Lol! No need actually. Am using it bec of workplace risks, viruses etc and monitoring. Since i found dt my oga n d daft syseng he has just didnt knw anytin abt linux, i don dey look 4 option. Dis thing is cool. Amazing but basic. Truly its meant 4 on d road use.

D major prob wit linux are d geeks, yet dey r d life of linux.
Wen i got d hang of dis it was far 2 easy though d geek tuts were pretty confusing.

U can install dis anywhere, in anytin, infact ebano.

Though i dont tink installing is d rite word wen u can copy 2 files, enter 3 lines in a bootloader n u hav a fully functnal system!

As per d dew, wasnt me o, lol, though id give anytin 2 get vpn n tor running.

Relly nice option 4 winblows avoidance, see as pple dey rush make i help delete virus frm dem flash lol lol

una sha want make dis thread die ehn?

come o oya pple dat hav been freestyling 9.10, lynxnoon et al, oya give us updates on wat its been like o!

funny enuf i actually got a cd from canonical yesterday! i was so shocked! first time for me.

don't intend to get ubuntu 9.10, will wait till 10.x  - especially since they refused to send me a cd, saying i had ordered many previously
but am i still plan to tryout  grub2 to see how it works

hehehe lol. una don dey enjoy the thingy too much.

will use it cos am due a new hard drive soon. am going to cut that hard drive up so i can be like u with 1 million distros on one drive, lol. only problem is thats kinda like the guy who builds a 50 room mansion, how many rooms is he gonna sleep in?

anyways hope i can dual boot mint and karmic on the same drive, intend to be using mints bootloader cos me no dey confident on that grub2. seems to me to need a lot of work

wats up naw weaver, wats for sallah? i need invites oooooo!!!!! am freee for fri to sunday, that is such a miracle im feeling guilty of being idle

me too dey bounced me oh. . . . saying hv ordered twice

@4llerbe
i tried runnin mint n ibex tru windows n d mint was smhw overwritten. . . . so becarefull on wat u do. . . .well xcept if u want to create seperate partions for dem
As per my experience on karmic, . . . hmmmm not much tho kinda smooth as per connectivity but my ubuntu software portals still not coming up and i want to install ENVY maybe dat wud solve d 3D effects problem am hving cos i cant seem to enable it. . . . but i did it successfullty wen running mint with d ENVY app
well will let u guys knw hw far wen anytin new comes up
ehen !!!! . . . . b4 i forget. . . 4llerbe GWget is by far far better dan Multiget. . . . i ran d 2 of dem n Multiget wasnt impressive at all. . . .with GWget i ws getting wow speeds even with multiple dwnloads

3D effects solved. . . .
like i said connectivity is smooth
nxt tym u see my desktop. . . . .def gonna be in 3D

ahh multiget fall my hand! u sure say u set am well? u sure?

anyways, i can see that u dey yori yori. will do the installs on diff partitions of course. i don get the scope. na one bootable partition plus logical partition for the oda linux distros, and one for home hehe.

ehen lynx b4 i also forget, i remember ur misadventure with aptoncd, well u dont need that at all, there is a folder i think in /var where every package u download in apt or synaptic gets its deb stored. back up that into a cd and u can always get ur apps back whenever u reinstall or format! as in am ashamed of my self for not figuring that out a long time ago. bye bye to re downloads. las last i upgrade them l8r

just downloaded lighthouse linux which is actually customised puppy linux; personally i feel puppy is not as fully featured as it used to be even tho i cld always add those features i wanted, anyway i have put it on my company laptop as a frugal install, ok it's quite large and all but even without the extra addons i still prepare it to the default puppy, by default it comes with 3 window managers jwm, icewm and lxde and 2 file managers rox and pcmanfm; i think this is the puppy 4 me sha

Av wanted 2 get dt lighthouse puppy o! It seemed 2 b d only 1 of all d pimped pups dt made sense, bt my internet game is not it right now. Zain is not behavin.

My attraction sef is d eyecandy. D normal puppy reminds me of cartoons. Nice but i still get questions like is dis a os? As in REALLY?!!
Lol

ah and i thought all the gsm operators had better service than starcomms;
well me i'm not complaining abt my service sha but i know what u ,mean about the eyecandy
i don't particularly like jwm and rox

hey pls does anyone remember tht syntax for removing proxies set into the system? i remember that i had that issue way back and i couldnt use terminal becos it kept trying to use a proxy i set before even though i had removed the proxy everywhere i could think of!

i remember i went into some files and manaually deleted stuff but it was still there till im stumbled on a post in some obscure blog. it was a short command and it worked.

now i have the same problem but i cant remember wat d command was! i thot i rmbrd it to be /sudo reset/unset http_proxy' but that is not working. iv bin googlin but i cant seem to stumble on that site again.

HELP. ME O. Y i dey so 4getful sef?

u see God don catch u now, if to say u don share di knowledge now for nl at least u 4 just review the posts find the solution

men connectivity on 9.10 is cool
finally got UMTSMON working^{(all i had to do was dwnload, extract & double click on d umtsmon file. . . . .no nid 4 all d Q3,Q4+ bla bla )}

wats umtsmon 4? monitoring usage? y wen i can clearly see u doin d dew! anyway weaver quick heads up so i dnt spend hrs mucking dis thing up. got a new drive. wanna cut it up 4 a triple boot, karmic/mint/xp. pls guide me on dt primary ~logical~extended~boot partition thingy. seperate home shared swap. i want 2 use mint bootloader. d prob is d xp bt lemme keep it in case. as in wat type of partition 4 each bla bla[color=][/color]

wit umtsmon i will be able to set my modem at 3G n not hv to enta windows 1st n bak again. . . . also it automatically does d usb switch mode since hv instald it n i dnt hv to be entering d code evrytym in terminal
hmmmmm, 4 partitions. . . omo u be bigz boi oh

@4llerbe, just in case you don't know the thing about dos type partitions is that you can have only 4 primary partitions
however one and only one of those primary partitions can be an extended partition. now while technically you can have up to
40 (i think) logical partitions wich are created in the extended partition, if your hard disk is sata or of linux sees all your partitions
as /dev/sd* (i.e. /dev/sda1, dev/sda2 , /dev/sdb1/ , ) you can have only 15 logical partitions in an extended partition; the reason
has something to do with the fact that the sata driver does (or at least used to do ) scsi emulation and apparently u could only
have 15 scsi disks on one port (i think again)
anyway if you're sure you'll not need more than 4 partitions you can make all of them just primary partitions, however if you think
you may need more in the future then make it 3 primary and 1 extended partition and you can then make as many logical partitions as you think you'll need in that extended partition

ok sir. thank u sir. yessir: lol. actualy i knw ubuntu will install into a logical partition. not just sure about winblows. hummn, which reminds me hw do u manage 2 keep a seperate partition for windows? u cant share a ext partition wit windows and i dont think u can use ntfs as home? anyway which is fully read n write in ubuntu fat or ntfs? i think its fat shey?[color=][/color]

windows too will, my win 7 is actually installed in an logical partition; by default linux supports
fat with the vfat driver, the ntfs driver that comes with the linux kernel on the other hand
has only safe read access; however there's another driver ntfs-3g which is based on
fuse (file in user space) which allows ntfs write and most linux distros have it, puppy
definitely does, and so does ubuntu; If you decide to edit /etc/fstab make sure the driver
you use is ntfs-3g and not ntfs unless you are sure you'll never want to write on your ntfs partition

ok sir! u see i was askin cos i was thinkin abt sharin stuff like music btw d 2 os n dnt tink /home can b ntfs shey? lol. think il stick 2 a dual boot jare. dnt see d need 4 more n 1 linux. ehen pls write out dt java path stuff 4 me. 4 settin java afta installing. [color=][/color]

will talk abt the java stuff later, but on my pc i have a fat partition where i put all my music in fact
another where i have backups of my installer files (linux) another for the windows backups
in short i almost don't keep any non-system files on my my os partition or at least i back them up on
another partition so that if i lose all my data i'm still cool ands i can share them across oses

I lost pwr on my system. And wen i l8r put it on d thing booted, showed me d splash screen then goes into a terminal. Iv tried all i rmbr, startx, gdm, stopped d gdm n ran reconfigure. Still no way. Wats goin on? Its kaput shey?

blackweaver:

windows too will, my win 7 is actually installed in an logical partition; by default linux supports
fat with the vfat driver, the ntfs driver that comes with the linux kernel on the other hand
has only safe read access; however there's another driver ntfs-3g which is based on
fuse (file in user space) which allows ntfs write and most linux distros have it, puppy
definitely does, and so does ubuntu; If you decide to edit /etc/fstab make sure the driver
you use is ntfs-3g and not ntfs unless you are sure you'll never want to write on your ntfs partition

offtopic - seems we like think alike in some ways

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.

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

wow oyb i love ur setup, what is your total disk capacity?

mr 4llerbe if u're in lagos, just call me i think i still have those cd i burnt 4 u that u didn't come to collect,
we can arrange to meet somewhere, of course most of them are last year; as for jaunty i can only lend u the cd
since it's an original (by the way i thot u said you were sent karmic)

as for your X problem, i think there's log file i think /var/log/xorg.log or something like that, if u can't find try locate xorg.log
then use tail <xorg.log path> that should give u an idea of what is wrong

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!!!!

mint, puppy4; i don't remember if i had got opensuse for u too;
the first -and last time i tried kubuntu i didn't like it much either even though i generally prefer kde to gnome
if u want i cld also dash u my mandriva (i have a problem with ditros that automatically mount all my partitions, all 20+ of them - puppy does too but i'm not afraid of working on it - even if it means breaking it after all i can just delete my save file and start again)

no mind oyb, he's oppressing us with his terabyte harddisk

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

lighthouse abi? ok
i usually buy the large pack of cds and i buy cases with them - and i have a partition where i keep my isos
in fact on more than one occasion i have used a virtual machine to install on my harddisk directly
from iso - though it can be very slow, especially using a distro like opensuse, i still have beef for kde4
by all means call, u still have my number right?

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