o---my---linux!!!

terry.trent · 07-31-2004, 03:46 PM

i seriously cannot say how happy i am with feather. this is perhaps one of the best setups i've seen (even tho i haven't seen that many).

getting it up and running was extremely easy (after figuring out my rawwrite problem). and i have to say, the desktop enviroment is a pretty good setup.

i will be honest, i think there could be a few more additoins, ut for it's size and the things you can do with it, i would recomend feather for anyone, whether you are on the go or just need an os for an old computer.

the only issue i found was it didn't work on my laptop. not an issue, really, i have another computer i'm working with it on.

i find the only thing to annoy me would be the fact that i have to use a boot disk to get it to work. does anyone know if it is possible to install the boot image on the cd along with the os? so that instead of having to have a cd and a floppy, you would just need the floppy?

fancypiper · 07-31-2004, 04:02 PM

Did you download it and not burn a bootable CD?

From their home page:

Quote:

Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD

If you download and burnt the CD after extracting the files, I suggest that you check the md5sums on the Linux ISO Images and make sure you know how to burn ISOs in Windows so that the CD is bootable.

Why not just run the full KNOPPIX Linux Live CD?

Do I buy a boxed source, download off the internet or buy some cheap CDs?
It's your choice! If you download, I suggest that you check the md5sums on the Linux ISO Images and make sure you know how to burn ISOs in Windows to install Linux
# Cheap CDs
AlmostFreeLinux
Discount Linux CDs
Linux Central
Cheapbytes
TuxCDs
ComputerHelperGuy
CheapISO
Os Heaven

terry.trent · 07-31-2004, 04:31 PM

the way i understood it, if you wanted to boot up feather into a windows system, you have to have a boot image. and i have windows on the computer i was testing it on, so i got the boot image all set up. i'll look into it tho, thanks!

TyphoonMentat · 08-01-2004, 05:39 AM

It doesn't really matter what system you boot Feather into, whether it's Linux, Windows, BSD - it doesn't matter. You only need a bootfloppy if your computer doesn't support booting from CD, and in all other cases the CD itself should be fine.

terry.trent · 08-01-2004, 12:49 PM

o-i guess i did nmisunderstand thanks!

something else just came to me as well--do you know if feather would boot up on a macintosh computer?

TyphoonMentat · 08-01-2004, 01:02 PM

No, unless you use an emulator. The only distributions that will are ones that support the PPC architecture (i.e. the Mac), such as Debian PPC, YellowDog and KnoppixPPC.

atang1 · 08-06-2004, 01:27 AM

Feather distribution for i686 itself has hardware non-compatibilities.

Video monitors had to be svga(1024x768) but around 75 hz.

Modems can only be external serial port, not USB.

Part of the compatibility problems arise from the Linux phylosophy, define by KDE, that any drivers not installed by Linux kernel, has to be installed in KDE desktop interface, closely coupled to application software such as kppp(dialer for browser), gqcam(digital camera and viewer), cups(printer and network), etc.

For that reason, mini linux may eventually bloated to 300 mb for full desktop applications.

If Feather stay with inkernet and store all the repository data in email on the portals, it can stay as small as 64 mb with cups and gqcam.

Such is the future of tiny minis.

hitesh_linux · 08-27-2004, 12:57 PM

is there any way i can download Feather Linux? Or any live CD available?

if it is then please give me a link so i cna download it..

thnax in advance

--Hitesh
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Be a part of open source

TyphoonMentat · 08-27-2004, 03:36 PM

http://featherlinux.berlios.de is the main site.
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/feather-0.5.7.iso is the CD image you want to download. You need to burn it with an option similar to "Write image" in your CD recording software.

hitesh_linux · 08-27-2004, 04:20 PM

Thanx TyphoonMentat,

I will try and let you know.

--Hitesh
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Be a part of open source !!

david_ross · 08-27-2004, 04:25 PM

Don't forget to check out the latest LQ site - LQ ISO:
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/version.php?version=12

TyphoonMentat · 08-28-2004, 03:42 AM

Good point, but I'm afraid that link is a little old - Feather's jumped 3 versions now

david_ross · 08-28-2004, 11:49 AM

It's not always easy to keep things like this up to date and anyone with more information with regards to new releases is encouraged to use the suggest feature to let us know when new distributions or versions of a distribution are added:
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/suggest.php

hitesh_linux · 09-01-2004, 08:19 PM

i try to download Feather .iso image. i found it's file size it just 61.68 MB. is this file size ok? or i m doing some thing wrong.

I try to download from the following mirror site.

http://mirror.linuxquestions.org/pub/distributions/

pls clear it....

--hitesh

TyphoonMentat · 09-02-2004, 05:23 AM

It's best to download the latest version from: http://featherlinux.berlios.de/feather-0.5.7.iso