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Topic: Linux
Posted By: philcom2000
Subject: Linux
Date Posted: 10 August 2003 at 3:38am
i am looking for a reliable place were i can download a copy of Linux, Ive been to the main sites like red hat but all there servers are always busy. I am new to the whole Linux thing so any help on were and whats best would be great.
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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 10 August 2003 at 8:05pm
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http://www.linuxiso.org - http://www.linuxiso.org
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Posted By: philcom2000
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 3:44pm
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What a great site, thanks i decided to go for redhat for now but any suggestions on which is best would be useful.
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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 4:12pm
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there absolutely is no "right" answer for that question... but i have found Mandrake as the easiest to use... but that could be just me ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 4:22pm
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linus sucks.. the installiation is lousy.. the start up is screwed up, the interface is a mess and worst of all its niot organised.. u need to navigate in a extremely annoying interface which got to alphabatical identification for hard disk partitions instead u have to go by /root, etc etc etc and worst of all KDE sucks..!! ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: Ghostnet
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 5:26pm
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But you have to understand the Linux started off as a programmer's OS.. It was made by Linus, originally, for himslef based on UNIX (not the most pleasant OS to work with lol). And then it snowball rolled from there ;) It may not seem all that user friendly because, esthetics were secondary to function.. Linux crashes a LOT LESS than most other OS's and is a perfect server OS.. Everyday home use for Linux is a relatively new concept. ------------- evolution is a vehicle. drive responsibly |
Posted By: hpnadig
Date Posted: 14 August 2003 at 1:00pm
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hey buddy... Linux isn't bad... It's the windows that sucks.... Linux instalation is as easier as it gets... |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 15 August 2003 at 11:16am
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don't dis linux. I think watching the boot process is pretty cool ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
. KDE Looks simalar to a mac os/10 interface. All that root stuff just takes some getting used to, it's extremely powerful. The permissions are what are a pain in the ass.Posted By: futurefiles
Date Posted: 21 October 2003 at 3:48am
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Linux does not suck, i use it for webservers, pop3 accounts, web proxy, file sharing(Samba) and more. I have been using linux for 3 years now and never had to reboot! the uptime on a linux box is by far greater than any MS server, and if installed correctly has almost no security risks compared to MS. so which one sux? OK so there is a learning curve with linux but id rather that than have it all fancied up to look good like with xp, only to find the fundamental things dont work properly. and yes KDE is not brilliant but why use it anyway? after all most linux installations are not intended for desktop use anyway. |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 21 October 2003 at 5:15am
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I'l try to avoid the 'lets bash OS X' thing (several puns in there - none intended)... I've seen linux crash a lot. I've seen NT crash a lot. Both suck. Mind you, in university, our Unix servers crashed too... IMHO, Mandrake kicks. Redhat is far less nice to you. And for interfaces, Enlightenment is really nice to work with. Mandrake has tons. Linux is NOT a serious server. It is for web based stuff, and not much more. Mission critical systems are done on serious computers that are NOT x86. HP-UX, AIX, AS400, etc. are the standards for real computing power, until you need something completely insane like a Cray. That should change in the future IF hardware improves. 99% of all my crashes are either from crappy software running and doing bad things, or from crappy hardware doing likewise. It is 'usually' not the fault of the OS. (I've had more crashes on fresh installations of linux than windows, but those were probably hardware related.) Like MorningZ said - Mandrake - highly recommended. My next box will be a Mandrake box. I just finished trying out Redhat 9, and didn't really like it that much. That box has Windows 2000 Server on it now...
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Posted By: Flamewave
Date Posted: 22 October 2003 at 11:29am
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MAC OS 10 was designed to look like KDE, KDE has looked almost the same for as long as I can remember. ------------- - Flamewave They say the grass is greener on the other side, but if you really think about it, the grass is greener on both sides. |
pmormr wrote:Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 22 October 2003 at 11:35am
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You may want to look at FreeBSD or open BSD for workhorse apps. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 23 October 2003 at 6:40am
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Ok for my 5c worth. I am a Microsoft man thru and thru, but I must
admit I have been looking at linux recently and I am starting to change
my mind about windows. I think Linux is really good, very different
from Windows so there is HUGE learning curve. I have been learning SUSE
linux which IMHO is the best... ------------- If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree |
Posted By: futurefiles
Date Posted: 23 October 2003 at 9:57am
well done tegwin youve seen the light!!
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Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 23 October 2003 at 10:38am
| nice non-working picture... |
Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 23 October 2003 at 10:41am
All I have to say is power to the penguin 
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 24 October 2003 at 10:04am
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There is a mirror site:
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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 27 October 2003 at 5:24am
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at our college.. we had madrake linux for testing on a machine which was a pentium 4 , 1.7 GHz 512MB RAM.. same specs as all client machines r in the whole campus in all 3 computer labs.. and guess linix takes 7 minutes to start and the KDE user enviroment is damn lousy.. the OS works soo slow and idiotic..the navigation is a sucker.. and windows xp on same machine takes mere 20 seconds to boot so mind you..im sticking to MS unless any other better alternative jumps in.. ohh and linux interface is too ammature badly programmed.. many things looks like cheap graphics tagged on instead.. ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 27 October 2003 at 7:09am
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yep mandrake is good, my cousin has it. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ - http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Mart. |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 30 October 2003 at 9:59am
| Linux needs to get a lot better before I use it. Have any of you seen one of the red hat or suse linux enterprise servers? |