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Voting closes: 31 Dec 1969, 15:59


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Re: Linux
« Reply #50 on: 20 Nov 2006, 04:07 »
Quote from: Toba on 20 Nov 2006, 03:26
4) If you want anything to just work on it (minus the problems you can't fix, but won't happen very often), use Windows.

*giggles*
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Scytale

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Re: Linux
« Reply #51 on: 20 Nov 2006, 12:37 »
Quote from: Toba on 20 Nov 2006, 03:26

Putting Linux (Gentoo) on my brand new AMD x2 4400+ when the rest of the parts come on Tuesday.

Good luck, I used Gentoo on my file-server at home for a while, got sick of it and went to something easier t ouse (Fedora :P) I know lots of people rage about how good portage/emerge is but I always found it to be really cumbersome and hard to use.
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Re: Linux
« Reply #52 on: 21 Nov 2006, 02:47 »
Quote from: Scytale on 20 Nov 2006, 12:37
Good luck, I used Gentoo on my file-server at home for a while, got sick of it and went to something easier t ouse (Fedora :P) I know lots of people rage about how good portage/emerge is but I always found it to be really cumbersome and hard to use.
Got the third LCD, the case, and the DVI/VGA connectors today.  Only the CPU and DVD case remain (and so close... but UPS won't let me have them via pickup :().

The season premiere of Tales of Gentoo begins this Wednesay 3/4 Central.
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Re: Linux
« Reply #53 on: 21 Nov 2006, 22:29 »
QC is hosted on a server running Gentoo.
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Scytale

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Re: Linux
« Reply #54 on: 22 Nov 2006, 10:54 »
Is it omg optimised!!! with a bunch of crazy use flags?
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Re: Linux
« Reply #55 on: 22 Nov 2006, 11:10 »
Use flags are pretty specific; I turn off most shit that isn't required.  Compiler flags, on the other hand, are pretty lightly used...
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Re: Linux
« Reply #56 on: 22 Nov 2006, 14:32 »

root@3[~]# cat /proc/meminfo |grep Mem
MemTotal:      2074960 kB
MemFree:        638636 kB
root@3[~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 35
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2222.820
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy ts fid vid ttp
bogomips        : 4450.59

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 35
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2222.820
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm cmp_legacy ts fid vid ttp
bogomips        : 4445.55

root@3[~]#


Running Knoppix for now... soon to install Gentoo (that's tomorrow!).

This is running really fast because I used the toram code.  I really only did it so I could burn a CD (only one optical drive), but it's nice anyways :)
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Re: Linux
« Reply #57 on: 22 Nov 2006, 17:17 »
Server runs Slackware, desktop uses Kubuntu with Beryl/XGL, and portable uses DesktopBSD because is hot. Linux isn't hard to sue at all, especially Kubuntu, I haven't found a user yet who had less trouble in windows than they did in Kubuntu, because KDE makes things easy desu.
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Re: Linux
« Reply #58 on: 22 Nov 2006, 22:00 »
KDE = </3
Gnome = <3
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Scytale

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Re: Linux
« Reply #59 on: 23 Nov 2006, 10:59 »
I was a long time KDE man, till I switched to Gnome to try out XGL, it's suprisingly usable. The only thing I miss is KDE's right click "Open Terminal here" though I could probably customize something like that in Gnome if I could be bothered.

As for BSD, I tried Open BSD for a few days, didn't really see what all the fuss was. Though oddly enough my SATA drivers worked in RAID mode in OPEN BSD and only run in AHCI mode in Linux which was odd, probably due to differences in the Kernel.

 I got rid of the shitty VIA Mb (never buying a board with a VIA chipset in it again, especially not for a server) and it works fine.
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Re: Linux
« Reply #60 on: 24 Nov 2006, 19:26 »
OpenBSD is the security platform of choice.
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