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Master of Reality:
*retracted*
...wait i could delete this because i'm a mod.

[ November 04, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

DC:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:
RedHat 8.0, just do a full intall of everything that comes with it.


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A full install of redhat? That's sick! No-one should do a full install of redhat!

Either you install a server, in which case you drop most 'normal' programs and (optionally) X11, or you install a desktop os in which case you drop all the servers (except Samba, maybe). A full install is, depending on what you use the thing fore, a horrible waste of space (and speed), a security hole, or both.

Photoshop doesn't work under Linux (not well, anyway), but the GIMP should suffice (IANA graphic artist, so I don't know for sure, but it should suit all your photoshopping needs).
X-chat is good for chatting (there are numerous others).
For the GUI, use Xfree86 with KDE or Gnome (there are other choices besides these 2, but I think these two are the best for a beginner. If you wish, you can check out others out as well).
Programming: make sure the basic development packages are installed (compiler ed, GCC is the man), that in combination with any editor should suffice for light programming. There are some GUIS for programming available as well, like Kdevelop, if you want them.
I dunno 'bout flash, never used it. it sucks at any rate   . There is probably something available for it, but you'd have to ask someone else.
HTML can be written with any editor as well, and there are some that have syntax highlighting for HTML (KDE's Advanced editor springs to mind, but there are more).
Linux (and Unix in general) rules at networking, though compatibility with MS OS'es is less than perfect (it is acceptable though). Install Samba (client and server) for MS filesharing support.

Linux should do the trick as choice of the base OS. Any recent fairly known distro should do, like Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian. I personally don't like Red Hat 8.0, it does stuff I don't like, but it'll work anyway. All of them have the stuff mentioned above.

Master of Reality:
meh... you just gotta shut off some of the daemons.... and its not that much of a security risk as it is a waste of speed/space... but then again i have 1GHZ AMD and more than 30GBs of extra space. And i am behind a firewall.
Anyways... I retract my above comment and give this one:
do a custem install and read what every single fucking package is before deselcting/selecting it like i did about 20 fucking times when i started using Linux. It took me about 3-16 hours for each install but it was worth it.

Doctor V:
For a first time user, mandrake.  If you have a bit more experience using *nix, RedHat.

V

Bazoukas:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:
meh... you just gotta shut off some of the daemons.... and its not that much of a security risk as it is a waste of speed/space... but then again i have 1GHZ AMD and more than 30GBs of extra space. And i am behind a firewall.
Anyways... I retract my above comment and give this one:
do a custem install and read what every single fucking package is before deselcting/selecting it like i did about 20 fucking times when i started using Linux. It took me about 3-16 hours for each install but it was worth it.
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 I am greedy. I selected each and every package that came with RedHat 8.0  :D

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