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| Thread ID: 51047 | 2004-11-10 06:13:00 | Linux, what can you do with it? | Prescott (11) | Press F1 |
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| 289977 | 2004-11-10 07:13:00 | You can connect to the net and not instantly get any of these....... Spyware Virus Trojan Worm |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 289978 | 2004-11-10 07:16:00 | > No one has answered the question. What can you do > with it, that Windows can't. > Bye Use it on the internet and be, buy M/S standards, virus, worm, and trojan free. That 's a pretty big start. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 289979 | 2004-11-10 07:17:00 | 98se - no updates - AVG, never picked up a virus - Browser Hijack blaster. No problems. According to Steve Gibsons site, all ports are closed. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 289980 | 2004-11-10 07:18:00 | just had a little look at yoper, might try this, advice/suggestions?, but there is a downside, a massive 692.97MB this is crazy, the highest ive ever download was a 200mb demo, anyone already downloaded this and have a spare cdr (dirt cheap anyway) and willing to send me this?? because this could take me weeks to download, Chilling_Silence you have yoper dont you? thanks for all the help |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 289981 | 2004-11-10 07:19:00 | > oh one more thing, are these downloadable through a > dial up connection, what are the average download > sizes/times for distros? Don't go near these if you have dial-up unless you have a D/L manager and a looooooong time when you don't need the phone line. Most of the major distros use more than one CD, so you're in for a download of at least 1.5 - 2.0 GIGABYTES for a full distro. Just go to a mate's place with broadband for this. Bletch PS. Don't forget to reimburse mate for the excess usage charged by Telecom.... |
Bletch (244) | ||
| 289982 | 2004-11-10 07:21:00 | > > oh one more thing, are these downloadable through > a > > dial up connection, what are the average download > > sizes/times for distros? > > Don't go near these if you have dial-up unless you > have a D/L manager and a looooooong time when you > don't need the phone line. Most of the major distros > use more than one CD, so you're in for a download of > at least 1.5 - 2.0 GIGABYTES for a full distro. Just > go to a mate's place with broadband for this. > > Bletch > > PS. Don't forget to reimburse mate for the excess > usage charged by Telecom.... that would have been a possibity but i dont have a mate/ know anyone with a broadband connection, all my mates are flatrate dial up users |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 289983 | 2004-11-10 07:24:00 | Dick Smith Electronics sells linux too. $8.95 for the latest version of mandrake, and $6.95 for knoppix. Bletch |
Bletch (244) | ||
| 289984 | 2004-11-10 07:26:00 | > 98se - no updates - AVG, never picked up a virus - > Browser Hijack blaster. > No problems. According to Steve Gibsons site, all > ports are closed. > Bye How many new S/w packages can you now not use? Starting with IE6, Adobae acrobat 6 Ect Ect. How much new equippment can you not use? Eventually you will have to upgrade The extension of lonhorn release dates gives you a reprieve. You hiatus will end, then you will be like all the other M/S victims. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 289985 | 2004-11-10 07:30:00 | The lower the spec'ed machine the more likely you'll need a distro with , lets say, user input required at the coal face . 2GB is a tad light, but will work, a bit more ram would help too, particularly for Yoper and some of the other modern/newer distro's . Remember, most distro's are fairly easy to customise as to what is installed, they usually come pre-loaded with office type productivity app's, and all sorts of other bit's and pieces, if it's too big to beigin with to fit comfotably on the drive, performace will suffer . Yoper from that respect comes on a single CD with fairly basic but useful software included, then you build it up from there with Yoper approved/optimised app's like Open Office . I have yoper on a 4 . 6GB partition with OO and a heap of other add-ins and still have 2 . 6GB free, but my Home (user data nad some installation/app files) folder is on a separate partition 11 . 7 free of 12GB (fairly recent install . So I'm using 2 . 9GB + a 1GB swap (which hardly gets used) . I could easily use the rest of the 4 . 6GB /root space by adding more apps and functionality, but there is no need at the mo . Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 289986 | 2004-11-10 07:39:00 | so your advising partion my 40gig and make a 5gig partion? i dont wanna lose all my stuff on the 40gig, can i partion it from windows? |
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