Posts by shawnifoley

Quote: Originally Posted by danip I have a bit of a weird problem I think. I run Ubuntu linux right now and I have a problem with my screen shutting off. When I watch movies or video clips on my computer it does not...

I spent 4 hours on the phone saturday to exchange my 4200 for a 5400 drive. I just told them that I am very happy with my purchase but I recieved the wrong harddrive speed in my laptop. And unless they sent me the correct drive I would...

Quote: Originally Posted by maquy Alright, I'm a newb and I'm gonna start with stage 3 and work my way up as I learn. I wanna run windows and gentoo on this 60GB laptop. I have 15 gigs set for the OS and 15 gigs set for...

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Engineer -.- thanks for the vote of confidence. LoL, really though i do think building my own distro from scratch is probably out of my league really, but i kinda do want to go...

Quote: Originally Posted by Apolethe I just installed Ubuntu 5.04 on my i9300. I really hate not being able to use the 'lovely' media buttons on the front of the laptop. Is there anyway to get them working in...

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Engineer Suse, Slackware, and Gentoo If you really wanna learn linux then linux from scratch is the best way. But being a bit more realistic my first suggestion would be to try...

Quote: Originally Posted by k3nv It does have a package manager. It's just not as good as apt-get . Slack's doesn't handle dependencies that great. I usually just compile all my stuff from sources on...

Quote: Originally Posted by k3nv I love apt-get!! I can't believe I've been missing out on this incredible package management system. I usually have to compile tightvnc, MPlayer, etc. But with Ubuntu, just do an...

Quote: Originally Posted by jamesshuang Hmmm... after a week of using Ubuntu, all I can say is, I can't stand it. Ok, I LOVE the installs, only takes a fraction of the time. HOWEVER, within a week, I've already hit many...

Quote: Originally Posted by jamesshuang Hey... it's even got me, a die hard gentoo user turning my head... those long emerges *ARE* quite annoying I have been a hardcore gentoo user for 2+ years and decided to...