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I wonder what is the general preference and where does it come from. Having used FreeBSD actively for a couple of years I'm leaning towards Gentoo, but I've had an unpleasant experience of wasting valuable time because Gentoo was installed on a really...
Started by Karolis T. on
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by 15 people.
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Do you know archlinux
I haven't used Gentoo for a few years, but my limited experience with it brought me to the conclusion that the (barely noticeable) speed increases gained by compiling the packages were far outweighed by the disadvantage of the time... .
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I have limited Linux server experience. I am looking for recommendations on distros. What's your favorite for servers and why?
EDIT: Clarification: I'm hoping for one, general purpose distro, not specific to a particular function. Something for use on...
Started by TorgoGuy on
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Additional....
They are stable, you can buy is no, then I would start with Ubuntu .
Any distro can be installed from scratch - but how many can is a keypoint on that distro !
Red Hat Enterpise Linux or CentOS.
Or Ubuntu (server) due to dist-upgrade.
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So, I have a remote computer with an SSH service installed, fully accessible to me. I have no physical access to the machine until tomorrow, but I don't want to wait.
I need to make an image of the harddrive, but the problem is, I am booted into the partition...
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To another partition....
Dd command might help, a small distro would be tinycore
There a few ways to do this:
Copy the contents of a small distro like puppy, tinycore, knopix, etc.
That, I can't help as I've only heard about it from a friend .
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I'm just learning and planning to run it in a vm, so as long as I can have a good editor and environment, that would be pretty cool. Any suggestions with reasoning is appreciated.
Started by Matt on
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Alternatively, when you install....
I would suggest that you use SUSE Studio to build your own stripped down distro that focuses on development tools, and use that.
distro that weighs you down with duplicates of the functionality on your host os.
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Is a program shipped in assembler format portable between Linux distributions (modulo CPU architecture differences)?
Here's the background to my question: I'm working on a new programming language (named Aklo), whose modus operandi will be the classic...
Started by rwallace on
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It's basically 20 years since....
It might make your life a lot easier, as it provides a low level virtual machine that makes a lot of hard stuff just work and has been very popular .
You might want to check out LLVM before going down this particular path .
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I know that you're out there. You've heard of this "linux thingy" and thought you might give it a spin on the weekend. You gave it a whirl, started the machine up, and something didn't quite work as expected.
I've done admin work in both Windows and Linux...
Started by Avery Payne on
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by 11 people.
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I still can't get the wireless....
Keeping track of what abbreviations mean what in files in cde, kde, gnome were all different from Windows, and confusing since each distro is different not the case.
What the he!! distro is good for what.
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What are your favorite linux distros?
Started by JF382 on
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I'm not so much a distro-hopper as a distro-collector on steroids; lots and lots....
I've used to check out the new Gnome2 fork - M.A.T.E .
Experimenting with to help out the new kids on the block as it doesn't take up much disk-space.
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I've been trying to get any flavor of distro working on my embarrassing Gateway LT3103u "netbook." Currently using SuSE but they all have the same problem to varying degrees:
See the screenshot for an idea of what happens. I get horrible lines (sometimes...
Started by shock_ez on
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777 v_blanking: 803 v_border: 0 [ 28.801] (II) RADEON(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f [ 28.801...er/015157.html
If you have AMD/ATI graphics (and not radeon/intel) and a modern distro you should.
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If the title was, odd, I apologize. I am gonna explain the steps I did before, during and after my problems started happening.The computer I am did this on is a laptop, Toshiba Satellite L25. I recently did a dual boot with porteus, with vector linux ...
Started by kyle151515 on
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Here is one right at home base:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php/cat/529.
distro is.
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I thought it would be a good idea for people new to Linux to draw out the partitioning scheme before actually going about installing anything.
This is a first draft of trying to install two Linux distros and Windows on one HDD.
I would very much appreciate...
Started by ubni on
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by 6 people.
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For it? Can I store system images of the particular Linux distro on the DATA partition as well or am I better advised to put it in the HOME partition for that distro? I like to regularly image the OS.
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