makmak Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 Is it me or what. I noticed this forum is clustered with Mandrake users. Hmmm...i not sure. I do have a Mandrake 7.3 installation disk with me. But i had only tried to install it once. I really could not get a hang of it. Due to different directory layout. So i used Redhat most of the time. I find it very much to my likening. So far i do not have much problem with this distribution as almost everything seemed to work just fine. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bararum Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 I USED to be a mandrake user, but now its Gentoo all the way :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrnecnaecge Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 used to use mandrake 9, but i went back to windows xp... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briandl79 Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 Well maybe one of them can send me the startup sound for Mandrake 7 (not sure if it's the same for versions after that)..... I've asked before.....I think it's for KDE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makmak Posted December 13, 2002 Author Share Posted December 13, 2002 Kinda strange that most of the problem that pops are mostly Mandrake distribution....I meant installation off the nutshell. Either i am lucky or what. Everything seemed pretty fine whatever OS i installed...kekeke Be it AiX, Solaris, Windoze, Linux and others... :p My advice is to start off the Linux in the command line manner. And manually hit#startx whenever i need the Xwindow interface. This way its allow me to troubleshoot the system's fault using the command line and fix it before its transit to the window. Also use the log files as ya guidance to the solution. As it also meant something meaningful where it does not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 Whoa! There is no such distro as Mandrake 7.3! You must mean Mandrake 7.2! Also, I used Mandrake-Linux since version 8.0 and Linux did have quite some promises! At that time, I dual-booted with Windows. It wasn't until this release that gave me the green light to prepare to make my system 100% Anti-Microsoft! I just have to re-install it due to my video card screw-up (my software fault) so I can finish my schoolwork. After that, then it's the backing up the data on my Windows 2000 partition since my W2K craps out on me too often, wipe out both partitions and master boot records, and THEN, I can install Mandrake-Linux 9.0 as a standalone OS on my 60 GB hard drive. I'll remove the other 6.9 GB that I have, but I'll probably test Longhorn before I install Mandrake-Linux 9.0 on my 60 GB hard drive. Just to get a good idea on what to expect in the next Windows so Linux will know! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 I've used it and loved the ease of install (much easier to get my network printer working than XP) but i like debian a lot now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 Hi, I got ****ed with Winblowz, so I rebooted my computer with a Mandrake 9.0 install cd in the drive and let it go. It installed painlessly, and I've had absolutely NO troubles at all :D (btw, no I don't dual-boot, I'm Linux all the way :)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snocked Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 Hi,I got ****ed with Winblowz, so I rebooted my computer with a Mandrake 9.0 install cd in the drive and let it go. It installed painlessly, and I've had absolutely NO troubles at all :D (btw, no I don't dual-boot, I'm Linux all the way :)) Same story here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted January 4, 2003 Administrators Share Posted January 4, 2003 Yea but what do you guys do about games? Can you still play Counter Strike etc etc? seriously! thats always been my reason not to switch, Games and 3D being v.difficult on Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovedude Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 id love to go Linux all the way.. but i would not be able to play like THPS3 and all new games and stuff :(... and wouldnt be able to use Office 2000 and photoshop.. Icon workshop etc :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 Yea but what do you guys do about games? Can you still play Counter Strike etc etc? seriously! thats always been my reason not to switch, Games and 3D being v.difficult on Linux I don't play game, so... my hobby is to mess around with Linux/BSD, Apache, server stuff and etc. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 4, 2003 Share Posted January 4, 2003 Yea but what do you guys do about games? Can you still play Counter Strike etc etc? seriously! thats always been my reason not to switch, Games and 3D being v.difficult on Linux There are some games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3 Arena, and some others that are available for Linux, but it's hard to find where to buy them. They'll run faster than their Windows counterparts. You can try WineX, but it's a subscription service if you want to use its RPM's instead of downloading and compiling from CVS. WineX is a Windows emulator that emulates DirectX-based games. Also, Mandrake-Linux 9.0 comes with quite a few games! :) BTW, RPM's are way easier to install than installing Windows programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Mandrake is a pretty good distro thats why. :yes: I am upgrading from 8.1 to 9.0 as soon as the cds I ordered arrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacce Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 a few useful a links installing WineX from CVS Installing[Wine Installing Quake 1 2 and 3 Linux Games Linux Compatible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamsINdigital Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 i tried Mandrake and RedHat before (dual-boot with XP), but Linux wuz just to damn confusin for me, so it's back to XP now. i've been thinkin about giving Linux another try lately though :) wut do u guys think about Lindows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snocked Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Doesn't Lindows cost 130.00? Enough said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Oh crap! I thought you had to do the ./configure, make, and make install in order to install WineX from CVS. Better give it another go! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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