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AwPhuch

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Posted: April 20 2006,06:08

Hahahah...

Dude muskrat..do you even pay attention before you try to flame??

I have 103 times the posts you have...plus not to mention I have been using DSL since the 0.5~ phase...I have had lunch with ke4nt1 on a few occasions...

Trust me...Im no M$ supporter..I'd rather see it burned to the ground, but unfortunately telling someone to just jump ship before they become comfortable in a new OS is just inviting a new user to the Revolution to only get frustrated and angry and then go back to thier older OS and never look back!

We dont want that...we want new users to grow slowly and learn just as you and countless others have (including me!)

P.S. I have also come to the conclusion that no matter what I do to my linux distros, no matter how hard I tweak, wine or cedega games just dont run as good as on the OS they were designed for...thus I keep a very minimal version of XP (do a google for TinyXP) on my machine (dual booted) so I can play my games with ultra high resolution/framerate...only to reboot back into my linux distro for EVERYTHING else!

Please dont patronise me and try to paint me as a lover of Billy Boy or his distro...allbeit if it wasnt for M$ the world of PC computing would still be in the stoneages...I just want to smack him in the face with a pie once or twice for all the blue screens however!

Brian
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clivesay

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Posted: April 20 2006,12:11

AwPhuch is Linux right down to his Smoothwall firewall/router. Let's not rush to judgement here.

I agree that I would try out a distro for awhile before I wiped my machine unless I was completely comfortable with a PC and re-installing an OS was simple for me. If he's comfortable with that then I say wipe away! If he's not comfortable, I would suggest just trying out different distros as live cd's before I started wiping OS's and modifying partitions.

ravindra -

The only way to get past the refresh rate is to install the xfree86.dsl and setup a xf86config-4 file for your video card. Take a look at it and let us know if you have any questions.

Chris

torp

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Posted: April 20 2006,13:07

my spousal unit would have me killed in the dark of the night if i wiped winblows off of her system. so i got mine and she gots hers, the sad thing it is me who gets stuck fixing her system at its semi-annual fold-up, crash and burn. ha! but i got her this time, i saved her data files with knoppix....linux to the rescue!

torp

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ravindra

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Posted: April 20 2006,13:32

About removing windows Xp

, i was just kidding as i was high from using DSL, anyway i need some OS to do the 'dirty work' and XP fits perfectly into such uses :laugh:

As for Xfree86, i used it and it worked perfect but just one thing, whenever i reboot DSL, it never backs up the XFree86 settings and i have to go through the whole 'procedure' again, not that its hard but i would rather have it restore it itself. Is there anyway out of it??

Also i got the java jre through the myDsl but even after installing it, i can't run any applets??

NewDude

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Posted: April 21 2006,03:46

torp, I know what you are saying, but I have weened my wife off evil windoze..

She didn't like it at first, but after she got to using it, she seem pretty at home with DSL now...

She just needs internet and openoffice... She still does our bills on Quicken, that is the only time she uses Windoze(Our kids game machine)... but soon as I get time, I will install Wine and try to getting Quicken 2001 installed and working sos he can be Windoze free...

To me though, the best way to learn DSL is almost go cold turkey with windoze... When I stumbled on DSL, with in 2 weeks I had it installed on 2 machines and we using it 75% of the time. Went out and bought some Linux, broke out my old Red Hat 6 and OpenLinux 2.3 books (For command line stuff) and started banging away.

Ravindra,
This forum though has been the biggest help. Just do a search before you ask the question, 95% of the time, someone has already asked the same question, also you will learn stuff along you jorney searching for the answer.

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