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#1745: Re: this channel

by D.plomat on 07/14/2003 12:14, refers to #1743

You're right. but there's not only support, a bit development and "Linux philosophy". How should we call it?
Cube Linux General Thread?

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#1746: Re: this channel

by D.plomat on 07/14/2003 12:17, refers to #1744

This is way to go! i was doing that when i didn't feel very comfortable with RedHat, i was using two partitions with the same system, making sensible updates on one, and dd'it to other if anything worked fine, using one as backup of the other. Now i'm very comfortable with it and went short on disk space, so i've now only one.

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#1747: Re: this channel

by hungerburg on 07/14/2003 12:30, refers to #1745

I'd call it "Cube from source"; and it might be better a faq...

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#1748: Re: :-?

by Verbal-onvacation on 07/14/2003 20:38, refers to #1741

The easy and standard way to get Linux working is RedHat, Mandrake, or SuSE.

I found when I first tried Linux that doing a full install of everything was easiest because it gave you damn near everything you'd ever need....so a problem like pushplay's would rarely arise.

But, you'll need 4GB+ space to do it! Of course you can take a lot out, games, etc.

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#1749: Mouse problems in Cube

by Dustin on 07/14/2003 21:07

Hi, I'm running the Windows version of Cube, with no command line arguments other than what are written in the .bat file. About five or six seconds after Cube starts, my mouse goes completely dead; I can't use it any longer without restarting Cube. It works fine when I restart, but then it dies again. Anybody have a work-around for this, or maybe a patch? Thanks.

Dustin

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#1750: Re: Mouse problems in Cube

by Thalion on 07/14/2003 21:33, refers to #1749

Try tweaking mouse sensitivity in your autoexec.cfg; docs should be clear enough.

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#1751: Re: :-?

by Thalion on 07/14/2003 21:35, refers to #1748

There is _NO_ "standard" way to install Linux. RedHat and Mandrake are popular, yes, but since when is popularity a criteria of standard?

I'm going to try Gentoo now really soon. Just want to get rid of all that Mandrake bloat...

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#1752: You know...

by pushplay on 07/14/2003 23:27, refers to #1751

It's kinda funny that people call windows bloated, yet it still comes on just one cd. I didn't do a full install because I didn't want to waste 2.5-3 gigs of space on things I wouldn't need.

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#1753: Re: Mouse problems in Cube

by Dustin on 07/14/2003 23:46, refers to #1750

It took the mouse a little bit longer to stop functioning, but it still stopped. I don't think mouse sensitivity is the problem. Could it be a problem that Cube has with WinME?

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#1754: Re: Mouse problems in Cube

by pushplay on 07/15/2003 01:00, refers to #1753

Cube doesn't have a problem with WinME. Try disabling your mouse drivers.

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#1755: Re: Mouse problems in Cube

by Dustin on 07/15/2003 02:00, refers to #1754

Are you talking about the WinME or DOS mouse drivers? And how would you disable them?

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#1756: Re: Mouse problems in Cube

by pushplay on 07/15/2003 02:48, refers to #1755

They still make dos drivers? Usually when you plug in a mouse windows just recognizes it, and any sort of driver you install on top of that carries extra features. Logitec likes to do that. Sometimes those features get in the way and they need to be disabled.

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#1757: Re: Mouse problems in Cube

by pushplay on 07/15/2003 02:48, refers to #1756

So the answer is I dunno.

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#1758: Re: You know...

by Thalion on 07/15/2003 08:07, refers to #1752

Yes, Windows comes on one CD - just the system. My Mandrake 9.1 came on three (and three more with sources) - but it had a tremendous amount of software packaged there. When (if?) Windows will come with an office suite (or better, two), Photoshop-like application, several full-featured browsers and email/news clients (nope, IE and OE are not), a complete set of development tools with documentation and IDE, and a load of other goodies such as organizers and various scientific programs... then it would be correct to compare. But what scares right now is that Windows _alone_ comes on a single CD. You CAN install Linux on a 30Mb partition - want to try that trick with XP? =)

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#1759: Re: You know...

by pushplay on 07/15/2003 08:14, refers to #1758

There's your bloat right there.

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#1760: Re: You know...

by shockie-with-dead-computer on 07/15/2003 14:07, refers to #1758

well... thalion, microsoft have already been sued for talking a monopoly by including IE with windows. i dont think they would like to lose out on millions of dollars by including ms office.. and i dont think that adobe/macromedia would be all to pleased to have a photoshop included for free.

you have to be realistic, this is a money driven world, and microsoft will leach ever last cent that it can out of you. ie: everything comes sepparate

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#1761: Re: You know...

by Thalion on 07/15/2003 16:00, refers to #1760

I wasn't speaking about that. I was just saying that when you buy a CD with Windows, you get just that - an OS. And when you buy 4 CDs with Linux, you get software pretty much everything you'll ever need. That's why it's not correct to say that Linux is bloated.

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#1762: Re: You know...

by Thalion on 07/15/2003 16:01, refers to #1759

Where?

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#1763: Re: You know...

by D.plomat on 07/15/2003 16:05, refers to #1758

My old 486 recycled into firewall uses busybox(single-binary including shell and standard commands), and it's system uses 8Mb.
I even managed to make a boot+root on a floppy, but still not very useful (could be as a dd (Ghost substitute), or with a very minimal set of 3Com+ne2000 net drivers to boot diskless stations)
That's very cool with linux, the same OS can be used for a bleeding edge multimedia development station with OpenGL, Alsa, lots of powerful tools etc or an embedded system... providing unlimited free fun for all ;)

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#1764: Re: :-?

by Verbal-onvacation on 07/15/2003 20:53, refers to #1751

Okay, there may not be a true standard install, but let me tell you Mdk/RH/SuSE are a lot more straghtforward than Gentoo or LFS...heh
They are just as easy as Windows minus partitioning (which is pretty straighforward itself)

By the way, I've heard a few good things about Yoper for new users, might want to look into that.

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