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I have had no problems with firewire and Fedora

dvmail at texas.net wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:02:25 -0400
>"Joshua R. Altemoos" <joshua at gnu-linux.net> wrote:
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>>Hey,
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>>Welcome man. I use slackware9.1 i plan to upgrade to 10 asap. Just FYI
>>next meeting is not untill September because of the summer noone ussaly
>>shows up so i hope you can understand =D
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> Thanks. Hopefully there'll be some kind of get-together going on
>before then. I remember early on talking to a Slack geek about dependency issues
>with Red Hat, and he said he didn't have that problem with Slackware. Using
>apt-get with Red Hat, and now thanks to Red Hat stopping support of RHL9, I've
>gone to using livda.org/fedora.us apt-get and am trying that for a while. I
>tried Fedora core2, and it was purty, but didn't support firewire. DOHH! So, I
>went back to RHL9.
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> Funny story about how I got into Linux in the first place... I would visit a
>young woman and her Dad and I would get into talking computers, and I would cry
>about MS products, and he would say "I don't have that problem with Linux."
>hehe. Needless to say, I tried it and liked it enough to pursue Linux. Instead
>of the summertime blues, i got the dial-up modem blues, <bust out the harmonica
>mode> I got a modem, she won't go fast like the way I used to with cable modem
><riff> I got a modem, don't you do what your big sister did <riff>...
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>take it easy, man
>Daniel
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>>Greetings !!!
>>We have several Fedora users in the list, so if you've questions, ask away.
>>Also RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Slack, Gentoo, maybe even a SUSE user or two.
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>>I dabbled with Knoppix v3.0 this winter, and really liked it , but got 
>>stuck trying to save my configuration to the HD for the next reboot.
>>The default resolution of 640x480 really PO'ed me, and editting configs 
>>in Vim was a pain.
>>I was on a LIVE CD kick, and thought it was a great way to learn, 
>>because you can't hurt anything - all partions default to RO.
>>I think it was the only  one of about 5 or 6 I tried that recognized 
>>everything - Klaus Knopper  should be sainted.
>>Do you run Knoppix from a complete HD install, or from the CD, laptop or 
>>desktop ?.
>>* green_man
>>** on **Thunderbird 0.4*
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> Thanks. Knoppix has undergone a lot of changes recently. I don't know about
>being sainted, but Klaus probably has lots of people offering to buy him beers,
>if he's indeed old enough to drink ;-)
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>When I was running a Nvidia 5200 series video card, I'd have to specify
>framebuffer settings, and the way to do this is now simplified, i.e.
>at startup just type something like...
>knoppix fb1024x768
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>I've done a hard drive install with Knoppix in the past. I haven't tried a
>hdinstall with the latest v3.4-2004-05-17 release though... I get the impression
>that these tasks relating to hd setup and configuration are easier. it seems
>that you can set it up Knoppix now to use a persistent home directory, or do a
>hard drive install while Knoppix is running, though I haven't tried it yet.
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>I've run it on my old desktop and my laptop, and have tried to get the people
>running the free internet place on Main Street to use it, but they haven't
>switch to it, they use MS products currently.
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>have fun,
>Daniel
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