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And you wonder why Linux is not Mainstream Like Windows is?
Bazoukas:
quote:Originally posted by willysnout:
I stand corrected. It's not Put-Downs 101. The 100-level classes are introductory level. I'd say Put-Downs 301. Pre-requisite: Introduction to Arrogance 101.
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My God Man. LOLOL
Are you on weed? Where the hell did you see arrogance in my posts? Read my two first posts again if you will and try to see my point. If you feel the need though for power trips in the Internet well what can I say, you are special.
Dont be such a sensitive jackass.
You dont sound like a moron so stop the moronic attitude here.
By the way if you want a good book pick up. RedHat 7.3 Bible.
It comes with RH7.3 (3 Cds) and all the starting help you will need. And as for applications, there are more in RH than you will ever need and they do work. You will see. From Word applications that can read MS WORD, graphics, DVD players and so on.
Give it a try. Even if you dont like it, you have nothing to lose.
And instalation is fast and easy no matter what kind of configuration you choose.
Just remember Linux does not work like Windows.
Wanna hug now? Am all for for hugs.
Calum:
gakk!! i meant running before you can walk! sorry! :D :D :D
of course you should walk before you can run! sorry about that!! :D
Anyway, yes, mandrake and red hat are two companies who make their own operating systems and sell it. They also make free versions with all the pay software taken out of it. It is usually a GNU system with a linux kernel (this is the setup that most people refer to as "linux" nowadays). there are a lot of other companies who do this too. In addition to selling and giving away systems, they sell licences for different types of support for those systems. These licences are NOT required for these systems (unlike windows) but they help you get support right from the distributors.
re: bootloaders, okay, what you do is you set aside an area (a partition) of your hard drive and allow windows to stay installed on that bit, then you set aside a similar area and put linux on that. The mandrake installer helps you do this with an easy point/click tool and i think most other major distributors do too. It's best if you firsttly leave a few megabytes of free space between the two partitions, so windows doesn't screw your linux partition when you run defrag, and also it's best to have a third or fourth partition for your files, to save you time when windows needs to scandisk (this idea probably needs more explanation but this is not the place) The bootloader is the thing that your computer reads when you switch the machine on, and gives you a choice of which of the systems you want to boot into. In practice a bootloader can be textual, point and click, have pictures or not, you might get a menu or have to type in the name of the system, and you (depending on the loader) can have as many different systems as you like (FreeBSD, NetBSD, DR-DOS, MSWindows3.11, WindowsNT, GNU/Hurd, GNU/Linux, Solaris 8) all on the same machine, if you have the disk space!
okay, more stuff next time, i need to go and do stuff! i hope this was of help too, willysnout...
ps - oh yes, and re: StarOffice spying on you, i think it's not really a worry, however if you want to completely eliminate this concern, then use OpenOffice.org instead. You can get it and its full info at http://openoffice.org
it runs on many systems including linux and windows, and it is free. It is based on SttarOffice but it is open source, so if there was any spyware in itt, somebody would spot it quick, take it out and redistribute it. (this has not happened, and will not, since this reason is enough of a deterrant to make it not ever be tried, if you get my meaning).
[ August 07, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
voidmain:
Willie, ran into a little "snag" with that DemoLinux link I gave you. I saw two different ISO images on http://www.linuxiso.org/ for v3.01 of DemoLinux. One had StarOffice and the other did not. Well, I figured you would want to check out StarOffice as well so that's the one I suggested. Well, it turns out the one with StarOffice is 700MB and the one without is 650MB. Now CDs are only capable of holding 650MB so I am confused about the StarOffice image unless it is meant to go on a DVD. It doesn't really mention anything about it anywhere that I can find. All I know is I downloaded the 700MB image without paying much attention, wrote it to CD and of course it ran out of space on the CD. Does anyone else know anything more about this 700MB DemoLinux CD?
At any rate, I wouldn't waste my time downloading that link I gave you before. Here is the link to the 650MB CD image which I am downloading now and will hopefully get tested. I seem to be getting very slow transfer rates to the DemoLinux server though:
http://www.linuxiso.org/download.php/338/demolinux-3.01-650.iso
Maybe the SuSe live CD eval would be a better way to go (another one I have no personal experience with but will also check out at some point). Sorry about the run around.
pkd_lives:
CD recordable media comes in 650MB and 700MB variants, as well as the 270MB(?) variant that is the mini disk.
voidmain:
Ahhh, guess I've never seen the 700MB media. I've only ever bought the 650's, guess I'm behind the times. Thanks for the info!
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