h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Name:______________________________
Sex:__________
Age:_____
Distribution of Linux:_______________________
Experience:________________years

Name: MaW (as if you didn't know - we don't need RL names do we?)
Sex: Male
Age: 18
Distribution: Slackware 7.1.0beta (although it's changed a bit...)
Experience: umm... let's just say three years? it's probably more than that, but I wasn't counting.

jimmiejaz

yes please

on thie other side of indeterminate

Slack 7.1, ReadHat 5.2, slack 2.3

7 years on and off(the last year exclusivly)

Ah, don't you just love Linux? Shame there's no decent web browser yet, although Mozilla is looking very nice indeed...

I have only used Netscape on Linux, although most of my web browsing is done from Windoze.

Mozilla on Linux is about 6 billion times better. Proper font rendering and everything (if you have a TrueType font server of course)

opera is pretty good, though if I'm just comming here I use lynx

I can't get on well with Lynx, but then that's not a problem since I can use Mozilla.

I can't use Mozilla because the only Linux boxes I can use which are connected to the Internet are University ones.

Ah right. That's yucky. In our Computer Science department we browse the web with Netscape 4.75 on Win2000. Nice fady menus and things!

name: xyroth
age: 31
distro's: redhat, slackware, extreme linux, storm linux, definite linux, and mandrake linux (and possibly others)
I have been using linux for many years (and have expanded my systems many times)

I am currently having 3 problems

1, My ne2000 card is recognised, but only seems to want to run twisted pair.
2, I can't get my diamond supra express pro 56k external modem recognised in any way that will let it do anything.
3, I can't seem to get X windows working at higher than 640x480x256 on any of my machines, but I have no problem getting it to work on my friends machines. now ain't that unfunny?

Any advise gratefully received, meanwhile back to trying to get my beowulf cluster to work.

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If you're using XFree86 4 you can try running XFree86 -configure which will attempt to autodetect your display hardware etc and writes out a new XF86Config to /root (if you're root) which you then tweak a bit and it works! Well, it works for me anyway

I haven't tried those sites yet as this is the first I have heard of them. I have tried redhat, linux weekly news, tucows and quiet a few LUG's, all with no luck.
The diamond supra express pro external modem is not (as far as I can find out) a win modem, although a few winmodems are moving outside the main machine.
as regards the video, I've tried the trident 9440, diamond stealth vram, compaq Qvision and a few others, and two different monitors, and no combination of them lets me have larger than 640x480x256 (some combinations only allow 16 colour vga modes).

Name: 50930
Rank: Administrator-General
Sex: That's a personal question, isn't it.
Gender: Male
Age: 39.5 and holding
Distribution of Linux: Mandrake (2.2.13-4mdk)
Experience: 0.1 years with Linux, 14 with Unix in general

Oh, and I'll be along with a question soon. B^{D>

I missed this thread the first time round...

Name: see above
Sex: male
Age: I'll give DOB instead: 30/7/84
Distribution of Linux: Red Hat 7.0; would like to migrate to SuSE 7.1 (but will probably be later once I get the money); 2.2-ish kernel, soon (RSN) to be upgraded to 2.4.2-ish.
Experience: no more than one year's real experience.

Phil
M
28
RH 5.2, 6.2 (all very customised), Debian 2.0 (sparc), Debian 2.2 PowerPC, FreeBSD.
Linux 4years, Unix 7 years, My Job for 1.5 years.

Now THAT's an impressive application.

Not really - or at least I don't thinks so. I could do with one or two more flavours and some more different platforms I think.

What's FreeBSD like w.r.t. Linux? Is it developed in the cathedral or bazaar mode? How hard is it to install? Et cetera.

I assume you can run much the same apps, even if only after custom compilation. (It is POSIX-compliant, isn't it?)