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« Reply #60 on Mar 20, 2011, 7:13pm »

Mar 20, 2011, 7:00pm, vaulttecbranded wrote:

There are several users here who are gamers in Linux, you should fit right in. Many of us were distro-hoppers and decided to settle down to this "Stable" release. Welcome.

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« Reply #61 on Mar 20, 2011, 7:18pm »

Mar 20, 2011, 7:00pm, vaulttecbranded wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am from Australia and I am currently downloading SalineOS. I have used Linux before but never in great detail (hard to get away from my pc games, which is why I still use Windows). I hope as a new linux user I can fit in well here! I see that there are a few people who have some interesting stories to tell!

I hope this isn't taken offensively but I've always preferred distributions that weren't mainstream - e.g. Mepis, not Ubuntu etc, which is why this one looks very appealing to me. Needless to say I will try to seed it as much as I can (I think that's the term?) as it doesn't look like there are too many at the moment

Thank you for providing me with a distro that looks like it has so much potential and will get a lot of use on my end.

Welcome to the forums, it is good to have you here

And, no offense taken. SalineOS is still outside the mainstream and probably will be for some time to come. I have no problem being a hidden gem

As for gaming, might I recommend you check these games out. You may even run across me playing from time to time:
http://www.megaglest.org
http://www.redeclipse.net/

Red Eclipse is a fork of Blood Frontier that has only just gone stable as of 03/15.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #62 on Mar 20, 2011, 7:32pm »

Thank you both for the kind welcome

It's funny you should mentioned Red Eclipse since I was just looking at it in the Games topic in these forums - looks really well done! I will have to give it a try. I haven't seen MegaGlest yet so I might just have a look at that too.

Anyway it has finished burning the DVD so I am going to give it a go! Will let you know how it goes.

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« Reply #63 on Mar 20, 2011, 8:00pm »

Hello there vtb, welcome to SalineOS.
Mepis3 something was my second main distro after Mandrake.
It got me hooked on Debian derived distros. I've used several others, sid and testing as well, but got tired of fixing things.
Anthony's mix of Debian Stable and backports promises freedom from most disasters. I supply enough of my own trying other apps. But it's easier to recover now.

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« Reply #64 on Mar 20, 2011, 8:05pm »

Thanks Richard

Well I've installed it on my laptop and managed to get the wireless working (weirdly enough, it wouldn't accept that my WEP key was a passphrase - even though it is - so I tried the HEX setting as a wild guess and it worked :S Oh well! It works so I'm not complaining

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This really is a fantastic distro -even after 10 minutes of us - and it looks amazing - I hope you're proud of what you have here Anthony.

Also one more thing - excellent work on the User Manual. It is very comprehensive and perfect for someone like me who doesn't 'really' know what they're doing

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #65 on Mar 20, 2011, 8:14pm »

Glad you are enjoying the user manual

Richard gets some credit for this as well as he does a lot of proof reading and the formatting is mostly his. Headers, footers and the idea to highlight the commands were all him.

I am actually surprised how much work goes into writing decent documentation. I have installed Linux for a lot of people and the number one thing I was asked for was a user manual. So I decided to write one, thought it would be quick and easy. Seven months later I am still adding, fixing, formatting and re-wording things in it. I am always taking suggestions for it here in the forums and some of the items added are from questions in the forums. So if something is missing that you think should be there let me know and I may just add something

Edit: As GMaq of AVLinux put it "Documentation is never done". AVLinux is another distribution using the Remastersys scripts for Debian if you are curious. Primarily designed for audio and video production systems.

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« Reply #66 on Mar 20, 2011, 8:30pm »

Oh right - well Richard props to you as well for your contribution to the User manual!

Yes a few years ago I got a qualification in IT (at the time it was Windows XP based so unfortunately it's a bit outdated now) and we covered basic user documentation - it is certainly more difficult than it looks as you have to think about all of the users in the user base etc....

On that note - if you do need any help formatting (although it doesn't look like you do!) feel free to send us a message or an e-mail and I will see what I can do

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #67 on Mar 22, 2011, 7:08am »

Hello everyone! I have just finished installing SalineOS 1.3. Think i'm really going to enjoy using this OS. May have a few questions along though lol.

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« Reply #68 on Mar 22, 2011, 7:19am »

Mar 22, 2011, 7:08am, hopper wrote:

Hello everyone! I have just finished installing SalineOS 1.3. Think i'm really going to enjoy using this OS. May have a few questions along though lol.

Bring on the questions ! That's why this forum exists !

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #69 on Mar 22, 2011, 7:22am »

Cheers Murdock and thanks for the reply

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #70 on Mar 24, 2011, 5:56am »

Hi,

@ vaulttecbranded, and Hopper,

Welcome to the forum. Delighted to see the small community growing day after day.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #71 on Mar 25, 2011, 6:41am »

Hello Franch, More than happy to be a part of a small community + using and learning all about a great distro like SalineOS 1.3. And thanks for the welcome!

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« Reply #72 on Apr 11, 2011, 12:57am »

Hi there ! ...

my nickname is ' Casey ' ... and I'm living on ' Martinique ' ... postalcode 97200 ! ... that's why ... ' casey972oo ' ! ...
I'm retiered allready ! ... what give me the time ... to play with my netbooks .. surfing in the web .. and trouble all kind of people ! ...

I was born in Germany ! ... in ' Nürnberg ' ! ... ' nur en berg ' ! ... im ' Frankenland ' ... a departement of ' Bavaria ' ! ...
living in Martinique for about 13 years ! ... was traveling around ... in the states of USA ! ... New York ! ... Los Angeles ! ...
Fairmont West Verginia ! ... Tampa Florida ! ... Enterprise Alabama ! ... Detroit Michigan ! ... and Windsor Canada ! ...

and I mist to see this legendary Bridge ! ... just on some pictures ! ... anyway ! ...

I like LINUX ! ... and maybe I did found ... what I'm looking for ... with ' SalineOS ' ? ...

my ' paradise ' ! ... is ' Tahiti ' ! ... that's where I want to go ... before the end of my Life ! ...

so long ! ...

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #73 on Apr 11, 2011, 5:02am »

Welcome Casey. World travelers and stay-at-homes always welcome.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #74 on Apr 11, 2011, 9:22pm »

Paul here. I live on a small island in Hawaii and have to get my internet via a large satellite dish. Been using Linux in one form or another since about '03 or '04, starting with Red Hat/Fedora and then to Debian thru Knoppix, Kanotix, sidux, AntiX, Mepis, Etch, Lenny, the works. I still feel like I am groping in the dark much of the time, despite multiple daily forays into the cli...so much here that seems beyond my aging grey matter.

I am currently using Squeeze but want to download a copy of SalineOS tonight (when the satellite gods go to sleep and don't monitor us age) and try it on a free partition.

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