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  1. 04-05-2005, 02:34 PM #1
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    Best distro for "Overclocking"?

    ok well im still "aqurering" windows xp and i wanted to know what linux os would be the best to use in the mean time.

    I will only be overclocking no games or nothing,


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  2. 04-05-2005, 06:14 PM #2
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    I like SuSE, but really any distro should work fine. Check out the suse linux ftp servers, you can get a copy of SuSE 9.1 personal.

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  3. 04-06-2005, 12:35 AM #3
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    I don't think you'll find that any distros are better than any others strictly for overclocking. Just use whichever one you like best.
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  4. 04-06-2005, 11:34 AM #4
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    ok thanks shall try suse


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  5. 04-06-2005, 06:12 PM #5
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    There's no best distro for overclocking, it's all a matter of taste. I am, myself, a Debian guy. But yeah, SuSE is definately worth a try.
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    suse 64-bit edition

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    Gentoo :P

    But Gentoo takes too much of a time to compile...

    I'd go with Mandrake, or Suse.
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  8. 04-07-2005, 07:39 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by shadowing
    Gentoo :P

    But Gentoo takes too much of a time to compile...
    Try VidaLinux OS. Its Gentoo but without all the hassle. http://desktop.vidalinux.com/

    Cya.
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  9. 04-07-2005, 08:44 PM #9
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    SuSe 9.3 should be out mid-april with lots of improvement. I Agree with Perkam, SuSe 64 bit all the way!!
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    There's only one flaw with Suse. It uses the ReiserFS system. The ReiserFS is pretty unstable...
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  11. 04-10-2005, 06:23 AM #11
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    fedoracore 64bit edition, apparantly thats rather good
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  12. 04-10-2005, 11:19 AM #12
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    Yeah, I lost faith in ReiserFS a while ago when I lost an entire partition suddenly and could never recover it. Now I'm sticking with the old, slow, and reliable Ext3.
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  13. 04-10-2005, 02:04 PM #13
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    Can't you choose how you want the drive formated? I know you can choose in 9.0, did they change it in 9.1 or 9.2?

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  14. 04-11-2005, 04:55 AM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by masterofpuppets
    Yeah, I lost faith in ReiserFS a while ago when I lost an entire partition suddenly and could never recover it. Now I'm sticking with the old, slow, and reliable Ext3.
    i too am converting back to ext3. i keep hearing of problems w/ 2.4 and reiser. now, the reiser package for debian requires 2.6.

    one of my disks lost its reiser journal/index in a reboot. a quick repair put everything into one directory...all 110gb of it. i restored/reorganized what i didn't have elsewhere and restored the rest from another box (redundancy rocks! )
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  15. 04-11-2005, 06:32 AM #15
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    Slackware was stable more so than windows on my last system when overclocked. I agree about using ext3 or maybe ext2, most other file systems I've tried tend to bug out with overclocking when you hit higher clocks.
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  16. 04-30-2005, 01:48 AM #16
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    Anyone tried Fedora Core 3 for O/C and running folding@home? I'm trying it out, once I get all the updates for the home desktop version on 2nd PC sig spec machine. (see below)
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  17. 04-30-2005, 08:14 AM #17
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    I found something out...in SuSE, 2.16ghz is stable, but in Windows, 2.25ghz is stable and my D2OL output on that rig goes up.

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  18. 05-11-2005, 07:57 AM #18
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  19. 05-27-2005, 04:55 AM #19
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    RED HAT 9.0 by far the best linux i've ever used. and i have been using linux for a few years and i've tryed all of them from debrain all the way to suse to yellow dog. red hats just stable easy to use and a good software bundle in general.
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  20. 05-27-2005, 06:19 AM #20
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    I disagree. It's terribly out of date from the box, uses a 2.4 kernel (ARGH TEH SLOWNESS), and is from Red Hat (who I hate with a passion).
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  21. 05-27-2005, 10:28 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by masterofpuppets
    I disagree. It's terribly out of date from the box, uses a 2.4 kernel (ARGH TEH SLOWNESS), and is from Red Hat (who I hate with a passion).
    I agree. I prefer Debian or Slackware.
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  22. 05-27-2005, 10:35 AM #22
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    Gentoo has grown on me alot. Just done a stage1 install on my Pentium II! took hours to bootstrap!!!
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    Out of all the distros I have tried I have never tried Gentoo.
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    hi.

    try this: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?dis...on=overclockix

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  25. 06-16-2005, 04:08 AM #25
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    fedora core 4 works for me.. came out the other day..
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