I'd like to vote for gentoo!
easiest software install:
emerge -p kde
emerge kde
Dependencies are taken care of AUTOMATICLY, without the need to manualy d/l anything. Once up and running be sure to emerge kportage to get a REALY nice front-end.
if you want a fast install use 1.2
if you want a...
Just letten y'all know. I would've posted sooner but install still takes awile;). KDE 3.1 Beta, and unreal tourny demo are in the portage tree now, but you have to un mask it.
Link to their site, and download
actualy according to steve gibson (the guy how created sheilds up, and runs gibson research corp.) XP's firwall protects from external attacs. but, if you have a router, and your internal ips start with 10. or 192.168 it is an unnesesary precaution as it is imposable to access the other machens...
why doesnt debian support kde3 even in unstable? do any deb clones?
about red hat, i just dont like .rpms. if they had a nice iplementation(sp?) that would be another thing. i HATE manual dependancies. in gentoo, i type emerge -s cdr, to see the cdburning software, emerge -p xcdroast to see...
Unrael tourny (original) has a 100k d/l that makes the cd compatable /w linux. I dont no if the new version, UT2003, will have this support. UT is far supirior to Q3, in my, and several reviewers, POV. that is unless you only like deathmatch and nothing else.
It sounds like he already has set 2 disks up to be a "bios raid disk". if that is the case he would lose his windows partition if he wanted to use standared linux s/w raid( or forthat matter a non raided linux patition). the other advantage to doing it this wayu is that he can have the speed...
Ive tried several distro's, and my reson for leaving has almost always been s/w incompatability. It seemed like if it wasnt on the cd, it wouldent work. I immeadiatly fell in love with portage. just type emerge -s to seach for a file ,and -p to see what would be install. the only problem is that...
Promise Drivers are built into the newer 2.4.x kernals. if your distro doesnt have it compiled in(which it likely doesnt, you will need to compile a custom kernal. Just make sure you check the option to enable expiramental options, and if you want to boot to the raid drive, you need to cople...
I suggest u get urself a good book. I like Linux Compleat by Sybex Press. Its only 19.99 for 1000 pgs. It is a compalation of the best parts of several books. most are 2001 or newer. Lost of poeple have recomended Running Linux from O'Reily Press. I havent Read it, eventho several ppl recomend...
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