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Knoppix

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:22 pm
by alex.barylski
So I bought a Toshiba laptop yesterday, it's cool but ships with the OEM version of XP which it bundles with a ton of other garbage Toshiba tools, etc...

I called M$ and threatened to switch to linux...so I download Knoppix 5 and ran it...Using KDE...I must say I'm in heaven :P

I think i'm gonna take my XP off my desktop and make the permenent move to KDE. Building from scratch and learning as I go, burning distro's as I go...with my toshiba running my desktops version of XP. Legal don't worry, as it's no longer being used on my desktop... :P

God I hate Windows...not even Windows...but it's propriatary B$...the gilr at M$ shoulod have just given me 2 activation keys...and it would have kept me from switching...at least one computer...

My laptop I will likely keep as Windows XP and eventually Vista...as I need it for business reasons...but my desktop which I use for development and everything else...i'm sure i could get away with just KDE...

One question, I use UltraEdit on my Windows desktop...and I want a similar editor...light weight with powerful editor features, like:

1) Source folding
2) Column selection
3) Regex search, etc

Nothing big like Eclippse please....sweet and simple with some basics features like I described above...

Cheers :)

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:03 am
by Weirdan
There's a 'Favorite editor' thread somewhere aroud. Use the search, Hockey.

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:06 am
by Jenk
We use a variant of knoppix for various tasks at work (and when moonlighting) notably when the administrator password is forgotten.

My only dislike for MS applications (inc Windows) is the amount of crap that is installed for 'just in case' scenarios, one of the biggest offenders is the special text function(s) that are bundled with Office, that are useful for people with sight problems and so forth.. do MS just assume all users are blind, deaf and without hands?

Most of it's not more than just an extra 5mins work to get rid of but the principle of it I guess is what gets me.

Re: Knoppix

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:32 am
by ambivalent
Hockey wrote:
I think i'm gonna take my XP off my desktop and make the permenent move to KDE.
Get the best of both worlds and set up a dual boot, it's not particularly difficult. My home desktop runs Win98/Win2KPro/RedHat 9/Mandrake 10.1. Taking it this far is a little more involved but it's nice to have options 8)

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:40 am
by neophyte
On KDE the best is Quanta Plus and then KATE

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:09 am
by MrPotatoes
games and development support for the actual system is the 2 things that keep me from switching. pretty big things in my opinon. i think i'll go mac permanatly before i go to linux/BSD as a desktop enviroment

but congrats. i still want to teach myself this crap. i think i'll start next weekend :dunno:

Re: Knoppix

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:29 am
by alex.barylski
ambivalent wrote:
Hockey wrote:
I think i'm gonna take my XP off my desktop and make the permenent move to KDE.
Get the best of both worlds and set up a dual boot, it's not particularly difficult. My home desktop runs Win98/Win2KPro/RedHat 9/Mandrake 10.1. Taking it this far is a little more involved but it's nice to have options 8)
I've had dual boot before...

I only own a single license for XP...the OEM version sucks because it loads tons of garbage on my desktop...so I want to use my original XP CD...but only one computer at a time may have it (legally anyways - which is the way I go) installed. So I'm dropping XP on my desktop in favour for KDE and using that CD on my laptop instead, only using the OEM XP CD for drivers, etc...

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:30 am
by alex.barylski
neophyte wrote:On KDE the best is Quanta Plus and then KATE
Bam...thats what I was looking for...I'll Google em' and see what happens ;)

Cheers :)