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TucUp:
Recently I read about microsoft having secret agents in xp and alike that note all my mail details, websites visited etc. I was very pissed about this so wondered how to get my own back...as I looked more into this site I was very interested to see Linux users saying how happy they were with it etc.

my point.

I want to have linux up and running but want to have it as easy to use as pos. everyone here keep going on about how shit windows is and I agree but.....
how come after all these years is there no common gui type platform, easy setup system(maybe wrong) and why are there so many versions out there and....why are companies charging for it if its free.

shouldnt there be a package that is the most easiest to use and friendly as pos and available to windows peeps out there. I mean cumon...if you want the rest of the world to use it and really damage bill gates then stop gloating and slagging win users off fix it. sure if microsoft can come up with a few gui platform os systems then the rest of the FREE world programers out there should piss all over gates by now at least in a small way.


feeeeewwwwww...
sorry about that, i guess no one wants to help me out with my atempt to break away from windoesnt then now.

Im going for mandrake 9 cos i like the pictures i saw on the web.
it sounds good.
no one has told me why not
its got GUI things(beter to help the transition to linux)

any ideas as to what to do once i got it and start to load it....

slave:
Mandrake 9.1 is out, and I highly recommend you get it.  I'm a linux expert (almost) but I find it nice even given its catering to newbies.  As for your inquiry as to why companies charge for Linux if its free, that is a common question.  You see, free software refers to freedom, not price.  Anyone can still charge for free software, but you are given the freedom to give copies to your friends, resell the software yourself, and have access to the source code.  Often Linux is worth buying in a boxed set since it usually comes with nice manuals and free tech support.  I paid 80 dollars for red hat linux 7 (this was a long time ago and the price has gone way down) and it came with two manuals, extra cds with staroffice, and a subscription to the red hat network.

Anyway, if you have any trouble installing Linux, please let us know and we'll help you.  Good luck!

Siplus:
i haven't had much experience with mandrake (about 1 day in mandrake8.2), so i'd recommend redhat8. i just got slackware9 from a friend and i haven't used it much, but slackware isn't going to be as user friendly as redhat.

Stryker:
I do not like redhat 8. RedHat is my favorite distro. RedHat 7.3 specifically. I didn't like the boot loader for mandrake and a few of the gui things. But that's just personal preference and can be changed easily. I would suggest mandrake because it's easy to install and if you dont like the gui, change it. I'm sure the screen shots you've seen were not the default settings. If you think you can handle a slightly more complicated installation, I'd go with redhat 7.3, or wait until 9 and see what it's like.

preacher:
Im an almost linux expert as well, and I have experience with more distros than I care to list. Even though mandrake caters to newbies, I always liked it over some of the more complex distros. I still use Mandrake 9.0, and it is a good product as well, although Im sure even more bug fixes have been included in 9.1. Mandrake is stable as a rock. Right now my webserver uses Mandrake 9 and has over 130 days uptime. Its also a real linux OS, not like some newbie distros, which try to hide their linux roots. I have a few screenshots of Mandrake 8.1 - 9.0 at http://www.badconnections.net/mandrakescreenshots/

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