Mandrake 9x was a better distro for the older machines I was using in
class. Mandrake 10 is a very good rpm-based distro but I needed a bit
of extra power. Almost all of the larger distros will find your drivers
- the only problem I had was I needed some modules for RAID controller
cards on Fed
install SUSE on a mac a
while back it worked well on there.
--John
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Sent: Wed 6/8/2005 3:32 PM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
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>
>10.1 is very solid.
Have either of you
>
>10.1 is very solid.
Have either of you tried Mandrake 10 or Suse 9.3? They both found all the
drivers in my gateway 450SX laptops - (former BVU machines) - even the wireless
cards. And with SuSE AutoYast updates were slick, checking dependencies as
needed and downloading
before installing.
Redhat and Fedora. Fedora=buggy, beta code).
--John
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jerry Smith
Sent: Wed 6/8/2005 2:58 PM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
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I had a heck of a time trying to get the modules loaded for debian
der they never get in a hurry to update their distro.
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From: HASS, JOHN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HASS,
JOHN
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:46 PM
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I understand now. Slackware has always been ea
total uncompressed. I thought that was pretty big. Slackware is always 1 disc
to download.
--John
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jerry Smith
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Nope, hardware RAID
easy.
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JOHN
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:28 PM
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I have used Slackware for more then 5 years, but I installed debian the
other day b
using software RAID? I definetly worry about software RAID, it tends to
be less reliable in a crash.
--John
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Sent: Wed 6/8/2005 2:10 PM
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Apples
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I use pearpc to emulate mac os X it does not currently work with 10.4 but
10.3.9 and lower it does. It can be slow at times, but it works well when I
am developing software I am able to test in multiple enviroments. It
emulates a ppc. But it
-John
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Lance Lennon
Sent: Wed 6/8/2005 8:05 AM
To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us
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The Darwin kernel has run on Intel since its inception. The GUI was not
available on the Intel platform so it was all CLI.
As far as thi
Lance wrote:
>
>There are kids running Linux on X Boxes in
>the world so nothing is impossible
Indeed. The newest XBox runs the PowerPC chip, so now the kiddies can load
Yellow Dog Linux. Weird that MS moved from Intel to the PowerPC. Weirder yet
that _Apple_ switched camps. Is there no norma
The Darwin kernel has run on Intel since its inception. The GUI was not
available on the Intel platform so it was all CLI.
As far as thinking that you could run OS X on a PC, that is probably not
going to be true right out of the box. There will probably be safeguards
against non apple branded eq
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