----- Original Message ---- From: ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:31:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?
Grumpy_Penguin wrote: > On Friday 29 December 2006 15:25, ET wrote: >> knoppix installed on the hard drive is debian... > Nothing wrong with Debian..it's just different would you want some windoze user who is attempting to try and learn linux to install debian as their first try with linux? even from knoppix... ----cjs reply---- it would be best for a first-time linux user NOT TO USE DEBIAN on there first try. i made the mistake of doing that once before... i tried installing debian on a clean hard drive and i had absolutely NO LINUX EXPERIENCE when i did. The version of debian that i tried to install was Debian i386 Codenamed woody. it had trouble detecting my hardware and would not start the X server. i had absolutely no clue what to do. Appearently my video card was having problems with the X server and that was what was causing the error to occur. I got a redhat linux book and that made absolutely no sense..i think i still have that book somewhere. it talked alot about setting up redhat and using it and so on. so i finially gave up debian and contacted a friend who referred me to Mandrake 10.1 (this was a long time ago). I still had no experience with linux. Installing mandrake was easy and mandrake worked perfectly with all of my hardware. Furthermore, the Mandrake that i was using came with KDE, so that made using linux so much easier and the X server worked! At the time i was running a 800mhz micronPC with 256mb RAM, 27gig Hard Disk, 32mb nVidia TNT2 Pro, and an Internal Sound Blaster, All the hardware in my computer worked like a charm with mandrake. And furthermore, since it had KDE installed, it made it easier for the newbie to learn how to use the linux interface. So thats why i think that mandriva is the best linux for those who know very little or have no knowledge of linux, to use ----end of reply---- -- reg. Linux User 167806 webhome http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
