philothea Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 PM sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 12, 2005 Author Share Posted November 12, 2005 This semester I've been using SuSE, but I got fed up with it because it was using SO much memory, so I just installed an Ubuntu CD I got in the mail about a month ago... so far so good!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 I will be interested to hear how you like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 (edited) Sorry, I don't live on phatmass, but I wish I did... I didn't know newer installers could non-destructively repartition drives... Don't they have to be FAT32? WinME should be using that anyway. It doesn't support ntfs in the first place. There are all sorts of nasty names you should be calling it, though.. whatever you do, don't run this as root: rm -rf / It's a good way to trash your system. I like Knoppix and Insert as troubleshooting tools. There's a nice nt/XP password reset bootable cd too. I certainly like debain's package management system, but it seems like it's always a little behind the curve. Actually, I need to check the latest YellowDog (for Mac hardware). I haven't yet seen if it supports my PowerMac G5.... I know, I'm all over the map, right now... OS X has kinda gotten me lazy, though I keep Terminal.app in my dock. I've done some foolish things w/ the command line tools.... Once, to create an ISO image, I did something like this: cat /dev/cdrom > something.iso I've also duplicated harddrives like that... DON'T DO IT THAT WAY! Ok, you've been warned. nmap is a cool tool... su gives me a power rush... renice when something isn't btw, does anyone know a good text-only word processing app that only does word wrapping and scrolling? Like that old wordperfect for dos (white on blue) or similar? how's this for being obfuscated? cd /; locate bin | grep -i `echo "fortune" `> ~/pathtofortune; chmod +x ~/pathtofortune; ~/pathtofortune > fortune.txt; cat fortune.txt; rm -f ~/pathtofortune Edited November 12, 2005 by scardella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 12, 2005 Author Share Posted November 12, 2005 [quote name='scardella' date='Nov 12 2005, 01:48 AM']Sorry, I don't live on phatmass, but I wish I did... I didn't know newer installers could non-destructively repartition drives... Don't they have to be FAT32? WinME should be using that anyway. It doesn't support ntfs in the first place. There are all sorts of nasty names you should be calling it, though.. [right][snapback]786272[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Well, this is the fourth Linux installation I've done... the first time I installed Fedora Core 3. That didn't go so well, and i couldn't figure out what the root username/password were, so I couldn't actually go in and use the operating system... so that didn't go so well. Then I installed Mandriva 2005. That went well, except Mandriva made my system painfully slow! And that installation deleted Windows. I couldn't deal with that... so I installed Windows again. After I got that set up, I installed SuSE to run in a seperate partition from Windows... It was an NTFS partition, I think... something like hda-2? I don't really know... I got sick of how SuSE/KDE was so slow and hogging all of my system resources, so I installed Ubuntu w/GNOME yesterday I reformatted the Linux partition and it installed over that. So far, so good. The system applications probably use about 85 mb of memory, which is way lower than KDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted November 12, 2005 Share Posted November 12, 2005 Photo, I it appears that Novell (who bought SuSE) agrees with you. They've switched to using Gnome preferentially in the latest release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 13, 2005 Author Share Posted November 13, 2005 [quote name='philothea' date='Nov 12 2005, 03:02 PM']Photo, I it appears that Novell (who bought SuSE) agrees with you. They've switched to using Gnome preferentially in the latest release. [right][snapback]786542[/snapback][/right] [/quote] cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 13, 2005 Author Share Posted November 13, 2005 (edited) anyone know how to install a file from source? for some reason, I messed up some apt-get thingermabobber thingy and I can't use apt-get anymore. Edited November 13, 2005 by photosynthesis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 (edited) [quote name='photosynthesis' date='Nov 13 2005, 04:43 PM']anyone know how to install a file from source? for some reason, I messed up some apt-get thingermabobber thingy and I can't use apt-get anymore. [right][snapback]787370[/snapback][/right] [/quote] (including steps you may have already done) -move (or copy) the tarball (.tar.gz) into the place where it should go (like /usr/bin or /home/claire/bin or whatever) - tar -xzvf <name of tarball> - ./configure - wait a while - make - wait a while longer - su to root - make install And you should be good to go. (You might also want to read the README or the INSTALL after you decompress the tarball.) Good luck! Edited November 13, 2005 by philothea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scardella Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 apt-get is my fav... that stinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 14, 2005 Author Share Posted November 14, 2005 [quote name='scardella' date='Nov 13 2005, 11:53 PM']apt-get is my fav... that stinks! [right][snapback]787795[/snapback][/right] [/quote] yeah... i have a software engineer friend dude that is pretty good with Ubuntu so hopefully he'll be able to help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 [quote name='scardella' date='Nov 13 2005, 11:53 PM']apt-get is my fav... that stinks! [right][snapback]787795[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I miss Debian... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 14, 2005 Author Share Posted November 14, 2005 [quote name='philothea' date='Nov 14 2005, 12:08 AM'] I miss Debian... [right][snapback]787824[/snapback][/right] [/quote] what are you using now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 (edited) [quote name='photosynthesis' date='Nov 14 2005, 12:13 AM']what are you using now? [right][snapback]787828[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Same as you used to, SuSE 9.1. It was impossible for me to use Debian until the latest release, because the physical configuration of my hard drive would not have been recognized. Now, I could upgrade, but I don't want to mess around with any computer stuff until I have a break between writing projects. Then I'll probably go on a disto-sampling spree. Edited November 14, 2005 by philothea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photosynthesis Posted November 14, 2005 Author Share Posted November 14, 2005 [quote name='philothea' date='Nov 14 2005, 12:20 AM']Same as you used to, SuSE 9.1. It was impossible for me to use Debian until the latest release, because the physical configuration of my hard drive would not have been recognized. Now, I could upgrade, but I don't want to mess around with any computer stuff until I have a break between writing projects. Then I'll probably go on a disto-sampling spree. [right][snapback]787846[/snapback][/right] [/quote] do you have a lot of RAM? SuSE 9.1 was really nice, and if I had more RAM it would have run faster and it wouldn't have annoyed the carp out of me It was fun while it lasted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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