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: LUG: Linux Flavors and help for a novice
From
: Brolly Ferret <brollyferret@gmail.[redacted]>
Date
: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:03:43 -0400
Hello all
Well this semester I'm torn between showing up to lug meetings and Taas, well not really, anime wins for me.
Anyhoo, My IBM laptop recently lost its systemboard so to replace it I
got a 300 buck linspire desktop. Hated Linspire and dumped it for
Slackware 10.1.
Well my problem is configuring my hardware for slackware as well as
getting JRE, python, bittorrent, and several other software packages to
install right. Running into a lot of points where the rpms or makes
are giving me that they want gtk or other softs that I know are
installed.
The hardware that I'm having trouble configuring is my logitech MX 700
wireless mouse, my printer/scanner a HP PSC 1610, and a Pioneer USB DVD
Burner. I also have a keyboard with extra multimedia keys but that I
think I can get configured on my own.
I do have a cd burner/dvd combo drive that is internal as well, but
haven't figured out how to get the software to burn anything on it
configured (and bittorrent would be useful in getting the isos anyway).
I'd like to upgrade to the current version of Slackware, or to a current Redhat version as well.
Just wondering if anyone has any help/advice/mojo they could share with
me. I don't have any major data on this machine yet that I can't
replace or stand losing so I'm open to trying other flavors of linux as
well.
Thanks
Gerald Sears
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