What Linux distro are you using?

[peterwor]

What Linux distro are you guys finding usable or installable with RC1?
The only distro I've been able to successfully create is Ubuntu 5.10. I've tried SUSE 10.1, Fedora 5 and several others. I even tried upgrading my Ubuntu oline to 6.06 and nothing is working. Everyone of them is refusing to install for one reason or another.
So I'm asking you guys out there for some input, what have you been able to install under RC1?

TIA,
Peter

 

[rjgebis]

Fedora Core 5. Works great...

 

[mavidal]

Scientific Linux 4.3, Redhat enterprise 4.3

 

[Jan Wittrodt]

I'm using Suse 10.1. No problems here, except for bridged networking.

 

[Paul Linden]

Debian, Fedora Core 3 and 4, SuSE 10.1

No problems installing any of them.

 

[johnb]

fedora core 5 is working fine.

 

[BrentB]

Ubuntu 6.06 (via LiveDVD) and CentOS 4.3 installed fine here.

 

[cybercookie72]

most of EWU is using

ubuntu 6.06 to teach with (students)....profs are using Mandriva(one comp) and Fedora(rest of staff)

 

[Parallels User]

I'm using Linspire 5 and it seems to work well except for it locking up when I shut down.

 

[d0nut]

Suse 10.1.

It was a bear to install, but now seems to run great.

 

[canarcane]

Ubuntu 6.06 - no problems

 

[dkp]

Fedora Core 5. Works great...

big ditto.

dp

 

[MtDewaholic]

Has anyone gotten Gentoo to install? I got as far as getting a kernel (using genkernel) installed, but when I reboot into my new kernel all I get is a blank screen.

 

[hklagges]

Suse 10.0 ok, 10.1 not, Ubuntu 6 not

Hello,

for me, Suse 10.0 worked, 10.1 did not, Ubuntu 6 hang after first reboot.

Problem with Suse 10.0 and MacOS 10.4.7: Keys are repeated, i.e. if you hit "down
arrow", a random number of down arrows are transmitted. This is very painful e.g.
when hitting a "Delete"-key and it is executed several times.

Cheers,
Henrik

 

[BrentB]

hklagges: For Ubuntu, did you install from the bootloader's "Install to HDD" option, or did you boot into the LiveCD environment, and install from there? I used the LiveDVD, booted into the full environment (so I could do other things during the installation ;P ) and didn't have an issue. I believe I used the "Other Linux 2.6" setting for the VM, rather than the "Debian" one, although I'm not sure that would matter.

 

[RichardEberhardt]

Linux Distributions - versions

For the people who have installed Linux under Parallels, did you install an i386 version or an x86 64 version?

 

[palter]

Parallels doesn't support x86_64.

 

[alkalifly]

palter is right. the i386 version is the one you want; that's what kind of processor your Intel Mac has

 

[Mike DeSimone]

I've got Gentoo running on Parallels, using the "Other Linux 2.6" settings. There's little or no support for acceleration, shared folders, cursor focus, or whatever.

I use Genkernel to build my kernel, though. YMMV.

 

[BenInBlack]

Fedora Core 5 using the i386 setup.

First time Linux

I installed from ISO and funny thing is fedora installer did a check on the ISO and said there was errors. I ignored that and installed and all went well

after that i did the check for updates and installed them all that took (several hours)

I was able to get it to do 1280x800 res.

Now if we can get parallel tools it would be real nice