On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:05:16 -0800 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 21:36:55 -0800 > Mike Mckinlay <mike@CX43837-A> wrote: > > > Folks: > > I hate sound like a newbie but, after hearing about Elx linux in a > couple > of posts to the list I cruzed over to their web site to look> them over and > decided to give their latest beta release a spin and all I> can say is WOW!> > > Elx is good. A problem I've had is with supermount, which was causing > excessive delays while searching for media in cd's and mounting file > systems. So I change my /etc/fstab file to a conventional mount point for> the cd's and floppy, which fixed that problem. > > The Samba networking works well with my win95 box. The eth0 setup was a> breeze, and the scsi emulation for my cd's works well, just added appends> to lilo.conf. > > I'd like a few more window managers included, (just kde and gnome). And I> don't like the windows like addons (network neighborhood, control panel)> which are repackaged webmin utilities. But overall I'm impressed. It works> and it's quite fast on my Athlon 1.4. They use kernel 2.4.13. Kylix2 runs> well. > > I had a problem with permissions for cd sound, but added my user to the> disk group and fixed that. (Also changed permissions to 666 on /dev/dsp,> don't know if that was necessary) Anyway it works. > > It's a bit large at 3+ megs for full install.
Yep, it's great, and David Bandel appears to be the only one I've heard of who can't get it to run; surely he's not the only Athlon user. ELX is gathering momentum. I just read in an article on the Elx home page today "We have a record that out of more than 40 thousand ELX users world wide, there is not even a single after-install crash problem reported so far...The current release of ELX (prel/rc2E) has no known bugs." That's a pretty impressive user count for a new distro. I've just completed moving my wife and daughter back to my K6/II 300 machine which has Win98 (it works) and blown away WinME (locked up continually) on the HP PIV/900 box. I've just reinstalled my ELX rc1 isos including the option to write to the mbr, and it works like a champ - everything operational except sound, and that's primarily a KDE problem, although the usual lack of permissionos on /dev/dsp didn't help. <rant> Why does every distro feel the need to secure secure the sound card! I don't really think the script kiddies are going to write .wav files to my sound card. </rant> Now that I've put xfce and sylpheed back on the box, all I need to do is prune the forest of daemons again and put up a current kernel. Someone mentioned problems with letting ELX write to the MBR, but on this box even the ide-scsi append statement for my CD_R W was generated correctly. Normally I don't do that anyway, but this box was empty, so no harm done. ELX even properly detected and setup my brandx ethernet card (installed by ATT way back when) and didn't get tangled up by the presence of a second ethernet card in the box. Yes, the KDE menu is a little strange, but new-to-linux users wouldn't have a clue about this, so it's a big deal. I like having both kde and gnome available, for once in a blue moon. If they just included xfce and sylpheed, it would be perfect our of the box. Actually, with gnome its more than once in a blue moon, since I'm a died-in-the-wool galeon fan. Oh yes, CUPS and my printer (laserjet) are working just fine. I did have to do a little tinkering with my Intel I810 video card, but even this worked out of the install. So, another successful ELX install - just plain boring. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area ELX-rc1 with xfce and sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
