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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Started conversation Mar 18, 2003
Its me, 
Just thought I'd come here to talk about something other then biscuits
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 18, 2003
I don't know but nothing to do with biscuits.
or Snowman?
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 18, 2003
What about talking about this fun operating system that we have in common? What kernel/distro/window manager/browser/shell/terminal do you prefer?
I'm 2.4.20/Debian sid/Enlightenment 16.5/Phoenix 0.5/zsh/multi-gnome-terminal
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
Well here we go:
2.4.16 I think /Mandrake 9/KDE/Opera & Netscape 7/bash/Konsole
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 19, 2003
Hmm. We'll convert you yet! I take it you mean KDE3 ... if you are using KDE2 you need a public flogging 
Why use Netscape 7 when you can use Mozilla? Netscape 7 is just an old version of Mozilla that AOL bought off them! Plus, Mozilla is Open Source, so it's being developed all the time.
Type the following command (as root) and free yourself from the pain of poor web browsers! (Opera's OK, but very very non-free)
rpm -Uhv ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/mozilla-1.1-10mdk.i586.rpm
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 19, 2003
Actually, on second thoughts, I suspect that RPM is on your mandrake CD, so just look for it on there and save yourself the download.
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
I have got Mozilla installed, I just don't use it but I could if I wanted to.
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 19, 2003
How very odd. It'll do everything Netscape 7 will do for you, but more as well. 
I'm using Phoenix (stripped down version of Mozilla) and even that is more functional than Netscape!
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
Well I might give it a go tonight, I can't right now because I'm a uni having to put up with NT
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 19, 2003
Yuck! What a load of poo! At least all the computers in our department have a backward old copy of Redhat on them!
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
Well everybody at uni thinks linux is somehow barbaric. One day they will learn.
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
We need a new topic or it coul get boring
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
I've been sitting here at this nasty NT machine for 10 mins and I still can't think of anything.
Except prehaps this: I intend on doing LFS do you think I'm mad?
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 19, 2003
Linux from scratch? Yes you're mad. Go half way and get gentoo from http://www.gentoo.org/ - that's the best of the source-only linux distributions, and it's much easier than doing LFS. 
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
Well what I eventually want ot do is creat my own distro but I don't want to do it on my own.
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 19, 2003
Aha. Well your best bet would be to get used to a source-only distro, so you know what you're doing. Seriously, check out gentoo first. I wouldn't recommend LFS if you've only been on a binary-dominated distro like Mandrake.
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Snowman - For a story click my name you know you want to Posted Mar 19, 2003
I had used RH7.2 before I switched to Mandrake. Compiling from source doesn't really bother me.
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