1. Sunday's The Day
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Okay, I'm going to go out and buy a new PC on Sunday, December 22, 2002, and
I'm going to put a Linux distro on it... So... I know you hate me asking,
but...
Which Linux distribution should I get?!
:)
-ck
P.S. Let me rephrase... I'm FIRST going to choose a Linux distro, THEN I'm
going to buy the hardware for it... Compatibility's sake, ya know. ;)
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2. Re: Sunday's The Day
>From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Sunday's The Day
>
>
>Okay, I'm going to go out and buy a new PC on Sunday, December 22, 2002,
>and
>I'm going to put a Linux distro on it... So... I know you hate me asking,
>but...
>
>Which Linux distribution should I get?!
If you really are going to let the kids play on it, like you said on IRC,
I recommend you get an NVIDIA graphics card and then install NVIDIA's
drivers. They're hardware-accelerated and are great even with my fairly old
TNT2.
As for distributions, I know a few people here use Mandrake.
>:)
>
>-ck
>
>P.S. Let me rephrase... I'm FIRST going to choose a Linux distro, THEN I'm
>going to buy the hardware for it... Compatibility's sake, ya know. ;)
>
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3. Re: Sunday's The Day
- Posted by rubis at fem.unicamp.br
Dec 21, 2002
I have tried recently this distros:
Mandrake 9
Red Hat 8
Peanutlinux
Knoppix (runs on cd and ramdisk)
My opinion:
Knoppix it's nice to test the compatibility of a computer with linux,
without changing any byte in the hd. You can in 5 minutes set up a apache
web server in a computer, for example.
Mandrake - easy to use, easy to install, automount your partitions to acess
window files. Few programas. Smaller then Red HAT.
RED HAT - I have some problems with boot after instalation but after some
reinstalations (3 !) I could solve them. Has more programs than mandrake,
but I have a lot of problems instaling new packages....
The EE editor, for example, did not work.
Pealinux - I cannot enter in X after installation. Could only work in text
mode. Very small. Basic iso 300mb.
Rubens
At 02:28 21/12/2002, you wrote:
>and I'm going to put a Linux distro on it... So... I know you hate me
>asking, but...
>
>Which Linux distribution should I get?!
>
>:)
>
>-ck
>
>P.S. Let me rephrase... I'm FIRST going to choose a Linux distro, THEN I'm
>going to buy the hardware for it... Compatibility's sake, ya know. ;)
>
>
>
>
4. Re: Sunday's The Day
- Posted by xanax at bellsouth.net
Dec 22, 2002
If its not too late, I would suggest that you get an IBM
machine with RedHat linux pre-installed. IBM and
RedHat are now partners and, you know that everyone
bases and looks out for changes that BIG BLUE makes.
If you want compatability USE IBM and RedHat...
I would also shoot for a totally upgradable IBM machine.
My 0.02
Xanax
5. Re: Sunday's The Day
C. K.Lester wrote:
> If OSX is based on FreeBSD, does it really need a "port," since=20
> EU works in FreeBSD already?
OSX is running on Power PCs, so it isn't running on x86 hardware. As far =
as I=20
know, Euphoria only runs on x86 mahcines.
-- David Cuny
6. Re: Sunday's The Day
On 22 Dec 2002, at 10:58, David Cuny wrote:
>
> C. K.Lester wrote:
>
> > If OSX is based on FreeBSD, does it really need a "port," since
> > EU works in FreeBSD already?
>
> OSX is running on Power PCs, so it isn't running on x86 hardware. As far as I
> know, Euphoria only runs on x86 mahcines.
But if the C code is dropped onto an Apple, with a C compiler for Apple,
wouldn't it therefore compile 68000 (or whichever) machine code?
Kat
7. Re: Sunday's The Day
- Posted by xanax at bellsouth.net
Dec 22, 2002
Well, you wont get a new IBM cheap...
Ive built 100's of machines for people (in the past)
and you really cant beat an IBM...instead of the hasle
of going back to my supplier with bad parts that made
me look foolish (not to mention loose business) I now only
recommend IBM because you know they'll always be
an IBM for support. +plus you will be hard to find any
other company to support their machines like IBM will.
8. Re: Sunday's The Day
- Posted by xanax at bellsouth.net
Dec 22, 2002
Thats why they have IBM business partners...
Local shops with IBM trained techs to offer
not only support but hard/soft wares managment.
Xanax
----- Original Message -----
From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: RE: Sunday's The Day
:
: > Well, you wont get a new IBM cheap...
:
: i have always bought from a local generic builder (often right down the
: street). that way, service is just down the street, as opposed to having to
: ship the PC off for maintenance. plus, they all offer 3-year warranties...
: i've never had a problem with a local vendor.
:
:
9. Re: Sunday's The Day
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:53:29AM -0600, C. K. Lester wrote:
>
> Ron,
>
> > And then there is also the Macintosh connection. FreeBSD was used as a
> > base for OSX. In effect, OSX is FreeBSD with the Mac GUI built on top.
> > For my money, that's the ultimate in stability and convenience of use.
> > The only drawback with OSX is that Euphoria isn't officially supported
> > (or even ported to my knowledge) yet.
>
> If OSX is based on FreeBSD, does it really need a "port," since EU works in
> FreeBSD already?
>
It might, if you wanted it to use the native Mac features of OSX.
But I thought OSX was based on the mach microkernel, and not
FreeBSD.
jbrown
>
>
10. Re: Sunday's The Day
- Posted by munchr at mac.com
Dec 23, 2002
You are both somewhat correct. Darwin, the base system of OS X, is
comprised of a custom FreeBSD 4.4 kernel running on top of a Mach 3
microkernel. Aqua, OS X's GUI, runs on top. Darwin itself is available
for x86 class machines, so I imagine a port of Euphoria to Darwin would
not be to difficult. I have not seen the source, so I don't know what would
be involved in an attempt to port to the PPC Darwin.
James Powell
At 05:45 PM 22/12/2002 -0500, jbrown wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:53:29AM -0600, C. K. Lester wrote:
> >
> > Ron,
> >
> > > And then there is also the Macintosh connection. FreeBSD was used as a
> > > base for OSX. In effect, OSX is FreeBSD with the Mac GUI built on top.
> > > For my money, that's the ultimate in stability and convenience of use.
> > > The only drawback with OSX is that Euphoria isn't officially supported
> > > (or even ported to my knowledge) yet.
> >
> > If OSX is based on FreeBSD, does it really need a "port," since EU works in
> > FreeBSD already?
> >
>
>It might, if you wanted it to use the native Mac features of OSX.
>
>But I thought OSX was based on the mach microkernel, and not
>FreeBSD.
>
>jbrown
>
> >
>
>
