Operating Systems > Linux and UNIX
After reading all this info about MS, I want to switch to Linux.
xyle_one:
Welcome to the forums. I suggest redhat 9, or mandrake 9. i have had good experiences with both. If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate to ask here.
Calum:
question: what's the best distro?
answer: http://linuxiso.org - your source of freedom
the real answer is "it depends". i would recommend RH9 if you want a bog standard linux that does a lot of stuff, RH is supposedly good at networking etc. i'd say mandrake for more audio visual stuff like playing movies and so forth, i'd say use slackware if you have used a unix type system before.
it all depends.
Dabura_HG:
I'll definitely be sticking around to learn more about Linux and how great it is. ;)
I'll most likely go with Redhat 9 and see what it's like, and I'll make sure to ask any further questions I may have.
Thanks for the welcome and the offer to help a newbie out. ;)
Edit: Couple more questions. What's the windows application compatibility like with Wine? I will probably run MS office and a couple of games maybe. I also checked Redhat's website about hardware compatibilities, such as my Athlon XP processor. It will work, but I didn't see my soundcard which is a SB Live! Value card and an AOpen GeForce 4 MX 440 graphics card. :/ Does anyone here have the same sound/video card? Thanks again!
[ July 15, 2003: Message edited by: Dabura_HG ]
xyle_one:
im not too familiar with wine. actually. i have never even bothered to check it out. If you need to use an office suite, i highly suggest open office. it can read and write to microsoft office documents, is much more efficient when it comes to file size. I have noticed a significant reduction when i convert to open office file formats. even saving into ms office formats, the file was smaller than the original ms office file. Redhat 9 picked up my geforce 3 just fine. I didn't have any sound card installed at the time, but i intend to put one in eventually. Sorry i cannot be any more help about that-
Dabura_HG:
Actually, hehe, that was helpful.
Back with more questions.
What are program installations like? Are they just like windows or are they different?
I presume that the "Home" icon on let's say, Mandrake is just like the "My computer" icon where you can see all your devices and such.
What is networking like in Linux? Will I be able to setup my cable connection quickly to get it running again? Can't think of any more questions so this is it for now.
Edit: I saw some screenshots of Mandrake and was kind of intimidated by the DOS looking menus, hehe. I hope that's not going to be too hard to manage. I'd imagine it'll be kind of awkward at first in having to find where all the menus are, how to configure the OS to my liking and so on. What I've noticed is that one can mount images. That's also interesting.
[ July 15, 2003: Message edited by: Dabura_HG ]
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