Posts by abf

eveything is very doable. for your specific use gentoo would be a great way to go, however factoring in long compile times and the OPs n00bness factor Arch or even Debian might be better alternatives. Of course go with a skinny config...

Sony actually beat Wii in Japan this month for sales. Fairly interesting i think. The PS3 is a good system. Wifi is built in, bluray is built in, runs linux. I still got the 360 for choice of games and ability to play my friends (who...

Quote: Originally Posted by galahad05 The funny thing for me was, as I clicked on the link I noticed the banner: "Always Low Prices. Always." Then I noticed the $677.38 price tag for a ~250.00...

actually as of just a few weeks ago there was a osx trojan @ large. i am not saying osx is not secure, it is really secure but still...just correcting the inaccuracy of your statement artweek

i like pacman. I think its better than most, i actually like it more than APT for stuff. simple commands to know: pacman -S = sync, installs a package pacman -Ss = search, looks for keyword you enter pacman -Syu = sync update...

http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Play not enough reviews to tell...so i'd be careful. there is nothing wrong with buying online, because just about everyone on this forum did pretty much. A large number of us bought from stores...

Basically here is the rundown on the hardware: CPU: ------- Doesn't matter if its Intel or AMD or even Transmeta. Everything is supported equally well, and that includes scaling the mhz as well as optimization for performance vs power...

Quote: Originally Posted by Blackdog666 1) Mac's are only good for video editing Just a stereotype going way back in the day. A mac is just another computer...works like just another...

barebones config vs usable out of the box config are really different things. And with that the need for the distro of choice changes. For config from scratch, the best options are Gentoo, Arch and Debian. And even between them there...

it seems to me that freebsd has a weired delay between input and output. that is on freebsd it takes a second longer to open firefox than in a i686 or x86_64 similar setup of linux. even not firefox, apps that are supposed to load almost...