US Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

[jæd]

I use Linux all the time both in a dual boot XP/Mint Daryna configuration with Puppy 2.15CE as a third CD boot option and Knoppix as a fourth option just to play with KDE - overkill but then if you are serious about Linux why not

Why...? Either use virtualisation or just install KDE and whatever Puppy's window manger is (JWM...?) as a login option. Much quicker than rebooting...

On my main machine which I now use for everything now I have only Puppy 3.01 on the HD and test all the latest photo editing software which to be honest is nightmare to do in Mint Daryna unless you want to turn off security or login in as root.

Sounds like its been installed wrongly... At work I use Crossover (the packaged and fully supported commercial iteration of WINE) to run Office 2003 for corporate needs. I don't have to use root to use it. The same with regular WINE.

To be honest I have no problem with security as I am always checking or destroying the installation and having to reinstall from scratch. I think i gone about four weeks now without breaking it

Not sure how you would break it so often...

 

[stowpirate]

Why...? Either use virtualisation or just install KDE and whatever Puppy's window manger is (JWM...?) as a login option. Much quicker than rebooting...

Sorry you are talking to an anarchist when it comes to computers. I already use a VM but find it very slow on most distros. I am limited to old fashioned 1.7ghz Celeron with 384mb ram or 600mhz PIII with 128mb ram so really there is no option but to reboot into the other OS as required.

Sounds like its been installed wrongly... At work I use Crossover (the packaged and fully supported commercial iteration of WINE) to run Office 2003 for corporate needs. I don't have to use root to use it. The same with regular WINE.

If we are talking about Mint Daryna it is a perfect installation. It is just that I constantly fiddle with the OS which at some point always ends in tears. Sometimes it is just easier and quicker to reinstall the OS than to attempt to remove an appalling botch at manually installing some new cutting edge software.

Not sure how you would break it so often...

I try installing everything interesting which always ends in tears. Even with XP at some point I am going to destroy the installation. Last time in Puppy I was playing around with KDE using the Slackware package manager. I did not give up and ended up reinstalling Puppy about twenty times in a week!!! It only takes a few minutes so it is not complete insanity

 

[jæd]

If we are talking about Mint Daryna it is a perfect installation....

Really...? For you it might be, but I don't seen any Linux Distro as "perfect" yet. Personally I don't see any advantage with it over Ubuntu...

It is just that I constantly fiddle with the OS which at some point always ends in tears. Sometimes it is just easier and quicker to reinstall the OS than to attempt to remove an appalling botch at manually installing some new cutting edge software.

Is it not better to repair it, or try and understand what you did wrong rather than hit the install reset switch... Anyone can break things, it those that can keep things running that are valued...

 

[ymu]

Why...? The current version is Gutsy, and the next version (on the 24th) is Heron...

Because persistence doesn't appear to work with all Ubuntu releases and that is the one feature I want at the moment.

Versions Tested [for persistence]

Works with 6.06 LTS "Dapper Drake".

Works with 6.10 "Edgy Eft"

[WWW] Doesn't work with 7.04 "Feisty Fawn"

Doesn't work with 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Tribe 1 (more information below)

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What's the "more information below"? Please be more specific, or take this out

Works with 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" official release

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence?action=show&redirect=LiveCDPersistence

Although I just spotted that last line, so the latest version olf Gibbon might be worth a shot.

 

[Jonti]

I reckon you should go with Dapper LTS. The next Ubuntu LTS is very soon, but go right ahead. You can upgrade over the internet, free and easy, when Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) comes out.

If you just want to use the machine to do your work (rather that learn linux as such) the latest Ubuntu LTS is the right choice.

 

[Jonti]

I'm going to set up a dual boot with Linux when I get around to it. I've been using the Kubuntu Live CD, but not much as I couldn't get my wireless card to work with it. Would you recommend Puppy (or summat else?) instead?

/derail

Ahh, here's a decent resource to help with wireless cards and ubuntu linux ... Wireless Network Interfaces

And, to find out if that card you've got your eye on supports linux, try Linux wireless LAN support .

 

[ymu]

Ta.