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Old 01-01-2006, 11:05 PM   #1
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Italian Distro?


I'm just curious... I know one can set different languages and stuff like that on every OS known to man.

Is there an Italian made distrobution of Linux? The French and Germans have one. What about the Italians?
 
Old 01-01-2006, 11:52 PM   #2
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Qilinux is Italian-made. I tried it earlier last year and it was quite good. Not much happening these days though.

http://www.qilinux.org/
 
Old 01-02-2006, 11:17 AM   #3
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A new version of foxlinux got released recently, check out www.foxlinux.org - it's in Italian.
 
Old 01-04-2006, 04:06 AM   #4
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Foxlinux it's great but...

...I'm having trouble installing NVIDIA driver.

The fact is I messed up an Ubuntu Breezy upgrade to Dapper and then, while searching the net for solutions and answers to the problems I've found I came across this fantastic italian distro:

1) it took only 10 minutes to install on my Pentium 4@2Mhz with 1024 Mb RAM
2) it's fresh, clean, very nice & good looking, very well organised
3) detected and configured all my hardware very well
4) it does not consume too much space of my harddisk (about 1,5Gb of a 6Gb partition I've got only for linux)

But the fact is that while using SMART package management which came with it I receive an ErrNo256 saying «no more repositories to try, repond.xml core not found» or something very similar(sorry, I'm at work right now and can't tell the wright message, forced to use window$ here :-( )

I've tried to set the repositories from http://fedora.paradigma.pt the way they described there but none worked, got the same message again and again; I also tried to add the livna.org repositorie but received the same thing again.

Any ideas of what this could be?
I intend to go to their foruns but from what I see, they're short on users - and, of course, on answers.

Thanks in advance for the help you could provide me (anyone and everyone)
Zeca
 
Old 01-04-2006, 04:10 AM   #5
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Which fantastic Italian distro?
 
Old 01-04-2006, 05:19 AM   #6
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Problem solved with Foxlinux

After all there's a simple solution for this issue.
It seems that we only have to close KSmartTray (icon looks like a blue box with a CD) on the upper right corner of the monitor and then use the SMART package manager from System menu

But thanks anyway for your input (but I'm not quite sure if I understand your question)!
 
Old 01-04-2006, 12:07 PM   #7
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The maintainer wrote a guide on installing the nVidia drivers, pretty much the same that I install them on Fedora installations.

http://www.foxlinux.org/modules/smar...aq.php?faqid=1
 
Old 01-05-2006, 06:24 AM   #8
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installing NVIDIA drivers in foxlinux

Hi equinox!
Thanks for your help... I've been exploring their site but missed this, my fault

Anyway, the sooner I get home I'll try this
Hopefully it will solve the problem

Oh, BTW, I noticed only now that I've not typed the name of the italian distro - of course it's Fox Desktop and can be found here

Thank you very much,
Zeca

PS - A note to myself: have to change my signature
 
Old 01-05-2006, 07:23 AM   #9
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Sure, hope you come right.
 
Old 01-06-2006, 06:00 AM   #10
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nvidia driver: problem solved

This is only to report that I've solved my problem of installing nvidia drivers on Fox Linux.
Thanks again to everyone that helped me, specially equinox

However I had to adapt the method described on foxlinux FAQ/Guide as I've already posted on their forum

Now preparing to enjoy my new fox linux desktop
 
  


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