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| 1133514 | 2010-08-31 16:33:00 | Sorry getting sleepy:sleep its a 1000 gig hard drive. Once again :thanks for all the help!!!:thumbs: I better go to bed now I have been checking out distrowatch.com/ and reading up at different Linux Distro's. So far I like 7 of them,it's like when I was young and I could buy lollies for 1 cent and I had a whole $1 to spend "Ill have that one and that one etc..... Ok I have got to go to bed to get some sleep:sleep now......and then go to work!!!!:eek: |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 1133515 | 2010-08-31 22:56:00 | Yeah why stop at one? Why not grab yourself Ubuntu, Mint, have a play around with a few of them :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1133516 | 2010-08-31 23:16:00 | I see. Surely there is a free compiler for windows too? So where can I find a free C. compiler for Windows 7 64 bit without resorting to torrents etc? |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1133517 | 2010-09-01 08:35:00 | http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ Edit: +1 to what chill said, try 'em all. Till you find one you like. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1133518 | 2010-09-01 09:26:00 | 1. What is the best looking Linux Distro graphic wise. With a name like yours - you should try Mepis http://www.mepis.org/ |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1133519 | 2010-09-01 10:17:00 | Have mucked around with Linux since 1998 and did away with dual booting in 2001. The distro to use is really personal choice but I currently use Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop after having used Fedora, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, SuSE and Redhat very early on. For starters either Ubuntu or PCLinux gets my vote. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 1133520 | 2010-09-01 10:57:00 | I have tried quite a few and now use Mint as it is quite straightforward and has support out of the box for most multimedia codecs, which saves a bit of mucking about. Being based on Ubuntu means it has a huge range of software available in the repositories too. PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu are both very good as well. If, however you would like a small fast system then I would recommend Puppy. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1133521 | 2010-09-02 22:55:00 | 1. What is the best looking Linux Distro graphic wise. 2. Can you install programs or apps or whatever to make your Linux distro to look real nice/cool etc.-if so what are they? 3. Which Linux distro is best for watching movies,playing music/internet/and will work nice and easy/easy to do updates/easy to install new programs/unstall programs. (no command line stuff). Or is it just a matter of getting the right program etc for which ever distro you use and you will be sweet. Everything Cato said is very good truth so this just additional. My personal preference is for openSUSE. The biggest difference between distros is their administration systems and that is the reason I stick with openSUSE. If you wish to avoid CLI, then SuSE's YAST (Yet Another Setup Tool) is arguably the best of the bunch, everything in your system can be managed from a single GUI Control centre. (Mandriva's MCC is also good in this department, I've heard good things about Fedora's Anaconda but have no experience) Ubuntu's admin system by comparison is a mess and when I've had Ubuntu running I did everything in CLI because it was just easier. OpenSUSE also gives you the choice of Window Manager: ie either KDE or Gnome or LXDE or XFCE. The DVDs I have give you the option of live Gnome or KDE environments so you can "try before you buy" although given the space you have available there is probably no reason why you can't have all of them installed. Like Cato I still use the 3 partition model root (/) swap and /home (I boot from mbr but my systems are usually dedicated Linux, no windows part) Swap partition doesn't need to be any greater than 2GB however, the old 2xRAM standard was on the money in the days of sub 1gb ram not so much now and over 2GB just doesn't get used. The distro that I've found works best for out of the box graphics and video is Ubuntu Ultimate Edtion 2.6. Wine and PlayOnLinux are installed by default as well as all the Win Media codecs... not sure how they get round the licensing thing but they manage it somehow. I dumped it in the end because of the administration thing. Software installation and updates are so trivially easy in YAST, it seems I've gotten lazy. :) I have a stock of the latest OpenSUSE 1 1. 3 Promo DVDs brought in for Software Freedom Day (the real thing not burnt) (Dual sided, 32 bit one side 64 the other) if you want one, PM me an address and I'll slap one in the post. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1133522 | 2010-09-04 10:38:00 | I have a question which file system to use when installing a Linux distro:ext4,ext3,JFS,ReiserFS,Reiser4FS,XFS.:) LVM with Ext4 |
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