switch to linux

[Kluger]

Well, with Linux, of course you can swap components all over the place until stuff works.  For SuSE 8.2, for example, YaST screwed stuff up so I couldn\'t install the nVidia drivers.  (The 3D drivers were installed and the modules were all loading, but SuSE just kept saying, \"This program requires 3D acceleration.......\"  So, all I did was replace XFree86 with the one from Red Hat.  Presto!)

I\'ve been playing with Mandrake for quite a while, trying to get Planeshift to work.  One reason I really want to get everything to work in Mandrake is that I have an older ALi chipset motherboard, and for whatever reason, all kernels panic on it when loading GLX for a Rage Fury Pro except for Mandrake.  (One thing I might be able to do is stick the MDK kernel into Red Hat.  I\'ll probably try the 2.6 kernel instead.)

Gentoo and Red Hat seem to build Planeshift the most easily.  I have yet to try SuSE, because it keeps disassembling itself when I start working with it, and I end up having to reinstall.

By the way, is anyone having luck building CEL from CVS?  I tried to build CS, CEL, and PS from CVS, but I always end up using a very old release of CEL to get it to work.

I\'ll keep you informed as more Linuxes build it...

[Ezudin]

http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/  should be easy to understand why to switch to linux with this.

[Kluger]

hahaha, thanks Ezudin, that\'s one of the funniest flashes I\'ve ever seen...

(for the record, tho, Linux is now probably the easiest OS to use, as well as the hardest, depending on which one you choose.  hopefully, my SF project will make them all equally easy.  Linux is quite a good choice, even for total computer newbies, ironically.  nevertheless, that\'s gotta be one of the wittiest flashes I\'ve seen in a long time.  looks like it belongs on the front page of Newgrounds.com)