What's Your Flavor?

[BigBadBlazer]

Is there any Linux users out there? If so, what is your favorite distro? I myself like Mepis & SuSe....I'm running Mepis on the machine that I'm on right now, and I have SuSe running on another. I like the " goodies " that are included in the Mepis Distro, but, after doing a " upgrade " I've had a few issues....like with the space-bar on the key board not responding unless I do a reboot, and depending what kernal I boot, sometimes the screen will freeze, then have like a " rainbow " effect, then go blank.....but that's very rare now. The only issue I've had wit SuSe is everytime I boot the machine into Linux, I have to reconfigure the sound card....it's not saving the configuration for some reason.
Other than those minor issues, I'm now a Linux addict, from XP. I no longer have spyware, adware, pop-up/unders.....and can do anything in Linux that I could with Windoze plus more....

[BigBadBlazer]

Does anyone know of any WiFi hotspots in the C.P. Merrillville area? (Free) I know of the Pay ones already. Was just wondering if anyone might be hosting freebies.....doubtful, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

[bull dog]

Does anyone know of any WiFi hotspots in the C.P. Merrillville area? (Free) I know of the Pay ones already. Was just wondering if anyone might be hosting freebies.....doubtful, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

The pop culture coffee shop 1/2 block north of the square on main street in Crown Point. Also soon the city is planning on making the whole CP downtown a wi-fi free zone soon.

[steve1234567890]

Suse 9.1 is nice... I've got that on a dell system. I'm currently looking into some mac distrobutions to try out at work.

[tomskag]

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[steve1234567890]

suse has a nice live dvd that allows you to try it out without installing it on your computer. Nice way to test it if your not sure if your hardware is supported.

[tomskag]

meh, ill wing it.

[steve1234567890]

Alright but I have a laptop that I decided to wing it with and the video card wasn't supported (didn't bother to even look into that before I installed) and I get nothing on the screen. The live dvd works just like it was installed on your computer (its a bootable dvd and some offer cds) but if you want to risk it ok.

Although if you have name brand hardware you shouldn't have much of a problem.

[tomskag]

im gonna put it onto a ipod.
it will let me use the original os , so i can switch between the two.

[steve1234567890]

oh ok... I saw some stuff on that. Looked interesting. Limited functions but looked interesting.

[tomskag]

mainly i want to be able to tranfer songs from ipod to ipod,

the audio out has capabilities to reseive aswell to send sound, so all i have to do it hook thw two together with that audio cable

[Black Mamba]

I tried linux and didn't really get it. It didn't seem to offer anything that windows or Mac offer.

[JD]

I tried linux and didn't really get it. It didn't seem to offer anything that windows or Mac offer.

It offers plenty that winstink doesn't. Primarily money in your pocket.

I use Mepis, Fedora Core 2 ... and a few other flavors, but Mepis seems to be a pretty solid build.

I also run Win XP Pro and Win 2k Pro but that's mainly to stay current on them for tech support and for graphics ( I'm still hopeful that the software will lovingly embrace the linux platform ).

JD - thought he'd toss his 2 cents in

[JD]

... updated FC2 to FC4 this evening.

Smooth as silk.

JD - the one what figured he should update at some point.

[tomskag]

soooo its been sooo long




but i did wing it, now im running latest ubuntu (gutsy)


and i love it oh sooo much
no crashes, its amazing

only problem is that i dont have agood 3d driver for my graphics card.