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Location: ranson,wva | i finaly got my old pc rebuilt and im fed up with windows.....where is a good site to download linux...id rather have the version that you can boot off of a zip or usb drive....any hep is apericated...thanks jas' |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Jason, Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu, there are several options. Good news about doing it via USB is you can try several until you find the one you like the best. Try pendrivelinux.com to get you started. |
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Location: ranson,wva | thanks dave,i ran fedora on my gamer before and loved it...much easier to use than windows...im gonna get started lol thanks |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I like Fedora as well. I think there are LiveCD spins of the latest Fedora out there to try. google is your friend! |
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Location: ranson,wva | im gonna give dan small a try first...see how that goes |
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Location: Midland, MI | I run Ubuntu on a couple of laptops here at work. Our UKian transplant runs some form of Linux on a pendrive (from the site David linked earlier) and it's pretty cool. I was a big SuSE fan until Novell started dinking around with it. Mandrake was useless to me, but that's been a few years.
For ease of install/use, I haven't found anything easier than Ubuntu, though. |
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Location: ranson,wva | its giving me a fit to download now lol ive got buzzard luck...nothing willdie and im too dumb to kill lol |
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Location: ranson,wva | damn small wont download,feather linux wont download. im trying knopixx now.....question dowload via bittorrent or emule??? |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | I'd go with bittorrent, although I live very close to a couple of hard-core linux mirror sites, so I often just ftp them myself. (Oregon State University Open Source Lab hosts kernel.org, and Portland State has a nice mirror of all the big players. Linus lives out somewhere on my side of town here in Portland but I've never crossed paths with him.) |
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Location: ranson,wva | 
KNOPPIX for me...yay!! lol |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | So what is the Difference between those systems..??..Less chance on scoring viruses...Faster downloads..What ??
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Location: ranson,wva | i just dont like windows vic lol
and the windows on my pc was gtiving me a fit....jas |
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Location: ranson,wva | david,crusty. thanks for teh help guys. life with out windows on my pc is life with out all the headaches..lol knoppix is running on my desktop and
Ubuntu on the notebook....much much simplier and since its usb boot ive got more room on the hard drives...love it...thanks again |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | i don't know why my previous post wasn't posted.
i think that switching from Win XP to Linux is a bad idea right now. Linux is a nice alternative, but it's no match for home usage for Windows, especially XP.
I'm using Unix systems on daily basis for past 11 years, and since 2005 i don't have any UN*X on my home Pc. i've used FreeBSD aswell as Debian Linux, and i don't see any reason why i should use them now on my home pc. They're slower, they don't provide support for all hardware installed on my PC etc.
Unix is great system to use on servers. stable and fast (while working on console, not on X-window system).
If you'll like it - use it. But i'm too lazy right now to use it. |
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Location: ranson,wva | lbj,windows on both my pcs would not run any type of browser,i tried both xp and vbista....just slowed my mahince down and would only run my messengers but not my opera browser or firefox or explorer.....but with the linux OS im up and running all of my aplications with out a trpouble one |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I've got Mepis on my laptop, so far so good. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | Jason_S what class of PC do You use?
Previously i had Athlon XP 2000+ with 512mb of ram and radeon 8500 128mb graphic card and it was quite hard to get a decent work speed on KDE 3.5
It was ok on Afterstep windows menager, but it was like going back in time to early 90's.
I did try to install system on my new PC (Core duo E4600, 4gb of ram, 500gb sata hdd,GF 8600 GTS etc.) and first problem was with installation on SATA drive, then after getting it work, there were problems with my ESI Juli@ soundcard, which didn't want to work properly no matter how hard i've tried, and last problem was with my DVD-rec because i couldn't use Lightscribe under Linux.
i think 8h a day under text console is enough for me if it comes to unix systems,
and i still think that FreeBSD is far better system than Linux. |
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Location: ranson,wva | lbj its a cobbled together compaq presario that i changed the harddrive,sound card and graphix card....ive got a total of $75.000 in it..lol its running greaT NOW |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Funny, I've only ever used my Linux server to burn lightscribe labels. Guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one LBJ. 'nuff said. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | dvd: what type of DVD rec you're using? i've tried it on LG GSA-H55L and it didn't work, it did not recognize media in drive (under windows drive worked fine) |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Samsung SH-S162L, couple of years old so probably slow by today's standards. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | mine was introduced few months ago. maybe this is the reason why it's not working. BTW, that LG failed a week ago and i've bought Samsung SH-203 as a replacement. So far, it's better than LG. |
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Location: ranson,wva | im still getting used to the OS,still need to download and install the extrras like java,adobe and such...but i am verry verry pleased with the entire system....the desktop is clean, tons and tons of photoshopp app's and graphic editing stuff,photohoasting, just tons of great easy to use stuff.....i love it |
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Location: Denmark | PCLinuxOS is really good. It comes Java environment, a recent flashplayer and OpenOffice. Runs quite allright on my 400MHz PII system with a reasonable amount of RAM. One CD includes a live file system and a harddisk install tool.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_ionfiles&Itemid=28
I also like FreeBSD but I had a hard time getting especially flashplayer and java working, and OpenOffice is not supporting FreeBSD as well as Linux. |
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Location: ranson,wva | 
screen shot of my new clean easy to use desktop thanks guys |
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OT..any linux users??