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From: Daze N. Knights on 26 Aug 2006 22:36 Mark Warner wrote: > Daze N. Knights wrote: >> >> KDE? =Knoppix? > > No. KDE is the window manager; e.g. the GUI interface and all the basic > programs and utilities that come with it. Gnome is the other big name. > > Knoppix is a live CD packge based on Debian that uses Gnome. The name is > a play on the author's name, Klaus Knopper. > > Are you confused yet? :-) > What, *me* confused? ;-) BTW: I just briefly tried out the LiveZen, and found it less instantly intriguing than PClinuxOS. First, it kept sticking in different places while loading and I had to reboot 4 times before I got to the desktop. Then I found myself not so crazy about it . . . -- Daze
From: Al Smith on 26 Aug 2006 23:22 >>>> Things working in linux and beauty are things that linux lacked (without geeking around for several hours)... But this is history. PClinuxOS is here......! >>> >>> Gosh it works like a real OS! Whoope-do! >>> >>> Just spend the 90 bucks to buy WinXP and be done with it. >>> It works too! :-) >> >> >> Why spend the $90(?) when you can get a "real OS" for free? >> > > Just downloaded and did a (very) quick test drive on the PClinuxOS 0.93a Live, and was, at least initially, rather impressed. A little slow, but that's probably cuz it's running from CD. And none of these live distros I've tried so far have been able to recognize my ol' HP Deskjet 950C . . . is that par for the course? I just did the same thing. It recognized everything, even my sound card.
From: Al Smith on 26 Aug 2006 23:26 >>Yes, it is very nice. As you said, multimedia "just works". I >>> can't testify it to it personally, but reports are that this >>> distro has hands down the best wireless support out there, >>> making it ideal for laptops. >>> >>> I normally prefer Debian-based distros, but I make a big >>> exception in this case. Highly recommended. > > > A sort of by-the-by story. > > I tried a suse distro, then ubuntu with all the noise when it came > out. Was impressed with ubuntu, and played around/explored it a > bit. I changed the default boot to Windows (work reasons), but the > dual-boot thing worked fine. At first. > > An update for ubuntu came through, which I downloaded; rebooted; > and found it had wiped Windows from the boot loader. Not just > shuffled it down the list or de-defaulted it -- *wiped* it. I had > to find out how to restore the Windows boot (which of course wiped > ubuntu off the boot sequence.) > > It was not only annying, but I lost a few hours' work on the work > partition running Windows -- this ain't just a plaything -- while I > worked out how to get back to my files and workaday programs. > > Once bitten and all that; I'm now very wary of dual-booting of > linux distros. If I decide to give linux another go, it'll have to > be on a separate machine. > > -- Cheers, Harvey Your problem must be very common. I've had the same thing happen. Once Linux screws up your computer so that you can no longer boot Windows, you find yourself wishing you'd never tried it. One thing Linux really needs badly is a one-button uninstall that will restore the Windows boot loader to its original state. That would encourage many more people to try it, although it wouldn't help if Linux simply screwed up so badly it would no longer boot. I haven't given up on Linux, but I am wary about trying it on my work computer. I play with it on an older computer, and sometimes try a live CD on the word computer.
From: Al Smith on 26 Aug 2006 23:30 >>Try the new Freespire. It's the freeware version of Linspire. > > > Where did you get it from Al, the main link has been "Coming Soon" for > a long while. > http://www.freespire.com/ > > Thanks, John. > Got Freespire from one of these download sites. University of Indiana, I think I used. http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Download_Freespire I like it quite a bit. Somehow it feels smoother than any other distro I've tried, maybe because it is set up to respond more like Windows. Not all joy in Mudville, however -- my sound works, but it is somewhat broken. Probably a simple fix.
From: »Q« on 26 Aug 2006 23:47
Al Smith <invalid(a)address.com> wrote in <news:zh8Ig.16957$395.1533(a)edtnps90>: > Your problem must be very common. I've had the same thing happen. > Once Linux screws up your computer so that you can no longer boot > Windows, you find yourself wishing you'd never tried it. Windows is very unfriendly to dual-booting. People who aren't completely comfortable with managing partitions and bootloaders should image their drives before trying to set up another OS on the same machine, IMO. -- ?Q? |