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June 20, 2008 · Filed Under Science and Technology 

Dear Linux, I’m trying my best to love you, but it’s just not working…

Dreamlinux

I made a Live CD of Dreamlinux Desktop Edition 3.1, but it froze while booting up at the point where it was “loading kernel modules.”  I intended to create a persistent USB Drive install of Dreamlinux but if I can’t even get the Live CD to boot up, that just won’t be happening.

Puppy Linux

I made a Live CD of Puppy Linux 4.0.  It booted okay, but I couldn’t connect to my WPA2 wireless network.  I made a USB Drive version, but obviously, the WPA2 problem persisted.  There goes that distro.

Fedora

I had a USB Drive version of Fedora 9.0 made using Fedora Live USB Creator.  Everything worked perfectly until I tried to update the distro after I had started it up, played around, and connected to the WPA2 network.  It simply froze at what looked about 70% update status, except for the mouse pointer.  When I did a hard reset and tried to reboot with the USB Drive, I got the message “bug in initramfs /init detected.”  Too bad, I loved the layout and everything else about Fedora.

Ubuntu

I created an Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD, and it starts up well and works fine.  I tried one way to get it onto a flash drive, using a tutorial on how install a persistent version of Ubuntu 8.04 on a USB Drive but unfortunately, the USB version I created of Ubuntu would not boot.  The first error was “error 17: cannot mount selected partition” which I fixed by editing a file, but even once that error was fixed, my USB installation wouldn’t start.  I used a separate tutorial on installing Ubuntu 8.04 on a thumb drive but that just created a Live USB install, not a ‘full’ install.

So, I’ve gone further than most people and given linux a good chance.  In fact, I’ve tried many times over the years, and linux seems to get closer and closer to ‘getting there’ but still isn’t there yet.  So it’s Windows XP for me for the foreseeable future.

 

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2 Responses to “Linux”

  1. Harry Barracuda on September 23rd, 2008 6:15 pm

    Puppy and WPA/WPA2 work with a bit of tweaking:

    http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22503&start=15

  2. Hellow on October 3rd, 2008 12:00 pm

    Linux was never made for installation on USB Flash Drives, virtually no OS is made for that. Basing that Linux is bad because it wont install on something not officially supported by any of the mentioned in your post is malarkey. I am personally typing this in a Fedora 9 install, I have also used most Debian Based distros in existence. Windows is for people that want to check their email and browse the web, Linux is made for people that want to actually control and use their computer.

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