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Thread ID: 67386	2006-03-26 06:26:00	What Linux distro do you use?	Myth (110)	PC World Chat

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440828	2006-03-27 21:24:00	SuSE works for me . I have had every version since 7 . 1 . I even paid cash for Version 7 . 1,7 . 2,7 . 3,8 . 0,8 . 1,8 . 2,9 . 0 just so I could get the hardcopy manuals . I now just download the ISOs from Novell . Still playing with Linux . Not ready to commit as I like my RTS games too much . If I ever tire of RTS gaming (Yeah Right) . . . I suspect when I get my "Hi-Spec Laptop", I will turn my PC into a Linux Server .	KiwiTT_NZ (233)
440829	2006-03-28 09:11:00	Debian: Server Ubuntu: Desktop Knoppix: Fixing "Non-Linux" Pcs :D Gentoo: Just for the hell of it on a spare computer :D	Dannz (1668)
440830	2006-03-28 11:53:00	This is an interesting poll, even for us who don't use Linux Many of us think we'd like to give it a burst at some stage. And some like me think they need to get a better grip on Windows first...but we are watching... So I hope you Linux people won't think I'm picky if I say the poll sends mixed messages - depending on whether voters go by the heading or Tazz's initial post. So it doesn't prove anything in terms of favourites - interesting though it is to see what versions the voters use. Those who listed one distro may well have others, but replied to "flavour of choice." That's what the initial post asked for. Those who listed several replied to "What Linux distro do you use?" That's the poll header. So which one did you mean, Tazz?	Laura (43)
440831	2006-03-28 18:38:00	............... Many of us think we'd like to give it a burst at some stage. And some like me think they need to get a better grip on Windows first...............I find that comment interesting. I really do not have my head around windows, its something i sometimes use, but only because other peoples machines aren't allready running *nix when i'm out and about. If one uses a new super modern, user friendly, built for end user distro such as Mepis, or Ubuntu, then it just simply works. You don't need to know what makes it tick at all, unless you choose to do something outside of the preconfigured norm, or you have unusual hardware. :thumbs:	personthingy (1670)
440832	2006-03-28 19:13:00	Good heavens, Chris. Much more of this stuff and I may be convinced that even I could manage to get Linux working. So please stop this rubbish before I weaken.	Laura (43)
440833	2006-03-28 21:07:00	Good heavens, Chris . Much more of this stuff and I may be convinced that even I could manage to get Linux working . So please stop this rubbish before I weaken . If you have a semi reasonable amount of RAM, and you connect to the world via a network cable using DHCP, as most DSL connections do, then you could boot up MEPIS-3 . 4 . 3 and be running a live CD and surfing the web using either firefox or Konqueror, gaim would work for instant messaging by all major proticols (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc) open office would work, allthough saving the document would be difficult unless you emailed it off or used a flash drive owing to the fact that running a live CD largely ignores your HDDs . This is a kind of try before you buy way of running Linux, and requires NO configoration other than booting of the CD . Once you eject the disk and reboot your back to your installed system . Honestly, the days when one needed to know many of the 3000-ish unix commands to run linux are long gone . Thats what the KDE project is all about, making it easier for the end user who prefers the point and click approach . I have had people use my laptop and not know it was a Linux system . A dear friend of mine whose job is video editing used my laptop while in CHCH, and did not realize that it was a linux system till i asked her what she thought of it . Her reply was predictable, something to the effect of "Is this linux?" and that she thought Linux was all command line stuff . Other big issues are long since sorted to . The hardest thing about installing most additional software is working out what is required . Installing evolution, (an email client ,diary, personal time manager, etc) simply requires a quick search in synaptic package manager, selection of the program, and root password so the system knows you are authorized to make system wide changes . The program is then downloaded, along with any packages it may depend on and is installed . No reboot is needed, and one will find evolution in the start menu, ready to use as soon as you tell it your pop settings and so forth .	personthingy (1670)
440834	2006-03-29 11:36:00	Well, I've been trying to get my head around Knoppix (booted up from a CD) for a few days now and while I got straight onto the Internet and I was able to configure my printer without trouble, I can't actually write anything to the hard disks. HDA1 and HDA2 appear on the desktop, and I can read what's there, but I can't alter anything. Everything seems to sit in a RAM disk, not a physical disk. I guess I need to set some environment variables, but how? And there are no instructions for complete beginners, that I can find. Actually, I found it easier finding my way around a Cray using Unix from command lines and a cheat sheet. And there was always man. I don't think Linux is there yet, for Windows users anyway.	TideMan (4279)
440835	2006-03-29 12:01:00	knoppix is a live CD . It's designed to be used as "try this" CD, and IIRC has no write access to your HDDs Generally one needs to install a system to have this . I'm surprised that opening konsole and typing "man" (without the quote marks) did not give you "What manual page do you want?" One usually types man program-name for a reasonable guide to the prog . KDE has help files that do the same job, but are more point and click orientated . Also Linux has issues with writing to NTFS, although pretty much every other file system is sweet .	personthingy (1670)
440836	2006-03-29 21:43:00	Also Linux has issues with writing to NTFS, although pretty much every other file system is sweet. So this means you can write to disk using Linux on Win 95, 98 and ME systems, but not Win XP? :(	TideMan (4279)
440837	2006-03-29 22:06:00	So this means you can write to disk using Linux on Win 95, 98 and ME systems, but not Win XP? :(Short answer . . . yes Long answer is that support for NTFS is flaky at best, allthough reading NTFS is no problem at all . I get around it here by having a second drive with all shared storage in Fat32 . XP on the first HDD uses NTFS, and is largely ignored when i run Linux . Linux (Mepis3 . 4 . 3) uses ext3 on the later partitions on the first HDD, and is largely ignored when running windows . Both systems can see and write to the storage drive, which is partitioned into 3 VFAT (fat32) partitions .	personthingy (1670)
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