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Thread ID: 46991 2004-07-12 08:22:00 What linux is right for me? Gods-Hitman (1419) Press F1
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252062 2004-07-12 08:22:00 Hey,
Im thinking of giving linux 1 more try, The last 10 times I ALL ways stuff up the muti boot with windows and end up formating and reinstalling windows

Soim ONLY going to use Linux this time could some one help me with these Q:
1)Whats a n00bie safe, friendly, free, and has realy good GUI *I'm not a geek... yet*
2)Will run on my computer well
Specs:
1.7Ghz Celeron (M)
128MB ATI 340M IGP *somthing that can overclock my card in linux eg. Wnidow' "Radlinker" somthing like that would be nice*
768MB DDR SD 266 Ram
20Gig HHD
3)Free, but I would pay a small fee if its good eg. from a mag or somthing
4)Whats ICS like in linux?

I know im a picky but could some one help me with this

Thank You
-Gods-Hitman~2004 		Gods-Hitman (1419)
252063 2004-07-12 08:31:00 With your PC specs, you can choose any Linux distro :)

But I would recommend Xandros for you. It is very user friendly and not such a scarey difference to Windows in appearance. It is Linux tho and not Windows - keep that in mind.

A recent magazine had Xandros 2.0 Standard Ed on it which is very nice. It normally costs a few $. There is the free version of Xandros called Xandros OCE, which you can download via BitTorrent but it has a limited CD burning speed and they have packaged it with Opera as the default browser instead of Mozilla. 		Jen C (20)
252064 2004-07-12 08:34:00 Hmm what mag was this? paper plus?

I would download it but I think im at my 5Gig mark

also what was MSN called for linux?

Thx 		Gods-Hitman (1419)
252065 2004-07-12 08:38:00 Yes - dont use Knoppix.

Oh, I'm at my 18477.10 MB mark :D 		Growly (6)
252066 2004-07-12 08:38:00 Just found my magazine - it was on the Australian PC Authority April 2001 Issue 77.

The MSN clone in Linux is called aMSN (http://amsn.sourceforge.net/), although GAIM works like the Windows Trillian, and does a variety of IM protocols included MSN. 		Jen C (20)
252067 2004-07-12 08:42:00 I know its a bit much to ask but ....
Could I DC++ it off You :D ... plz.... :) Ill trade files
any thing you need? 		Gods-Hitman (1419)
252068 2004-07-12 08:50:00 >128MB ATI 340M IGP *somthing that can overclock my card in linux

Umm ... well ATI and Linux are not what you would call bosom-buddies when it comes to driver support so I doubt you will be overclocking your card under Linux. You can see what Video support you will get under Xandros here (www.xandros.com).

>Could I DC++ it off You

I could send you a copy of the Xandros 2.0 Standard Ed CD in the snail-mail, it would be much faster. Wait a bit first, and see what other Distro's that get suggested for you, you may like to try something other than Xandros. Let me know later if you still want to go for Xandros. :) 		Jen C (20)
252069 2004-07-12 08:53:00 Thank You,
i'll see what ather people say then ill tell you 		Gods-Hitman (1419)
252070 2004-07-12 09:27:00 Gods-Hitman:
If you want, I'll put the ISO on my ftp and you can l33ch it from my server PC in my room if you're going for National Traffic here.

Either that or I'd take Jen up on her offer of posting out Xandros :-)

Add me to the list of "For Xandros Linux" people.


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
252071 2004-07-12 09:46:00 > 4)Whats ICS like in linux?

ICS is known in Linux by it's more generic name - NAT (Network Address Translation). ICS is the MS version of this. Some distributions have GUI setups for this (e.g. Mandrake I believe). Otherwise it is just a few lines in a script, e.g.:

modprobe iptable_nat
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net,ipv4/ip_forward
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr

where ppp0 is the name of your external interface. Use the last line only for dynamic TCP/IP addressing. Make sure that iptables is running and that you have a firewall - often the above lines are included in the firewall. 		JohnD (509)
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