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12-03-2005, 09:31 AM
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Finally got rid of Windows
I finally e-bay'd all 4 of my XP licenses and installed linux instead, so I'm now officially M$ free. Mac OS and linux in my house. I hadn't booted a windows PC here for almost 2 years anyway so I guess it was about time really. Now I just need to figure out this Linux thing.
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12-03-2005, 10:03 AM
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Chop Chop
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Great job! My linux distro (Fedora Core 4) is not working properly, but once I get that fixed, I will see myself using Windows less and less, pretty much only for games.
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12-03-2005, 10:37 AM
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I loaded Ubuntu for now. I'll learn this one and probably try others. I had Suse 7 a while ago and liked it so I may try the newest distro of that.
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12-03-2005, 10:40 AM
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Chop Chop
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I could never get Ubuntu to work, but it looks nice. I had SuSE 9.1 Pro and it was VERY nice. User-friendly and tons of features. Have fun, you get the hang of it pretty quick.
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12-03-2005, 01:03 PM
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I use SUSE 10 which is my favorite distro at the moment but have used Ubuntu and have just got Ubuntu 5.10 and will install it soon.
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12-04-2005, 11:24 AM
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Chop Chop
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I just installed SuSE 9.1 for the secondary family computer (the primary one is in the shop). It is really user-friendly and easy to use. I really like YaST, make installing/uninstalling programs very easy.
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12-04-2005, 11:27 AM
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Does Suse contain support for WPA security over wi-fi?
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12-04-2005, 11:29 AM
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ubuntu worked good for me, I liked it but didn't get to experience it much. I was going to go with a 64 bit Linux distro with my computer, but I heard the SLI drivers were useless, so I decided to hold off on the change.
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12-04-2005, 02:17 PM
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Come in Ray...
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I've been using Ubuntu (on 5.10 now) exclusively for about 4 months now at home... great development machine and does everything I need it to do. The setup was just as easy as installing Windows.
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12-04-2005, 06:09 PM
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I am liking Ubuntu but it doesn't support WPA on my wireless network. I coulld hardwire the thing but seeing as I went to the trouble to get my linksys wireless PCi card installed and a driver workaround working it would be nice to use it. Anyone know of an app that adds WPA support to Ubuntu?
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12-04-2005, 07:27 PM
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Chop Chop
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What driver did you get? The rt2500 driver has WPA built in.
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12-05-2005, 05:22 AM
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I used ndiswrapper and a windows 2000 driver. It seems to work but there's no option to enter a WPA passphrase, only Hex or ASCII keys. I have no idea id my card uses the rt2500 chipset. I'll do a little research and try to find out.
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