Linux OS and Everything Else

Last night I downloaded Mandriva One spring 2007 Gnome and KDE versions. First of all, they both took way too long to download compared to other distro’s of the same size, about 700MB, I normally can get that in an hour or two, this went way longer, I finally went to bed. So, next day, (today), I burn my iso files so I can try Mandriva with Metisse Desktop, No - the will not boot on my old pc’s at all, finally my newest pc does load the Gnome one. I go to YouTube (one of my basic tests) Nope - can’t even install a plug in in Firefox - says it is unrecognized - so I go to my Anixas website to see if the Javascript feed works, Nope - same thing it has some kind of unknown plug in error and my only option is to click Finish. Sucks! To me these are basic features that should work for pc’s (at this point in history). I don’t care about license issues and what not all I know is javascript has to work and so does flash if you want to have a decent internet experience. I am not even whining about Windows Media files, Real Player files, or others. I didn’t even test these because if the basics don’t work who cares about the rest. Mandriva One You Suck a waste of a download and two perfectly good cdr’s - As for Puppy Linux I had some issues with a couple of the recent releases but I think those have been resolved. One of the releases told me to launch Xorgwizard , this worked. I would be nice if they all would tell you this , in case you don’t know about it. So , Puppy Rocks Mandriva Sucks.

First tonight, I got the Xandros desktop 4 DVD on the May 2007 issue of Linux Magazine. I have used Xandros before and really liked it so I had to install this to see how the latest one was. Awesome as usual - no problems at all - highly recommended distro. But now for my main focus. Puppy Linux - this is my latest obsession. I have been downloading all kinds of versions of Puppy Linux, so far, Puppy 2.16 is the only one that has given me any problems - after booting with 2.16 I had no GUI it would start to load X Windows and then just blank out and go back to the shell. Right now though, I am in Mean Pup - 1.0.5 Mozilla.iso - this one is nice - I like the different default orange color scheme and the desktop is sweet also. Even the boot screen had some nice colors and graphics to it. I was glad on this one that the video display tool came up right away - some of the versions don’t do that - it makes it really easy to switch immediately to my proper display settings. I did have to dig through the start menu to get my ethernet config tool - I prefer that to be right on the desktop for convenience to me. I like the default Mozilla web browser theme as well. I am a huge fan of Puppy Linux. I wrote a small tutorial on Puppy Linux 2.12 you can find it on www.anixas.com on my links page if you have any interest.

This is my third video for the stray cinema project.

 

I have just created a second video for the Stray Cinema Project. I am having fun making these videos and plan to do some more of them. Maybe some more of the same or perhaps something different. I use the Magix Music Maker Deluxe software to make these videos. Nice - easy to use.

 

Click here for the latest video called Removal