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| Thread ID: 55149 | 2005-03-04 05:09:00 | To Linux, Or Not To Linux??? | Myth (110) | PC World Chat |
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| 330469 | 2005-03-05 04:08:00 | Driver is here (www.linuxant.com), on the Linuxant site. Seems to be a free version in there.Yeah it is free, but if you read the fine print it is severely crippled speed wise: The free version of the drivers is limited to 14.4Kbps. Actual speeds vary and are often less than the maximum possible. Your best bet is to get another PCI modem that is known to support Linux and has drivers freely available. Make sure you research this to confirm before buying. They aren't expensive. It isn't worth getting an external modem which is normally natively supported by Linux as I see you are planning on getting ADSL soon. Although you could look on Trademe and see if you can find a external 56K modem cheaply. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 330470 | 2005-03-05 07:17:00 | Heyas all, I have a query about Linux. About me, I have been online maybe 3 years, and in that time have only used Windows (98, then when I bought own comp, XP (&Pro). I see all these posts about this distro and that distro of Linux; I hear about how linux does this, yet won't do that. I also hear about why I should change to Linux (security holes etc). Now... my questions are as follows: How easy is Linux to use? How much of a programmer do I need to be to use it? What sort of hardware setup do I need to do (add/remove device type setup), or is it like Windows and pretty much do it itself? Is there a linux distro similar to my XP Pro (which I use to network as well) that Im not going to have to spend years learning? And I don't want some no0b distro either (but then I don't want something that looks like a dos prompt). There ya go, that should do it for the time being; now post away :) My thoughts as well. I note that you don't want a "noob" distro but you don't want to spend years learning and you don't want a lookalike DOS prompt. You will not need to be a programmer to use Linux. Your question really comes down to syntax and command prompts and whether or not you want to recompile an new kernal, It also depends on what software you currently have in the way of Applications as well. If you have already bought WinXP and Office and can use these then there will be a steep learning curve to use OpenOffice and any Linux distribution. Recently I went to Dick Smiths and paid for several Linux Distibutions. Cost $23.00 or so. Two of these had Live CD's where I could boot an operating system from the CD. One recognised the sound card and the other did not. I started my computer experiece with a Burroughs B3500, COBOL, and a TC500 Terminal and assembler. Pick your own. |
AMD1 (6552) | ||
| 330471 | 2005-03-05 07:32:00 | If your running an Nforce board i would suggest you get the drivers supplied for linux by Nvidia, slim to zero chance that detected and usable equals being used to their full advantage. Funnily enough I booted off a Linux Knoppix 3.3 CD earlier today. Found my DSL ADSL modem and I was on the internet in minutes.. I use an Nforce 2 Motherboard. Sound card was found but printer was not. Checking download speeds was similar to WinXP Pro. |
AMD1 (6552) | ||
| 330472 | 2005-03-05 09:53:00 | Ok.... While I was researching Linux, I decided I wanted to try 2 distros. Does anyone know where I can get SUSE 9.1; its supposed to be free, and it is downloadable (but I am on dialup, and its going to take me 100 hours to d/load it :(). Any help would be appreciated Judging by the reviews I reread, I should have gone for SUSE first (but it wasn't at DSE) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 330473 | 2005-03-05 18:46:00 | Check out the March issue of APC magazine. It has a SUSE 9.2 DVD. | Jeremy (1197) | ||
| 330474 | 2005-03-05 19:45:00 | I don't have DVD reader, only CD-RW | Myth (110) | ||
| 330475 | 2005-03-05 20:06:00 | I'd go with FC3. Having tried 3 distros on my ********* of a laptop i found FC3 to be the best. I had 3 disks sent to me from another forum member, and that was enough to get me started. It has an update facility that gets the latest versions and stuff fairly automatically from the various providers, which of course is manually overidable. this has proved a good stable system with only one real problem, and that has been sound, or rather the lack of it. It appears that this area is a Fedora weakness. I'm definitely no linux guru or programmer, and i work long varied and silly hours outside of the computer industry, so skill and time are both limited, but i find FC3 easy to use and maintain (apart from the sound issue). The good/bad thing about Linux is that there are so many options, so working out such things as which IM prog to use has probably been my biggest headache :p A side question: Does tricky Dicky's FC3 DVD have all the goody's the 3 Fedora CDs have, or more? :@@: |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 330476 | 2005-03-05 20:40:00 | oh another thing, internal modems are sometimes annoying to get installed thats what im trying to do at the moment :) Have a look at www.linuxant.org (http://www.linuxant.org) www.linmodems.org (http://www.linmodems.org) |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 330477 | 2005-03-05 22:39:00 | thanks thewhiz, ill have a look but im nearly there, ive just got to download the kernel sources and that should be it. :) | Prescott (11) | ||
| 330478 | 2005-03-06 01:44:00 | Probably, personthingy. ;) Have a look at the March Australian PC which has a cover DVD with 3.3GB of Fedora 3. That should be enough to keep you out of mischief for an hour or two, Chris. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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