Re: Euphoria and BeOs!
Daniel Bernstein wrote:
>I must tell everybody that BeOs is really great. It's the perfect mix
>of MacOs and Linux (well, I have never used MacOs, but it "feels" what
>I expect of a Mac). If runs very smooth. In fact, 5 minutes after
>installing I was browsing the net with the included browser
>(NetPositive), configuring the webserver, and the ftp & telnet daemons.
>I dual boot to NT and can access FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions too!
I installed Linux-Mandrake today, and have spent most of my time trying to
get the devices to work. I also had a bit of trouble with partitioning the
disk (even though I had done it before), and found out that my built-in
video and sound cards were not supported, leaving me with a VGA desktop with
applications sized for SVGA. Ick! I went through xf86config so many times
I'll have nightmares about it.
I ended up pulling my old video and soundcards out of storage and now almost
everything is up and running - Iexcept for the modem, and can't find a lick
of documentation on how install it. So I'm back on Win95 to browse the
internet for help.
Linux-Mandrake is a mix of Red Hat and the K Desktop (KDE). It's got KDE
pre-loaded, so you don't have to mess with finding, downloading and
installing the RPMs. The down side is that it still has the standard Linux
install. I have higher hopes for Easy Linux, which is in beta right now.
My biggest complaint thus far is the lack of integration in the control
panel. For example, although you can see the sound setup in the KDE setup
panel, you still have to use sndconfig (or whatever) to install. Same thing
with the video properties. It would certainly have made my life a lot easier
if these things had been part of the control panel, instead of having to
search through the help files for a clue...
But for $10 (including shipping) the price was certainly right. KDE is
zillions of times better than plain X or XFree, but still not as smooth as
Windows. A copy of the GNOME window manager is also installed, and I'd like
to give that a whirl. Unlike my prior install of Linux, I don't hate this
one so much I want to remove it immediately from my machine. Hopefully,
things will get better as the hardware starts behaving.
-- David Cuny
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