Hi, MTNL Triband is on and I am on the lookout for downloading a 64 bit OS. I need something that would help me get started without hassling me with inane device issues. (FC4 fails in trying to 'line discipline' my serial mouse and doesn't see my ASUS onboard lan card and Debian went modprobe -v ide-detect failed in installation)
Back to 64-bit So I tried Knoppix, which seems to have only Live versions. Next on my favourites list was Suse, here 64 bit is only available as a DVD image. (Sadly no DVD writer... yet :) So in short my query/plea here is pls help me find a 64-bit Linux distro that will know how to work with all my peripherals (keyboard + mouse) and help me see 64 bit computing at work. The smaller the download the better, I won't use this for anything other than a File/Web server and to continue my exp with Ruby. Need a Gnome GUI though.. not that confident at Linux yet.
Thanks, Gishu Pillai
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:45 +0530, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) wrote:
Hi, MTNL Triband is on and I am on the lookout for downloading a 64 bit OS. I need something that would help me get started without hassling me with inane device issues. (FC4 fails in trying to 'line discipline' my serial mouse and doesn't see my ASUS onboard lan card and Debian went modprobe -v ide-detect failed in installation)
Back to 64-bit So I tried Knoppix, which seems to have only Live versions. Next on my favourites list was Suse, here 64 bit is only available as a DVD image. (Sadly no DVD writer... yet :) So in short my query/plea here is pls help me find a 64-bit Linux distro that will know how to work with all my peripherals (keyboard + mouse) and help me see 64 bit computing at work. The smaller the download the better, I won't use this for anything other than a File/Web server and to continue my exp with Ruby. Need a Gnome GUI though.. not that confident at Linux yet.
x86_64 SuSE 10.0 OSS is available on 5 CDs @ www.opensuse.org or it's mirrors. If you want to listen to MP3 or watch encrypted DVDs you will have to install the resp. plugins yourself.
-- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) The devil finds work for idle circuits to do.
On 10/5/05, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) gishu.pillai@bently.com wrote:
So I tried Knoppix, which seems to have only Live versions.
Are you sure about that? Knoppix allows you to install it to the hard disk, which eventually turns into a Debian system. -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mrugesh Karnik | Registered Linux User #375243 |-----------------------------------------------------------------------
On 10/5/05, Mrugesh Karnik mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/5/05, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) gishu.pillai@bently.com wrote:
So I tried Knoppix, which seems to have only Live versions.
Are you sure about that? Knoppix allows you to install it to the hard disk, which eventually turns into a Debian system. -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mrugesh Karnik | Registered Linux User #375243 |-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora supports a huge range of hardware including 64 bit machines. I am on AMD 64 and ASUS K8N mobo, and everything works just great, out of the box, including the LAN card. Please specify your mobo and LAN card model. If you want to work on GNOME, I would recommend you Ubuntu or Debian. Fedora is also an good choice. -- Regards, Sanket Medhi, sanketmedhi [at] gmail.com http://gmail.com
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