Re: Mandrake 10 Linux ROCKS!!!!!
From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_aurigae.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 05/07/04
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 00:00:10 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tippy Stenstrude
<tippy_stenstrude@yahoo.com>
wrote
on 6 May 2004 11:08:34 -0700
<a2795c7d.0405061008.3562144@posting.google.com>:
Hmmm..."Tippy Stenstrude". I don't see the pun but it's
gotta be something stupid, like Jig Olo or E. Normous Johnson.
Maybe in Swedish. Too bad I don't know Swedish. And why is this
cross-posted to aows-xp and aolg? Followups redirected.
> Mandrake 10 totally rocks!
> This is my first experience with Linux and I can't believe I've waited
> this long to free myself from unstable Windows XP.
Unstable? Windows XP is the epitome of stability. Why, just
the other month someone was commenting on crazy uptimes of
three months therewith. That's very impressive.
(For Windows.)
>
> It took about 1 hour to install Mandrake 10 on a Dell PiV system
Slowpoke. Must have been a *very* old CD drive. :-)
> and everything went ok but for some reason my Windows software won't
> boot anymore. Not really a problem though because I won't be using
> Windows anymore as soon as I call AOL and find out how to use AOL
> with Linux.
Somebody didn't follow the directions. Windows has a nasty
habit of wiping boot blocks but Linux will just as easily
return the favor -- the catch is that most partitioning
software will at least notice that there's a Windows partition
and attempt to preserve it. So Windows is still there; it just
needs to be "re-activated". You might even have a chain block
in /boot for it (an artifact of the first run of /sbin/lilo
or grub-install).
As for AOL -- there used to be a method by which one can
dial into AOL and hook into their TCP stack. Since I don't
use AOL I forget the details.
>
> I wasn't able to get on the internet because I don't think my Cisco
> router is supported.
Your Cisco router isn't even on your box. Douy....
> Not a problem because as I understand it, Cisco makes terrible
> products anyway.
Sure they do. That's why they're now the biggest routing
company in the world...
> I went out and purchased a Linksys BEFR41 and now I am on the
> internet.
> I'm going to ebay the Cisco.
Good luck.
>
> At first my HP printer didn't work but after looking on the internet
> using my business account because AOL doesn't work yet, I finally
> found out that I had to edit a CUPS file and then it works but only in
> black and white. I think I need to investigate this a little more, but
> I don't print in color much anyway.
Nice. Of course without a little more data I can't help you much;
*I* have an HP printer (a 5CL) and it doesn't do color *at all*.
Works fine in Debian, though. At some point I'll have to build
my PP200 using Gentoo and see how far I can get with remote
printing. I don't anticipate major problems but Gentoo does
like to throw curveballs now and again. :-)
>
> I wasn't getting any sound so I disabled the onboard sound and
> purchased a Soundblaster card for $69.99 and now I have sound.
> Mandrake recognized the card with Drake and it worked tight away.
> Onboard sound always sucked anyway.
Oh, *that's* specific. I don't suppose you investigated the
ALSA project at all, or even have a clue as to what brand
of onboard sound you have? Not that motherboard soundcards
are all that hot anyway -- although it's nice when they work
for the simple stuff.
As it is, you paid more for that SB than I did for my video card.
Gyp city, man.
>
> My video looks great but I could only get 640x480 and 16 colors so it
> was back to Fry's to get a new Nvidea card. I disabled the ATI onboard
> video and installed the card and now I get 1024x768 16bpp so I am
> happy.
Really?
I hope you didn't pay much for that card. I just bought an ATI Radeon 9000
for $59.99 and get 1280x1024x24bpp + GL. 640x480x16 went out with VGA.
>
> Mandrake is FAST as greased pigs in a circus!
> I'm having a little trouble with certain web pages but it's most
> likely my compyle what needs to be fixed.
Your who? Mandrake is a precompiled distro.
>
> Can I make copies of these Mandrake CD's because I want to give them
> out to my friends so they don't have to be stuck with shitty Windows
> XP anymore.
Read the license. It's quite specific. I'd be very very careful if
I were you.
> Tippy Stenstrude
-- #191, ewill3@earthlink.net It's still legal to go .sigless.
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