Linux is such an excellent operating system!
I especially like having my choice of window manager.
Right now, I am running FVWM.
What do you like or dislike about Linux?
PS : who wants software mixing? it's made of lose and fail, etc.
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Anonymous2006-08-08 6:23
>>40
WTF!? Are you using some gay audio setup? Seriously, people that use crappy Linux vendors such as Red Hate, Debain, etc. really shouldn't be using Linux in the first place.
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Anonymous2006-08-08 11:32
>>43
>>Seriously, people that use crappy Linux vendors such as Red Hate, Debain, etc. really shouldn't be using Linux in the first place.
What does that have to do with sound mixing done in software?
By the way, do you know of a guide or something that will help me get a non-gay audio setup?
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Anonymous2006-08-08 12:41
>>44
*YOU* shouldn't have to set audio up, that's what suck with most distributions. Just install some real distribution like Gentoo or Arch Linux... you'll probably have to fix sound yourself, but at least there'll be some good official documentation for it.
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Anonymous2006-08-08 12:48
What linux are CTU using in 24?
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Anonymous2006-08-08 15:59
I use ALSA mixer in FreeBSD.
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Anonymous2006-08-08 21:09
NetBSD gets my soundcards right every time I install it, but I usually stick with older soundblaster cards. One guy complained about LFS and threads. I think that was posted before 2.0 though, and I suspect the threads situation has improved.
At any rate, I'm not noticing much problems when I run it.
I use NetBSD as my other desktop (with gnome 2.14 out of pkgsrc). Instead of using LFS, I use softdeps (which is o,n bsd's answer to journalling). The only real performance qualms I have is that copying large (>4g) seems to choke up linux, which is one of the reasons I use NetBSD.
That, plus the fact that the 2.6 tree is made of instability and (frequent) fail.
I like NetBSD because you can strip it down to be as simple as you want, or as complex. You can do the same thing with various Linux distros; but BSD gives you a solid, unified built-together base whereas Linux gives you a kernel and a bunch of seperately developed projects.
What I like boils down to 'variety', though; when I'm in a cli mood BSD is always there; when I'm in a gui mood, I go back to 2000.
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Anonymous2006-08-08 21:43
What the fuck? I encourage everyone to read the old part of this thread. It is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than the /comp/ we know today. Long, well thought out posts carrying out a serious discussion of a topic, with no spam until it was bumped into the troll works of modern times. I couldn't believe it.
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!KnxLBvYZfw2006-08-08 21:54
Re: something early in the thread.
I find that Linux's dirver support is actually better than Windows' now, just install and everything's in the kernel modules... no having to go browse dodgy 3rd-party websites for an updated driver.
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Anonymous2006-08-09 4:01
I find that Linux's dirver support is actually better than Windows' now...
Bahahahahahahaha
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Anonymous2006-08-09 5:43
To be fair, you can find better drivers in linux on occasion. For example, I'm using linuxant drivers for a fax/modem that's only a shitty modem under windows. Also, sane can run an old parallel-port scanner whose windows drivers can only run on Win9*.
Having said that, my 3D card still doesn't work properly with X.
My laptop came with:
- cd for DVD drivers
- cd for mobo drivers
- cd for 7-in-one card reader
- cd for hotkeys and other misc crap
- cd for usb camera
The manual warned me that if I installed them in the wrong order I'd have to reinstall Windows and start over. The manual has more than 30 pages on installing the drivers. After I installed these I'd have to head to the Nvidia website to get video drivers.
I installed Ubuntu 6.06 and everything worked right out of the box. I plug in a memory stick into any of the holes and it pops up instantly. The only thing I needed to do manually was install the Nvidia drivers, and that was accomplished through the provided GUI.
How is the first situation better than the latter?
Our young and inexperienced selves. How much I have grown up in these two years...
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Anonymous2006-08-09 14:52
>>51
no seriously it is. Have you ever heard of RAID? Case in point.
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Hexinet2006-08-10 1:07
I need to know if smoothwall linux supports multiple WAN interfaces... or if any Linux NOS does? It doesn't have to be dynamic load balancing, just general port/ip forwarding rules to assign different computers/types of traffic on one WAN interface or another. Any info is helpful, as I am a Linux/networking ch00b.
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Anonymous2006-08-10 1:42
>>53
My Windows laptop came with everything pre-installed -- including the drivers.
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Anonymous2006-08-10 4:27
>>57
you can pretty much do anything you want with iptables
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Anonymous2006-08-10 15:29
Two n00b questions:
1) I have a more or less dying hard drive. Should I install Linux on it, just to test it out?
2) When booting, can I force the boot manager to make windows the primary OS?
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Anonymous2006-08-11 3:34
Yes, yes.
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Anonymous2007-10-04 20:21
Black people, fuck yeah.
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Anonymous2008-07-13 3:56
you should install Opera to test your hard drive because it is more stable and uses less RAM
HELP:(this is very annoying) trying to install absolute linux i get to the part with the penguin at the top and then for less than a sec it says to wait 10 secs for a completion message which after waiting an hour doesnt come