So I got bored, and decided that I could install FreeBSD on my laptop. "NO" said FreeBSD as the bootCD repeatedly froze my laptop after reaching the ALi chipset section. "Debian it is" says I, and so I go about re-installing Debian. I've forgotten how crappy it is to unpack all of the packages just for GNOME and KDE to be up and running. sadness.

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1337Yectiwan
OSC Returns!!
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That'll teach you.

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#emerge gentoo

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Slackware has been good to me for many a year.

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`apt-get install kde`...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

You're missing out. FreeBSD is the best.

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..And so begins Massassi's own Linux vs BSD flamewar...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

FLAME FLAME FLAME

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If everyone in the world were smart There would be no stupid people.

/me runs in wearing a flameproof suit.

WINDOWS > ALL

/me runs away.

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Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

KILL HIM!!

What is BSD btw?

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B'tduz: A popular dwarfish game which consists of standing a few feet apart and throwing large rocks at one another's head.

"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" - His Grace His Excellency the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

Morituri Nolumus Mori

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD

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I happened to choose gentoo. It is not being the happy with the installing KDE or GNOME.


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"With Great power comes great Responibility. Seems like the converse should be true as well. Now where the heck is my great Power?"

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/me pets his Win98
/me sees that it caused a BSoD

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The bright side to using Gentoo, however buggy it may be, is that there is a huge user base at http://forums.gentoo.org .

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After all of the fighting I did with it, my debian disc had corrupted data towards the end of the install. I don't have broadband available at home, and didn't have the ISO anymore. So I'm on RedHat9 again. Ah well. At any rate, can somebody give me a straightforward command to update the up2date system? I know you have to get a new cert, so I put the command in like this..

rpm -Fvh up2date-gnome-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm up2date-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm

is that right? It started by saying preparing, but then it went through one bar got to 100% went to the second bar, got to 50% and has now been sitting there. And I'm not seeing any activity.

If I did it right, how long should it take?

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1337Yectiwan
OSC Returns!!
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apparently it worked, I restarted out of desparation as the system started acting horribly sluggish. Afterwards, it just started working like a dream. The updates are flying in. Too bad RHN goes down in April.

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1337Yectiwan
OSC Returns!!
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I hear the FreeBSD ports system isn't going down anytime soon.

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I'll get him. *takes out rifle* *kneels* *aims* *shoots* *alpha1 falls to the ground*

Got 'em.

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"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

I'd run linux on my laptop, but like the dumb *** that I am, I bought a microsoft network card for it. PCMCIA, its a MN-120. Sadly I haven't found a way to get it to work

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hello, get knoppix

Words of wisdom.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.