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Originally posted here by DeadAddict
Let me know how suse works out for you haven't got around to downloading it yet been toying around with gentoo for a day or two now
OH MY GOD NO! Drop Gentoo and get SuSE :) (Like anyone is really shocked at that comment).
Honestly, this will seem strange, but I reformat about.... 3-5 times a week. I have one box running Windows XP that I leave alone because I need it for school and porn, but the rest are pretty much fair game. The XP box is a Compaq Presario 6000 with a 2.13 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2600 + and 512 MBs RAM, 120 GB HD, and 32 MB Vid Card.
The next PC is a Medion running....Windows XP, NetBSD, Slackware, and SuSE....and it did run Redhat ( like once or twice. It has a 2.40 GHz Celeron Processor, 128 MB Nvidia Vid card, 256 MBs RAM, oh, and before I forget, they all have 17 inch flat screen monitors. Also this has an 80 GB HD.
Then next to that is this box. It's an HP Pavilion with a Pentium 3 733 MHz machine with a 43 GB HD, 384 MBs RAM, 16 MB Nvidia Vid Card, Sound Blaster Live! Card....Oh and, they are hooked up to my 3MB a second connection. each one has at least 2 firewalls.
The Compaq has very nice, loud, good sized speakers, the Medion has two speakers and a subwoofer so my neighboors can tell when I'm winning at Unreal Tournament, and this one has a set of Labtecs hooked up.
Heh, with all this, including two stereos, two Bass Amps, a guitar Amp, and the fact that I have a million Misfits CDs, and the fact that I can play most of their songs on bass, gutar, and drums, I think I could make it so you could hear any one song by the Misfits for a couple blocks.
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Don't worry Gore I am currently downloading Suse will test it out when I get some free time and when it finishes downloading
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I just did the ftp install of suse 9 I think 2 days ago. It really looks good and different from 8.2. I had also done the ftp install of 8.2. I actually downloaded each package for the ftp install and put them on an ftp server on my own network. It only took like an hour for the whole install, although I went with the default package selection and didn't customize it. That hour included me downloading a few packeges that I had forgotten to download(hey, it's hard to keep track when downloading over 2000 packages). Then, for some reason the OpenOffice I had wasn't working and I tried redownloading it which took about 15 minutes, but it still didn't work. So I probably could have been done in less than an hour. So far I like it. I haven't really done anything with it though. I was going to post a screenshot in the show your stuff thread, but apparently the default ftp install excludes the import command. Oh well. Maybe I will reinstall with more packages added, and also try to get a good copy of openoffice. Go Suse, it rules. I am getting these distros for christmas from linuxcd.org: Suse, gentoo, knoppix, freeBSD, slackware, mandrake, Debian, and Libranet. Should make for a lot of fun testing and a whole bunch of wiping and installing going on. (you know you're a geek when you get distros of linux for christmas). Cheers.
p.s. My dad doesn't believe me that you can just reinstall Norton and have your free updates for a year again. I don't know if I will end up wiping and reinstalling or not.
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To be on the safe side I would delete the partitions on the drive habbit I have. all you can do is test it and see what happends
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Over all I will have to say every 3 1/2 months or when something triggers the install.
Well its usually when I feel like changing my main boxes dual boot. What ever distro I feel like burning. I always keep the Xp on the back side of any distro dont know why.
I have to say, I have a quick fuse when it comes to windows messing up any fishy lagg or any wierd adnormal activity on that box and I swear to god I do a reinstall right on the spot. I guess its just a wierd fetis.
But I kind of enjoy reinstalling OS's. Maybe thats because I rarely keep personal info on the drive. Most every thing I need apps wise are on file including updates. The only thing realy on the drive is music and apps.
