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Linux for noobs
WMD:
quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Well X11, the person is looking for a newbie distro and slackware is known for not being for noobs. I'd say Mandrake or Suse.
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Plus, Slackware relies solely on the kernel source for its drivers. Hardware support ain't great.
I'm a newbie and I did Slackware, but luckily it was an older, standard machine, and even then it took weeks to get everything figured out.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:
Well X11, the person is looking for a newbie distro and slackware is known for not being for noobs.
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Actually, Slackware was made(by Patrick Volkerding)
to make Linux easy, using the KISS(Keep It Simple Stupid) way.
It's also the fastest way to really understand Linux.
Try(and use) both. ;)
[ January 27, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
Mistshadow:
quote:Originally posted by Unforgiven1:
well, I actually had the same problem at first. So on the second try before I installed it, when I booted from the live CD, I turned off acpi at the boot prompt and then it was flawless. I run it on my laptop actually, and it's the first distro I've found that's correctly identified every single peice of hardware on the thing.
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Thanks agian, I've just installed it and it's working fine now. Now my husband doesn't have to use Windows to go online and he can keep the Windows partition for his games and stuff. Not only that, but it'll tide me over quite nicely until my SuSE Pro gets here.
restin256:
quote:Originally posted by Unforgiven1:
resizing an NTFS partition doesn't have to be brain surgery. You can..errrr...obtain a copy of partition magic 8.0 and that is really easy use right out of windows before you even think about Linux.
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SuSE 9 installer automatically resizes.
Uipe:
just a warning BACKUP all important things first lol ;) .
I had never heard about mepis and I use linux for some time now I gess I will give it a try on my next project.
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