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[banj0]

[Linoman]

To be pretty honest, I prefer Debian based distros as I find them to be more stable. That is why I like Kubuntu and will install it again as soon as 7.10 offically comes out. For non Debian, I must vote for PC-Linux good distro,

[m.oreilly]

i'm back in mandriva '07 spring. i guess either i need a bios update for the latest linux kernel, or linus don't like scsi drives no more

[David_Heavey]

m.oreilly, on Oct 7 2007, 02:56 AM, said:

dave, as an aside, what types of drives do you install ubuntu on? and your sound card: are you using onboard, or the creative you had?

I did use the onboard until Creative (finally) released beta Linux drivers for the X-Fi. I install Ubuntu on one of my non-raid 200gig Maxtor sata drives. Never tried installing it on the RAID

[m.oreilly]

hehe, after joing a bunch of linux forums and spending most of the day trying to get audio on the mandriva '08 (i installed it on a sata), i decided to try fedora 7. hehe, no audio love there either, so i decided to erase it and use the tried and true mandriva spring '07 again. i installed mandriva, or so i thought, because when i rebooted, the fricken fedora loader came up (yes, no fedora os, and yes, mandriva was supposed to be there) offering no boot path to mandriva or windows (or, of course, fedora). the #1 super cool option on the mandriva spring install disc: restore the windows boot loader hehe, f'in' a tweety saved my lily white @$$! i guess i'm just an old school/kernel kinda guy...

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

Nvyseal, on Oct 6 2007, 11:58 PM, said:

Cool, their clustered

u should do comedy dave lol

[Christopholofigus]

I'm running a dual boot with XP x86 and Mandriva Spring 2007 x64 on my AMD3400 754 box.

[bizketman101]

im thinking about running a dual boot with xp and ubuntu. but im a little chicken and mess up somewhere!

[Nvyseal]

bizketman101, on Oct 22 2007, 05:48 PM, said:

im thinking about running a dual boot with xp and ubuntu. but im a little chicken and mess up somewhere!

Try Wubi, its what introduced me to linux. Its very user friendly http://www.x64bit.ne...?showtopic=4352