Linux Distributions

[Crispy]

Ubuntu: "an African word meaning 'humanity to others'" (http://www.ubuntu.com/) Probably springs from the whole "Linux for human beings" thing.

 

Gentoo: "A Gentoo is a species of a small, fast penguin, pronounced "gen-too" (the "g" in "Gentoo" is a soft "g", as in "gentle"). The scientific name of the Gentoo penguin is Pygoscelis papua. The name Gentoo has been given to the penguin by the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)." (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#pronunciation)

[Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat]

Off-Topic: did I mention I want to move to the Falklands? It's so peaceful there, so clean and civilized, and lacks hectic modern stuff and commercials. The weather there is also perfect, rains %50+ days per year, snows, hails, and rains at will summer and winter, no predictability (I don't like predictability) depending on the storms at sea. The sky is always overcast. I hope British folks and Falkland gov'r will approve me staying for a couple of months or years.

[sparhawk]

As long as DSL is available there.

 

On a sidenote: I can't get my ubuntu installation to work. It wont boot and always comes up with an error "No logical volume groups found". Well of course it can't find it, because I didn't want some. Seems others have the same problems. I have the impression that the initrd is wrong. Anybody knows how to fix this?

[OrbWeaver]

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

 

That sounds like an strange error. If you didn't choose to use LVM then it shouldn't be looking for logical volumes. Do you have any other Linux installations that might have used LVM? Perhaps Ubuntu is getting confused and trying to load from the wrong partition.

[sparhawk]

I formated the previous installation, so it was clean. And there are definitely other users who have also this problem. I downloaded now 6.10 and will give it a try tomorrow.

[sparhawk]

So I downloaded Kubuntu 6.10 now, which fortunately was released a few days ago, and it solve my problem. My Linux works now. Now comes the fun part of installing all the crap I usually need.

 

I wonder what I need to install to make accelerated 3D work on my ATI Radeon card.

[Order of the Hammer Bureaucrat]

Yay! the core works. Good for you!

[sparhawk]

If it were not for that stupid LVM error, it woul dhave been pretty smooth. So far it's the closes to Windows, in terms of usabillity.

[OrbWeaver]

I wonder what I need to install to make accelerated 3D work on my ATI Radeon card.

 

There is a guide here:

 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

 

I use the official drivers from ATI, rather than the packaged Ubuntu drivers which have caused lockups for me in the past. Basically you run the installer from ATI with the option to generate an Ubuntu package, then install all of the generated packages, and run some extra stuff afterwards to get it to load the modules etc.

[sparhawk]

Thanks for the link. I will give it a try.