Hey all, just wanted to say I’ve got Linux up-and running on my old computer.
It’s Ubuntu Dapper Drake.
It’s running well, and I still have Windows on the other drive!
(For good reason tho ;))
Has anyone heard of Video Linux?
It’s a distro that combines all the video editing packages for linux into one distro.
I was having download problems on both my computers; files seemed to be corrupted or something and I couldn’t download beyond a certain size; like if it was too big then I knew it was going to fail.
HOWEVER, for some reason, downloads seem to work fine under Ubuntu.
For instance, I’m downloading Video linux right now, which is approx. 480MB file, and it’s 70% done and shows NO sign of stopping.
w00t
Anyway, let’s hear about your first linux experiences!
1998 I installed Red Hat 5.2 and I haven’t looked back. I currently run ubuntu dapper and I am very well pleased with it. Installation and updating is much easier now than it was long ago. It was very hard to learn but the linux community is so fantastic that I was able to get passed the rough spots. Have fun.
im not really fond of linux based on the fact that its a bit confusing… u have to compile vertualy everything that you want to use and there arent any good starup manuals out there about linux (at least that ive found)
I tried installing UBUNTU KNOPIX FEDORA and ECLIPSE and they all seam to be the same as windows except for the fact that a lot of software isn’t compatible with them and its free…
If you have a proprietary Win Modem for internet connection it can be a problem but not an insurmountable one. I used Red Hat and Fedora for many years but teh switch to Ubuntu has made life so much easier. An acquaintance of mine was having the same problem, only with Ubuntu. He went down and purchased a used vintage internal modem for 5 bucks and was up and running on dapper.
I’ve also found in my own winmodem experiences, that I had to go out and find a proprietary driver to get it to work. Cost me a whopping $5 at http://www.linuxant.com to get the driver I needed. Then I ended up upgrading my system a few months later to include fully linux compatable hardware. (go figure)
Also check out this site. Might be a good starting place if you don’t want to just throw out that rubbish winmodem hardware. http://linmodems.org/
Yeah, I started out with Redhat 5.2 years ago. I have two Macs now for my personal use, though I work as a student system administrator for a 100% Linux shop (RedHat Enterprise). If you don’t like compiling things, it can be a pain in the but, but Fedora’s “yum” utility and the Livna repository make it unecessary to compile much. For instance, on Fedora, installing Blender is a trivial command:
$ sudo yum install blender
You just type in your password and you’re done!
I haven’t tried Video Linux yet, but I ran Dynebolic briefly and thought it was an excellent live CD distro (I’m planning on writing a comparison of the various multimedia linux distros in the near future).
My first linux experience was in 2001 with SuSE 7.3. After this I tried Fedora, Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu.My favourite was Ubuntu. Today I’m on a Mac and very happy about OS X!
No, I have a Winmodem with drivers that are broken and cost money anyways.
I bought an external modem, but I don’t have a serial port and Linux can’t use the USB part.
If you have a proprietary Win Modem for internet connection it can be a problem but not an insurmountable one. I used Red Hat and Fedora for many years but teh switch to Ubuntu has made life so much easier. An acquaintance of mine was having the same problem, only with Ubuntu. He went down and purchased a used vintage internal modem for 5 bucks and was up and running on dapper.
If you can recommend an internal modem that’s not a Winmodem I’ll try it.
I’ve also found in my own winmodem experiences, that I had to go out and find a proprietary driver to get it to work. Cost me a whopping $5 at http://www.linuxant.com to get the driver I needed. Then I ended up upgrading my system a few months later to include fully linux compatable hardware. (go figure)
The drivers I tried did not work, and I’m not spending $5 on something that potentially will not work, for a product I don’t particularly care about.
Installed Mandrake 2 years ago. Installation was quick, however no audio, networking or modem drivers. Since there is no open-source 3d app that can do architectural viz efficiently, I did not bother too much.
One day, if I find that one can use Blender productivly for archi viz, I would gladly put in the effort and convert all my pcs to Linux systems.
My first Linux experiance… I have a Mac, and I decided to try out Ubuntu Linux. I booted into linux, played around on it for a half hour, booted back onto mac, and then never booted to linux again. It’s no comparison.
I don’t recall exactly…I think it was Caldera.
I had built a 386 with dumpster parts and couldn;t afford wun95, but I could afford a bargain bin book with cd included.
I’ve tried redhat, Mandrake,Slackware,Suse( started with 6.1 ),Knoppix and a couple of others. Now I’m using Ubuntu…the free dvd’s from English mags let me upgrade everything quicker than a dial-up modem can…otherwise, I’d stick with slack.
I’m not a guru or anything, but even after I got windows, I liked it linux better anyways…last windows I used ( not counting work) is win98se and even then, only to run a drag racing sim and a train sim.
I use Ubuntu, I have Windows installed, but rarely use it. I even have IE installed on Linux for web dev needs! I’ve never compiled anything. I get binaries! Haha nobody can complain about linux…
Good thing too, because Vista is a hog (actually, compared to my ubuntu distro, xp was a hog too), so now I don’t have to go through all that.
I just don’t see the need to buy bloated software that requires you to buy new hardware, when it’s really not necessary (for my needs at least). And besides, if I wanted eye candy, I can always go with XGL, which looks far better anyway.
The only reason I keep my windows partition around is for Counter Strike Source, but if Valve ported that game (with Steam) to linux, I would probably nuke that partition all together.
The add/remove button in the Applications menu was enough for me to get what I want. But if you want more binaries go to ( here) To get an updated sources list, this helps so much. then type sudo apt-get update I think Right? and get the keys which are listed in the file by each repository, and follow the instructions on the top of it.
Alot of applications work fine in Linux with Wine, I’ve used it alot for many games and apps. As far as I’ve heard Steam and Counter Strike Source works fine on Wine, just as good as in windows in some cases. According to the wine app database there’s 1576 different games listed in that work.
For USB modems you need to get Gnome-ppp I think, it has a thing for detecting USB modems(it’s in the add/remove program). Or maybe wvdial would work, just type wvdialconfthen edit the wvdial.conf file to add your account details. But I don’t know if wvdial detects USB ones though.
I started first with some mand____ whatever thing, it didn’t work. And it was impossible to get my sound working on it. So I went back to windows for some time before getting Ubuntu free in a magazine. I installed it and ran it, I loved it. The only setback was an unsupported modem. So I continued with windows and Ubuntu on the same drive till my windows broke. And me being a dutz like I am had lost my serial for it. So not wanting to buy another key, I installed Ubuntu completely on my machine and bought an external modem and haven’t used Windows since.
PS. for all the windows lovers check out ReactOs. It’s really amazing so far even though they are still in alpha and will be really unbelievable once it’s pretty finished.
My first linux experience was Libranet. This was back when Libranet was the easiest distro to install. It was a commercial distro, with the previous version available for free. I still have it too, though I don’t use it. Libranet is no longer available for download. Everything fell apart when it’s founder died and his son didn’t want to continue leading it.
My second was Ubuntu, not sure which version, but it was roughly one year ago. I used it almost exclusively for 3 months, but longed for my windows programs, so I dumpted it. Ubuntu is so freaking good, that I was using it the majority of the time even when I had a dual boot setup. In the end I had to decide which was better for me in the long run (I really hate flipping between oses), and I chose to return to Windows and dump Linux.
My recent attempt was with SuSE on a laptop. That didn’t end well.
