What have we been up to?

[Albatross]

Except that the bugs I was having with Fedora ranged from my Quadro drivers not working to the internet running at 100-300 Bps when on my old Mac it was running at 150-350 kBps to it being a pain in the backside to install the codecs necessary to make the system usable for everyday use as a result of this.

GNOME 3 was lovely, though. In fact, maybe I should install the 11.10 beta and risk having a few bugs for a month?

Also, rapidcoder's right. Ubuntu is a direct Debian derivative.

-Albatross

[Cheraphy]

Rapidcoder is right, it'd Debian

@MassiveChipmunk, Honestly fedora's learning curve isn't that much more steep than ubuntu. From what I understand, Redhat (fedora's parent distro) is designed to be great for businesses to use. Personally I don't like redhat or it's derivatives. Slackware, however, I adore.

[Duthomhas]

Yoinks! I meant Debian. :-\

[chrisname]

My old(er) computer doesn't play nicely with Fedora; I can't even get it to install, but my new system that I built yesterday works perfectly with it. I wonder if it's down to me having an AMD processor rather than an Intel one, or ATI graphics card instead of nVIDIA (a situation which I will be changing ASAP).

Also, a while ago we had a thread about GNOME 3/GNOME Shell on here and I didn't have an opinion, having never used GNOME 3. Now that I have it... well, I actually quite like it. When I get used to using it I think it will be very nice to use. It's a bit weird, because it feels like I'm using a smart phone in many ways (which is clearly intentional) but no, I'm getting on pretty well with it so far.

[Duthomhas]

Fedora, like most linux distros, kind of expects your hardware not to be too old.

[chrisname]

The components aren't that old (it has a quad core); they're less than two years old which I guess is quite a while in terms of hardware, which becomes obsolete after about ten minutes, but still... it's a < 2 years old system, it should work with Fedora.

[BHX]

I have Vista on a 2TB hard drive, Ubuntu on a 160 GB drive, and PC-BSD on a 80 GB drive. Needless to say I don't log into them unless I'm doing the updates and upgrades.

[chrisname]

What hard drive do you have? I got a Samsung SpinPoint F4, 2 TB.

Here's my partition table (/dev/sda2 is an extended partition, and everything after it (except /dev/sda10) is a logical partition)
/dev/sda1 - Windows - 500 GiB
/dev/sda3 - Boot - 2 GiB
/dev/sda4 - Arch - 100 GiB
/dev/sda5 - Debian - 100 GiB
/dev/sda6 - Mint - 100 GiB
/dev/sda7 - Chris - 1 TiB
/dev/sda8 - Swap - 7 GiB
/dev/sda9 - Unallocated - 30 GiB

I don't know what to put on the last one. Maybe BSD or OSx86 (if I can get it to work).

[thepedestrian]

I've been tooooooooo lazy to do anything. Every time I open up Visual Studio, or any other IDE for that matter, because I have a cool project in mind, I think to myself, what is the point. Lately, I've found myself asking this question a lot because as soon as I have come up with a solution, I fail to implement it. I know I can do it but am just too lazy. And this is the same way with school work and it's progressively getting worse.

For example, I created a code formatter (for a CS professor) which employs some of the most ingenious parsing techniques and my professor likes having 80 characters per line. Although she hasn't stressed that I incorporate this functionality into the parser, I came up with a solution couple months back and have been too lazy to implement.