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Linux?
Posted by mattlynam2002 [send private reply] at January 03, 2003, 02:47:16 PM
Which Linux is best for beginners ?
Are any of u running Windows and Linux together ?
Posted by AnyoneEB [send private reply] at January 03, 2003, 03:18:49 PM
Red Hat ( http://redhat.com/ ) and Mandrake ( http://www.mandrakelinux.com/ ) are supposed to be the best Linux distros for beginners. I got adventurous and installed Debian ( http://debian.org/ ) which has a very confusing installer. I have it on a separate computer which I use as a web server. *plugs website* http://anyoneeb.ath.cx:83/ <-- running on my Debian server using Apache 1.3.26
Posted by gian [send private reply] at January 03, 2003, 05:27:44 PM
I run a Redhat 8 install on my desktop and Debian 3 on my gateway/webserver. I used to dual boot Debian and WinXP on my desktop, but I gave up Windows entirely a while ago.
Posted by ItinitI [send private reply] at January 03, 2003, 09:33:29 PM
Um, I run Slackware. It's really not all the confusing as far as installation, but configuration is a little more _do_it_yourself_, but if you really want to learn [Um, _really_learn_] Linux, Slackware is ideal. Turbolinux is good if you have bilingual needs, and is similer to Red Hat.
Posted by jay_dee [send private reply] at January 04, 2003, 09:06:29 PM
I dule boot Windows XP and Mandrake 8.2 Mandrake is really easy to install. It walks you right through everything. It also is easy to set up to dule boot.
Posted by taubz [send private reply] at January 04, 2003, 11:32:49 PM
dual
Posted by jay_dee [send private reply] at January 05, 2003, 12:10:07 AM
haha, dule dual. same difference.
Posted by CDR700 [send private reply] at January 05, 2003, 10:21:45 AM
Linux is good but make sure you know what you are doing. Certainly not mandrake ( come on ! ) thats easy but non-productive, for a person like you ( thought it does include some fun games ). You can get ditributions in the United Kindom ( as far as i know you live in the uk ) from http://www.cheeplinux.com.
Linux is good and XDS Modula/Oberon 2 works on it.
Posted by mattlynam2002 [send private reply] at January 05, 2003, 04:37:42 PM
I think im gonna get RedHat 8.0, apprently its preety good and comes with some good packages, or so ive read. Ive had Redhat 6.0 on before but deleted it for some reason.
Posted by taubz [send private reply] at January 05, 2003, 06:27:51 PM
I just upgraded from RH 7.2 to 8... It's significantly better in appearance and in it's nice UI ways to configure things. If only they gave us a customizable "start menu." (I don't understand why someone hasn't written a replacement yet...)
- taubz
Posted by mop [send private reply] at January 05, 2003, 10:37:12 PM
I had Redhat 8 for about an afternoon. I didn't like how much it did everything for you and such, its getting VERY hard to tell it apart from windows recently. If your really looking to learn _A LOT_ about linux I recommend getting yourself a slackware disk.
Posted by mattlynam2002 [send private reply] at January 06, 2003, 05:15:18 PM
If i install linux redhat along with winXP, is it easy to remove the linux partition and linux itself ?
Posted by taubz [send private reply] at January 07, 2003, 01:36:58 PM
Well, you can delete linux and remove the partition easy enough, but your C drive or whatever isn't going to automatically expand to fill the space left by the unused partition. To do that you need special (not free) software.
- taubz
Posted by mattlynam2002 [send private reply] at January 07, 2003, 02:25:22 PM
How do i delete linux ? just format that drive? Yeah ive got Partition Magic which will be able to relocate the space.
Posted by AnyoneEB [send private reply] at January 07, 2003, 04:05:53 PM
Use Partition Magic to delete the partition... make sure Linux is _NOT_ your bootloader, if it is you may not be able to boot. (LILO or GRUB would be part of Linux)
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at January 07, 2003, 07:33:56 PM
taubz, parted is a GPL'd non-destructive partition manager.
There's also a thing called ranish partition manager that does the same stuff - also free. Booting a dos boot disk and running "fdisk /mbr" will nuke lilo for you - do that after deleting your linux partitions.
Posted by taubz [send private reply] at January 07, 2003, 10:38:34 PM
buzgob, how're you gonna run those after deleting Linux? :)
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at January 07, 2003, 10:50:18 PM
The parted folks produce a linux boot disk with enough stuff to run parted.
Ranish is for dos.
Posted by gian [send private reply] at January 08, 2003, 11:02:21 PM
parted is really handy... it can resize and/or edit lotsa strange types of partition.
Posted by Mike_L [send private reply] at January 24, 2003, 08:21:37 AM
I use Debian 2.2rev3 and Win95 OSR2.1 on my PC at home. My webserver runs OpenBSD. I play games on WinXP at work.
I really feel now that OpenBSD is the ideal OS for a server, and WinXP is the ideal OS for a workstation.
Posted by gian [send private reply] at January 24, 2003, 08:51:40 AM
"I play games on WinXP at work."
You play games at work? Bad, bad Mike. :-)
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