Try LInux

Any of you wondering how LInux is and what it looks like can try it from the comfort of your windows desktop from a web browser

http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de/test_linux_desktop.php



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same for me

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Hmm, their server's probably down for a little while

haha gazaa, my mate installed linux on one of our school computers on the network. we stuck the boot up cd in the drive and jammed it shut (by removing the elastic band on the cheap ass cd rom drive) the technician got confuzzled and didn't know what to do, coz we removed the network cable. so linux was on stand alone lol.

btw gman, whats UNIX, I know its related to linux and was developed before it, I have a massive book on it from my course material, but I figured that you're better at explaining things.

nico.

unix is mostly for servers, it is a solid system which is more or less amune to all the internet threats. its amazing for servers.

btw linux kicks ass, I use it for my other computer.

hmmm I guess I shall learn all this when I start my course on computer internetworkin.

Hahaha, nice one

Unix proprietry solutions were designed for servers and business uses originally, however Unix solutions were incredibly expensive and a guy called Linus Travoltus came along and made a complete clone of it known as "Linux", originally it wasn't much more than a command line really, but communities started developing it in scope that it would be more secure than Windows, free and open source. Now there are dozens of "distributions" of linux available, to suit everyone. Its just finding the one thats right for you thats hard

I wish I knew computer shit.

Sorry im a newb, but what exactly is Linux? is it like windows or something?? sorry, I don't no much about it.

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ah rite cool. I quite fancy givin linux a try sometime, just I don't wanna screw around with o.s in my machines. My m8s got an old shiter to use linux just to get the feel of it. So I might put it on a crap old banger I have.

linus is another Operating System. it has its advantages over windows and is alot safer. as it is free ware and open source it has alot of perks to a microsoft system. think of it like internet explorer and firefox. although firefox is better most people are to dumb and prefer to use IE because they are brainwashed to believe that is all out there.

I've just never been arsed to get firefox even though I hear its good.

I get it now, thanks.

From a GUI perspective, yes its a lot like Windows. From a kernel and core perspective, the two are nothing alike. Linux takes a long time to configure and get just how you want, but once you've done that it stays up and you never have any troubles with it, if you do they can be fixed by opening your command line.


I went with Suse, mainly because it offers an outstanding interface and its layed out more like windows. Linux is designed from the ground up to be incredibly secure and though open source its extremely hard to exploit. Windows applications don't run on Linux unless you get an emulator and there are a couple on the market, one free one payed. Generally LInux isn't for the new user as its hard to begin with, takes a lot of effort and you really need to know shell commands to do anything as you can't click a file and expect it to install.

I included a screenshot of the version of linux I use below...

http://www.imagizers.com/uploads/96ec57dd17.jpg

If you're thinking about migrating to Linux, my advice is don't unless you can be bothered for hours of learning and work. Linux will only suit 10 percent or so of the global computer usage.

The reasons I use it are because;


Administrating a webserver, its more secure and has better integration by default.

Security, I can't afford to use Windows solutions constantly picking up viruses and wasting my time sorting out BSOD's when I need to be answeing business e-mails and managing servers.

Now for every one application on Windows, there will be 10 for Linux, but that does not necesarrily mean these applications wil suit your needs, it takes time to get what you want and is definately worth it if you bother

Now the problem with the version I use, is that it has crippled media availabilities which sucks and the compile command for c++ apps is missing, but the GUI and general productivity sense makes up for it..

To try it just get a copy of Linux Mag and get one of the new ones for free (Well about £3 for the mag) I think Madrake is in this months.

I think Suse can be run from the disk without installing.

well im not getting it so ... ha

Ok man. Just be another sheep.

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thanks for the advice gman. if I had the time I would try it, but I am just too lazy n feckless. but ill probs shuv it on my ancient packard bell if I get a ram upgrade for it. my mate says its so much better. what I wanna know is, is it alot more stable, similar in windows to exit non responsive processes and applications?

Or LInux can efficiently be downloaded from http://iso.linuxquestions.org/ and to burn you can get discjuggler by padus, the trial version and burn the image to CD.

And you mean Knoppix, not suse Doyle

Its way more stable man. You dont need to be that stable to kick Windows ass.

The only prob with it is installing shit.... Its kinda hard for n00bs. But once you get used to it and forget all the Windows n00b tools you get used to it.

linux did make one mistake tho, when creating Lindows, it was the windows ME of linux lol

can I run it with windows

Yes indeed, you can do this from your shell and kill the PID if it becomes unresponsive. However when an application became unresponsive (only happened once so far) closing the window stopped it immediately for me, which is slightly less complicated

And I don't reccomend anyone gets it here before trying it out first on an old computer, or you can configure a dual boot system if you are familiar with paritioning

yes, you can dual boot.

when ill format my pc I will be doing that

can I do it on 1 hd??

I like to fill my other 1 with shit u see