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Post by mikkh on Dec 1, 2009 19:20:26 GMT
Yup, I hear you brother - I've trashed a few hard drives during my early trials with Linux.
I did go a bit mad trying everything at one stage though, and remember installing five (or was it six) different ones in a day once - the joys of rewritable CD's !
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Post by Pete on Dec 4, 2009 12:58:37 GMT
Still using my linux, and it is running okay. I have my laptop on windows xp, so can use for graphics.
Thanks all your help.
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Post by mikeyuk on Dec 6, 2009 23:38:27 GMT
I burnt Linux Mint 8 ISO to the CD using InfraRecorder. A few days later I inserted the CD into the computer, with Windows XP running, and noticed that there is no Mint4Win (WUBI) on the CD. Have Linux Mint discontinued WUBI?
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Post by mikkh on Dec 6, 2009 23:54:11 GMT
Yes, unfortunately they have - although with it now installed, maybe that's fortunately. It's not compatible with Grub2 apparently
Ubuntu has too many minor and major annoyances for me, which means me liking Mint is a testament to how much work and effort they've put into it.
I was using it earlier today and thought to myself wow, is this really Ubuntu based - it's just so much better
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Post by mikkh on Dec 28, 2009 9:46:37 GMT
As the year draws to a close, there's been a few goodies just recently
Parsix and Mepis are two decent alternatives to the Ubuntu hype wagon, with Parsix just the better of the two IMO. Striking default theme and it just feels so much better and faster than Ubuntu/Mint.
A friend of mine recommended Fedora Omega (Fedora for the rest of us according to the developers) Fedora has always been solid being based on the industry standard Red Hat, but is held back by not providing adequate multimedia support. Omega tries to redress that balance and mostly succeeds. Worth a look at if you want a change from the Debian based distros.
Top newcomer of the month for me though is Salix. It's a Slackware derivative like Vector and Zenwalk and I must admit I was uneasy about trying it because I'd never seen a previous version and was skeptical about it being anything special compared to Vector etc.
Turns out to be a very pleasant surprise, with an easy one click installation of multimedia codecs - once you've got it installed that is. It's not aimed at beginners, so there's no live option and you have to take a leap of faith and install it to see it.
It's more or less a standard Slackware install which might confuse Linux newbies, but I found it simple and straightforward having used Slackware based distros before. It strays away from the more usual Gnome and KDE desktops and uses the much lighter XFCE one, which I like anyway. If you know your SDA1 from your SDA5, you'll have no trouble either and be rewarded by a very quick OS that runs like a dream on modern hardware and should be suitable for older relics you may have lying around too
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