ak3ldama's Journal: [Linux] Fedora 8

I mentioned in a previous journal entry that linux hates my machine. Well I tried again, and failed. I installed Fedora 8. It went well. Then it started crashing as before with Ubuntu. I installed kmod-nvidia and the crashes stopped - for the most part. I still experienced a freak crash several minutes into operation while doing typical things so I suppose I will give up installing Linux on this machine. I really wish there was a good answer since Fedora Core 5 worked so well with this motherboard and configuration. Also: the latest netbeans wouldn't install which even if the machine would have been stable would have put a pretty serious damper on things.

From the previous post:

My machine hates the new Ubuntu (7.10) so I am downloading FC7's live disc instead. I would otherwise just download the DVD iso but alas I don't own a dvd burner. I know others with AMD64 type machines who have USB/Noboot issues with Ubuntu, I wish they'd get their shit together. I run Ubuntu on my x86 box and I definitely like it.

I did manage to install Ubuntu once I used the simple text installer though once I had it setup and fully operation I experienced at least one or two crashes that shouldn't have happened - so when Fedora did it I quit after the first crash. Luckily all I had to do was pop the IDE drive back in, reformat the sata raid partition and setup data/music from backups, and I am back in operation.

Try PC-BSD

[QuickFox]

Linux persistently refuses to start when I install it on my machine, but PC-BSD [pcbsd.org] works wonderfully. And PC-BSD is just as easy to install as Ubuntu, and just as easy to use. I recommend that you give it a try. BSD is not Linux but there are great similarities.

Further advice depends on what you want

[nizo]

What do you plan on using the machine for? And have you tried the 32 bit version of the OS, or just the 64 bit version?