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@ lightwalk, u go chop cane o! wey i post am like 3 times already for dis page? last warning! lol
its folabiklan@Y!

@ lightwalk yes i did o! that man just dey perform. DC for president 2011, lol

@opes, i truly fail to know what the link is between the language and the pc. cos if u install a fresh os, u choose the language it will be in ke? or even at that if u get anor pc with the same os beside it so u can navigate to language options u change it to whichever 1 u want!! as long as the os has the pack for it! abi the bios sef na japanese?

even that one sef u fit update the bios to anor one for the same lapie maybe the language dey different


what i tink is check the bios if truly its seeing the hard disk, if it does, do the fixmbr thingy.

if it doesnt, try to remove the hard drive and put it back in, at times it may fall or hit some thing and shake.

seems thogh u may have to stick to xp, should in case na the win7 dey worry am. but that one sef is not really likely

yeah as i found out. i moved them into C:\ and rebooted. then the bootmanager thingy appeared from nowhere and i added the thingy. unfortunately the kde keeps crashing. but the lxde does ok i guess.

i do wish them blokes would do something about bluetooth. bluez is available for free ke. i dunno maybe i have to learn to compile .pets myself and then pray it works. ad they changed the network thingy. the old one used to have APN functionality for dial up this one doesnt. hw we supposed to be able to dial up? even a usb modem needs the apn.

ok LYNX hw far with tht download

U nid 2 explain properly. Hav u formatted it already? Or is dt d way u were given? Did u meet a os on it? Which 1? Explain precisely. Hw were u given? In wat state was it? Wat did u do 2 it?

I cant seem 2 figure out hw 2 mount the oda sfs files again in pup. They are in d same folder wit d main in a frugal boot. I tink main puppy used 2 hav a straight fwd utility 2 mnt sfs files? Need 2 get dt kde running o.

Hmmn so much palava. Lol.

Which reminds me, wine is very useless for networkin apps shey?

tseew, some things just dont fly wit me, the yim is telling me ur not on the server list or something like that. abeg am online so pls u try hook me

@ lynx i cant seem to find u on my buddy list in yim again, sebi iv added u before?. pls just add me again. folabiklan@y.com

@ DC actually im now at work on the dartted ms xp box and i cannot seem to be able to see the top of my nose. am online now anyway pls add me now

thanks. hmmn, lemme go googling again. i rmbr i saw that sudoers thingy but i dunno o.

then i looked well at mandriva again. actually was nice and very user ready. hw did they manage to get as much as that on a cd while ubuntu just packs useless stuff. who uses a mail client? everything was working on the pc i tried it on, including compiz!!!! but one draw back. it did not recognise my fone and i couldnt dial up with it, disqualification.

fedora, tseew. they have a long way to go jare

@ DC i neva see the offline o.

@ lightwalk i no knw for u o, wetin u dey talk abt

@ lynx, wat did not work, sebi u saw the error msg, correct it naw. google for the dll or loook for it in windows!

and which wine u dey use anyway.

omo my ubuntu cds don pack up na im i try mepis and mandriva ol boy, less wahala o!!! ubuntu is seriously in trouble sha. maybe mint will convince me 4 ubuntu back.

then fwd the DC/ airomon mail to me shebi u dey online now? i dey for yim live!

Ok so dt 'thing' is worth like 7-10k dollars? gawd. @ Slinking away shamefacedly wit tail btw legs.

Looks back and retorts- am sure some wares n even os cant run on dt beast cos they cant fathom those resources.


Dear santa i want 1 like dt

Lol! I dont bite--sometimes.

Dnt hav ur yim and am on fone now. An offline nko? Mine is folabiklan@y.om

My posts are bein blocked again o! Dis is not romance section ke! Hw does a linux cmd flag d bots? U dis nl admins/owner are light headed.
Ok i fink i get it. 2 b root in mepis is - su root , or is it su username?

Am on phone n out so im not checking now.

Wats d cmd? And please how do i configure d startup daemons?

@ dualcore, why d bad belle naw? Is it cos am so smooth eh? Lol. Yup F works, all u need is d dll in wine. And there are oda sturv too. So dose digits would be useful.

Cmon share d across d divide brodarly luv.

Speak of which i installed mepis, but i find i cant acquire root privileges in my account! I had 2 install some stuff by logging into root!

I also cant run kdesu prog. Hw far wit that? I wanted 2 stop some service daemons from starting up wit pc.

And once again network mgr is just , tsk. I even wanted 2 invoke a script 2 restart like i do in ubuntu but i think d su thing not allowing.

Ideas? Or else i go 2 mint like dt o!
Best kde iv seen yet. Read dt kde 4.3 cures d old yawns.

Mandriva. Hmmn ok will some stuff live 2 see.

Nb is there a way u can install packages off anor distro cd? If u put 1 in it says a cd wit packages has been detected start software sources or is it synaptic, ,

ok where o i start, first thanks weaver, i truly appreciate.

now i see a bit of the reason why you people do all these other OS'es. man it was like a candy store. but still i dunno if its just me but they really seem to be the same thing to me!!!! what is different in mandriva and ubuntu oda than the default apps, the support u get and maybe performance. if not u could take one for the oda easily!!! even the KDE versions.



anyway lemme do it in this manner,
1. MEPIS.: NOW THIS IS temptation!!!!! pure and simple. wonderful default rendition of KDE, great performance in livecd mode, saw all my hardware, worked without soiling, excellent collection of default apps!!! im in love.

drawback, i dunno ,its debian shey? so my knowledge in ubuntu simply ports over? terminal cmds, installing, what repos do they use? mepis or ubuntu? how does coping workout?

and also kde 3.5, am sure there are newer ones? will this one still bne supported fully.

2. FEDORA- forget it, too slow for my liking, bare bones install lil apps, seems to be a poor attempt at ubuntu. same interface.

3. MINT- its felicia! sob sob, thats a bit old aint it. isnt that 8.04? is that still supported? hmmnn, i just dunno.

4. MANDRIVA- HMMMNNNN, this is ubuntu to me o, i dont knw wat tthe diff is in these os'es, the engines shey, just there does av a couple of apps too is an option but uncertainties making me think twice. these are all angels i dunno, ubuntu is just fine

5 SLAX. forget it, puppy makes it look inferior!! plus its slower than puppy. display too basic.

6 LIGHTHOUSE PUPPY- now this guy makes me really proud. now this is a fully functional OS with class. all those addons are just what is needed. u could put a bank on this. someone should give that fella a kiss for me. thats good work. every thing even wine.


so i dunno, mint felicia, mepis or mandriva. i just want a smooth transition. those my options
the winners are lighthouse, mepis, mint, mandriva

U dey find trouble! U don belle full naw u wan burst d belle. Ok o! E plenty ke! Bloatware? E dey yanfu yanfu

Hey guys could y'all digit-ise d F 4 me? PLEEEEASSEEE! D magic nos abeg. Biko dakun ejoo dan allah!

I CONCUR IN TOTO!!!!  abi toto sef don get ban?

but wait o, if truly d guy dey play all dis away matches, which i doubt, knowing americans and their love for media attention and pull the rich black down mentality,  THE WIFE NO DEY DO THE GUY AT ALL!!!!!!

HABA!!

thank you for being so civil. at least thats 1 less person starting threads on how smmoooooooooth windows is! like we care.

wish the odas could be like you. considering that you urself know hw much easier life is for u with that server on centOS. abi u go lyk change to MS server 2007? think not.

by the way come help me download linux mint helena abeg, shebi ur large files offer is still on? eh bros eh!

ahh finally someone who actually has something to back up. thank you bros, any complaints you have are justified. at least YOU know what you are talking about.

which leads me to the one major gripe i have with linux. the pioneers and really good linux users are geeks so they only write tutorials like geeks would. actually, let me inform u that the things you ACTUALLY HAVE to do in terminal are few and getting fewer by the day!!!! u see the geeks are command line savvy so they simply write cmds. and they prefer it too.

BUT if u take your time to actually look, u will find that POINT AND CLICK works on linux too e.g ubuntu, suse, fedora. when u see a cmd like cp~ /etc/modules, or mkdir , its just copying or creating a folder! u can navigate to the place, right click and ccreate new folder!!!!!!!!! those cmd have meaning!!! LEARN.

u can also install apps by downloading the deb or rpm and double clicking. the advantage of terminal or command line is if for example you want firefox and firefox need flash etc to work fully, when you use the terminal all u ask for is firefox, the terminal will get the addons automatically so actually u get lazier! in fact see a tool like synaptic. u dont even need to know what ur looking for, if u want music player, type music, it list music plyers in droves, u read the blurb make up ur mind, click 3 times and go to sleep. pronto ur done. you dont even have to go site hunting, and wat ur downloading is secure, well authenticted, no funny biz!

its an old myth that i used to have too before i used linux that it was all cmd line. and for your information were it not for the half baked computer education we get here in nigeria, the most powerful tool in windows is also the command line. the few pple who are actually learned in windows even here in nairaland talk cmd line. there is nothing you can do graphicaly in windows that u cannot do in command line. a true MS certified pro, not naija half baked will work ur pc in cmd line. its faster and easier

there isnt much difference this days in usability, but when pple are too ignorant to learn they keep on giving pple this impression

SO NO, UR LINUX INSTALL DOES ALL THE WORK NOT YOU.

im not running a linux vs windows campaign, im running a get interested and enlightened campaign!!!! LIVE AND LEARN. stop judging what u dont know much about!


PS CHROMIUM is some pple's idea of having fun, its actually some one some where making his own version of chrome! you can do that cos the source code is available!!! u can make ur own apps however u like, take ur mozilla and turn it into texazzpeteellia. so no alarm!!!!

ahh finally someone who actually has something to back up. thank you bros, any complaints you have are justified. at least YOU know what you are talking about.

which leads me to the one major gripe i have with linux. the pioneers and really good linux users are geeks so they only write tutorials like geeks would. actually, let me inform u that the things you ACTUALLY HAVE to do in terminal are few and getting fewer by the day!!!! u see the geeks are command line savvy so they simply write cmds. and they prefer it too.

BUT if u take your time to actually look, u will find that POINT AND CLICK works on linux too e.g ubuntu, suse, fedora. when u see a cmd like cp~ /etc/modules, or mkdir , its just copying or creating a folder! u can navigate to the place, right click and ccreate new folder!!!!!!!!! those cmd have meaning!!! LEARN.

u can also install apps by downloading the deb or rpm and double clicking. the advantage of terminal or command line is if for example you want firefox and firefox need flash etc to work fully, when you use the terminal all u ask for is firefox, the terminal will get the addons automatically so actually u get lazier! in fact see a tool like synaptic. u dont even need to know what ur looking for, if u want music player, type music, it list music plyers in droves, u read the blurb make up ur mind, click 3 times and go to sleep. pronto ur done. you dont even have to go site hunting, and wat ur downloading is secure, well authenticted, no funny biz!

its an old myth that i used to have too before i used linux that it was all cmd line. and for your information were it not for the half baked computer education we get here in nigeria, the most powerful tool in windows is also the command line. the few pple who are actually learned in windows even here in nairaland talk cmd line. there is nothing you can do graphicaly in windows that u cannot do in command line. a true MS certified pro, not naija half baked will work ur pc in cmd line. its faster and easier

there isnt much difference this days in usability, but when pple are too ignorant to learn they keep on giving pple this impression

SO NO, UR LINUX INSTALL DOES ALL THE WORK NOT YOU. im not running a linux vs windows campaign, im running a get interested and enlightened campaign!!!! LIVE AND LEARN. stop judging what u dont know much about!

ahhh, ur the man. lets make that puppy lighthouse puppy naw.

am very greedy so i will take all u give me. which brings to mind how do u store ur cds? mine were brand new, i put them in a bag and stored them somewhere a few months later they had all gone bad!!!! the cds were supposed to good ones! ithink i will just be storing iso's on my pc henceforth.

ok so i beep u soon, lemme buy credit. am using my sim to do fbt so no credit on top

nb. i dey follow some ignoramuses drag am for that win7 thread, i need some competent support

and really, what you do not know anything about please try not to talk about. am pretty sure u do not use a linux install and u probably see one once a year or on the internet. how can u say windows is so mooth and polished even more than linux!!!! are u for real?

all these lil things that trip u pple, widgets and the likes were from opensource. and even the most pimped up win7 WILL STRUGGLE beside an ubuntu install with a compositing manager like compiz fusion. when it comes to eyecandy there are so many for linux that it makes u dizzy, beautiful ones. next time u see a ubuntu install, ask the owner if he runs compiz-fusion or even metacity. let him give you demo of the various effects. and thats even on gnome which we consider as ugly betty. a KDE install without compiz is already a candidate to floor your win 7 much less when its pimped.

you see the difference, I SEE WINDOWS EVERYDAY AND I LEARN ABOUT IT SO I KNOW WHAT ITS ABOUT.
YOU SEE LINUX MAYBE ONCE A YEAR, AND YOUR TOO BIASED/IGNORANT TO EVEN TRY TO SEE WHAT MAKES IT TICK.

and should in case the last time you saw/tried to use a linux os was 4 years ago, the thing don go really faaaaarrrrr than that time and keeps improving very fast. e get one bros here wey try ubuntu 6.04 5yrs ago still dey complain. thats like bitching about win98 in this age.


and if u still dont like my yarn, stop opening this dumb windows threads or else jump into the lagoon HUMANITY TO OTHERS (thats what ubuntu means)

Dual Core:
It will be appreciated if the pipz making up that universe can stay in it without having to bring out their heads into the Windows universe.
Linux works for you, fine! use it in silence. Windows works for me, fine! I'mma use it in silence. Not going about on a linux thread telling the nix users how windows is better.

4llerbe you should think about that, cuz (i don't think you should care about this though cuz me in your position, i won't), most of your posts are just turn offs cuz i can tell what it will be. Its gon be yet another linux-better-than-windows sermon. Pipz have been preaching that sermon before some of us knew what boxes were so please cut it.

amusing, i dont see any linux user starting a dumb ass thread like "post ur wei" or "bill just made more money this time around from all ya suckers" do not attempt to flaunt what u do not have, this "silent usage" if windows is so cool, then could you guys please stop comparing your peckers trying to know whose pecker is the largest in public!!!!

if my posts are turn off, too bad, but u knw maybe you actually need to get out of the blue corner while snarling at the red corner and take time to actually see what is going on with all those arsed out fellas in the red corner!!!

besides, you should realise most if not all linux users are/were windows users, meanwhile almost all u windoze users do not even know what a terminal window is!!! meaning when i say, i have background, when u say u just say!, no reference!!!! and i am no slouch at windows!! get a perspective. aint personal!

@ texazzspete, really ehn, i'm dismayed. first ur post is too long to quote, lol
erm lemme see, the jibe about 20k, well lemme just say Good for you that u can spend ur money on MS wares so u sleep better, but the last time i checked if naija was full of very principled God fearing pc users like u, all the mumu on nairaland wouldnt even know what a mouse is.

i make bold to say that you definitely have pirated wares on your pc!
ok you bought ur OS legit say 20k, which really u need to hook me up with where u got win 7 for that sum.
then you bought Original MS suite(word bla bla) anor say 15 20k
then you bought Your Legit antivirus and key for say 40 dollars= hw much in naira!
then you bought your productivity suites depending on your likes and needs, eg autocad, image editors.
then the countless little 5 10 dollar apps you use everyday, nero, winrar etc

ahem so lets just say that this your nice laptop came priced at say 150,000 naira (sorry if dts too low, i know ur a power user 500k laptop type person) then u use close to 100k just to run it to ur needs, then anytime a small hiccup which is usual occurs, and u need specialised wares like them utilities to take care of it u regularly shell out 50-100 dollars?

dude tell it to the marines.

really let me illustrate my gripe with an example.
i have a friend, die hard ms fan, the type that downloaded win 7 the day it was released bla bla.
just to provoke him i installed ubuntu INSIDE the windows (another first) without partitioning. he whined and complained. 5 months later i needed to do burn a new iso, so i go see him, i boot his laptop, was surprised to see it still had the ubuntu(it'l have taken all of 1 minute to uninstall it) so i boot into it. My guy has passworded the thing.

haha but u no dey use am naw, he says nothing. then when i get in , i found he has updated it so all is working, he says grudgingly " i only browse with it" well i put in the OS i wanted to copy, copied it out as an iso (not a single third party app in sight) and immediately burn the thing on a blank within 5 mins. i have a new OS cd!

to do that on windows, i would need to pay someone for the ware that would copy the iso, then anor for a ware that is good enough to burn it with no problems! and of course i must have the know how.

well simply put it was scenarios like this that made me realise that something is wrong! u pple mean that all those things u have to install in windows just to do an everyday task cannot come with the os? ok pple gat to make money shey? well im pretty sure PIRACY will be a lasting problem because i dont knw hw many pple can afford to run a legit windows system unless of course they only put it on to stare at it then shut down.

even how many companies in naija, incl all the so called medium scale, small scale, even large scale can afford to install genuine windows?


anyway so i also sleep at nite without knowing am robbing some one, i go for the OS that is free. and PLS I DONT KNOW THE LAST TIME YOU USED OPEN OFFICE BUT THAT STATEMENT QUALIFIES AS BLASPHEMY. GET THE NEW ONE, ITS FREE U KNW AND SEE. i can list 5 things it can do that MSWORD cannot and all i do is just type docs and make presentation slides!!!!!! besides, it doesnt require 1 gb of ram to run like word 2007

i still have karmic and kubuntu, it was the karmic that did the nonsense. then i googled and found that the gdm sef comes broken!!!! amazing. and i have been looking for a way to even restart the thing no way. wat am i going to do with a terminal window. humph!

i installed kubuntu yesternite and it took me all of five minutes to decide i still did not like it. are u sure the only difference is the gdm? there was sometin about the thing that just i dunno, puts me off. i couldnt even change the foolish wallpaper.

these cds would happen to be which distros? includes mint?

am in lagos naw, i live in lagos, just go on excursions to weird places. are u still hanging out at ogba weekends, so i can come 2 get them?

@OYB
PLS I KNOW AM REALLY WEIRD BUT WHAT IN GODS NAME IS THAT SCREENSHOT? DO U WORSHIP THAT PC OR SUMTIN? HAHA!!!!! I BOW O!!!!

U knw dis thread jusj resurrect my age old puzzlement. If women are constantly bitching and moaning about men cheating, WHY D HELL ARE U PPLE HUSTLIN 2 GET MARRIED? If i had such an issue wit women i wouldnt marry any! Somewhere deep down u knw u just fooling urself. We will marry as many and DO as many babes as we can. If u no like am go jump inside lagoon.

Where everybody ke?! Anyway if u read dis pls reply, which is d lesser evil- kubuntu 9.04 or karmic? Dose are my only options if no one helps wit a cd

Hey PLS SOMEONE SHLD HELP ME WITH A JAUNTY OR MINT CD. Mint preferably. I just found out that all my OS cd's hav gone bad. I cant use them again. Not even windows. Am stuck, my pc is down. PLS HELP ME O.

Nah, i dont hate windows, i started out there and i am a very competent user.

Until d disaster called vista and d opening of my eyes. I truly dislike pple preening ova ms. Look if d opensource world can do stuff really good, then ms's refusal 2 so do inspite of d mega bucks available 2 dem is deliberate and unwarranted!

Iv no prob wit making money off me but give value! D best dt money can get! Considering i can get stuff beta dan wat ms gives me for free, am pissed!

D probs wit MS OS'ES are well-documented n hav bin around 4 yrs! A windows install performs worse d longer it on, a linux install improves!, a windows install WILL degrade ur hard drive over time, a linux install wont even be fragmented!, a windows install increasingly requires more resources 2 run, a linux install and program with equivalent utility uses far less( d newest linux os will run comfortably on 512mb ram!), lets not start abt viruses, wateva u say, all d extra wares u need 2 keep ur windows alive are crippling! U pple dont knw d half anyway cos of otigba 150 cd. After using both, am of d opinion dt linux equivs of progs do beta overall.

Now if unpaid geeks can make software dt has clear ability and workability, then hw can u tell me a big corporation like ms cant do beta? This is just a vicious circle scam, i sell u wat u will constantly need me for 2 use! All those anti trust suits are not jus bad belle naw!

Unlike d average maga, i need more than a few pretty themes n wall paper n graphics 2 catch me mugun.

Dts all u pple say, its finer! Meanwhile bill is gettin richer.

It finer and cooler! Dts why u buy a new os? A theme pack can do dt! In fact i hav one dt will fully transform ur xp into 7 in looks!

Erm sooo?! Is dt all?