Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 03, 2005 05:06 PM
Hi Preston,
I do think Lunar Linux is not really a beginners distro. Also running Lunar Linux on servers just makes more sense to me, unless you NEED the newest and hottest version of a package for your desktop. Things like running up to date software can improve security and installing a grsec patched kernel doesn't take rocket science.
But as it happends to be, I recently tried to install Lunar Linux (from the 1.5 iso) on an older system that had to be used as a dektop...
After two or three days of compiling (it's only a 1 Ghz machine) and some minor dependency problems. Note I could get all the info needed to fix those problems from the compile logs. I now have a nice up to date system! It's running a 2.6.12.3 kernel, Xorg 6.8.2, qt 4.0.0, kde 3.4.2, firefox 1.0.6, evolution 2.2.3, etc, etc... and right now I'm listening to some internet radio<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
Guess what I'm saying here is that it is possible , even without too much hassle. And no, I'm not some kind of dev... Mainly just a happy user<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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Re:Thanks Again
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 03, 2005 05:06 PMI do think Lunar Linux is not really a beginners distro. Also running Lunar Linux on servers just makes more sense to me, unless you NEED the newest and hottest version of a package for your desktop. Things like running up to date software can improve security and installing a grsec patched kernel doesn't take rocket science.
But as it happends to be, I recently tried to install Lunar Linux (from the 1.5 iso) on an older system that had to be used as a dektop...
After two or three days of compiling (it's only a 1 Ghz machine) and some minor dependency problems. Note I could get all the info needed to fix those problems from the compile logs. I now have a nice up to date system! It's running a 2.6.12.3 kernel, Xorg 6.8.2, qt 4.0.0, kde 3.4.2, firefox 1.0.6, evolution 2.2.3, etc, etc... and right now I'm listening to some internet radio<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
Guess what I'm saying here is that it is possible , even without too much hassle. And no, I'm not some kind of dev... Mainly just a happy user<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
Vincent
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