Iwasgoodonce
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It killed my old work PC as well. FUBARed it up the day before I gave it back. Perfect!
Should I install XP service pack 3?
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Iwasgoodonce
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orange71":16gtx9r9 said:well seems to have gone OK here - so far...
Aah yes. It's OK now but in 23 hours and 58 minutes or so....
problem with Linux is choosing which distro.
I've tried about 20 of them over the years and there wasn't one single one I liked to the exclusion of all others - really I wanted the features of several of them put together. Now I know you'll say well just add the packages - but that was one of the most frustrating things with Linux - just installing anything. Finding dependencies, installing packages... perhaps things have moved on, but in my experience if I saw something I liked you could guarantee it was set up as a Debian package and therefore didn't work with Ubuntu or whatever :?
I've tried about 20 of them over the years and there wasn't one single one I liked to the exclusion of all others - really I wanted the features of several of them put together. Now I know you'll say well just add the packages - but that was one of the most frustrating things with Linux - just installing anything. Finding dependencies, installing packages... perhaps things have moved on, but in my experience if I saw something I liked you could guarantee it was set up as a Debian package and therefore didn't work with Ubuntu or whatever :?
On my spare machine that I use to generally play about with I installed a clean copy of windows then all the updates, the difference between SP2 and SP3 was about 20 seconds longer on the boot time, and thats about as much as I can see.
Pip
PS. I use Ubuntu 9.04 on my normal machine. Its OK but some things are a pain! Still prefer it over windows though.
Pip
PS. I use Ubuntu 9.04 on my normal machine. Its OK but some things are a pain! Still prefer it over windows though.
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service pack 3 pooped my comp too :roll:
ubuntu is based on debian but i know what you mean
everything i need that runs on gnome i get from the repository or the synaptic package manager ( dont want to use kde ) . since xubuntu went jaunty jackalope it no longer lists limewire or google earth though
i did managed to shave 190mb out of xubuntu using the package manager
everything i need that runs on gnome i get from the repository or the synaptic package manager ( dont want to use kde ) . since xubuntu went jaunty jackalope it no longer lists limewire or google earth though
i did managed to shave 190mb out of xubuntu using the package manager
