My Nephew gave me a Mandrake CD and it was the easiest thing to install for my Dell PIII.
Other distro's gave me a headache. It's nice to skip the windoz startup and go into linux!
I also used to have yellowdoglinux for an old Mac 7300 PPC that I used to have.
But I don't use too much Linux on my Mac after OSX baby
Everah wrote:I think he meant he doesn't use a Linux OS on his mac because OSX is an OS that does not need to be overwritten with a better OS (like Windows does ).
I thought he meant it was based on XNU kernel, Mach/BSD hybrid.
jayshields wrote:Dragging the thread slightly off-topic. I have 2 questions:
How do I change the default OS to boot to from the boot menu?
Also, can someone give me some definitive reasons to switch from GNOME to KDE?
Open up /boot/grub/menu.lst and find the line which says "default 0" or whatever number it is. Change the number to the one in the list (starting at zero) that you want.
No reason to use KDE apart from perhaps a few extra apps which need KDE but you can run those from Gnome anyway if you have parts of KDE installed.
With Ubuntu you can run both Gnome and KDE, switching back and forth during login. Just remember that they will be using many of the same system files like xorg.conf. I did run both (actually three Xfce too) and that's how I choose one. I don't recommend running two or even three different desktops though - it's a mess.
Well I still can't get all this to work. Every tutorial I've looked at is different. Now I've followed one and don't get any window borders, seems alot of people get the same problem, but there's no definitive fix.
If you know what you're doing with this stuff and have a bit of spare time please PM me.