Quake3World

I'm sort of bored and I want to try my hand with linux again.

I'm looking for something that looks good, easy to install and doesn't take up much space. Any ideas?

redhat fedora
I haven't used it in a while, but several people here at work are using it @ home.

mandrake's a doddle to install.

gentoo's worth a look.

I've heard many a nerd sing Slackware's praises.

Slackware!!! :icon14: .. errr...

I mainly use debian. Seriously now.

Rather not bother with slackware, last time I tried it I had to learn to code just to get my mouse wheel to work.

Downloading Fedora now.

Ubuntu has got a funny name. And a good layout and hardware support. Seriously.

When I get the Ubuntu free cd, I'll try it out.

Bah, fedora is too big and will take me 6 hours to download so I'm going to get Ubuntu for now. It' based on Debian right?

get gentoo

emerge kde 3.4

call it a day

Ubunutu may sound odd but it runs really well. It also detected my sound and everything works good.

inphlict wrote:Ubunutu may sound odd but it runs really well. It also detected my sound and everything works good.

As I said - it just plainly owns. Congrats, brother - btw, did you install it or run it from a Live-CD?

No I downloaded the ISO, burned it and booted to install it.

I just think Ubuntu (despite its funny name) "feels" great. I love the layout and the apps its coming with.
So, good decision

Fedora Core 3 is great; very fast and very easy to install. Debian is also good.

Yeah, I really didn't want anything bloated. Btw is there anyway to listen to my mp3s on the ntsf system? Can I import them some how?

You only have 2 options:

Some form of Debian(Knoppix, Debian, Ubuntu) clone or a *BSD clone(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD). A good package management system is crucial. If you want to compile everything from scratch down to the T, then go gentoo.

I love Debian for personal use. I use FreeBSD for strickly servers.

inphlict wrote:Yeah, I really didn't want anything bloated. Btw is there anyway to listen to my mp3s on the ntsf system? Can I import them some how?

Your distribution should be able to mount the ntfs drive and allow you to READ your mp3 files just fine. It is still very buggy to write.

I had Ubuntu on my dual Celeron box before I switched over to 2003. I even had the chips overclocked and it ran great. Played a few games of Quake3 on it then got bored.

I'm learning quite a lot and the linux community is very friendly I figured out about the mounting and I'm now able to enjoy the content on my xp drives.

I ran into a few problems but so far I'm finding solutions quite quickly. One problem is that most programs don't support mp3s and other formats popular on windows and I'm just finding ways to make certain programs run these files.

Found a good tutorial and I'm compiling mplayer now, should be able to enjoy all codecs after this.

I noticed everything can be done from the terminal, I'm not even using the auto synaptic thing.

Getting a desktop or server *nix system up and running is actually preety easy once you pass the learning curve. They're actually quite functional and useful. The simple fact that they generally include gcc and other compilers makes a hoby in programming trivial to start.

Run into a problem with mplayer and trying to fix it now, basicly all codecs run but I have no sound with mplayer.

I'm enjoying the multiple desktop switch keeps it clean and I can leave crap running in the back with out intervering with my surfing.

Mac OS X. If you wish to argue, Mac OS X uses the UNIX core which is at the heart of the GNU/Linux Kernel.

Arkleseizure wrote:Mac OS X. If you wish to argue, Mac OS X uses the UNIX core which is at the heart of the GNU/Linux Kernel.

but will OSX run on x86 architeture? I do not believe so, so what good will your post do him?