loving it!

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: loving it!
started by: klaut

Posted by klaut on Mar. 28 2004,20:42

hi everybody.
i'm pretty new to linux - been playing with suse for about a month and that was all.
today i decided to ressurect my old machine and tried DSL on it..
have to say that it looked really scarry at first.. but i managed to do a HD install and everything seems to work prefect!

i just love it!

Posted by dopefish on Mar. 31 2004,14:41

Hey i just burnt 0.6.1 and am loving it too, it sets everything up nicely even detects and sets up my soundcard properly.

Posted by DavoMan on April 01 2004,05:10

Well this Distro is pretty bull***t free, no wonder its damn small. A distro like this is so much easier for getting to grips with linux. I've been fiddling with it & touching it in special places & its clean & simple, not 'lacking'. Which is good, if you get my drift. :angry:

Posted by CappyCaffeine on April 01 2004,05:21

One of the best thing about this distro is that you can configure it cleanly with apt-get.

So far I have added the following to my system with apt-get
man-db
samba
swat
bluefish
LinNeighborhood
The Gimp
synaptic
aterm

and they are all working great on a Pentium 233MX with 64MB EDO RAM and a 6 Gig HD, Sierra Screamin 3d (Rendition 1000) video card, Generic 6X CD-ROM, Belkin 10/100 network card (Realtek 8139 - free from OfficeMax after $5.00 rebate!).
Perfect little samba and web server.

No extra stuff that I don't need. leaves the hard drive uncluttered and available for files, etc.

Cappy

Posted by dslfool on April 01 2004,07:11

Cappy - DSL is marvelous, to be sure. Question re your apt-getting Synaptic - did you have to jump through any hoops to make this happen? When I try to apt-get Synaptic on my system (DSL 0.6.2 installed to the hard drive), I get the following:

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Some packages could not be installed...

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
synaptic: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2
E: Broken packages
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For fun I tried apt-getting libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 and got:

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Note, selecting apt instead of libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2
apt is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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Not sure what I'm doing wrong or not doing right. I should mention my severe n00bicity, but I'm working on the Linux way of doing things (and loving DSL).

Posted by CappyCaffeine on April 01 2004,16:20

to install synaptic on DSL version 0.6 and above you need to downgrade apt due to dependency issues. Check this thread out for all the details. make sure you use the script from Jan 5, 04 for DSL 0.6.x

< Thread for Synaptic install script >

read the directions from the first post to get the script to work.

Cheers!

Cappy