[Digit]

aw sweet!

a herb friendly forum with a place specially for us geeks. sweet.


any linux folk in da house?



i been with linux since early 2004 having been looking into it for the previous few months and a bit. the Open Source ethos was so inspiring. what joy it brought me.




k, normally, i can't stand that hand gesture for all the associations it picked up last century, but i just cant resist this, if only for the ... the thing the banana is riding:



mkay. back to linux... where was i before being distracted.... oh ya...
so, its been a few years with linux, i started with suse 9.1 and i've had a suse on my computer almost constantly since (currently with 10.2, i actually bought 9.2 pro). I've been a serious distro surfer, and that got even worse once i learned how to chainload properly. musta seen well over 50 distros by now. i've filled at least once o those big spindles with cds and dvds o distros.
suse still stands out for one thing... yast. i just aint seen anything that beats it yet. some come close to offering the basics of just the configuration management, but for the install... nah. i still use suse to manage all my other opperating systems.

ok... the geeksics:

hds:
an old 12gb (my first, aw)
2x 60gb ide
300 sata.
1tb lacie big disk
1gb on my recordystick and 1gb in my camera.

so, i have one of the 60s and the 12 in my old pc ("FuzzyLogic") with some unknown gnu|linux on it (i cant remember, and it wont tell me!) and a duffed dual boot. only just got it up n runnin couple days ago since it's monitor went to...

"LevinRhan" my glorious new pc...
athlon, dual processor, dual core, 64bit 4200. mmm.
2 gig of 333 ram. nvidia 7800 gtx. 2 monitors.

which is connected to my A1 printer, one aspect of the main porpoise of me using computers...

a computer to me, really, is little more than a jumped up paintbrush.

... ok, once u connect it to the net it becomes a library & ultimate learning tool and communications device n all sorts too.
but mainly its a paintbrush.



so on the 300gb sata, i have windows xp (packed with all kinds of "essential" goodies for someone using a pc in my feild of expertice) and SuSE 10.2 (which atow aint booting, i know why too, soon fixed).
the 60 in LevinRhan is partitioned pretty much as such

unused 2gb fat

unused 2gb fat

50mb fat for GRUB bootloader

extended-
4gb SWAP

SuSE 9.1. (just for nostalgia, and for various tools until i get around to fixing 10.2's boot)

Mandrake~ sorry, Mandriva 2008 rc2. (i really dont know why... must have something going for it)

Sabayon 3.4 the full version. (nice to have a source install. heh. it does loads out of the box, and being gentoo, has the best documentation if you're looking to actually learn)

StudioUbuntu 7.04. (well, it works, it's ubuntu (a billion noobs to support me. ooh tongue n cheek geek humour), and its aimed at me, having video, graphics and music stuff)

ZenWalk Linux 4.8. (just installed. WHY dont zenwalk like my puter? it seems like it would be such a nice system... but have yet to see it ever despite this being like the 3rd time o dling a version... i'm just about to learn how to edit my Xorg.config, or Xfree86config files n such as main project just now is to get dual monitor support working as i want it (ie, not just showing the same thing on both screens~ as nice as it is) in Sabayon & Ubuntu.

oh, and there's about 25gb left on the hd for more... and that should give room for more than a few distros as i'm gonna be checking out the little ones...
Puppy, graphpup, slax, damn small linux, and a handful of others whos names elude me too!



ok, if you're still reading, you're in the right place. you're a geek. that just wouldnt be interesting to anyone else. hehe.



i had fedora on my pc a wee whiley ago... it impressed me outta the box alright. it managed what no other had....
detected the connection to dad's windowsbox.
i even managed to transfer a file or two... then for some reason i have no idea why... it stopped being able to do that. bugger, so close and yet so far. meh.

anyways, now i have two PCs sitting next to each other, i find i have the potential to be much more productive... any time one is doing something i have to wait for (booting, rendering) i can still be getting on with stuff.
perhaps not such a great thing. how do you spell R S I.

now if i could get FuzzyLogic to connect to the net... mmmm.

i have the cable running under the floor ... leads to dad's pc in the hall (currently plugged into his network card) where he connects via a usb modem, which still seem to be the bane of linux's existence. surely they'd be making support for such things for linux first n foremost since linux is more the networky sorta thing, no?
anyways, by this point you may have realised,.... im not a real geek... a real geek would have these issues sorted in a second. and you're right. i'm an artist! can you help me get my paintbrush to work! lol.
got a netgear router for which i have misplaced the power lead sitting next to my two pcs through in what you wouldnt believe is actually supposed to be my bedroom. an A1 printer takes up alot of fuckin room.

anyways... i'll leave yas with that.

this has been the most fun i have had for a first post on a forum ever. yay.
dont worry, i'll go off and behave myself like a normal patron of the forums now.

Enlakech!


-Digit.

ps, hehe, woops, stood here for ages not knowin how to post, not understanding teh error message i recieved back. not realising that's a line for tags, not for a tagline.

[daiseyduked]

lol....howdy digit!!! good to see ya 'round here i have to admit i slightly skimmed through your post. as soon as it got into comp stuff....i was lost. certainly not my forte...

[Ricky L.]

Hey cool a new member! Welcome to the site man :) This place is pretty chillin. Hope you have a thick skin, you'll need it.

[TheDriver]

Originally Posted by el-daiseydukerino

lol....howdy digit!!! good to see ya 'round here i have to admit i slightly skimmed through your post. as soon as it got into comp stuff....i was lost. certainly not my forte...

ditto

welcome, we have a linux freak already in the house

[elroypornlab]

Howdy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Digit]

Originally Posted by ShiVersBlood

Hey cool a new member! Welcome to the site man :) This place is pretty chillin. Hope you have a thick skin, you'll need it.

WOOHOO!


i love it when i chick with 11 dicks says that to me.

Originally Posted by TheDriver

ditto

welcome, we have a linux freak already in the house

well sheeat, bring that gimp on out!




k, i know its only natural to like a new forum lots when she's new n mysterious and all you can see is how she doesnt have the flaws of your ex... but... i really like this place. hahaha.




dont even need to choose mah smilies. heh.

Originally Posted by elroypornlab

Howdy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i know u too ... yer another from the "cantsaythatherecity" forums too aint ya.

weeeeee.......










anyone wanna 'splain the scrill... wtf is the scrill?

[TheDriver]

Who was your ex if you don't mind me asking.

[Digit]

heh, i was talking metaphorically, like the forum was m~ oh you got that?

Grasscity.

(if u actually ment literal girlfriend... moonlighthigh from same place)


edit-

n what the fuck is scrill, n how come now theres more of it!

[TheBagman]

First thing I gotta ask. Are Digit from Grasscity? (ah, already answered)

Originally Posted by Digit

any linux folk in da house?

Been on Linux for just a tad over the last year to year and a half. Tried Ubuntu, Slackware, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuSe, and the current one I am using is Gentoo. I do have dual boot on both my desktop and laptop both with XP and Gentoo. 64-bit version on the laptop, and 32-bit version on my desktop. Incredibly stable, and love how configurable everything is.

Originally Posted by Digit

i been with linux since early 2004 having been looking into it for the previous few months and a bit. the Open Source ethos was so inspiring. what joy it brought me.

The Open Source philosophy is a great one indeed perfectly inspired by freedom to do as you please. What a lot of people think of the movement is that it is socialist. That's quite the opposite of what it stands for. If you decide to sell your code - you can. If you decide to sell support for your code - you can. It's something that only capitalism and freedom could afford.

Originally Posted by Digit

ok... the geeksics:

hds:
an old 12gb (my first, aw)
2x 60gb ide
300 sata.
1tb lacie big disk
1gb on my recordystick and 1gb in my camera

Desktop ( P4 2.6ghz, 1.5gb ram, ATI 9800pro, ASUS P4P800, 19inch Dell LCD ):

320GB Western Digital. - Not fully partitioned yet. But, have Gentoo installed on it, and then a 100GB FAT partition.

120GB Maxtor. - XP installed on 40GB partition and the rest in FAT.

Laptop ( Dell Latitude D520, Intel Core2 Duo 1.6ghz, 1gb ram, 15 inch LCD ):

80GB. - XP installed on a 20GB partition. When I got the laptop I had to use Partition Magic to shrink the partition. 20GB partition for Gentoo, and then 40GB in FAT.

Originally Posted by Digit

extended-
4gb SWAP

Why so much swap? It seems to me that's just a waste of space, especially with so much RAM.

Originally Posted by Digit

suse still stands out for one thing... yast. i just aint seen anything that beats it yet. some come close to offering the basics of just the configuration management, but for the install... nah. i still use suse to manage all my other opperating systems.

Yast is nice for a GUI all-in-one configuration utility. It's a decent repository, but the best repository out there has got to be Portage for their incredible configurability. With Portage you can build programs with or without certain features, and build it specifically for your hardware. It can be a bugger at times with the USE tags and getting your CFLAGS, etc correct, but by far is the most powerful and configurable software repository.

Originally Posted by Digit

Sabayon 3.4 the full version. (nice to have a source install. heh. it does loads out of the box, and being gentoo, has the best documentation if you're looking to actually learn)

ZenWalk Linux 4.8. (just installed. WHY dont zenwalk like my puter? it seems like it would be such a nice system... but have yet to see it ever despite this being like the 3rd time o dling a version... i'm just about to learn how to edit my Xorg.config, or Xfree86config files n such as main project just now is to get dual monitor support working as i want it (ie, not just showing the same thing on both screens~ as nice as it is) in Sabayon & Ubuntu.

Sabayon being a Gentoo based I obviously like that one, but never tried it (I'm likin' the real thing). Zenwalk is another one I want to install.

Might as well mention that the other distros I'd like to try are Arch, Wolvix, ELive, and Vector Linux. Also would love to try some BSD flavors. Tried any of those?

Originally Posted by Digit

oh, and there's about 25gb left on the hd for more... and that should give room for more than a few distros as i'm gonna be checking out the little ones...
Puppy, graphpup, slax, damn small linux, and a handful of others whos names elude me too!

Let me know which one you like best, I'm interested in trying one out.

Originally Posted by Digit

i have the cable running under the floor ... leads to dad's pc in the hall (currently plugged into his network card) where he connects via a usb modem, which still seem to be the bane of linux's existence. surely they'd be making support for such things for linux first n foremost since linux is more the networky sorta thing, no?

If it was being plugged right into ethernet it would be no problem. Wireless and USB are a bit tricky. It took me some time to get my wireless card working right.

Originally Posted by Digit

got a netgear router for which i have misplaced the power lead sitting next to my two pcs through in what you wouldnt believe is actually supposed to be my bedroom. an A1 printer takes up alot of fuckin room.

Linksys here.

[FilLaB0NGo7]

high

[daiseyduked]

you know the teacher in the Peanuts cartoon......ya.

[TheDriver]

hai

[daiseyduked]

i'd like to know what scrill is too...is it for the poker games?