MEWXPZLFUDAWV Club!

[C-Chan]

And in th meantime, i found a cat cosplaying you, C-Chan...

Oh,... where's my "LOLZ" when I need it.... ^^'

*trucks arrives with new shipment of "LOL"'s*

FINALLY!  Just in the nick of time!  ^v^

*LOLZ!!!*

It's just PCLOS. But I followed what you said, and I got my GUI back. I also played around with the settings a bit, and got a bigger screen resolution. Thanks.

Anytime.  ^.^
The one benefit to PCLOS is that I can at least offer a little better technical support with it.  ^___^

I'm liking PCLOS. Right off the bat it reminded me a lot of SAM (duh). It's a bit slower than other distros I've tried in my VM, but I suppose this could be because KDE is a little heavier than GNOME and Xfce, right? Anyhow, I'm writing from it right now, and I posted my screenshot in the screenshots thread  

Well true that in that KDE 3.5 is generally more RAM-intensive than Gnome, and certainly XFCE.  However, it has been my observation that PCLOS and Windows Virtualboxes don't mix, as performance is generally far worse on it than if run on its own.  Especially on old hardware, KDE or not, it runs much snappier than Ubuntu even (although Debian still bests the two in terms of boot-up and performance).

It might be RAM issue, though, so you might want to give MiniME 2008 a try.  It's blazing fast (because it's a barebones system) and will give you a taste of what PCLOS 2008 will look like.  (with a newer kernel and updated drivers, it definitely makes PCLOS 2007 seem outdated... ^^')

This I didn't know, either...

Unfortunately I didn't know enough about this earlier myself, or else this would've been perfect that one time you tried installed SAM-chan onto your external hard drive.  ^^'

But as they say:  "Now you know,.... and knowing is half the battle"  ^_______^;

Ooooh, so EeePCLOS could act as a pen drive distro, too...?

But of course, milady!  ^V^

In fact, the new EeePCLOS Compressed Installer (which I modified quite a bit) is based on a new LiveUSB maker still in progress, so it does have LiveUSB-making capabilities.

If you're interested... (although do so only AFTER you've tried MiniME '08, so I can see if it detects your hardware better), I have a bunch of tutorials I wrote that I can share with you.  ^___^

DSL can, too... (basically a lot of distro's that fit on a USB-drive can be installed on one, i guess)

Yeah, basically a LiveUSB is just a flash drive containing the contents of a LiveCD, and assigned a bootflag.  It also needs a bootloader of some sort,... either using GRUB (which is what EeePCLOS uses), or by replacing isolinux.cfg with syslinux.cfg and formatting the drive accordingly.

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Interesting article.... ^___~

http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/28/60-of-photoshop-users-are-pirates/

[Bella]

Well true that in that KDE 3.5 is generally more RAM-intensive than Gnome, and certainly XFCE. However, it has been my observation that PCLOS and Windows Virtualboxes don't mix, as performance is generally far worse on it than if run on its own. Especially on old hardware, KDE or not, it runs much snappier than Ubuntu even (although Debian still bests the two in terms of boot-up and performance).

Well, K8 only has a measly 512 MB of RAM...and about half is going to the VM, so that's understandable...

It might be RAM issue, though, so you might want to give MiniME 2008 a try. It's blazing fast (because it's a barebones system) and will give you a taste of what PCLOS 2008 will look like. (with a newer kernel and updated drivers, it definitely makes PCLOS 2007 seem outdated... ^^')

I thought MiniMe was a bit more difficult to work with, though?

Unfortunately I didn't know enough about this earlier myself, or else this would've been perfect that one time you tried installed SAM-chan onto your external hard drive. ^^'

But as they say: "Now you know,.... and knowing is half the battle" ^_______^;

But of course, milady! ^V^

In fact, the new EeePCLOS Compressed Installer (which I modified quite a bit) is based on a new LiveUSB maker still in progress, so it does have LiveUSB-making capabilities.

If you're interested... (although do so only AFTER you've tried MiniME '08, so I can see if it detects your hardware better), I have a bunch of tutorials I wrote that I can share with you. ^___^

Interesting...I have a pen drive that's been lying around (and just being used for transferring files and stuff) so maybe I'll try installing a distro on it. Again.

Interesting article.... ^___~

http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/28/60-of-photoshop-users-are-pirates/

Yup, that sounds 'bout right...

[Smokey]

If I am not mistaken, and MiniMe is the standard LiveCD edition of PCLOS, then it isn't so hard to work with...
In fact i'd say it is more user-friendly than Fedora...
(Fedora looks and feels smooth, but i think i'll replace her with someone who can handle my wifi card, on the fly...

[C-Chan]

*drops in quickly*

Well point of fact,... MiniME '08 is only difficult to use as far as the fact that it's essentially a bare-bones version of the PCLinuxOS livecd.

That's almost like saying that an N-lited barebones version of Windows XP is more difficult to use than a prebundled version of it -- which MIGHT be true if you don't know what you need/want to install in the system.

But in the case of PCLOS, almost the entirety of the base install is already available in MiniME, and (once uncompressed) can be fit into a 1.5GB footprint.  

After that, it's simply a matter of adding in programs you want from the repos (e.g., Open Office, Mozilla Firefox, Kaffeine, Pidgin, Inkscape,etc), as well as extra KDE functions that might have been stripped away to make the system barebones (e.g., xscreensavers, Kdeartwork, wallpapers, cursor themes, integrated KDE audio conversion and ark compression plugins, media codecs, etc).

In short, MiniME allows you to build your ideal system from scratch, so it's ease is directly proportional to your love and patience for "lego-like" systems.  

*slips back out again*

[Smokey]

Well, I'm still not sure with what i should replace Fedora, yet...
Might as well be Freespire...

*stands in deep thought*

[C-Chan]

At times like this, a little "spin the bottle" never hurts.  

[Smokey]

Meanwhile...Check who's copying ASUS...

http://www.belinea.com/en/s_line/lineview_tagline.jsp?node=652

[C-Chan]

Actually, it looks a lot more like the cloudbook.  

Besides, it doesn't look like it's gonna sell cheap and it doesn't have Linux (they recommend Vista right off the bat  @___@ ), so it only looks like all the countless arm-and-a-leg EXPENSIVE UMPCs that came LONG before the beautiful Asus EeePC.  ^_____^'

It's one of those instances where you don't get what you pay for.  -v-;

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PS:  This is painful to post, cause this is as funny as I am demure (hint: not very)....

http://sonoftheclayr.info/?a=view&id=27

...but with a lot more polish, it could've made for a cool April Fool's.  ^^'

[NejinOniwa]

PS: This is painful to post, cause this is as funny as I am demure (hint: not very)....

http://sonoftheclayr.info/?a=view&id=27

...but with a lot more polish, it could've made for a cool April Fool's. ^^'

I facepalm'd.
Twice.
And Hard.

My hand hurts now, uguu~ ;_;

[Smokey]

PS: This is painful to post, cause this is as funny as I am demure (hint: not very)....

http://sonoftheclayr.info/?a=view&id=27

...but with a lot more polish, it could've made for a cool April Fool's. ^^'

The server timed out on me...

[Bella]

PS: This is painful to post, cause this is as funny as I am demure (hint: not very)....

http://sonoftheclayr.info/?a=view&id=27

...but with a lot more polish, it could've made for a cool April Fool's. ^^'

Hawhaw XD

Yeah, that really could have been better...

In other news, yesterday Ubuntu had what I like to call a "rare Unix moment"...on bootup, it did a file system check...yay! My first fsck!  

...wait, that didn't sound right....;026

[C-Chan]

In other news, yesterday Ubuntu had what I like to call a "rare Unix moment"...on bootup, it did a file system check...yay! My first fsck!

Fufufu... Bella-san got some yesterday.  ^__________^
No but seriously,... I remember when I used to get those too back when I thought having a giant FAT32 home partition was a good idea.  ^.^
That's another reason why you don't need to defrag a Linux system -- the drives that CAN get fragmented are checked regularly (unless you specifically tell it not too).  ^__~

In other news,....

EXTRA EXTRA!!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!!

LINUX SAVES XP!!!!  ^__^

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5398830397.html

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Or not.....? O___o

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26569

[NejinOniwa]

Bink lroken. -.-

[Smokey]

No it's not...

But worrying news, though...

[NejinOniwa]

Now it works...didn't before ^_^ Server down I guess.
On the other hand, XP SP3 DO WANT.
(just a bit scared of all the shit they might put into it, like DRM and crap >_> )