Interested in getting into Linux or Unix. Can anybody recommend a decent flavor of linux? When I say decent I mean relatively easy, user friendly, smooth install, wide variety of software, gui, etc.
Interested in getting into Linux or Unix. Can anybody recommend a decent flavor of linux? When I say decent I mean relatively easy, user friendly, smooth install, wide variety of software, gui, etc.
mandrake last I heard has the easiest learning curve to windows. check outlinuxiso.org for all your linux flavors.
I'd recommend Mandrake also as I have installed it and found it to be easy to install and setup, but also packed with features.Originally Posted by phishhead
I've heard great things recently about Fedora Core 2. Might be worth a go!
I am using Mandrake 10.1.
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What software suites do u use on it? Openoffice, mozilla, etc ? Are linux game versions hard to find?Originally Posted by efc
I have XP and I'm considering dual booting wid a Linux OS.
I'm agree. Linux Mandrake is best distro for a newbie.
You can download it from here (three ISO CDs or one ISO DVD) using BitTorrent.
There are thousands of good applications for Linux, except gamesOriginally Posted by tarun
You can set up a dual boot very easily during the Linux installation, but remember that Linux can access to NTFS partions only in read-mode so if you need to share files between the two OSs I suggest you to create another FAT32 partition.Originally Posted by tarun
I don't want to overstate my use of linux. I am in the learning phase. I try to remember to boot to Linux one time in four. Most of those times, include learning something new. My setup is a separate computer for Linux. I have settled on the single OS so that it is an easy decision for me to re-format and start overOriginally Posted by tarun
Mandrake 10.1 installs programs to do most functions. Open Office is a rich program that covers Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentations and provides a Draw module. There are numerous other programs, including:
Program Type Number of programs
Publishing............................ 2
Task Manager...................... 1
Time Manager...................... 4
Fax.................................... 2
Phone ................................ 1
PDA.................................... 3
Address Manager................... 1
Remote Access..................... 2
Browsers.............................. 4 (I have added Firefox)
Mail..................................... 3
Instant Messenger.................. 1
Video Confereencing................ 1
File Xfer................................ 1
Web editor............................. 3
Sound................................... 6
Video.................................... 2
Graphics................................ 4
Text Editors........................... 6
Finance................................. 1
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thanks guys. I guess ill put off that linux installation until my next holidays, and I'll use the time to educate myself summore...
thanks again.
Hey dudes, thanks for all the great info. I'm definintely going to check out Mandrake. I heard from others that it's really good. I've also heard that redhat is good. Redhat could be worth looking into.
RedHat is enterprise oriented. For "standard" user you should refer to Fedora Core, sponsored by RedHat.Originally Posted by Dude5722
Both RedHat and Fedora have come along way. The open source development effort with Fedora is stronger than ever. Fedora is a good choice for a free linux if you've got some good hardware. They're starting to stray from the Pentium II series.
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Try Knoppix which runs from cd and is very good at hardware detection, it is also a great tool for troubleshooting network or PC problems with. If you really want to go for an installed product then Xandros Deluxe will be so easy for you that you won't even realise you aren't using MS. Fedora Core 3 is good but installs as a LVM main disk which is a little annoying when you need to troubleshoot it. SuSE Linux is also very simple to install and use and again can be used from a 'live' cd. My preference is for SuSE which is now owned by Novell but most Servers run RedHat or a RedHat derived OS (Mandrake is also derived from RedHat) so it is useful to know RedHat.
The essential thing is to get Codeweavers Crossover Office (included in Xandros DLX) which will allow you to use Microsoft Office in Linux, you can also run some other windows software with it (DreamWeaver, Flash, Quicken, Photoshop..) which all helps you to feel at home and do something productive.
I've tried CD based OS's before and have found them to be fairly slow and unresponsive.
They are great for recovering files though!
Supastar - try the latest live distros on a modern machine, they are very good and almost as quick to load as off hard disk. Obviously the more memory in the machine the better as they work out of RAM for the most part. I am using Knoppix STD 1.0 right now and being familiar with the whole Live Distro thing comes in handy when you actually need to use it for some work related recovery or testing.
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