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RIAA_blows:
Also, the LG issue - is there a fix for it yet? I have an LG CD-ROM and don't want it fried :(
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by RIAA_blows:
Also, the LG issue - is there a fix for it yet? I have an LG CD-ROM and don't want it fried :(
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Nice, but what do you want?
From all big distro's I only like one: SuSE.
If you don't like it, learn using Slackware, Debian or Gentoo.
[ November 05, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]
Unforgiven1:
I don't know which distro is best...seems like it would be a matter of preferance. I liked RH...but now I don't..lol
quote: Plug-in your digital camera from USB? Works right out of the box. Connect your Rio mp3 player? Also works right away.
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that isn't always true. My el cheapo digital camera plugged into the USB and mounted right away on RH 9.0...as did my printer.
slave:
For me,
Mandrake is nice except it seems very buggy and the company is in big financial trouble.
SuSE seems nice but I will never use it or recommend it because YaST is covered under a non-free license and it is illegal to distribute the ISO's you get in the boxed set (they come with proprietary software)
Debian - I would use and recommend debian, but it is a pain in the ass to set up. It is also extremely outdated, unless you use the "unstable" branch, which I couldn't get to install.
Gentoo: bleh, it's so l33t it doesn't even *have* an installer. For ubergeeks with a weekend of time to spare only. Granted I got it to work (I am rather the geek after all) but after playing around with it I realized it has no future on any normal person's desktop.
Slackware - ok, very old school but not that hard to set up. I actually recommend it. (though I hate the way you have to edit bash scripts to change anything, that's just so outdated)
Fedora (or the distro formerly known as Red Hat)
This is the Windows XP of linux distributions. I actually mean this in a good way. It detects most hardware out there, is rather easy to use, doesn't contain a ton of bugs, and is the default desktop configuration is actually sane (and pretty, too) I definitely suggest you download it.
[ November 09, 2003: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]
suselinux:
If you can read a bit of German you can use all the goodies in SuSE linux for free by using a distro called KM Linux
Its developed by The German government who partly used to own SuSE before Novell bought them, and were allowed to use Yast in their Distro.
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