Normally when you take a Linux os and put it on new hardware it's dead in the water and normally doesn't even boot. I was pleasantly surprised the other day when the os on a new motherboard new graphics actually booted fully. Okay it needed a kernal and video card driver update to function fully but I was expecting having to re-install from scratch. Got to admit thats a first.
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 18:23
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 21:17
So it's friendly now?
I remember the days when it used to rip my head off.
I remember the days when it used to rip my head off.
There is a very simple reason why alternative energies such as solar, wind power and biomethane have not replaced coal, oil and natural gas. Solar, wind and biomethane are not profitable, nowhere near profitable enough. Our governments don't create their own money anymore. They borrow and they tax. So of course, they won't invest in renewables.
It's time to end our debt-based economic system.
It's time to end our debt-based economic system.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 07:19
PersianPaladin, on 03 February 2012 - 21:17 , said:
So it's friendly now?
I remember the days when it used to rip my head off.
I remember the days when it used to rip my head off.
More friendly i said not friendly.
Based in Sunny Old Sheffield South Yorkshire.
Website at http://www.sheffieldweather.co.uk
Mobile link at http://http://www.sh...uk/iphone/#home
Mobile phone Lightning detection http://www.sheffield...her.co.uk/spark
Website at http://www.sheffieldweather.co.uk
Mobile link at http://http://www.sh...uk/iphone/#home
Mobile phone Lightning detection http://www.sheffield...her.co.uk/spark
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Posted 11 February 2012 - 21:25
It still depends an awful lot on which distro you're using, though! Slackware, for example, still demands that you do a lot of configuration work yourself. On the other hand, the distro I use (Linux Mint 12) has detected everything I've thrown at it without a murmur. It's got to the stage now where I only run Windows in a VirtualBox session, and don't have it conventionally installed at all. Compare that to when I first played around with Linux (late 1990s) and the difference is staggering. 
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