Pierce Ward wrote:
I'm pretty sure sure you mean "emerge -u world", not emerge world. Quite a difference heh ;)
yeah sorry, off on a rant... not looking at what i was typing :-)
On 8/30/05, *Rachael Russell* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:Josh Coffman wrote: > Let me say first, I like Fedora if only for the fact >I've learned a lot getting it working on my laptop. > > I'd like a distro that will run well on my hp z5440 >laptop, and is easy to update, and makes a good >desktop for non-techies. This weekend I went to >moviefone.com <http://moviefone.com> to check previews for some movies and it >wouldn't play any even though I have the mplayer >plugin installed in firefox. I don't mind solving >problems; actually I kinda like it. I just want to do >it all the time. > > I'm thinking of Mepis or Ubuntu or OpenSuSe. >Whichever I choose for the laptop may end up going on >the desktop also. Any opinions? > >-j > > Gentoo Gentoo Gentoo!! I knew a bit about linux before installing gentoo on my nx9105, but now I'm happy compiling kernels and tweaking networking etc by hand which I would never have been happy doing - had the laptop up and running within a day, with a custom kernel compiled, and no rubbish packages... just the ones I actually wanted (Had used mandrake 10 (? about 2 years ago...) previously, which just filled up with stacks of software I never used, and the package manager was always causing trouble).. we now have gentoo on a athlon XP laptop, a dell intel laptop, and an amd 64 shuttle box (file/webserver), and all three are running like a dream. Portage (the 'package management' system) is really really easy to get the latest version/rollback/remove a piece of software (as long as an ebuild exists in the portage tree - about 99% of packages I've ever needed have been supported), and the ability to do a 'world' update with all dependancies sorted out is fab. to install a 'package' is as easy as: emerge mozilla-firefox to update the entire system is as easy as emerge world Everything is built from source against your own system configuration - ie dont want KDE support? Then dont add it to your use flags, and you dont get all the KDE extensions compiled in... Documentation is fab also, and have seen a few other people on this list running Gentoo also so should be a bit of help here for anything specific to these laptops. Just my $0.02 worth... :-) cheers Rach _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
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