Linux - A thing of wonder

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

Wow, nice going linux, now I understand why you are so popular with people that require stable and reliable systems.

I'm going to celebrate this happiest of occasions with simply giving up on you forever. You will never again break my laptop (first it was Suse that broke a large portion of my paimary disc which I have yet to be able to recover and now Knoppix decides to hang every time I boot from the CD.

And I've apparently just wasted £35 on a ****ing linux book.

*******!

*screams*
*gnashing of teeth*

*no beer left...cries*

:cry:

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Originally Posted by wossname

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

Wow, nice going linux, now I understand why you are so popular with people that require stable and reliable systems.

I'm going to celebrate this happiest of occasions with simply giving up on you forever. You will never again break my laptop (first it was Suse that broke a large portion of my paimary disc which I have yet to be able to recover and now Knoppix decides to hang every time I boot from the CD.

And I've apparently just wasted £35 on a ****ing linux book.

*******!

*screams*
*gnashing of teeth*

*no beer left...cries*

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Wossy, you are my sunshine. My only sunshine.

n00b.



Sorry... just had to :)

my sympathies...

Open the box up, take out the bios and scratch off the really small print that says linux, it will remove it from your system

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Originally Posted by wossname

*no beer left...cries*

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Figure out a way to transfer alcohol via tcp or ftp and I'll hook you up! :thumb:

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Originally Posted by wossname

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

Wow, nice going linux, now I understand why you are so popular with people that require stable and reliable systems.

I'm going to celebrate this happiest of occasions with simply giving up on you forever. You will never again break my laptop (first it was Suse that broke a large portion of my paimary disc which I have yet to be able to recover and now Knoppix decides to hang every time I boot from the CD.

And I've apparently just wasted £35 on a ****ing linux book.

*******!

*screams*
*gnashing of teeth*

*no beer left...cries*

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Knoppix doesn't work on laptops from the 60's :lol:

I told you to download the virtual machine; installing linux on a laptop can be a pain in the arse especially for beginners. Stop being a whimp.

Hahahha...what did I tell you. HAhaha...I will laugh at you for ever now...;)

Thats fair I suppose, I've been laughing at you for months.

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Originally Posted by visualAd

I told you to download the virtual machine; installing linux on a laptop can be a pain in the arse especially for beginners. Stop being a whimp.

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Virtual machines, PHP, javascript, web development, wow you really are living dangerously arent you.

I had a brief brush with Linux back in the late nineties. After a couple of weeks, had similar probs as you, and chunked it. Good to know that after 7+ years it still gives the same headaches :)

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Originally Posted by wossname

Thats fair I suppose, I've been laughing at you for months.

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What are you lauging at? That I both have a life and can handle Linux when you don't have and can't...:)


OUCH: that one must have hurt..:D

Yeah it did a bit.

Wow. That's bad. How did you manage to screw it up so badly?

Me, I prefer Slackware distribution.

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Originally Posted by NoteMe

What are you lauging at? That I both have a life and can handle Linux when you don't have and can't...:)


OUCH: that one must have hurt..:D

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By life, you mean your endless routine of moralless prostitution of yourself based upon the lifestyles exhibited in mindless videos created by your favorite marginally talented artists such as Lindsay Lohan and Christina Aguilera and Beyonce?


OUCH... did that hurt more? :D

Ubunto + VMWare for me, thanks VisualMum

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Originally Posted by wild_bill

Figure out a way to transfer alcohol via tcp or ftp and I'll hook you up! :thumb:

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Code:

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ftp your.server.com
type drink
!cd drinks
cd drinks
put alcohol
bye

wget ftp://your.server.com/drinks/alcohol

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Originally Posted by wossname

Not only did linux fail to boot, but it also managed to switch off my secondary IDE channel too!

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why bother with something like suse??

Ubuntu has just released flight 5 (alpha release) of Ubuntu Dapper (6.04). The final release is due sometime in April/May. Easier to install than other distros (and WindowsXP), and looks a lot better too.


for any HDD problems, i use tomsrtbt - the most GNU/Linux on a floppy disk.

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Originally Posted by mendhak

By life, you mean your endless routine of moralless prostitution of yourself based upon the lifestyles exhibited in mindless videos created by your favorite marginally talented artists such as Lindsay Lohan and Christina Aguilera and Beyonce?


OUCH... did that hurt more? :D

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Prostitutes get paid. He's more of the gigelow type.....sounds like fun to me.

Same SUSE linux!! I had installed linux and windows on 2 seperate physical harddisks on my system. When linux crashed, it also erased my windows partitions. Since then I've taken oath not to touch linux again.

Why do you people let one bad experience with one particular distro affect your perception of the entire (and extremely diverse, I might add) family of products :confused:

SUSE 10 is great it was easy to install and easy to use, not had a problem with it. i've had loads of problems getting linux to run but it just makes you feel better when it does work

bump

Finally,Linux won .

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Originally Posted by litlewiki

Finally,Linux won .

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Was there ever any doubt, really?

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

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Originally Posted by Atheist

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

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Volvo drivers are allowed to say that Ferraris are better.

Your IE7 link rocks, by the way.

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Originally Posted by penagate

Volvo drivers are allowed to say that Ferraris are better.

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Hehe yes but the reason volvo drivers doesnt go over to ferrari would be the price difference. Isnt linux...free?

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Originally Posted by Atheist

Hehe yes but the reason volvo drivers doesnt go over to ferrari would be the price difference. Isnt linux...free?

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Not when time is money

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Originally Posted by Atheist

Hehe yes but the reason volvo drivers doesnt go over to ferrari would be the price difference. Isnt linux...free?

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Yes... that analogy doesn't extend very far.

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Originally Posted by Atheist

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

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I both praise and use Linux. My servers run it, as do the desktops and laptop in my house. Woss runs it on his server and desktop.

I know many people who use it. What's your point?

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Originally Posted by TomGibbons

I both praise and use Linux. My servers run it, as do the desktops and laptop in my house. Woss run's it on his server and desktop.

I know many people who use it. What's your point?

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What my point is? ;)
I dont know how to make it any clearer...

From what ive seen alot of people praise linux as the savior of mankind, but only a small percentage of these people actually use it...why....

No need to get offended or anything it was just a thought, since this is what I have experienced.

You should give it a try. I use Windows for nothing anymore... nothing apart from .net. I have Windows installed in a VM so that I have access to the Visual Studio.net IDE. I mostly use PHP and C++ for my development but it's always nice to play with .net once it a while.

I've heard a lot of people talking over the years about how great Slackware is. I installed it about 4 days ago. I can't say that I was massively impressed. Comes with Fluxbox which is nice. I ended up removing it. I'm trying CentOS (RHEL clone) on one of my servers right now - quite nice. I'm keeping Fedora on my desktops and laptop for now.

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Originally Posted by TomGibbons

You should give it a try. I use Windows for nothing anymore... nothing apart from .net. I have Windows installed in a VM so that I have access to the Visual Studio.net IDE. I mostly use PHP and C++ for my development but it's always nice to play with .net once it a while.

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hmm perhaps I should someday :) VM...does that stand for virtual machine? Does that slow things down? I mean, compared to running windows "regularly"?

Yeah VM stands for virtual machine. I don't find that it slows things down. I have 4 GB of RAM in my server and a pretty fast processor, I dedicate a large portion to my VM while I'm using it. All I use it for is .net and I have no problem.

Dear god, the thought of wossy not using linux is mindblowing..

chem

It certainly is.

Anyone had luck running Linux on a virtual server or virtual PC?

I am pretty sure MS said they are supporting running linux on it, however I tried to install ubuntu 6.1 and it installed, but the display is all corrupted. I tried setting the resolution at the boot menu to 800x600, but no luck. I could install it in textmode, but as soon as the GUI boots it is useless...

I personally am not a huge fan of linux, there isnt enough driver support, too many flavors (and MS gets blamed for having too many windows versions), and maybe I am biased because I am a Microsoft junkie, but windows is just plain better... sure its got its problems, an OS is no simple program, but its still better.

I suppose if linux was the dominante OS, there would be less issues, but would there be as many companies peddeling their version?

The world would be a better place if it didn't have garbage like Ubuntu in it.

Dude, just download Fedora Core 6 (disc images are easily available) and bung it on a decent computer. The hardware support is good.

Windows is in no way better than Linux.

But I'm not going to get drawn into this debate again. Anyone who says windows is better should read my first few posts of this thread and then compare it to what I just said.

If you have the perseverence to forget your ingrained windows knowledge then it will pay dividends when your brain finally clicks into the Linux way. Once you get it, you'll soon develop a healthy contempt for all things windows-orientated.

Hey wossy's back!

*crowd cheers*

I have to agree kleinma that Ubuntu does not work, however I have tried Debian and have succeeded. Ok so the desktop is crap, but at least it got me started.

I practiced dualbooting on a VM with Windows XP on it and it went successful :thumb: . VM is handy when it comes to these little things.

However, with ubuntu, I had used the disc in Live mode. After spending hours on ubuntu live to a point that I installed so much crap on there, it wouldn't install any more stuff, I decided to bite the bullet and install ubuntu. I had to admit I was worried with all the partition resizing and all but afterwards once it had installed I was so glad I had installed Ubuntu. And now I install all the crap I want

:lol:

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Originally Posted by wossname

The world would be a better place if it didn't have garbage like Ubuntu in it.

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:( ... :cry:

I am not looking to dual boot, I am only looking to run linux in a virtual machine. I don't have enough machines to play with to just waste one on a linux install that I will use just to monkey around.

I had tried Fedora Core 6 a few months back when it first came out on a compaq PC (with intel graphics chipset) and I had a display issue with that as well. (and that was on its own box, not virtual)

I wanted to install virtual images of ubuntu, fedora, and suse just to have them

There's always Linspire.


/me hides

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Originally Posted by wossname

ps. Dual boot is the work of satan.

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http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9066/crymv9.jpg

wasnt that the one walmart tried to sell its unsuspecting customers buying crappy eMachines???

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Originally Posted by penagate

There's always Linspire.


/me hides

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There's always windows

*wears bulletproof vest*

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Originally Posted by kleinma

wasnt that the one walmart tried to sell its unsuspecting customers buying crappy eMachines???

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That's the one!

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Originally Posted by kleinma

wasnt that the one walmart tried to sell its unsuspecting customers buying crappy eMachines???

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Yeah I remember that. That didn't go down too well since half of the drivers didn't work and half of the people who brought it were like "omg why isn't office installing on my pc?"

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Originally Posted by wossname

Dude, just download Fedora Core 6 (disc images are easily available) and bung it on a decent computer. The hardware support is good.

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What's in Fedora Core 6 that Ubuntu hasn't got?

Quality.

yeah can you imagine how many people figured they could buy any software and go install it on there, just to find out there was basically NO commercial software they could go buy at any retail store...

Commerci-what-now?

He means crappy softwares with a fancy GUI .

Mac OS.

Mac OS isn't crappy. It's, like, cool, dude.

I can totally dig it. Radical.

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Originally Posted by wossname

Commerci-what-now?

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You know, any software that they sell at the likes of Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Fry's, etc..

The stuff people will go out and buy to try to install on their new walmart linux box