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Morphix: Take the Red Pill

garym — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:34:44 -0400

I'm not a big fan of Mandrake/Mandrive Move for a novice; it's clunky, bloated and while it does work on really fast and large modern computers, it can be a painful creeping experience on P3's and lesser; hardly a compelling introduction for the newcommer!

Instead, I recommend the Morphix live-CDs; fast efficient and focussed, you can get a general Morphix to kick the tires, or get a repackaged Morphix in any of a thousand customized special-purpose flavours such as Morphix for Musicians, or Morphix for Linguistic Analysis, or a trade-show kiosk, or a milking machine monitor or ... there's more new and wonderful custom morphix morphs announced almost daily!

For me, that's real power: A plunk and play complete tailor made computing solution for some specific itch, not some glut of 'everything cool' thrown together by some caring-less geeks in an bored cubic'd office tower, but lovingly crafted by people who really need this thing to work for them ... and with full and easy instructions and community support to help you craft your very own.

If anyone would like to try the generic Morphix, I have CDs ...

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

A very good read

bub — Mon, 16 May 2005 10:17:44 -0400

On this topic you will find a very good read here.

What flavour linux do you have?

bub — Sun, 15 May 2005 17:40:41 -0400

I am sure that some of you by now are interested in how to go about this thing called Linux,there are some vary usefull places around that will help you go about trying it. You do not have to get rid of your windows, you can either partition the existing hard drive(remember its windows so you should defrag before doing so) or install it on a separate hard drive.You can even install more than one flavour of Linux on the second hard drive if you want to give them a try.You can see your multiple of choices HERE .
Gary has some very good info and links that you can follow at the other blog . And for those of you that would like to read a very simple install of it, read Tom's Hardware guide on how to . While you may well ask what is the best version? Its that answer you see a lot around here, it depends :) Don't be afraid to ask for a recommendation, and in the meantime give a bootable cd or dvd version a try, this in no way affects your existing O/S as it runs strictly off your cd/dvd.(so remember it will be slower somewhat) Mandrake move is but one.