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Linux and me.

So far, we're getting along just fine. Using her right now. Hoorah.

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No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.

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What version... i am thinking of installing Linux....

But if i do i would put it on some sepreat partition so i can multiboot it...
hail satan

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I started seeing LinuxPPC about this time last year and it was a disaster from day one. That baby should've been aborted. I thought it was all my fault, but it turns out everyone trying to install it on that system had no luck getting any use out of it. I could get it to boot, and even got the window manager to run, but it was unstable and had some real problems with the display. After wasting, and I mean completely wasting, a month's worth of weekends (I even spent one weekend sober just to try to get it to work), I gave up on it and used the install CDs as coasters.

I know that Suse for PPC is out, but so is OS X beta, so if I start feeling all linux-y again any time soon, I may give it another try with more viable software. Plus now I have a linux person sleeping on my couch most of the time, so I wouldn't be as intimidated by it all. My previous unix experience is sort of limited, but I can learn.

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I'm running Zipslack which is distributed by Slackware. Zipslack runs on a FAT partition, so there isn't that mess of re-partitioning.

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urggggghhh Fat File Sytems!!!

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Originally posted by Spooky:
urggggghhh Fat File Sytems!!!

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hahaha.. (ext2 is better)

run mandrake 6 (dont get 7, there are ALOT of reasons, Im just not going to explain), and install enlitenement package, (use GNOME not KDE) and you will see what I mean when you install enlightenment. ANd I highly suggest reading the enlightenment help file so you know how to use.

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Originally posted by JaySIN:


But if i do i would put it on some sepreat partition so i can multiboot it...
hail satan

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so what wrong with Mandrake 7? I run 7.1 and Suse 7. I don't use Gnome or Enlighhtenment coz there memory footprint is far too big. Blackbox for me, check out my screenshots in the image forum.

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Originally posted by Spooky:
so what wrong with Mandrake 7? I run 7.1 and Suse 7. I don't use Gnome or Enlighhtenment coz there memory footprint is far too big. Blackbox for me, check out my screenshots in the image forum.

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ahhh well you see I don;t run sendmail, or inetd, or apache or anything like that. I also don;t run 7 i run 7.1. Oh yeah and I have pretty decent IPChains firewall setup, not perfect but better than windows all the same.

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[quote]Originally posted by amerikanjunkie:
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2) You can write a PERL script to allocate memory: (not hard @ all):

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Allocating $ARGV[0] bytes of memory \n";
$big = "";
for( $i=0; $i

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Originally posted by Spooky:
ahhh well you see I don;t run inetd

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by the way I was'nt saying it had a memory footprint problem, I was saying that enlightenment and gnome both have a bigger footprint than the likes of blackbox and Icevwm. And given that Linux is about choice i choose to have a manager that is slick, lean and fucking fast.

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Originally posted by amerikanjunkie:
You got an internet connection dont you?

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As I said, I have never had a problem, and I have been running linux for a few years (around 3 1/2 to be exact.)

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err yes I have, but I have the daemon turned off, it does not run on start up, and I have everything commented out in inetd.conf, coz I don;t run a telnet server, ftp server, pop3 server etc.

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Originally posted by amerikanjunkie:
As I said, I have never had a problem, and I have been running linux for a few years (around 3 1/2 to be exact.)

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Originally posted by amerikanjunkie:
gotcha.

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It doesnt matter. All obsolete. inetd still runs a few services needed to hold a connection to the internet, but no big deal.

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...actually, if youd like to get technical, it REFERS to things that are needed to hold a connection.

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I also fiddleed with the host.deny file aswell.for the added security

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good security site:

packetstorm.securify.com

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insecure.org ---> nmap, baby.

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Originally posted by memdink:
insecure.org ---> nmap, baby.

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