Comments on: Untitled (Self-Portrait) http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/ "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."-- Gustave Flaubert Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: paul http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/comment-page-1/#comment-354910 paul Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:38:22 +0000 http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/#comment-354910 I was actually working on the same computer as last week (2.x GHz Athlon, circa 2004) earlier today and downloaded a linux from scratch live CD to see what was what. It wasn't so much impressive as unremarkable how it just did what I asked. It booted, got a network address, loaded a nice looking X desktop with the usual apps (Seamonkey, etc.). Back in XP, things were slightly better afterward, as if the Linux exercise had blown some dust out or something. I think I'm going with FreeBSD 7 for my experiments going forward. I want to see zfs in action and familiarity is hard to argue against. I haven't tried a Knoppix CD (I didn't see one I could easily get when I looked today). I was actually working on the same computer as last week (2.x GHz Athlon, circa 2004) earlier today and downloaded a linux from scratch live CD to see what was what. It wasn’t so much impressive as unremarkable how it just did what I asked. It booted, got a network address, loaded a nice looking X desktop with the usual apps (Seamonkey, etc.). Back in XP, things were slightly better afterward, as if the Linux exercise had blown some dust out or something.

I think I’m going with FreeBSD 7 for my experiments going forward. I want to see zfs in action and familiarity is hard to argue against. I haven’t tried a Knoppix CD (I didn’t see one I could easily get when I looked today).

]]> By: Arthur http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/comment-page-1/#comment-354903 Arthur Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:26:44 +0000 http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/#comment-354903 <em>What other distro can you recommend?</em> Back to the basics? Debian (Try Sarge: I'm [still] extremely skeptic of Etch). Fedora? Before I try to install Sarge, I generally load Knoppix first to get an impression of the speed of the computer. I remember being wowed after installing a full-blown Debian Sarge (KDE 2) on several P-III computer. What other distro can you recommend?

Back to the basics? Debian (Try Sarge: I’m [still] extremely skeptic of Etch). Fedora? Before I try to install Sarge, I generally load Knoppix first to get an impression of the speed of the computer. I remember being wowed after installing a full-blown Debian Sarge (KDE 2) on several P-III computer.

]]> By: paul http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/comment-page-1/#comment-354595 paul Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:42:38 +0000 http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/#comment-354595 I was really surprised at how craptacular this was. The X server was annoying, but the fact that the desktop version wouldn't even boot a ThinkPad was hard to take. I didn't even get to the X server. As I say, RedHat and Mandrake had this worked out in 1998 or earlier. X is something I could probably have worked through, but I stopped worrying about it when I realized I had the server version installed. And it's not like I have found an XF86 config that work on my FreeBSD system and the flat-panel display it came with. I don't need it to display on localhost, so it's no big deal. A laptop, however . . . . What other distro can you recommend? My initial reason to try linux was for the perceived better hardware support. But, you know, wow. This really makes me think a little more about my reasoning there. I was really surprised at how craptacular this was. The X server was annoying, but the fact that the desktop version wouldn’t even boot a ThinkPad was hard to take. I didn’t even get to the X server. As I say, RedHat and Mandrake had this worked out in 1998 or earlier.

X is something I could probably have worked through, but I stopped worrying about it when I realized I had the server version installed. And it’s not like I have found an XF86 config that work on my FreeBSD system and the flat-panel display it came with. I don’t need it to display on localhost, so it’s no big deal. A laptop, however . . . .

What other distro can you recommend? My initial reason to try linux was for the perceived better hardware support. But, you know, wow. This really makes me think a little more about my reasoning there.

]]> By: Arthur http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/comment-page-1/#comment-354577 Arthur Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:40:51 +0000 http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/2009/06/15/untitled-self-portrait/#comment-354577 Uh oh. Not that I'm an Ubuntu fanbo1Z, but I'm slightly surprised to see Ubuntu not work for you. Where'd go wrong? X-Server? Uh oh. Not that I’m an Ubuntu fanbo1Z, but I’m slightly surprised to see Ubuntu not work for you. Where’d go wrong? X-Server?

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