Comments | irish_prime: School and More

irish_prime

School and More

Jan 25, 2007 16:18

It's amazing how much better this semester is going for me. Turns out if I go to class and do my assignments I get really good grades. Writing stuff down also seems to be helping quite a bit. This semester is just starting, but at least I'm starting it on the right foot. If I keep this up I should be able to snag that little degree thing I keep ( Read more... )

school, games, computers, linux, wow

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irish_prime January 26 2007, 01:33:49 UTC

Thanks.

And I plan to be there.

good luck epilonious January 25 2007, 22:42:43 UTC

Good luck.

Also, which flavour of linux are you going to be installing? I've had good experiences with Ubuntu and, more specifically, automatix/synaptic and their Gnome interfaces. But from prior discussions you seem to be more about the grit and griddy of programming, so I wouldn't put it past you to be all about the command line.

Cheers either way. I look forward to future experiences/war stories.

Re: good luck irish_prime January 26 2007, 01:33:23 UTC

I'm in the process of installing Ubuntu 6.10 i386 right now. I've been working on a Gentoo install (CLUG is working on a new automated install with Gentoo), but it isn't panning out. I've had no real problems with Ubuntu that I wouldn't have with any other distro. The main reason I keep going back to Windows is I can't get drivers for my video card (like I said), but... it's a whole different story when all my hardware works.

I'll miss a few hotkeys on my keyboard, but I can deal.

Re: good luck epilonious January 26 2007, 13:35:12 UTC

Now now, this is ubuntu... hotkey extensions are only as far as a trip to the synaptics program manager.

Also, get automatix ( http://www.getautomatix.com/ if you haven't already) when you are done. Makes it 10 times easier to get the lovable stuff (video players, torrent clients, ALL the codecs, nVidia drivers) that are hard to ferret out in synaptic or via apt-get.

Also, yay for working hardware!

rocketlad January 26 2007, 00:51:02 UTC

screw Ubuntu - run Kubuntu. KDE has more balls than Gnome - just make sure you run winE for windows emulation. either that, or dual boot, leaving a win. partition just large enough for the OS, WoW, drivers and such

I'm running Kubuntu now, and love it - you also might check out Fedora Core 6 (the new Red Hat distro)

irish_prime January 26 2007, 01:30:48 UTC

I love Gnome. >_>

I've been through three different distros tonight so far. Wine won't run on the 64-bit version of ANYTHING, so I had to scrap that. I didn't like the idea of rebooting every time I wanted to play WoW, so I'm just installing a 32-bit version and dealing with it. Shouldn't make much of a difference for now anyway.

rocketlad January 26 2007, 01:36:36 UTC

which distro did you end up going with? I'm probably going to give Gentoo a shot next week - I've already run damn near every other major distro in existence...they seem to be getting a lot more user-friendly though, which is a plus....though i've also come into some annoying changes (like commands in the CLI being different now than say 4 years ago, and in diff locations...try 'ifconfig' in a fresh install of FC6, it'll laugh at you - they moved it to /usr/sbin instead of /bin)

irish_prime January 26 2007, 06:40:20 UTC

I wound up going with Ubuntu i386. Hardly anything is supported in the x64 version - notably WINE.

Gentoo primarily didn't go well because we were trying a custom build that the CLUG is making and it just wasn't ready for prime time. Gentoo, Slackware, ZenWalk and Ubuntu are the distros I would go with at the moment. Though I hear the latest ZenWalk release isn't exactly up to par.

Also, Beryl is pretty... pretty.

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