I'm writing this on my just installed RedHat 7.1 system Almost everything works perfectly (I had to install alot of driver before it worked in Win).

The only little problem i have is this: When I have sound activated, the computer becomes unstable, and crashes within a few minutes. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be wrong, and how to fix it?

What sound-card do you have? Maybe you should get some newer module from the internet and then insmod it instead of your old module.
fabs

Hehe, the problems just dissapeared, now I'm in love with Linux

Good to know
fabs

Wow, this is a very happy day for me. Another brilliant person has moved from windows to linux. Words cannot describe how happy I am. The penguin rocks, and EVERYONE switch to it, or atleast give it a try!

*** KaGez shudders ***
eeewww ... RH ... hehe , but good for the beginning hope you get comfortable soon =D
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KaGez:

1) The only thing I have that works is RH.
2) I could have installed mdk instead.
3) I could have continued using win
4) I boot Minix when I feel like some real unix hacking

I use RH 7.1. I had some prejudices about it, as everyone said it was THE newbie distro, but now I've realized it's much better than that.

Of course, I wanna have Debian, and I will install it on another partition soon, but configuring that will take some time, and I refuse to use windows meanswhile.

i think a lot of the said 'hacker' or 'underdog' distros can be very good, better than the mainstream consumer stuff (of course, I mean mdk, rh, suse, ...)

I am interested in Gentoo Linux, which I will try one day, and Debian definitely rules. Not necessarily because of apt, suse 7.2, and mdk have similar things, but because of that 'wild touch'.
Slackware is also a cool thing....

I think perople starting off with mainstream distros and who are really interested in linux (and the more complicted stuff about it) will sooner or later switch to debian. (or, ok, perhaps also to slack or gentoo or something more exotic)

The most important thing for me is that keyboard, sound and graphics works. If I got that to work in Debian or Slack or something, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to switch. I wish I had a bigger hard disk (17GB isn't that big after all ), so I could have Windows, Minix AND 2 Linux distros installed, hehe

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On 2001-08-26 14:38, robost86 wrote:
The most important thing for me is that keyboard, sound and graphics works. If I got that to work in Debian or Slack or something, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to switch. I wish I had a bigger hard disk (17GB isn't that big after all ), so I could have Windows, Minix AND 2 Linux distros installed, hehe



Can't you just see the headlines in your local newspaper?

"Local man blows up computer, house: 'It appears he had 4 OS's installed on his computer...when windows decided to have some "fun" with them...'.; 'I was just trying to learn linux!!' was the startled Robert Ostling's reply"

hehe...I'm deleting Windows ME (ME is devilware...) from my one of my computers tonight and installing SuSE...fun . Now all I need to do is find out how I can get it to work with my modem (I think it's a winmodem :-/)

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[ This Message was edited by: -KEN- on 2002-01-16 01:01 ]

Winmodems are quite well supported in Linux these days So you shouldn't have _that_ big trouble getting it to work, maybe only getting a new kernel and compile it.
Anyways, I wish you good luck and much of fun with your Linux!
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I couldn't completely kill off windows (too much important stuff..) so I'm dual-booting...Oh well, I still like it...haven't tried to go online yet, though... [addsig]

I also have a dual-boot (acturle 4 OSs)... I have one Win98 and 3 Linux (2 of em are Debian GNU/Linux SID). Quite good to have some OSs on one sys to test things on different APIs etc
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I've got Debian Sid and Windows 98 on my home computer, and Debian Sid and Win2k on the laptop (the school bought Win2k).

Yeah, dual booting is good for testing stuff (for me it's mostly been websites and such) and also, some family members use my computer at times, and Linux doesn't really fullfill their current needs. Or something. Hehe... I might try to convince my dad to use linux though.. as there is StarOffice/OpenOffice... that's quite all he needs. That eats a lot of RAM, right? his computer has 24mbs...

I think that probably won't be enough :/
But M$ office also doesn't work with 24MB, does it?
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i think ms office is lighter on memory tho... well, you could try, take out all your ram of your machione and put the 24mb in it and boot linux with it... depending on your expiriernce, take further actions

at least startoffice wont run without a swap if you've got GNOME/KDE running already :/ they're pretty big. When I start up my system (with about 10 servers I don't even know about), and start X and GNOME with Nautilus I've got like 140MB of RAM used ... when using KDE it was about 170MB... dunno where that size diff comes from, but anyways, desktops seem to eat much of RAM :/
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yeah, it'll probably work better with a lightweight desktop, like icewm or blackbox...

tho these are a lot less like windows, so probably harder to understand for somebody used to windows only.

[ This Message was edited by: fsvara on 2002-01-18 14:37 ]

it's also a bit more difficult, but I think WindowMaker will also do it
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I've got Linux Mandrake 8.1 since a few days now. I had Mandrake earlier but it was inclomplete and later it crashed because of some hardware problems (it was Mandrake 6.? i think). But I never had to put on the RESET button

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On 2001-08-26 09:37, fsvara wrote:
i think a lot of the said 'hacker' or 'underdog' distros can be very good, better than the mainstream consumer stuff (of course, I mean mdk, rh, suse, ...)

I am interested in Gentoo Linux, which I will try one day, and Debian definitely rules. Not necessarily because of apt, suse 7.2, and mdk have similar things, but because of that 'wild touch'.
Slackware is also a cool thing....

I think perople starting off with mainstream distros and who are really interested in linux (and the more complicted stuff about it) will sooner or later switch to debian. (or, ok, perhaps also to slack or gentoo or something more exotic)


i started right away with slackware... maybe a mistake i am still not able to configure it for internet...

Heh, well, there will be a way. It will just take you longer if you're inexperienced. But this way you learn most (if you don't lose your motivation).

But in general fsvara is right. /me started with SuSE, switched to RedHat and now I'm with one of the smaller, totally sourcebased distros, called SourceMage, which is only avaible in the internet. [addsig]

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On 2002-07-04 15:55, MoX wrote:
But in general fsvara is right.


Yeah, obviosuly, I'm always right
Nah, seriosuly, what did I say that was so right?

I first used Mandrake 7.1, 7.2 and then Debian potato, woody and finally sid (which I'm using now parallel to Mdk8.2)
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On 2001-08-26 09:37, fsvara wrote:
I think perople starting off with mainstream distros and who are really interested in linux (and the more complicted stuff about it) will sooner or later switch to debian. (or, ok, perhaps also to slack or gentoo or something more exotic)


fsvara: That's the thing you said which I considered right. [addsig]

(debian, slack and gentoo are also "mainstream" distros )
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