Debian is truly the best GNU/Linux

(i work here): http://www.positive-internet.com

but not for much longer!

OpenBSD isn't as pretty as Debian, etc. for its packaging or rc.d stuff.

But it works for crazy firewalling right out of the box! But having to use cvs to fix bugs sucks.

Right! I now have a BEAST that is running Debian. Paul says it is also a GNOME. I do not understand. But what I do know is that I have just downloaded an experiemental "package" hur hur of SCRABBLE and er... now I don't know how to make it GO. WHat do I do?

Paul said something about "sudo". I typed "sudo scrabble".

That did not help.

HELP ME OH GEEKS!!!

The Scrabble game I must sa though is not as advanced as I was expecting (ie I imagine I could program it given a month or so). But still. Waahey.

Online scrabble is much fun.

And it reminds me of F*scher Sp**ner.

slackware has a great installer (if you're not fussed with with pretty pictures) and it's maintained by *one* guy who selects his packages very carefully. i've been able to get the leanest, cleanest install ever by using slackware. no bloat. at one point i was doing two-three slackware installs a day and it's never a pain.

add to that the ultra-fantastic and always bleeding edge dropline gnome (a gnome distro unique to slackware -- includes gorgeous font rendering out-of-the-box among other things). it's now completely optimized for i686 and so if you add that to slackware's optimizations it's really the quickest and prettiest gnu/linux going.

otherwise i love it

DEBIAN!!!

i've found pkgtool to be quite good ... why no love?

I'm getting thee old shop computer soon, and I'm planning to upgrade it (new motherboard, process0r, hd, more memory) and using it as a linux b0x!! I was looking at getting SuSE professional to put into it b/c it comes with roesgarden and audacity on the disc. does anyone use this?

i would NOT suggest using linux for audio production. in theory you can push the latency of your soundcard VERY low by patching your (2.4.x series) kernel with the appropriate patches thereby making the soundcard more responsive than either a windows or mac box, but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do. even basic audio production on linux can involve monkeying with things like ALSA drivers, JACK (the function of which is in all honesty beyond my comprehension) toolkits (audacity uses something called wxWindows in the background, and in my experience any of these cross-platform toolkits can be a real fucking pain, rosegarden uses some of the KDE libraries which further complicates the installation and maintenance of your system).

to be fair it's likely suse will handle all these package dependencies and what-not FOR you (and IIRC suse uses the ALSA drivers by default) so you stand a good chance of getting it running in some capacity, but if it ever stops working you might just be hooped.

http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/private/products/suse_linux/i386/multimedia.html

there seems to be a bunch ov fancy soft-synths included too, but i already have synthesisers, and effects. All I really want is to be able to record midi and audio in the same app. Rosegarden looks like it will do this really well.

debian is the distribution, gnome is the window manager.

i started with mandrake 7.0 because that was what was on the front of the first magazine i bought. worked fine, so i've stayed with it.

that said, the new suse has mainactor bundled with it (video editing, which i do quite a lot of) so i'm tempted by that. that said, it'd probably be easier and cheaper to just buy mainactor.

> I'm getting thee old shop computer soon, and I'm planning to
> upgrade it (new motherboard, process0r, hd, more memory)

so, basically, you're just keeping the box? 8)

andy

(the one problem i can see is the spotty nature of opengl support on linux. nvidia only do binary drivers, ati drivers don't support newest cards...) (couldn't get the nvidia drivers working on my mandrake box due to some missing kernel header files. now boot into gentoo distro if i'm writing opengl stuff)

what are our favo(u)rite distributions for late summer and early winter 07?

Still Debian.

running Debian/Kubuntu

The one I mostly use is Knoppix but I don't use Linux much/at all :/

anyone tried the new ubuntu (11.04) ?

just installed it and the windows manager is, well, different

also mildly revolted by the use of the word "Apps" everywhere

unity is ugly as shit and unusable imo

would be better on a touchscreen tho

there's some Unity talk, none of it positive, on the I'd Like to use linux buttttt.... thread

I'd like to use Linux but...