[huskerlug] Re: Linux distros/updates/?
- From: James Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:18:30 -0600
I'm going to play around with Knoppix on a computer or two. I have
found SuSE (I have used 6.3 and now 7.3) to be the best distro for strange
graphic controllers, and being cheap that's the only type I have. I have
gotten it to run on just about everything I tried. Other distros don't even
leave me with a usable graphics
I have a feeling it's weak point is getting it to behave with some audio
cards, probably RedHat or some other distro would do a better job with that,
if I didn't think I also had to have steller audio, I wouldn't even bother
with another distro. ---JIm
On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:02, you wrote:
> I run several (let's say; dozens!) of computers of
> Intel, AMD, VIA, chipsets, so far (no PPC, SPARC's).
>
> I just installed Red Hat 8.0 on a Duron 1300 on a FIC
> AZ11E board(maxed out for speed on the kt133 chipset).
> (All cold turkey, new equipment!)
> It runs great.
>
> Went over to wife's system, Athlon 1404 on a Chaintech
> 7AJA2 board (clocked to 102/38mhz) and wiped off the
> last half of the first drive, of Red Hat 7.3, to
> install 8.0. (temporary dual boot with Millennium, by
> that convicted FELON, while the graphic
> artist/designer wife acclimates and compares - Her
> government contractor is switching over to the more
> secure and stable Linux for designing military weapons
> aerial platforms).
>
> CRASH, no GRUB! Grub problem in stage 2.
> worked to fix it, meanwhile booted with floppy I made
> (ALWAYS MAKE THE FLOPPY!) and, no video (GUI!) so it
> is running in text mode.
>
> Hate when that happens! Back to the Red Hat 7.3.
> I have too many systems of all vintages and
> architectures, plus, too many distributions of Linux
> here, to try to force any distro on any hardware...
>
> Yes, I did the media test of the CD's...they passed.
>
> I have found that some distros are jsut optimized for
> some hardware, and it is easy for me to pick through
> Linux distros until I find one that works and then
> just
> to live with that! As long as we can update to the
> latest packages, over broadband cable...
>
> My motto: Be Prepared! bring at least 5 Linux distros
> to any computer! Recommend that you try Knoppix CD
> v3.1. It runs from the CD (uses Ramdisc, so have >96
> MB available in your system!) and does not mess with
> the hard drives, unless you make it so!
>
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