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Post by Rob on Nov 12, 2002 18:01:36 GMT -8
For anyone who ever had the thought of dual booting or using a linux distro, I think LinuxMandrake 9.0 would suit you nicely. The control center and hardware configurations are just as easy if not easier than windows, it runs based on a i586 instead of the older i386's, which makes it run considerably faster. It has a very pretty graphical user interface, the media player XINE plays video incredibly nice, xmms (winamp like) plays mp3's and video's like the newer winamp3. I cant think of anything else to say, but its nice. My fav linux distro to date.
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Post by Donna on Nov 12, 2002 18:04:05 GMT -8
I will be calling as soon as I put my old harddrive back in and clean it up. Then I will duelboot again.
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Post by goldsmith on Nov 12, 2002 20:50:30 GMT -8
I don't know about v9.0, but v8.2 ROCKS!
I never had an easier time installing an operating system on this antique box.
I posted elsewhere about not being able to get it online, due to non support of my present modem, but hope to get one that works with it soon.
I see that you can get the three CD set for v9 for only about 6 bucks, so I'm going to get that version also, in the hopes, that it will be even better.
The sounds and appearance (for me, and my system) beat windows hands down.
The applications, are nothing short of incredible, and the control, is entirely up to the user, rather than a software vendor, who thinks mainly in terms of the 'bottom line'
I give Mandrake a SUPER GREAT vote! ;D
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Post by Bruce on Nov 13, 2002 0:32:39 GMT -8
I played around with it last week, and liked it, but needed another machine to put it on. So I built one LOL. AS soon as I get all my apps installed and everything set up to my satisfaction, it will replace the RedHat install I am currently running. It has some great features. I set it up so when I boot up all my network shares are mounted as local drives. This can be done in RedHat also, but not with the two clicks it took in Mandrake. I went to upgrade to the latest Xine only to find out it was already installed I just need to get a bigger hard drive for the machine I installed it on, 40 gigs don't cut it for me. That won't hold my movies, data and MP3's. Then it's a done deal, Mandrake 9 is very nice.
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Post by jul69 on Nov 16, 2002 5:44:10 GMT -8
I agree. I'm VERY new to linux, and have installed RH 7.3, 8.0, and mandrake 9.0. Mandrake is very nice and so far, easy to work with - whereas I had trouble partitioning my drive with RH, MD did it without a problem. I do have a couple of questions though. I never used CD 3 during the install. Did I miss something, or do something wrong? It also skipped over the "make boot disk" option.
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Post by Rob on Nov 16, 2002 8:30:31 GMT -8
Boot disk creation is not necessary. As long as your boot loader is working, then you should be ok, but its just nice to have around...in a just in case kinda deal. With mandrake, I only used CD3 for one application I think. You are not missing anything, when you chose packages to install, you just didnt choose any from CD3.
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Post by goldsmith on Nov 16, 2002 22:34:20 GMT -8
JUL, if you chose the 'typical' install option, the boot disk creation doesn't come up. You can do it from inside, to have one on hand. A good idea, as I found out the hard way, by dis-abling the graphical interface as 'root' D'uh.......
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Post by Torrey on Dec 11, 2002 18:39:46 GMT -8
i am dualbooting xp pro and mandrake 9.0. after i got mandrake installed ands 3d up, i never booted back into xp pro. even my addiction to counterstrike couldnt tempt me into booting in there because I am now getting counterstrike to work in linux. It definitely is a lot harder than getting quake3 to run in linux because i ahd to install XINE, OpenGL, configure opengl, and compile XINE. but hey, itll all be worthwhile cause then i wont have to experience the nastiness of windows. ANYWAYS, sorry i went off topic...Mandrake 9.0 is my favorite linux distro....ive tried Mandrake 8.2, SuSE 7.0, and Red Hat 7.3(i own Red Hat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2, and Mandrake 9.0) but none beats the simplicity and usability of Mandrake 9.0. It loox nice too, even though i like the Red Hat 7.3 interface more. Overall, this is my favorite linux distro. All who want to try linux should go for Mandrake 9.0
Torrey
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Post by goldsmith on Dec 11, 2002 20:04:55 GMT -8
Well, after all these votes in favor, I'm sold on wanting to install 'the drake 9' on my machine too.
I love going online, but even if I can't, I like mandrake MUCH better than windows.
Now to put together a system with components that are supported!...........
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Post by ragnarok on Feb 8, 2003 1:20:54 GMT -8
gah, Linux is only good to a certain extent.. like I've said before, Open BSD derivatives aren't that great.. here's a challenge for you, instead of duel booting, try Leuschen and my poly boot (for lack of better number-like word:P) which currently consists of: Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP Corporate Professional, Linux Red Hat 8.0, Free BSD 4.7 (soon upgraded to 5.0) think its impossible? muahah! its not! wanna know how.. uhm do that whole contact thingy.. ya know that message stuff or aim or whatever works also, we're soon to add Lindows and BeOS.. I wanted a good copy of OS/2 but he can't find one, little slacker. its great having two hard drives
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Post by Dress for the party wear a Tux on Mar 12, 2003 7:22:03 GMT -8
BSD is nice, but I wouldn't say it's "better" then linux. I have run BeOS, just about every major distro of linux (RedHat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Connectiva, Lycoris, Lindows, Debian, Knoppix, SuSE and a few others I have probably forgotten), also tried OS/2 back in the day, and FreeBSD 4.5 and 4.7. BeOS was very sweet indeed. It's too bad it is all but dead now, it had more potential then most Operating systems I have tried, Linux is outstanding and growing up, at such an accelerated pace, it is amazing. It is "the" OS of the future! BSD open or free or any other for that matter are just "OK" in my opinion. Not enough desktop orientated software in my opinion, and if I have to run in software in "linux emulation" then I may as well run linux. Kind of like running windows apps in linux, I won't do it, if I need to "emulate" winodws through wine or something else then I may as well run windows. Mac OSX is currently the only "UNIX" based OS I am interested in. I have had the oppurtunity to play with Mac OSX, but still haven't bought one. I will be getting one this summer. I considered downloading Darwin for the PC but it just isn't the same as running the Mac only software. For the time being linux is in my opinion much better then BSD. Linux is replacing allot of Unix servers and desktops at a rapid pace. No wonder, linux is just superior.
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Post by powerchucker on Mar 31, 2003 17:59:54 GMT -8
Got Mandrake 9.0, and after a phone call to Bruce (Pit) got it on my network and on the net! so far so good! love the GUI much better than Windows could ever do! love learning Linux! Adam
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Post by Rob on Mar 31, 2003 21:18:44 GMT -8
After using mdk9 for a while, I noticed a few things that I didnt like about it, but I still like it. BUT, the ease of use is def good for newbies, but once you get the hang of things, redhat seems to be more stable then mandrake, well except for Redhat 8 which was junk, but 7.3 is prolly overall the best so far that Ive tried. Looking forward to trying the new 9.0 redhat, and also I think I will venture a try in some sort of BSD, but God knows if I had money I would love to try Mac OSX.
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Post by lilbill08 on Aug 17, 2003 8:37:01 GMT -8
I just burned knoppix it's great! All's you have to do is burn it to a cd as an .ISO Image File and boot up with it! No installing either. It sees your windows partition so you can download stuff into another directoy and boot up into windows and not even touch it. I think it's great.
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