[Linux-Anyway] Re: refugee
- From: Rebel Lion <obsidion@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:27:04 +1300
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:42, you wrote:
> >interesting asp linux on google showed at least 5 links to the correct
> > page for me...
> >You do know that there is a linux search engine on google don't you ?
> >ie http://www.google.com/linux
>
> Yes, but the original message merely mentioned " ASP " which if you put
> it into google does not link at all to the correct website, so it seemed
> to me I was being trolled, or was I ?
>
> A later meassage mentioned "ASPlinux", which it turns out to be the
> correct name and I did find the correct website after that. I suppose
> google ought to of found ASPlinux from ASP but mine didn't.
>
> No loss, it matters not , but it explains the error.
It would have had you used the /linux bit on the end...I always use that it
stops it throwing up junk hardly or not related to linux...mostly...
>
> As I said I had never heard of ASPlinux before, a consequence maybe of "
> Mandrakation ", that is, only having been exposed to mandrake up to
> now.I have never know any other linux OS todate.I knew of RH and Debian
> Woody but never tried them. Not sure that I want to. If I change from
> Mandrake I want something that Mandrake doesn't give . Up to M8.2 I
> have never had any particular problems, but M9.0 and M9.1 have proved
> not to me all that easy to get "Unbroken" , I found myself replacing
> up to a 1/3 of the installed OS with "Updates" to get working apps.
> Don't know how much the rest of you have found that to be the case, but
> I certainly downloaded 133% of the OS to get 100% . I'm not particularly
> flawed by it all, I guess it's a case of moving forward quite some
> extent in order to catch up, and to be fair to Mandrake , it's all very
> well people like me being critical of the OS, but if I don't download
> and test and report then , what else can I expect. That is a perfectly
> valid point that I fully accept it, unfortunately , it's not practicable
> for me to download and test and keep up with it all. Plus the current
> urpmi way of updating and all that header update business makes it
> difficult for me on a simple dial-up modem, to accomplish.
>
> So I'm thinking about ASPlinux.
>
> John
Well I do find yum a lot more powerful that urpmi...but being on a dialup
modem as well things do take a while...The last full upgrade took a couple of
days, though mainly because it kept losing the link to the website rather
than needing that long...Though it was around 200M in the end..
My main like of it is the general speed compared with Mandrake...
I use kde 3.1.1a on asplinux 7.3..My machine is only a P133 with 64M ram and
it is really quite quick and useable..Redhat 7.3 is ok too and for a while I
used the asp kernel on a generally RH setup but have since got the Asp setup
cd and gone over completely...It's not that easy to set up ,,,not as simple
as RH and Mandrake to install for instance but as long as you take notice of
what you are doing everything sets up ok..Not sure how you will go if you
have a winmodem though, haven't looked into that at all because I don't have
that problem anymore..
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