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Originally Posted by techieMoe I'm actually not looking for distributions to rant on; it just happened that way. I'm really looking for something I can use on the laptop for daily work, which just so happens to be a similar process to my rants. |
yeah I know
Sometimes you need something new. I installed openSolaris for that purpose yesterday. I'd steer away from that if I where you
[rant]Everything worked perfectly, even sound with which most Linuxii have trouble on my system. I was ready to fall in love with a new system. I was even ready to forgive it for the Gnome desktop (oh how love makes blind). Remember how I'm a slacker? Slackers read release notes. The release notes told me to do some magic on the package manager before using it. I did. It should have worked. Perhaps it would have worked, because the updater worked. For hours. I was even ready to forgive it for non functioning for hours while updating.
Aw man. I made some changes that didn't take effect. I was on a weird system where the CPU kept idling at exactly 27%, and under load never got higher than 76%. I was on a system so foreign it said "-bash: top: command not found". Many of the man pages gave a stub "man page not present, this is being worked on -- signed oct 2007"
I rebooted. Halt. It didn't boot because the sendmail server didn't respond. What default install of a desktop runs a sendmail server? And why wait? "It is fine" I said, "that you notify me that sendmail doesn't respond, but could you march on toward a GUI or a prompt??". Alas the mic isn't an input device, and the machine kept waiting for a sendmail server to respond. Not even the three finger salute could change this.
Long story short. I was pretty grmbl
and to top it, I had let openSolaris take over the entire drive because it can only dual boot with Grub and I use Lilo. To take a short cut away from it all, I reinstalled Vector. And during the install it found my Slackware partition. Untouched. it seems a bug in the openSolaris partitioner had refused to take over the entire drive and had just used the 10GB empty partition I had.
Just a lilo rescue, scp and a tar -xvvf later my system is back to how it was. Aw man. Slack acted like nothing had ever happened. Even Firefox asked whether I wanted to restore my previous session. pffff that could easily have ended up worst.[/rant]
The moral of this story:
When you are bored, stay away from the MBR
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