Glowstick Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 I just got Mandrake 8.1 the other day and I'm messing around with it. Its...different from Windows, which I normally use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 mandrake 8.2. Using ext3, but going to try reiserfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 Yup. Currently using Mandrake 8.2 and KDE3-RC3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 linux2: thats alooooooot niceeeeeeer than i could ever do on kde :) n i think u can get the admin to change your name to linux since no one wants it unless that was the name u wanted :s lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 LOL. . . That handle was by choice. And thanks for compliment. Linux/KDE has come a long way just in the last year. The things that can be done with X servers is head and shoulders above where it used to be. As you can tell from the screenie; icons benefit now from anit-aliasing. Alpha blending is being used to. Now if we could just get something like cleartype. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 lol kde has changed, theres not much customization on the version of kde i have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Originally posted by Silvorgold lol kde has changed, theres not much customization on the version of kde i have And what version would that be? BTW. . .I don't mean to slight the other window managers or Gnome. I understand that Gnome (2.0) users are now finally able to enjoy the anti-aliased text that KDE users have for the last 14 months :lick: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatter Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Originally posted by linux2 And what version would that be? BTW. . .I don't mean to slight the other window managers or Gnome. I understand that Gnome (2.0) users are now finally able to enjoy the anti-aliased text that KDE users have for the last 14 months :lick: Oh no! Not TRIFLES! :o What ever will we do? -Hatter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicYouthXY Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 linux2, you can make that taskbar transparent or skinned and transparent, as well as the windows that pop from it... i did it, but i forgot how i ended up doijng it... just messing with the settings... try that Gnome/Ximian combo and it will do it for you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impulfusion Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 i voted that i use windows but i got SuSe too. most of time u use windows bcoze i'm learning linux right now so i prefer not starting with linux directly:sleeping: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Oh no! Not TRIFLES! :o What ever will we do? -Hatter [/b] AA text is hardly trifling. I KNOW that Gnome users have clamored mightily for this ability. There are certainly some things that other desktop managers do well to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 I used to use Storm Linux before, now I use Mandrake since Stormix is out of buisiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Originally posted by SonicYouthXY linux2, you can make that taskbar transparent or skinned and transparent, as well as the windows that pop from it... i did it, but i forgot how i ended up doijng it... just messing with the settings... try that Gnome/Ximian combo and it will do it for you!!! Yes I know. There are a couple of themes/styles that will provide transparency for drop down menus and kicker (the panel). However, Teax has not been ported to KDE3 yet and Liquid (my fav) only works with very recent CVS builds of KDE3. Unfortunately KDE3 beta2 is not recent enough :( Be careful about what you say regarding Gnome's ability to add transparency to it's panel. While there is a "hack" for it, most of the screeshots you see with it are just clever cut-n-paste jobs of the desktop used as the panel background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechSys1 Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 Windows 98 on 2 systems, windows 200 server on 1 system, windows XP pro on 1 system, 2 standby system with windows 95 (don't ask why). I also just got a redhat 7.2 system running/online. (that takes care of my bedroom) Dining room - Windows 98SE Living room - windows 98SE (soon to go XP pro) (running DVD/entertainment stuff to tv and stereo) Bathroom - Laptop with 98SE All system on networked together (duh!) with internet access using cablemodem/dsl router. Also have 2 systems next door running various things, networked and internet (to this house) - Both use XP pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatter Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Originally posted by linux2 AA text is hardly trifling. I KNOW that Gnome users have clamored mightily for this ability. There are certainly some things that other desktop managers do well to. I have also seen Gnome users clamor about Translucent menus. That doesn't mean it isn't trifling. IMO Things that don't add functionality or usability to an interface are just trifles. -Hatter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredlok Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I've been using Linux for about 4 years, including slackware, redhat, suse, mandrake, prob a couple others. For the past year I have been using Mandrake at work to monitor & graph about 22 Cisco 6509's and another 40 or so 4006's. Primarily I use MRTG and RRD-Tool to do the graphing for every core port on our switched network. Lately I have been playing around with some perl scripts to analyze the data from MRTG and determine who is using the most bandwidth, highest averages, etc... The scripting power that Linux has allows me to do just about anything that I feel like coding. One of the best things about Linux is how it handles memory. When I first started running my first server at work it used about 25 MB of the swap file. I added another 128 MB of memory and it hasn't touched the swap file since. The machine is only a 700 mhz and it has no trouble monitoring, graphing, and serving the data via Apache for 30 or more people. I would find it difficult to run Linux as my only desktop OS but couldn't do without it when it comes to network monitoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Just a quick screenie of KDE3 final running on Mandrake 8.1 :rambo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGMW Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 As far as I am concerned, Linux is a POS. It is no doubt a lot less stable than Windows or OS X. Linux is very highly overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Originally posted by AGW83 As far as I am concerned, Linux is a POS. It is no doubt a lot less stable than Windows or OS X. Linux is very highly overrated. And you've used Linux for how long, Troll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted April 5, 2002 Administrators Share Posted April 5, 2002 Originally posted by linux2 Just a quick screenie of KDE3 final running on Mandrake 8.1 Oooh that looks good , downloading now :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Only people who cant use Linux or any other non GUI dependant os's would say Linux is a POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 AGW83 is partly right, Linux is a POS. If you ever used some other UNIX, you will notice it. --edit-- btw I wouldn't talk so loud about GUI dependant OSes and all that. I bet 80% of you Linux 'freaks' aren't even able to edit the raw config files. Most of you rely on the installer tools shipped with the distro and these stupid KDE tools to do so. And prolly 66% can't even use the command line. :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux2 Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Originally posted by Redmak Oooh that looks good , downloading now :) Excellent. Have fun with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misecia Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 I'm using Mandrake 8.2 and KDE 3.0 at the moment, but i'm mainly waiting for SuSE 8.0 to be released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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