Register    Calendar    Members    ST Team    Forum Search    FAQ    Portal    Overview Silgrad Tower: Oblivion » Archive » Blacklight » Blacklight General » I'm going to take things a little off subject here » Hello You Last Post | First Unread Post Print Page | Recommend to a Friend | Add Thread to Favorites I'm going to take things a little off subject here Author Post « Previous Thread | Next Thread » Rodan Spellbinder of Blacklight Registration Date: 02.03.2003 Posts: 1,090 Location: City of Blacklight I'm going to take things a little off subject here        With the memory loss and everything, I've been cleaning the house up and I've discovered another computer. I have absolutely no idea on the specs except it has memory, a soundblaster card, a video card, and no HD's. I do have a couple of old ones to put in as well as a networking card. What I'm thinking of (and that's a very dangerous thing ) is to put the extra HD's into it, seeing what I can get off those drives, and making it into a linux computer . There is already 3 computers working in the house (2 XP, 1 Win 98) so have any members dealt with linux, which versions have you been comfortable with, which have you disliked, or not dealt with at all. 03.06.2006 17:24 -Sulan- Chieftain of Skyrim Registration Date: 06.03.2006 Posts: 450 Location: Sweden Fedora Core 5 is nice I have?nt used it much myself but my brother is kind of a Linux Geek and he uses Fedora, its pretty much like red hat and free... __________________ Skyrim for Oblivion Music (last update: December 11 -06) (Nothing is final)... All comments, suggestions and criticism is welcome!! 03.06.2006 18:51 gundalf First Knight Registration Date: 29.04.2006 Posts: 156 Location: Erfurt, Germany Gentoo Linux, nothing for beginners I use it on my desktop every day. Debian is also quiet nice (runs on my webserver). You might want to check out (K)ubuntu, Mandriva, or SuSE. I have set up both Kubuntu and Mandriva without problems, but have no long term experience with them. Try some of them and find the one that fits best. __________________ Got zombies in my basement. http://niftools.sourceforge.net. 03.06.2006 20:37 Rodan Spellbinder of Blacklight Registration Date: 02.03.2003 Posts: 1,090 Location: City of Blacklight I've used Mandrake Linux 8 but was never able to do a dual setup. I don't have a copy of it anymore. I'm looking at this as a summer project, something to do beyond modding once in awhile. One question I have is, will Linux also work with a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse Interface)? 04.06.2006 02:09 gundalf First Knight Registration Date: 29.04.2006 Posts: 156 Location: Erfurt, Germany I've never owned a KVM, but it should work. Here's a compatibility chart: http://www.linux-tested.com/results_kvm.html. __________________ Got zombies in my basement. http://niftools.sourceforge.net. 04.06.2006 02:15 Rodan Spellbinder of Blacklight Registration Date: 02.03.2003 Posts: 1,090 Location: City of Blacklight Thanks for the link! It's looking like SUSE is the best way to go at the moment. 04.06.2006 02:55 Rodan Spellbinder of Blacklight Registration Date: 02.03.2003 Posts: 1,090 Location: City of Blacklight I've been reading on Slashdot about Ubantu Linux lately and was wondering if anyone had any info on it. 06.07.2006 02:55 Tree Structure | Board Structure Silgrad Tower: Oblivion » Archive » Blacklight » Blacklight General » I'm going to take things a little off subject here