Saturday, 14. November 2009, 18:30:00
No this is not my GPA in some exam or anything !!!
Coming to the 3/4 story !
The 3 is how many number of distro's i tried in a time span of 4 days
thats what the 4 signifies .
I upgraded my ubuntu 9.04 to Karmic the day it was released. Couple of days latter my friend told me to check out Arch linux !Now i am guy who loves to try different linux distro's(call me crazy, i am fine with it) .
(day 1)So i download the minimum installation ISO around 350Mb and started to install on Sunday.The installation +updating pacman+ downloading drivers and required stuff nearly consumed the full day, given that my internet speed is only 30kbps ( i know its horrible and pathetic). so monday i wake up and i have everything installed. Now i come to part where i have to install and configure an X server !
My options where
KDE
Xmonad
Ratpoison
these where the 3 X servers i wanted to try and wanted to maintain in arch since i already am put with gnome in the way of Ubuntu Karmic Koala !
so i installed KDE around 350Mb took me roughly around 3 and a half hours. Then i spent the next 30 minutes reading the arch wiki page learning how to set it up properly . And after i had done all of the configuration I typed
xinit
the kde loaded and i saw was elated to have the eye candy desktop environment back on my computer.
Then i went on to install KDM (kde login manager) and then the rest of the hour went on configuring that. I restarted my comp. my ecstasy,happiness and joy was deprived in just 5 minutes !! every time i enter my username and password in my login manager, it respawned to the same login screen !! i spent nearly 3 hours trying to figure how to get it working but NO i couldn't. Then my mind swung to trying out Xmonad and Ratpoison which where no different when it came to the point of usage !
Xmonad was blank nothing worked i tried pressing ctrl+shift+enter and many other stuff suggested by various people. Coming to ratpoison , everything worked fine except that the keyboard input didnt work so totally vexed about the fact that i spent 1 and a half days on installing a arch and i am left with no other alternative but to remove it !! now you may ask what happened to that ubuntu?
Yes that was something i patted myself for, i was happy i didn't remove ubuntu but when i went into ubuntu it reacted weirdly , i was guessing that since i had used the ubuntu swap for arch , it screwed it up and now my ubuntu also went terribly slow. At times the screen would just remain in state of deadlock with my getting 0 response for various inputs
. So that evening i installed Kubuntu, remember what was my motto when i installed Arch !! to start using KDE again. So i installed Kubuntu .
i was all happy KDE working atleast with Kubuntu so i left my comp. on for Karmic update to go on! next morning (day 3)i restart my kubuntu and now i face the same problem i faced with arch . It respawns after i enter username and password. By this time i was certain it was not some fault in installation or anything. It was the fault with my GFX card (onboard), it didn't support the latest KDE !!
now towards the after noon i was left with no other choice other than to go back to old ways of using Ubuntu. I inserted the jaunty cd( didn't have Karmic) installed it and the next 7 hours went in updating that jaunty to Karmic !!and another hour or so to tweaking and installing my necessary applications like Opera web browser ,installing python..etc.
There we Go 3 Distribution installs in 4 days
shocked to see that i was getting just 10-15kbps/30 kbps speed !! i was wondering what was wrong with my Internet !!
j/k
Sorry 
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