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Smiley Ben Started conversation Nov 9, 2001
Hi, I'm a happy, card-carrying, Linux using, Bugzilla reporting freak, so can I jump on board and be added to the list?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 9, 2001
I'm an occasional user with pretentions of adequacy - count me in too!
I'll learn a lot more very quickly if I ever get around to setting up the Beowulf cluster I've been planning for the last couple of years... 
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Nov 12, 2001
Now we have both Pete and Peet.
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Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Nov 12, 2001
I ordered a copy of Debian Linux the other day, and hope to install it as soon as it arrives. I hope to learn a lot during the install process 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 12, 2001
I do much of my casual Linuxing under Caldera OpenLinux - It has explicit support for a lot of my more "problematic" hardware, such as my parallel Zip drive or Philips 2x external SCSI CD-R, straight "out of the box"...
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Lifson Kofie Posted Apr 22, 2002
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I'm running a duel-boot system default to RedHat 7.2 and Windoze 98SE if you prod it. Running Windoze so I can run Orifice, so I can work on my College coursework at home. Have two Hard-drives - 10Gb Linux, 6.4Gb Micros**t. Use mainly KDE for the speed advantage, although I rather like Gnome. The GIMP is great for Photography project work!!!
Lifson Kofie - U176378
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 22, 2002
"duel-boot"? 
Does that mean the Operating Systems have to fight to the death to see which one gets to start up? 
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Lifson Kofie Posted Apr 22, 2002
Hell yeah!!!
A screen comes up asking which I want to boot into. Defaults to lovely lovely Linux, and if I prod it a couple of times it boots Micros**t instead.
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njan (afh) Posted Jun 26, 2002
I suppose I should probably sneak in, since I run debian 2.2 r6 on this machine, redhat on another, mandrake on an... yeah, add me, please.
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Jul 2, 2002
So how many others have you played around with? Personally I have seven I have actually tried (three of which I have been using fairly frequently lately and that doesn't include revisions of the same distro). I have installation CDs for about half a dozen others, too.
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Lifson Kofie Posted Jul 2, 2002
So - as someone who has only used RedHat, and only ever bought 2 copies of "Linux Format" what's the difference between RedHat and say Mandrake, or Debian or whatever?
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Jul 2, 2002
Mandrake is even more aimed at newbies than RH, although that is much of the distinction of RH. Debian is very much for more experienced users, but it is a lot more stable because they ensure everything meets certain standards before it is included. Also, it doesn't install as many unnecessary packages.
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Robert Posted Jul 13, 2002
Unless you're running RedHat and tell it not to install 'unnecessary packages' 
. I've spent hours on the installation routines of various distros, checking and unchecking boxes to try and get a streamlined, secure box. My personal motto seems to be 'Every kilobyte counts'...
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Jeff - Lurker <lurk> - nostalgia overload! Posted Aug 5, 2002
Linux #274673 ( http://counter.li.org ) checking in.
I'm using Mandrake 8.2/Cooker currently and will probably be upgrading to 9.0 next month when it is released. Preferred desktop environment is Gnome 2.
Using a *dual* boot (
) with Windows XP. I use Linux nearly all the time, but I occasionally need to use XP to print and scan (as I haven't yet figured out how to get Linux to do this).
I've only been using Linux since May, and so I'm still in the process of figuring things out. It has been a fun experience so far, though.
Jeff 
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- 1: Smiley Ben (Nov 9, 2001)
- 2: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 9, 2001)
- 3: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Nov 12, 2001)
- 4: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Nov 12, 2001)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Nov 12, 2001)
- 6: Lifson Kofie (Apr 22, 2002)
- 7: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Apr 22, 2002)
- 8: Lifson Kofie (Apr 22, 2002)
- 9: njan (afh) (Jun 26, 2002)
- 10: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Jul 2, 2002)
- 11: Lifson Kofie (Jul 2, 2002)
- 12: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Jul 2, 2002)
- 13: Robert (Jul 13, 2002)
- 14: Jeff - Lurker <lurk> - nostalgia overload! (Aug 5, 2002)
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