I'm downloading Mandrake 9.2 Right now

[msly]

I am downloading the latest flavor of Mandrake linux. I am downloading the ISO's and will be burning them to disk.

If anyones interested, I got a fast connection at the buffalo site.


Mirror sites are Here...
Mirror sites

 

[WoodiE]

For those of you that have broadband connection you may want to try LinuxISrg

and for those of you that do not have broadband connection or want to wait to download all the CD(s) needed for any linux install I'd recommend using SpiderTools or Free Linux CD-Rom.




-Michael

 

[msly]

Originally posted by WoodiE
dead links.



-Michael

Yea I was trying to give direct links to the ftp site...so i edited and just gave a link to the download page. I use a program called freshdownload to download the ISO's It makes it easier.

sLY

 

[Error401]

OS X baby!!!!

 

[msly]

Originally posted by error401
OS X baby!!!!

Mine is Free though LOL

 

[mcvickj]

Thats cool. I installed Mandrake on my lappy. I perfer RedHat. I am running 9.0 on a computer at home and I am dual booting it and XP on my work computer.

 

[Error401]

Yeah, tru dat, but compared to windows, OS X might as well be free. I mean DAMN. Full retail copy of XP pro $299 (1 machine). Full retail OS X, $129 (1 machine), $189 (10 lic, family pack).

Winddowz, frankencode.
OS X, unix based with a killer GUI. Also has a phenominal driver base. I have an HP 895Cse deskjet. HP didn't list a driver for OS X, but I plugged it in anyway. Driver loaded and printed just fine. That printer is like 6 years old.

Sly, I'm MCP in W2K, I work for an MS solution provider, I'm not some sandle wearing, lost in the '60's, new bug driving 20 year old. I just get tired of the glossed over bugs in the windows operating sysems. I mean, fix the old problems, not put some eye candy on the GUI and tell me to do more with less (but pay even more for it). MS is putting out patches for the patches for problems in IE that have been aroung for years. Every day some new bug is found, some new exploit, some F-up that someone didn't have time to fix. OS X is essentially a new OS, not some frankencode that is limped along by pure media hype.

I'd like to know how Mandrake does on things like plug and play, driver installation, and general usability (for the average user). I hope that Linux and OS X put the smack on MS. How else would redmond get off it's butt and put out some decent code?

 

[msly]

Originally posted by error401
Yeah, tru dat, but compared to windows, OS X might as well be free. I mean DAMN. Full retail copy of XP pro $299 (1 machine). Full retail OS X, $129 (1 machine), $189 (10 lic, family pack).

Winddowz, frankencode.
OS X, unix based with a killer GUI. Also has a phenominal driver base. I have an HP 895Cse deskjet. HP didn't list a driver for OS X, but I plugged it in anyway. Driver loaded and printed just fine. That printer is like 6 years old.

Sly, I'm MCP in W2K, I work for an MS solution provider, I'm not some sandle wearing, lost in the '60's, new bug driving 20 year old. I just get tired of the glossed over bugs in the windows operating sysems. I mean, fix the old problems, not put some eye candy on the GUI and tell me to do more with less (but pay even more for it). MS is putting out patches for the patches for problems in IE that have been aroung for years. Every day some new bug is found, some new exploit, some F-up that someone didn't have time to fix. OS X is essentially a new OS, not some frankencode that is limped along by pure media hype.

I'd like to know how Mandrake does on things like plug and play, driver installation, and general usability (for the average user). I hope that Linux and OS X put the smack on MS. How else would redmond get off it's butt and put out some decent code?

Certainly will let you know how it goes. I just burned the ISO's I will install tomorrow. My big thing is to get it working with my wireless router.

 

[mcvickj]

The recent releases of both Red Hat and Mandrake do a great job at plug and play. They have also made great strides to develop a GUI interface to admin the box for the users that want to play around but don't want to use konsole or vi.

msly - if you are looking for a util to admin your box check out webmin. Very cool program. What do you mean by working with your wireless router? I am guessing you are installing this on a laptop and mean you hope it will work with your PCMCIA nic?

 

[Error401]

Cool. I have Red Hat 8 (I think) and have installed it on a system or two. I liked it, but I really didn't have alot of time to mess with it. I also have an old version of Mandrake (can't remember the version) and Corel Linux. The last one I had pretty good luck with, but Corel dropped it pretty quick, so support is non existant. I have a copy of Lindows also, but after reading about software availability, I never installed it (also some driver issues I didn't like).

But, by far the easiest to use, and most powerful features in an OS, couple with solid hardware, is a Mac running OS X. Before I got this G4, I had never touched a Mac (in fact I despised them). But the transition to X has bee rather easy. I like to do videos, and this machine is now my main vid machine. I hook up the camera, dump the DV to iMovie, then manipulate the vid and dragit into iDVD and burn it on a DVD. It's just about that simple. On my old XP machine, it took me days to mess with a video, and then the software I was using never really did a half assed job of burning a good DVD. The sound would be fine, but the video was playing at 2x speed. The XP machine was a 1.7 P4 with 512 DDR and it took 2 to 3 minutes to recompress each minute of video. This G4 with dual 867's and the same stick of ram does it at about 1:1.

I'm of the philosophy that if something works, use it. But if there's something better, use that instead.

One last thought. If the number of books (such as Windows for dummies) is a good indicator of the quality and out of the box useablity, why are there so few OS X for dummies books? I went to two bookstores today looking for books on OS X and found a few (like the OS X Bible and other "mid to high level" books), but only 1 that was a dummies book. The rest of the shelf was for either Office or XP, most of which were basic how to's. Also, there were damn few Linux books too. Might just be the area that I'm in, but I thought it was strange. Just a thought.

 

[Scummer]

FreeBSD all the way

 

[SkyMaxx]

Error...you are scaring me. Gone from fearful to master endorser in the span of a few weeks. Mac rules...

 

[Error401]

My biggest beef with Mac at the moment is having to plug an MS mouse into the G4. Why doesn't Apple make a friggin multi-button mouse? The pro mouse is really nice, but it's just one big button.

 

[Scummer]

Originally posted by error401
My biggest beef with Mac at the moment is having to plug an MS mouse into the G4. Why doesn't Apple make a friggin multi-button mouse? The pro mouse is really nice, but it's just one big button.

But why would they want to make a multi-button mouse? All the multi-button mice are supported by OS X.
I have a logitech mouse connected to my Mac. The one button mouse didn't last very long on my USB port.

Thomas

 

[Error401]

YEah, I'm running the MS intellimouse optical at the moment. 5 buttons and a wheel. MS drivers too, so far no problems with it (odd, but it works).

 

[msly]

Originally posted by mcvickj
The recent releases of both Red Hat and Mandrake do a great job at plug and play. They have also made great strides to develop a GUI interface to admin the box for the users that want to play around but don't want to use konsole or vi.

msly - if you are looking for a util to admin your box check out webmin. Very cool program. What do you mean by working with your wireless router? I am guessing you are installing this on a laptop and mean you hope it will work with your PCMCIA nic?

I have a cable modem hooked up to a 4 port wireless router. I have a laptop that uses the wireless. I also have a few computers in another room that are wireless. One of them is a future Mandrake 9.2 linux box. My wife will kill me if i start popping holes in all the walls to run cat5 LOL

 

[Walkman2003]

OS X!! All the way!
(Soon to be Panther)

 

[msly]

I work in the computer biz. I get all the OS's I want. I choose to use linux because of what it stands for. When I first started using it like 7 years ago it was no where near as user friendly as it is now. Just to get the GUI to work with your video card and monitor was a task in itself. It just was cool to get something to work that costs nothing and was created by people who as a whole care about making it the best OS that they can.

sLY

 

[WoodiE]

msly,

I'd have to agree with you, Computer Shopper had a great article about Open-Source Software. I think it's a sleeping beast myself and only a matter of time before it hits as big as people don't think it will.

-Michael


ps. I've updated my first reply with some good links as well for getting a Linux Disto.

 

[newnitrofan]

Ok so sorry for sounding like a total newbie to Linux but what makes it so way cool over windows. I'm not fighting the conversion actually but am curious about the program. Later