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varnull
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17. August 2009 @ 21:27 |
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The atheros cards "shouldn't" be that much of a problem.. I would have a looksee which drivers sabayon runs them on.. they always work with that baby.
Just one thing.. Whenever I install tiny-me every time I try to get full multimedia capabilities working the damn KDE dependencies morph it into pclinux.. which is way too heavy for the old dimension 560 celerons I want to set up for some local kids to surf and watch the odd film on.
Any ideas on that annoyance?
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17. August 2009 @ 21:51 |
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That's the only thing i don't like about TinyMe, it's one of the main reasons why i've switched to Puppy lately is that virtually everything 'just works' from the initial install with hardly any input from me.
Anyways, i do still like TinyMe but it has tendencies to morph as you've noticed, and i must admit i don't miss all that messing about with packages and more often than not, getting into dependency hell and everything breaks. So i put TinyMe back on this laptop purely for Frozen Bubble :)
My favourite version of TinyMe is still Test Release 7, which is the version i've just reinstalled - BUT i'm not going anywhere near Synaptic other than for Frozen Bubble. Try and find Test Release 6, that's very good too. Can't remember if 6 plays silly beggars with dependencies though.
However i've had no luck with 2008.0 and 2008.1, they just don't work properly at all, i must throw away the CD's for those.
edit- Oooooh hang on, damn it - i've just remembered what buggers up the dependencies most in TinyMe - it's bloody Frozen Bubble, which requires Perl to be installed which nearly always trashes the dependencies.
Ah well, i only want to use Puppy on here these days anyways :O
Now Puppy on the other hand, is right up my street as all i had to install was Pidgin and Firefox, oh and Gimp. Tweak the desktop widgets how i want them. Done. No buggering about with anything else. Just how i like it...
I've never been a fan of Atheros chipsets, i'm a Broadcom fanboy thru and thru.
Back to Puppy, another example of how it all just works - fire up Pnethood or whatever it's called and it instantly finds the Quad Core machine on the network, it kindly lists all the shares and a couple clicks later i'm watching movies - zero installation crap from me. I just works..
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18. August 2009 @ 21:51 |
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Isn't it just so.. and nobody would have ever heard of puppy if I hadn't started plugging it..
Please.. if you like it join their forums and give your feedback. be honest.. they NEVER rag an honest criticism or a report of something not working as expected.. but do remember.. with such a short release cycle some things will just wait for the next release ;)
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19. August 2009 @ 16:05 |
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well its been a FUN summer, school starts next week, and i have a problem, both of my laptops (Dell Latitude D610 XP Pro S3 and my Hp dv7-1135nr)suffered hardware damage and are currently out of commission.
i will eventually fix my dell and my hp had warranty and its gonna take a month to be sent get fixed and come back.
In the mean time my bf got me this salvaged Dell inspiron 5100, i just ordered a charger and i will upgrade its ram to 1 full GB.
anyway im pretty existed i love to make old lappys fly and ive been debating what distro i should use this time.
my future specs are Dell Inspiron 5100 1GB PC2700 DDR RAM 40 GB Ram 2.4 GHZ Pentium 4 yahh i can have x64 architecture
I have some in mind
Scientific Linux 5.3 here
Nubuntu 8.12 Instigating security here
opensuse 11.4 << might be what im looken for reminds me lots of windows here
and finally one made by fellow mexicans XD codenamed
Jarro Negro 2.02 here
please tell me what cha all think i will bring screen shots later. Im taking in consideration a couple of facts that will affect my decision.
Wireless support
Speed
laterz
and community support
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Do you remember love? ADV3.0 M_et_J
>Collecting data is the first step towards wisdom sharing data is the first step towards community...<
hpdv7-1135nr MSVBE_BT4 Dualboot
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20. August 2009 @ 00:45 |
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AVOID SUSE LIKE THE PLAGUE.... seriously.. it's broken by design.. last one I installed was impossible (and I only tried it because it had support for the soundcard I was having problems with) .. loaded with Novell DRM.. ejected an audio cd instead of playing it.. no sound on media players.. corrupted EVERY mp3 I tried to play... and loads and loads of other nasty problems... It's packed full of M$ software patents and typical M$ restrictive tactics.. don't even bother downloading it.
Laptop? .. stay mainstream or go small.. Mint or Puppy for lappys.. they are built for them XD
Creakster.. check it out XD http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37869
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20. August 2009 @ 02:52 |
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Thanks. Never got around to googling for it. I have loads of live cd's around the place so i can just use of of those for Frozen Bubble - much easer, i think Knoppix has it for example
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iamroot
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25. August 2009 @ 00:41 |
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HP DV6700z
Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit - 2.6.28.11 "darkstar"
AMD TK-57 Dual Core 1900 Mhz
4 GB RAM
256 MB Nvidia Graphics (I believe the 8800, not sure)
1280*800@60
Mainly used for... Everything! Haven't run M$ in years!
Compiz works great!
External /boot partition (usb drive)
Luks 256 bit encrypted root, home, and swap (If interested I can write a tut.)
Note: Had to compile and load linuxant (sound and modem) and rebuild the DSDT (suspend (works), hibernate (not working due to encryption scheme, however, worked prior to that))
Not working 100%: Still have problems with the Memory Stick reader (need to recompile kernel) and internal microphone (hissing, no idea?)
I love this rig!
Screenshot isn't great, however, I love showing off Compiz!
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning ~ Rich Cook
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25. August 2009 @ 00:47 |
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EDIT: (Still haven't figured out the edit yet, sorry for the double post)
For the Atheros cards, check out madwifi. Real simple to install and works great with WPA PSK and WEP.
http://madwifi.org/home/
Hope this helps!
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning ~ Rich Cook
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28. August 2009 @ 13:09 |
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My main Puppy Linux machine (C2D E6400 - Win7/XP/Puppy triple boot) wasn't running an SMP kernel so found a 4.2 Puppy install with kernel 2.6.29.1 included already so upgraded to that. Nice ~
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28. August 2009 @ 19:01 |
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Wow Creaky, by looking at you're puppy desktop screenshot, you've just inspired me to use puppy again lol.
Desktop - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0ghz, 2Gb DDR2-800 Ram, 250gb + 200gb hdd + 500gb external, Ati Radeon 4850 512mb, 430watt Thermaltake PSU, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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13. October 2009 @ 17:18 |
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Latest added into my small fleet ~
Have installed moonOS 3 (which is based on Ubuntu) as a dual boot to TinyMe on my old Dell GX-150 that i've brought back into use (P3 1GHz, 384MB RAM). It was an excuse to use Enlightenment again but it works very well, the P3 is a tad sluggish but not too bad. Had installed moonOS on a spare P3 600MHz laptop but the PCMCIA wifi isn't working properly hence using a desktop machine now ~
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7. November 2009 @ 17:17 |
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Re my previous post - have now replaced moonOS with Puppy again on that machine, but may still replace Puppy with PCLinuxOS 2009.1 as i rediscovered that again the other day (and i have a few other Puppy machines now anyway).
Anyways, here's Solaris 9 on my ancient Celeron 500MHz laptop, accessed thru Xming. Hadn't used Xming before (would normally use Hummingbird Exceed), Xming seems to work a treat, am well chuffed ~
(the laptop is docked, it lives under a proper Dell stand which is tucked away under one of the desks, nice because it saves space - it allows an old xbox and an xbox 360 to sit ontop, and running via the dock allows 1024x768 to a spare monitor whereas the laptop can only muster 800x600 when used as a laptop)
Am going to start a refresher on my bash scripting, poor old brain isn't learning enough in this economy :(
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23. November 2009 @ 14:43 |
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Firefox 2.0.0.20 in Solaris 9 (x86), system specs in previous post. Not fussed with Flash, this machine is just for checking emails and scripting ~
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24. November 2009 @ 15:30 |
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some tasty stuff there.. I like the look of your sol9 .. might have to dig out grace and experiment with it.. how much ram on that system? 512 on a p2 400 is a bit sad... once I get through swearing at Arch that is.., which is being a 100% pig... Guess what.. Once I get it set up and working it's removed.. because anything which is such a total gentoo style mess to set up and configure has 100% no place in my life. Solaris with unsupported hardware was less hard work.. honest.
I like the looks of Moon.. shame it's a n00buntu derived thang tho. I'm getting fed up of the debian stupidity and the n00b broken dependencies for the simplest things.. If it carries on like this I'm going to go back to FreeBSD and be damned.. hehehehehe
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24. November 2009 @ 15:37 |
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I replaced moonOS with Puppy again, no reason really, that PC isn't used much so i chop and change it now and then. Would you believe i've only discovered podcasts today (how behind the times am i eh), just experimenting with scheduling downloads of the Alex Jones and Chris Moyles shows using Juice. Fantastic little program, it can live on my little netbook downloading each show unattended, like Wall-E :p
edit- i don't mean downloading Wall-E, i mean Juice is like Wall-E :)
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Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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24. November 2009 @ 18:07 |
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Try out streamtuner then as well for your background tunes.. I listen to trondheim underground .. it's great.
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My granddaughter would like to contribute some of her games on Aslan, her GNU/Linux laptop. Note that Backgammon fills the screen; but it is awarded only a small image here, because it appears to cheat when in trouble.
Specs: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (Slinky) on a Compaq Armada E500 Laptop, with an Intel Pentium III 6.8.3 (Coppermine) 497 MHz CPU, ATI 3D Rage AGP 2x GPU, 256 MB RAM, 6 whole GiB IBM Travelstar ATA/ATAPI-4 (5.7 GiB, 0.3 GiB Swap) hard drive, and CD-224E optical drive. Aslan's GNOME desktop shows the AI games Go, Backgammon, & Mah Jongg solitaire (and a calendar applet). She chose, as system defaults, the Bitstream Vera family of typefaces.
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2. December 2009 @ 15:25 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
My main Puppy Linux machine (C2D E6400 - Win7/XP/Puppy triple boot) wasn't running an SMP kernel so found a 4.2 Puppy install with kernel 2.6.29.1 included already so upgraded to that. Nice
Have been tinkering with said PC again, it's a triple boot again, now it's Win7/Puppy 4.20 SMP/Macpup Foxy 3.0 (macpup is based on Puppy 4.3.1 with kernel 2.6.30.5) as i came across Macpup on distrowatch.com a couple of days ago. Puppy linux with the Enlightenment e17 window manager (version .062) already built-in was far too tempting to resist. I have 6 workspaces (each has it's own wallpaper, not that i see them often) which is obviously like having 6 monitors. All programs have been added to the taskbar otherwise known as the 'shelf'. I used to use Enlightenment on one of my work machines, mainly as it was the most intuitive way to have obscene amounts of command line sessions running for months on end, work and scripting was a breeze this way.
This runs so well that i will end up ditching the Puppy 4.20 partition at some point, not sure what to replace it with though as i have no need to use anything else now..
edit- Got my Freeview DVB-T USB stick working, am watching Michael Caine in The Black Windmill on ITV1 ~
edit- New background for one of my 6 workspaces on this machine ~
Got the piccy from here ~ An amateur stargazer has stunned astronomers around the world with his photographs of the universe ? taken from his garden shed.
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24. January 2010 @ 15:17 |
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Updated the previous post the other day.
Main linux box has been up 5 days now, crunching thru Seti workunits (there's enough people out there doing Folding@home or whatever, i prefer to find Aliens, but to be serious i've been using Seti for 10 years now so that's what i stick to), Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome, VLC player, 2 different remote desktop programs, i can effortlessly mount any local hard drive partitions, network shares are just as easy, Amsn and Pidgin for instant messaging, Enlightenment window manager, 6 workspaces etc etc etc, i just love Puppy. Does it show ? 
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5. February 2010 @ 03:54 |
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full debian 64 .. with java working properly eventually.. but still not running the retarded new applet photobucket decided to use..
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