What distro are you trying right now? - Page 164

surmabhopali · #**2446** 5th August 2012, 08:38 PM

ubuntu...with gnome 3.4 and unity .....

Velociraptor · #**2447** 7th August 2012, 11:31 AM

After a long hiatus, i have returned. I use fedora and have since fedora 6.
I want to create a fedora based rescue usb stick that can run a windows anti-virus program eg macFee.
Putting fedora on a usb stick is well documented but, would any of you know if wine would run a windows anti-virus program?
This way, i could rid windows machines of viruses which, i encounter 90% of the time when trying to fix others PC's.
Any information forthcoming would greatly be appreciated and acknowledged.

Golf4Fun · #**2448** 7th August 2012, 02:38 PM

You can run several Antivirus programs natively in Linux and scan the Windows systems.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-li...irus-programs/

Velociraptor · #**2449** 8th August 2012, 02:09 AM

Many thanks Golf4Fun, The link you kindly provided gave me something to go on but, after reading the article on free anti-virus programs on offer - i much prefer to use my paid version. They just seem more robust.
I'm set on using fedora on a stick because, it is so easy to use on other people's machines.I'm going to try wine and use macfee on the stick but, i'm not sure on how the updates will go.Again thankyou

***Dan*** · #**2450** 8th August 2012, 03:22 PM

Hmmm.

Has anyone tried Vector Linux 7.0 yet?

nonamedotc · #**2451** 8th August 2012, 03:31 PM

Yup! I think I tried it when it was released - few months ago. It was quite nice - but I remember thinking why the boot was so slooow (in the default install).

I have to see if I still have the virtual hard disk with the install somewhere!

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No wait! It was not a VM. I installed it directly on the hardware and it was, for some reason, slower to boot than everything else I have tried .... Once booted, it was a very responsive system though.

distributer · #**2452** 8th August 2012, 03:34 PM

Fedora

I like Gnome and had good experiences on my notebook with F16 and upgrade to F17 no problems. So I installed it onto my laptop (bigtop) last weekend to see how it goes. It needs to be reliable for ~1 year for my next courses and all the software I need is available as rpm so its best fit I would say...

***Dan*** · #**2453** 8th August 2012, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Yup! I think I tried it when it was released - few months ago. It was quite nice - but I remember thinking why the boot was so slooow (in the default install).

I have to see if I still have the virtual hard disk with the install somewhere!

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No wait! It was not a VM. I installed it directly on the hardware and it was, for some reason, slower to boot than everything else I have tried .... Once booted, it was a very responsive system though.

Did you use the 32 bit or the 64 bit version?

nonamedotc · #**2454** 8th August 2012, 03:59 PM

I think I used the 32-bit. I don't remember why though since I usually download only 64-bit ....

ElderSnake · #**2455** 16th August 2012, 11:25 PM

Sabayon 9 XFCE edition.

Not bad, not bad at all. Performs nicely and comes with everything, even fglrx (trying it on my netbook so I have an AMD Fusion) out of the box which surprised me a bit but hey it works fine.

A nice touch I find is the package manager providing notices about important package changes or bugs directly from the maintainers. I also like how casual and laid back they are, but if you don't like seeing swear words show up in your operating system maybe it wouldn't be for you

(i.e, "Hey guys, as you know s*it happens sometimes so unfortunately x package affects y..." etc).

It's pretty well put together anyhow, so far it seems to provide all the packages that Arch can provide me on the same machine but with mainly weekly updates instead of daily, which is not a bad thing on a portable machine where I just don't bother to update as much. Yet the software is still up to date.

Wayne · #**2456** 17th August 2012, 02:36 AM

Not exactly trying distros but different DEs. I've had installed and played around with E17, WindowMaker and OpenBox... So far I like WM best of the three but keep coming back to KDE... Would like to try CDE too

jemadux · #**2457** 18th August 2012, 05:25 PM

just using for main OS Debian Testing

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and in virtualbox now i am using gNewSense

R3v0lut10nary · #**2458** 18th August 2012, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wayne

Not exactly trying distros but different DEs. I've had installed and played around with E17, WindowMaker and OpenBox... So far I like WM best of the three but keep coming back to KDE... Would like to try CDE too

How the hell did you get E17 to work?

CrimsonKing · #**2459** 18th August 2012, 06:35 PM

I presume: Installing it from the repositories?

R3v0lut10nary · #**2460** 19th August 2012, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CrimsonKing

I presume: Installing it from the repositories?

Have you tried it?

I did. Then it shows up in the session options from KDM, but when attempting to log in I just get kicked back to the KDM logon screen.

And E17 isn't in Fedora's repositories, that's E16. I followed some instructions posted by Dan -

Code:

su
rpm -Uvh  http://repo.fedora.md/fmd/fedora/fedoramd-release-17.rpm
yum install enlightenment exchange