Mini installfest coming up here

[dedanna1029]

Haven't gotten to it yet. My next furlough isn't until next month.

[dedanna1029]

I bet it was Mandriva right?

And, no. I am not one of those who is in the gang of appreciating dumb-downed kool-aid centric eye-candy b.s. - I appreciate my challenges, thank you. It's what makes Linux Linux, and not Windows.

[viking60]

There is no challenge - like a good virus infection! In fact Linux is a good way of fixing Windows there, since it is impossible to remove the virus from a running Win system.

[dedanna1029]

That's very true. Whenever someone comes to me saying they have a virus, I tell them that's it for your data, everything pal. Time to reformat - with LINUX this time. If they say no, I tell them to take their business elsewhere.

To this day, I still have 10 business machines running Arch on tap, and 20 PCs with it. Never have gotten a call that anything's breaking on them.

[viking60]

LOL You are right of course! Arch is surprisingly stable even with the AUR packages I have installed with yaourt (it is great!).

[b1o]

yaourt isn't realy supposed to be unstalbe though... Just not supported by the default pacakge manager ^^

Skype was the one thing i never got working 100% in any of those "easy" distros, in arch it was yaourt -S bin32-skype, and bam no problem worked out of the box
Pitty there is no Ventrilo client for linux yet, the last thing i need before i can actually start gaming on windows. wine plays the games just fine, but to talk on Ventrilo i need to click it so it is the "active" application, that doesn't really work if i am to game and talk at the same time

and for arch and the flashplugin, i love it. Flash is usualy the second problem i run into when using 64 bit linux, not anymore ^^

[dedanna1029]

Skype runs fine for me on anything I try/do.

What I do is download the static tarball (direct download link), extract it in /home, and I'm off 'n running.

Works 100%.

[b1o]

Hmm, well might be something with my soundcard then, because on any other distro if i got the mic working i would only have sound on one ear

[dedanna1029]

Are you using that specific version of it (static tar ball)?

[b1o]

right now i'm using Arch where it works, and that's most propably the static package since arch uses tarbals for installation.
But on the other distros i was using the deb/rpm etc.. packages for that spesific Package manager.

[dedanna1029]

Those don't work. Neither does the dynamic tarball.

Use the static tarball. Yes, even in Arch.

[b1o]

good to know for the future, thx!