[what_apples]

This is the official Linux Society thread.

I had one person say they would sign up, which is enough for me. Sign up if you wan't be stand up and be counted!

Post with your distro(s) of choice and I will add you to the list

Current Members:

what_apples - SuSE 9.3, CERN Scientific Linux 3, Ubuntu 6.06

Baron - Kubuntu 5.04 (2.6.10)

Rich - Gentoo (2.6.10)

AT82 - Fedora Core 4, Vector Linux

Shepz - Fedopra Core 3

chaoscomplex - Gentoo (2.6.11), Debian (unstable), Debian (testing 2.6.8)

nimajneb - FreeBSD

bwgames - Ubuntu/SuSE

Dero - Ubuntu

andrew2022 - Redhat (?)

Redwolf_Eddy - SuSE 9.1

DaveManUK - Knoppix, Ubuntu

HearTheThunder - Fedora Core 4

Flukey - Fedora Core 4

visesh - SuSE 9.3

L.G.S. - Knoppix 3.8.1.

loftx - Ubuntu (Horay)

cobra - Ubuntu, OSX (& maybe FreeBSD)

bourdu - Debian Sarge

Spider - FreeBSD 5.3, Fedora Core 4

TomX - Slackware 10.2 & Arch Linux

gwright - SuSE 9.3, Gentoo x86/amd64/ppc, OpenEmbedded, Debian Sarge (!)

jamey - Ubuntu 5.04, FreeBSD 5.4

adityo - Fedora Core 4

__Dreams__ - Suse 9.3

gecko_ - FreeBSD 5.3, Slackware 10.0

Chirpy - Still Deciding - Ubuntu?

greenmuzz - Gentoo

Ginge - Ubuntu (Breezy Badger)

Choad - Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) exclusive user

estel - Gentoo

slugonamission - Fedora Core 4

KingLeigh - SuSE 9.1, Debian (Sarge) exclusive user

Jedeye - Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu 5.10 (x86 & PPC), OpenZaurus

Wise Ferret - Ubuntu (Breezy)

Revelation - Gentoo

tommorris - Mandriva 2006

rednax - Fedora 2/3, SuSE 10, ubuntu, knoppix, redhat, FreeBSD, OpenBSD

mshar - Debian

benbo - Ubuntu 6.06

wes - Fedora Core 9, Xandros (Eee) exclusive user

louiscbrooks - EEEUbuntu, Debian, Gentoo (and FreeBSD)

Amy1334 - Fedora 9

[Baron]

Im running mandrake 10.1 but will be on kubuntu soon

[what_apples]

Originally Posted by Baron

Im running mandrake 10.1 but will be on kubuntu soon

Sorted. Gimmie a shout when you switch

[Rich]

I run Gentoo with kernel 2.6.10 at the moment.

[AT82]

I am running Mandrake 10 on my desktop on an old 4.3GB hard drive!! I didn't want to risk splitting my exisiting windows partition up.

I am running Vector Linux on my ancient P233MMX 64MB RAM laptop, I think its the only version of linux which will happily run hot swapable USB pen drives and Firefox 1.0 with such low specs. Windows 98SE certainly could not manage that without crashing.

[what_apples]

Updated to include AT82 and rahaydenuk - welcome to the "club"

[Baron]

Im running Kubuntu now

its so much nicer than mandrake - makes me realise how naff rpmdrake is

[what_apples]

Originally Posted by Baron

Im running Kubuntu now

its so much nicer than mandrake - makes me realise how naff rpmdrake is

Crikey, that was quick What makes it so much better?

[Baron]

the package manager (kynaptic) is so much nice than mandrakes - it keeps its self more upto date.

Im using the latest verion of KDE now aswell whihc is very sexy

[AT82]

I find the font looks horrible in Firefox on Mandrake, but in other flavours of Linux its fine. I am not sure how to change the default font though, it subsitutes Arial with somthing which looks a bit nasty.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by AT82

I find the font looks horrible in Firefox on Mandrake, but in other flavours of Linux its fine. I am not sure how to change the default font though, it subsitutes Arial with somthing which looks a bit nasty.

Edit>preferences>fonts and colours

[AT82]

Originally Posted by Baron

Edit>preferences>fonts and colours

Shut up you clever d*ck I knew that really I was just testing you

*feels highly emberassed :o *

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Baron

the package manager (kynaptic) is so much nice than mandrakes - it keeps its self more upto date.

Nicer than Portage though?

[Shepz]

Fedora Core 3... but im a n00b at linux as what_apples may remember from the old wireless crap

[what_apples]

Originally Posted by Shepz

Fedora Core 3... but im a n00b at linux as what_apples may remember from the old wireless crap

I remember! Did you eventually get the one witha Ranlink 2500 chipset (same as my PCI card)? If you did have a look at my post about the SuSE 9.3 live DVD - I was very impressed

[Shepz]

Yeah im running the ralink chipset
What's the link to your other thread?

[Baron]

Originally Posted by rahaydenuk

Nicer than Portage though?

I couldn't possibly comment - Ive never used it

[xaxa]

OK, might as well:

Gentoo with 2.6.11 kernel on my main PC
Debian unstable on my laptop (not sure what kernel, and it's turned off right now)
Debian testing on my server (2.6.8)

To fix the fonts, try installing the Microsoft Web Fonts if you don't have them (arial, comic sans, verdana, etc)

[what_apples]

Originally Posted by Shepz

Yeah im running the ralink chipset
What's the link to your other thread?

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/t103377.html

I was very impressed and surprised.

[Baron]

I having a problem installing the v1.5 JAVA JDK. I get the error:

current locale is not supported in X11, locale is set to CX locale modifiers are not supported, using defaultThe installer is unable to run in graphical mode. Try running the installer with the -console or -silent flag.

the console and silent flags dont help Im gonna try the 1.4.2 JAVA SDK instead see if that works