On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:59:30 -0500
Eddie Arteaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I spent the last week or so installing various Linux distributions. It
> really gets frustrating trying to make it all work.
>
Yeah, it can really suck.
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> Other than that, I am able to log in and run the system. I do experience
> hangs out of nowhere. KDE just all of a sudden hangs on the newer releases.
>
Does kde die and take the os with it or does kde die and the os survives? If
it's the latter, I would suspect (and I'm reaching here a bit) that it's just
the nature of the beast. KDE2 is a developing piece of codebase. Did you have
similar probelms with kde 1.1.2, as shipped in the eDesktop distribution?
Again, IMHO, kde 1.1.2 is a superior desktop in some reguards and stability is
one of them.
> Gnome, well it does what Gnome does best, segfault all the time.
>
You gotta' love dis' shit... ;') Gnome IMHO doesn't even win a lolly pop. Some
of the applications are nice... but...
> By far the best distro I have used is Caldera 2.4. It detected sound, NIC,
> and printer all during the install. Netscape does inline video right out of
> the box on COL 2.4. On the newer releases you have to set it all up, what a
> pain.
>
BINGO. I highly suspect that 2.40 will hang around for quite sometime. Where I
work, we decided to "stay put" and only upgrade components as the need pops up.
Caldera really made a nice pie when they rolled out 2.40. Thanks, guys.
> All I know is this...I do not experience problems such as this in Windows
> 2000. I have yet to get a blue screen in Windows 2000. I know I'm gonna get
> flamed for this, cool. I use a machine to work on, real work, not sending
> e-mail or surfing pr0n.
>
Well... it happens on windows platforms too. You mentioned win2k... I don't
have any pratical experience with it... but here of late I've been working
around NT, 95 and 98 boxes and boy... are there worms in those cans. :') The
location I mentioned is a fairly large shop here in southern New Jersey and
they issued a company mandate a while back that win2k would not be used in any
parts of that facility. From the sounds of it, probably not in the coprorate
office either. Currently they're running a couple of NT servers and a mix of
win95, win98 clients and one linux client for the intranet. There's a XENIX box
that serves the point-of-sale and material tracking. It's unlikely that the
XENIX sofware will ever be ported to linux or windows... so it's not going
anywhere just yet. However, and get this... the NT intranet servers will be
replaced with Linux at mid year. Their in house IT guy is in tears. :') My take
on the whole affair is this... their inhouse testing of win2k didn't pan out
like Microsoft promised it would. That, plus the costs, the desire to break the
upgrade cycle and some nice forward thinking on managements part... Linux is
taking the role of server in what was once a windows only niche. ;') That's a
whopping change of thinking... and there's good reason for it too.
I digressed abit here... but the point is... you use the tool that fits the
need. Sometimes it's hard to decide what tools are best, but you take the time
to evaluate them none the less.
> I will keep trying to learn Linux and work with it. Maybe someday I'll take
> it serious.
>
Eddy, if you can keep an open mind, spend as much time learning linux as you
did learning dos/windows... I'd be willing to bet that you'll end up having a
much better appreciation for Linux. It's a lot more than you presently think of
it. Trust me.
Cheers, Eddy. Have a good one.
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