| Author |
Message |
mauser1891
|
|
|
Post subject: Installer...
 Posted: 15.07.2010, 16:32
|
|
Joined: 19.04.2009
Posts: 19
Status: Offline
|
|
Hello Folks,
I am on the West Coast USA, but my friend lives in Washington D.C. I have called him via landline.
His first install was Debian Lenny, and he did well enough.
Later I suggested that he download and burn sidux, since it has a very nice and new user friendly installer.
In fact it was to user friendly, my friend got stuck.
My review of his review.
If he had read the opening page, since the user manual automatically opens in the beginning. rtfm, rtfm, and rtfm then google if need be.
sidux is not *buntu or Arch. He should be neutral, never compare.
And it's spelled with lower case s in sidux, not capital S... lol once again rtfm
In conclusion, I have seen reviews and screencasts of sidux.
They never write on ceni and the supported wifi devices.
I have used several distro's in the past, but sidux was the easiest to install and use since it handled my BCM4311 rev 1 wireless device "right out of the box".
One screencast the reviewer was basing his review from a virtualbox install. No operating system is going to give a true experience from a virtualbox install.
Overall, not a bad review. |
_________________
Thank You,
mauser1891
p4 desktop dual drive & dual boot
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
julian516
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: 16.07.2010, 18:51
|
|
Joined: 17.07.2009
Posts: 29
Status: Offline
|
|
There is no need to change the installer, which is very fast and works very well.
Three years in I still think of myself as a Linux beginner. Slam has a point, my sidux problems typically have come when I engaged keyboard with brain turned off.
The review in question does make one good point, which is the "rolling release" nature of sidux. Beyond that I found it to have some curious omissions and errors.
The best reviews, as measured by my own experience, are the Distrowatch piece and the one appearing under Linux Blog on the Distrowatch/sidux page.
Let's hope someone does a better 2010 review! |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
get2gether
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: 17.07.2010, 10:13
|
|
Joined: 20.06.2010
Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Posts: 9
Location: Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Status: Offline
|
|
| Im pretty much a novice with linux and found the sidux installer probably the best experience yet, being tabbed just makes it so easy to click backward or forward untill your happy and sure you have it right, i really dont know if there is any other distro with similar installer (ive tried quiet a few) but they would do well to follow suit in my opinion. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
dptxp
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: 17.07.2010, 11:17
|
|
Joined: 06.12.2007
Posts: 955
Status: Offline
|
|
| The HOT distro has a cool installer. |
_________________
http://linux.ixcodes.com
In a lunatic asylum, everyone thinks that he is the doctor.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
sx9
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: 20.07.2010, 09:16
|
|
Joined: 21.01.2010
Posts: 134
Status: Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ayla
|
|
|
Post subject:
Posted: 20.07.2010, 13:38
|
|
Joined: 08.08.2009
Posts: 443
Status: Offline
|
|
jup, nice for starters, and for advanced if possible a free choice too, e.g. partition "data"...
greets
ayla |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Installer...
Posted: 28.07.2010, 20:01
|
|
Joined: 30.01.2008
Posts: 49
|
|
|
mauser1891 wrote:
And it's spelled with lower case s in sidux, not capital S... lol once again rtfm
Actually I prefer to spell it with a capital S. Not only because in German all nouns are spelled with a capital letter, but in English names are too. I dislike the idea of building in a deliberate stumbling block into language, for the same reason I refuse to put a dot in front of NET for example.
It's the same with these tiny, individual labels on each apple. This grocery disease broke out two years ago or so. I simply refuse to buy apples where a marketing clown has decided to force me to remove the label, so I must look at it and subconsciously remember the logo.
I'm not saying whoever decided for all of us how we must spell sidux is a marketing clown, but I see no reason why I should obey the notion... |
_________________
have you stoked your hackers ego today?
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Installer...
Posted: 28.07.2010, 20:04
|
|
Joined: 30.01.2008
Posts: 49
|
|
|
ava_odoemena wrote:
mauser1891 wrote:
And it's spelled with lower case s in sidux, not capital S... lol once again rtfm
I'm not saying whoever decided for all of us how we must spell sidux is a marketing clown, but I see no reason why I should obey the notion...
Oh neat. The forum software is editing my text to actually spell it lower case.
I guess I'll have to refer to it as $idux from now on. |
_________________
have you stoked your hackers ego today?
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
ikeinthai
|
|
|
Post subject: to capital, or not to capital... das k(K)apital?
Posted: 29.07.2010, 06:04
|
|
Joined: 11.12.2008
Posts: 380
Status: Offline
|
|
|
ava_odoemena wrote:
mauser1891 wrote:
And it's spelled with lower case s in sidux, not capital S... lol once again rtfm
Actually I prefer to spell it with a capital S. Not only because in German all nouns are spelled with a capital letter, but in English names are too. I dislike the idea of building in a deliberate stumbling block into language, for the same reason I refuse to put a dot in front of NET for example.
It's the same with these tiny, individual labels on each apple. This grocery disease broke out two years ago or so. I simply refuse to buy apples where a marketing clown has decided to force me to remove the label, so I must look at it and subconsciously remember the logo.
I'm not saying whoever decided for all of us how we must spell sidux is a marketing clown, but I see no reason why I should obey the notion...
gotta say i agree about the apple labels... i don't wanna swallow the damn things (tho now that i consider it, it probably wouldn't hurt me... and a campaign of sending back the "recycled" labels would be a good start to a campaign of stopping the practice)... anyway...
it is interesting to me that after your carefully considered complaints about the capital S omission/affectation for sidux... i see your login name/handle/what you call yourself on the forum... lacks capitalization?!. and it seems to have been so since 2008... to me this is not consistent: your quibble, your proclaimed philosophy, and your practice.
me (please note lack of capitalisation... i suppose one could say i'm often both uncapitalised and un-capitalised: if you don't understand, talk to my banker)... me, i think "stumbling blocks" in writing can be quite useful. one reader's "stumbling blocks" can be another writer's "hold on a second. don't move so fast. take some time to consider there might be a deeper meaning herein concealed (even if you have to come back and reread this when you have more time)".
capitalization of names and writing is an interesting subject. as you say, all nouns in German get the treatment... in English, once upon a time but no longer. the i/I debate? well it doesn't rage (most beings have more pressing problems), but it does exist: many/some/a few/well at least i consider "I" to be somewhat pompous/self-inflated/selfimportant, sort of in line with using the Imperial "We".
on a related note, here in Thailand it is quite common for people in casual conversation to refer to themselves in the third person, as in "ikeinthai hopes that this post of yours is not some part of a larger phenomenon of smallminded people attacking a useful/beautiful/elegant operating system", whereas in the US of A speaking like this would put "Us" in a class with horses-asses and self-absorbed wannabe artists, which even politicianswithhalfabrain kno it is better to steer clear of.
amiably yours, (a small) ike.
PS really, shouldn't somebody be able to call themselves anything they want, and the rest of us respect it?? (and spell their name anywaytheywant?)
that's one thing i gotta commend the US of A for: that a person can ask for a name change, and it will be granted, for whatever reason (long as it's not to commit crime), none of our business, you wanna change your name? done. i believe in most European countries this is not the case.
last names are still not universally required. last names are really to make the tax collector's job easier (and the Romans loved that tax collecting).
i have decided to renamel myself YOURMOTHER'S NEXT!!!. either that or Lee Lee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... e_surnames
perhaps Napoleon Rabelais SpeedofLight Kumar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_name
gotta thinkonit. SMILE when you call me that! |
_________________
dodgy hardware, solid software. sidux: (pearls before swine? let us hope not) the point of the spear, magic in action, the kindest kind of sting. FREESOFTWARE/FREEDOMSOFTWARE=A CHANCE AT FREEDOM.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
absolut
|
|
|
Post subject: RE: to capital, or not to capital... das k(K)apital?
Posted: 29.07.2010, 08:06
|
|
Joined: 11.01.2007
Posts: 1997
Status: Offline
|
|
sidux
sidux
sidux
_Sidux
_SIDUX
_SiDuX
Сидукс
сидукс
haha, well spotted, did not know about this... i wonder, what else is being filtered / censored / modified without notice?
swearing is not filtered, as it seems... thank g'd we are allowed to swear! i can't make through a day without insulting somebody!...  |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
