[quote=“herbie_popnecker”]Thx, wanted to grab Mandriva One iso, but forgot when I was at the E10…
just set up a 24db grid shooting thru a narrow window and thru Sherwood bloddy Forest, but I can live with 490KB until daylight.[/quote]
No problem, you’re very welcome Mandriva is awesome, I run that on my Apache web sever!
Okay, so I’ve been very bored lately waiting for Slackware 11.0 to be released. I thought I’d give Gnome on Slackware a try. So I fired up my konsole and used lynx to download, install Freerock Gnome 2.12.3. Patrick eliminated Gnome from Slackware in version 10.1, but, you can download and install Gnome from freerock. Everything seems to work okay except there is no printer icon set-up which is really stupid (thankfully gnome kept my KDE printer settings). I’ll most likely be reverting back to KDE when 11.0 is released.
This isn’t too bad I guess.
Mandriva is an awesome distro! I ran a server with Mandriva 2006 for a month or two and liked it a lot. I’m running Ubuntu on one of my Linux boxes it functions very well. btw, Ubuntu 6.06 is being released on June 1st, it looks to be very good indeed. I also really like OS X, Unix rocks:-)
FEKK! They sent me ECS mobos instead of WinFast, same chipset but slightly different SiS video and Ubuntu runs like shit. Downloading 6.06RC cuz I can’t find my Mandriva CD…
Actually what is really cool is, i used to work for a company working on photocopier’s When going to the court house to work on any machines they give you a usb key… On the key is windows xp pro… with some hacks from the networking admin ( logging software and stuff ) On the key is your whole os with all the software you need… All the machines at this company have the os on a keychain. They run one single app at this place so windows xp runs pretty neat & fast off a usb stick… Different levels of tech have more memory etc etc. It was pretty sweet. Secure as hell… each key has a unique code on it and only those codes that are registered on each group of computers would work… so if you copied a key to gain access it would not work. Pretty slick.
This thin client stuff you talking about mig is it compaq clients or hp’s ?
I’m running Ubuntu on a Pll 266 at work with 192 MB RAM, it runs okay. The unit has enough RAM to run Linux:-) There is Mandriva One, a live CD. I’m not sure what the processor, RAM requirements are to run the live cd.
Just a short note for Ubuntu users. Ubuntu 6.06, the final version, is set to be released on Thursday, June 1st.
This is an enterprise level distribution that will be supported for three years.
Ubuntu 6.06 is up on some North American mirrors, but, they’re getting clobbered so badly that they are mostly unusable. I’m downloading 6.06 from Sweden right now at 180 kb/sec. You’re right herby! I’m going to wait a day or two before I install. Mirrors in Canada don’t have 6.06 yet at this time, they still have RC2.
I was able to download, burn 6.06 just fine:-) I’ll check tonight and see if 6.06 has been released to all mirrors (they’re still showing RC at the Canadian mirrors). Yes, the US mirrors are up, but, the download speed this morning was terrible.
I’ll install in a day or two when things settle:-)
Cool.
Okay, I’ll try the install using the US apt repositories after work and see what happens. Thanks for the feedback. I hate trying an install only to have the repositories fail on me.
Much appreciated.