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iancom:
I would definitely agree with Mandrake for the inexperienced... especially those concerned with games (though you have to know to select XFree86 3 instead of 4 to support your OpenGL graphics card...).
I don't know why I don't really get on with Mandrake myself, but it's probably something to do with several months of continually reinstalling and playing with RedHat 7.2 to get my RHCE... Heaven only knows what would have happened if I'd decided a MCSE was a good idea (uuurgh).
I don't think I'm a RedHat bigot as such - I've had a good go at the recent Manrake releases (although before that was probably a very early Slackware [kernel 1.?] install) but I find RedHat does everything I need quite nicely... not sure about RPM's though - all my important services are compiled from source, as I think they should be for any distribution.
fruitbat:
I run Mandrake 8.2 on my box and it found all the hardware and set it up.
You can get NVidia drivers for XFree 4 at www.nvidia.com. There are README files covering the installation and X configuration.
Mandrake Gamers edition is also out which is more play oriented.
voidmain:
If you have to run Windows apps, VMware is by far the best way to do it. It is however, the most expensive way to do it. I've been running it for a couple of years now. You can download it and run it for 30 days on a free trial (of course there are ways around this but I bought version 2 and now version 3 because it's a great product). It also requires a real version of Windows (which you likely already "own"). VMware is not a software emulator, but a hardware emulator so you actually install Windows in a virtual machine under Linux. Windows thinks it is running on the computer all by itself. It's extremely easy to install and use, and it works extremely well. You'll need a lot of RAM and a fast machine though. I'm running an Athalon 1600 w/512MB on my desktop and it works flawlessly. I'm running an Intel 800 w/512MB on my Laptop where it also works very well. I would say minimum of 256MB of RAM to make it run nicely.
http://www.vmware.com/
[ May 11, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Calum:
re: multimedia, and games. My madrake 8.2 has much more support for audio visual stuff and has ten times as many games as my WinME does when installed for the first time.
Re: hardware support, when i installed windowsME, i got 16 colours, no sound except for beeps, a 480 pixel screen and so on, none of that happened with mandrake linux, full 1024 screen, 24 bit colour (could have been 32bit but why would i want it?) and sound card fully installed automatically (except i didn't turn the volume up! :rolleyes: ). These all required me to go and look out drivers when installing windows.
If that's "superior plug and play" then you can keep it, it's mediaeval compared with linux, sorry, but that's the way it is.
Microsoftsuc:
I feel bad that you have WindowsuckMe. The reason M$ released that OSuck was because they didn't remember how to write the OSuck Windowsuck 2k Home And Business which was never released.
I have VMware and Virtual PC. I haven't really tried them yet because I don't really know how to use them. Do you suggest that I install linux then install windows from linux? Or install windows and linux, load my windows apps and then from linux configure the virtual pc or vmware to run windows?
It looks like I will be installing Mandrake 8.2 or Redhat 6.0. In Redhat 6.0 I absolutely loved the Desktop Afterstep which you can obviously download for the newer version, but I could never get it to install....Can anyone help me with that So I can install Redhat 7.x and still have Afterstep?
Thanks Everybody, (this is a greeat forum, lets make sure it stays up for a while)
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