on my machine and sure enough it crashed. Logged Whip me, Beat me, Humiliate me, Mistreat me, and Windows XP me.:fu: 187nimd4 Newbie Posts: 12 Kudos: 10 Re: Alternatives to the Borg AKA Microsoft « Reply #38 on: 21 November 2005, 20:09 » Quote from: dmcfarland I dont want to pay for a linux distro when I can get another one for free on the net. .. and of course I also never, ever will some people just don't get it .. 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