need advice about linux

[coroner]

Originally Posted by monkeywithaknife

Having said that, I am going to be installing Fedora 10 soon-ish as I have the disk sitting next to me. (Beta)

It is recommended that users do not use the preview for anything but that.. a preview, also note that the preview disc or "beta" as you called it is not an exact representation of what is in the official release of Fedora 10, if you are familiar with the rate at which software package updates come from updates-testing to updates when using Fedora after a release has been made, it is 3 times this fast during other stages of Fedora release processes, during the freeze, only critical bugs are fixed however, so anything you may notice in a preview such as application limitations which existed or are now broken or any new bugs, should be just that, either reported to be fixed.. or retested after the final release has been made.

I just wanted to make that noted because the other poster in the EEdora thread, was using something that is Fedora _based_ and I believe EEdora has a different standard of professionalism than Fedora/RedHat when doing releases, but having things like having to use --skip-broken with Yum in EEdora, gives the general public a closer look into what the actual development process is like.. without having to be a contributor such as I, to a major distribution project.

In fact --skip-broken, is an option available for use by developers and maintainers for any reason, and apparently the case in the EEdora thread is one of them.

I would say though with a 1.7GHz processor, any distribution will work fine, users need to know that Linux is much more configurable than Windows ever was or will be, I ran Fedora from Core 1 to Core 6 on dual 350 MHz server boards, with a maximum of 1GB memory a piece, and it ran like butter runs down a pan on a flame.

[PirateJoe]

Good lucking getting aircrack to work. linux broadcom drivers are hit or miss, I had to use ndiswrapper to get mine to work, which apparently precludes the use of programs like aircrack, kismet, etc.

[coroner]

Originally Posted by PirateJoe

Good lucking getting aircrack to work. linux broadcom drivers are hit or miss, I had to use ndiswrapper to get mine to work, which apparently precludes the use of programs like aircrack, kismet, etc.

You also use archaic Linux kernels under archaic distributions with no realistic development timeline. BCM43xx cards have been supported since the inception of the 2.6 kernel bro.

Quit posting crap on this forum, either get the real data or gtfo.

[zeusy]

Originally Posted by ataraxia

The reasoning? I don't want to recommend Ubuntu as it's not that much easier than everything else and generally the veneer it paints over the base of linux causes newbies to become easily frustrated when they have to troubleshoot.

Agreed.

[RDProgrammer]

Didn't have time to read all the responses, but Ubuntu is 100% support on Dell hardware so that is A good start.

RDP

[PirateJoe]

Originally Posted by coroner

You also use archaic Linux kernels under archaic distributions with no realistic development timeline. BCM43xx cards have been supported since the inception of the 2.6 kernel bro.

Quit posting crap on this forum, either get the real data or gtfo.

Care to shut the fuck up? I have a 2.6.25 kernel, my broadcom 4328 is unsupported by the 43xx driver, and all N-series broadcoms are unsupported as well.

https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/b...ay/007517.html
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

[coroner]

Originally Posted by PirateJoe

Care to shut the fuck up? I have a 2.6.25 kernel, my broadcom 4328 is unsupported by the 43xx driver, and all N-series broadcoms are unsupported as well.

https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/b...ay/007517.html
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

I will have to assume you are doing something incorrect.
I'm looking at what you posted and I don't even see the card listed that you are talking about. Using NDISwrapper is not the same as using the BCM43xx modules provided in the kernel tree and using fw-cutter.

You do knwo that right?
Also wireless N is pretty new.. Broadcom doesn't release specs as far as I know yet and from the looks of what is on the website you posted they are purposely trying to avoid use of thier wireless cards by quick production of new models.

[MunkeyQ]

Originally Posted by RDProgrammer

Didn't have time to read all the responses, but Ubuntu is 100% support on Dell hardware so that is A good start.

RDP

Not all - Ubuntu fails to start Xwindows on my Latitude D630. It just dies in an ugly flickering mess.

[zeusy]

Originally Posted by MunkeyQ

Not all - Ubuntu fails to start Xwindows on my Latitude D630. It just dies in an ugly flickering mess.

Dude, Linux is a kernel, GNU a set of tools.
The problem is not related to Linux.

These are the cards supported by Xorg, the *graphics server* in use by most Linux Distributions.
http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

Dell Latitude D630 uses GMA X3100 aka GM965, which is in the list.
If there is really a problem, it's OpenGL, which is even less related to Linux.
GTFO!

[Prometheum]

Originally Posted by zeusy

Dude, Linux is a kernel, GNU a set of tools.
The problem is not related to Linux.

These are the cards supported by Xorg, the *graphics server* in use by most Linux Distributions.
http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

Dell Latitude D630 uses GMA X3100 aka GM965, which is in the list.
If there is really a problem, it's OpenGL, which is even less related to Linux.
GTFO!

Actually, GNU is an operating system. You're probably talking about GNU Coreutils or GNU Binutils if you're thinking "set of tools".