Linux - The way of the Future.... here is your Chance.....

**slag02** · 06-19-2006, 11:58 PM

Hello Crowd..

If you had not heard Of Linux its ok....

What is it you ask? A Viable Alternatve Operating system for your computer

A Screenshot of my PC's Desktop

High Res-
http://chillplace.net/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/desktop_new.jpg

It is Free - and I mean Free in two ways.... Free as in Beer and Free as In Speech

Free as In Beer????

As with anything you can pay money for some extra things... such as Tech Support and Printed Manual's.... But You can Get a Free Full Functual Copy To Download off the internet.

Free as In Speech????
Linux is Distrubed under the GPL Licence, Basicly it gives you the complete program for you to do whatever you want to it as long as you re-release what you did for Free as well- etc

You have the Freedom to do what you want with it... No big Company to say you cant know how "that" works

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

WhY is it the Way of the Future?
Because What Goes Up Must come Down.... Microsoft wont Last forever and they have been eluding to future O.S. Releases as being Rental Versions where you pay an Annual Fee-

its the Way of the Future because You are NOT a Major Spyware Target-
Spy and Mal Ware at the current time attack Windows- I have not seen a Linux Spyware Program (im sure there is at least ONE out there)

Mac OS is based of of UNIX and So Is LINUX -

Now there are many Different Flavors/Brands/ "DISTRO'S" Of Linux-

SUSE , UBUNTU, XanDros, Damn Small Linux, Mandrake /Red Hat's , Slax/SlackWare, Gentoo, FreeBSD/OpenBSD

Check www.distrowatch.com for a complete list and Links etc... or do a Google Search...

Some topics I expect we'll cover:

1. Installation
2. What apps do what?
3. My (hardware) isn't working (right)
4. Multi-media issues

Remember, if you need help sooner rather than later:

1. Install X-Chat
2. Connect to the Freenode network
3. Join the #suse channel
4. Ask away. There are usually about 280 helpful souls in there.

OR Message Me Via AOL or YAHOO if I am around I will see what I can do.

I'll also try to keep this up as a sort of FAQ. Non-question-specific posts will have a large, bold heading (see post #2).

I reccoment that yohttp://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.phpu try out Linux without installing anything on your PC at all. Download one of the LiveCD versions, burn it to a disc, then reboot the PC with the LiveCD in the drive and your computer will load Linux and your hard disk will not be changed. You can get them at either of these links:

http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version
http://www.mepis.org/
http://www.knoppix.org/

(COMPELTE LIST HERE http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php)

*Note: If I start asking you http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.phpto run a bunch of things from a command prompt it isn't because that's the only way to do it, it's because that's the only way I can "control" what is happening on your end.

NOT all hardware works with Linux - So that's one reason to boot the LIVE CD... also one CD might work.. One Might not Depends on your computer -

(Also if you have a Sega DreamCast you can run Linux on there)

BEFORE ANY MAJOR O.S. INSTALL BACK YOUR STUFF UP.

I will say it again...

BACK YOUR **** UP!

Now... if you like what you see .. and hear.... continue

**Chiefster** · 07-08-2006, 04:07 AM

Guru wrote:

Chiefster wrote:
Slowly bringing my sisters computer back from the dread with hopes of being able to test linux on.

And blow another monitor.

Stop saying that; bad mojo man!

**Chiefster** · 07-08-2006, 04:11 AM

Well at 32% it has become quite clear that this is going to be an all night project.

**Guru** · 07-08-2006, 04:18 AM

I think you knew that 4% and 45 minutes ago.

**Chiefster** · 07-08-2006, 04:29 AM

Guru wrote:
I think you knew that 4% and 45 minutes ago.

:-o Unfortunately!!

**slag02** · 07-10-2006, 01:15 AM

So whats the update on this?

Chiefster wrote:

Guru wrote:
I think you knew that 4% and 45 minutes ago.

:-o Unfortunately!!

**Chiefster** · 07-17-2006, 09:58 AM

slag02 wrote:
So whats the update on this?

Chiefster wrote:

Guru wrote:
I think you knew that 4% and 45 minutes ago.

:-o Unfortunately!!

It had become apparent by the next morning that my sisters HD has become a paper weight.

**Old_admin** · 07-18-2006, 04:21 PM

Did you ever get the HD fixed? I'm always afraid to make any changes to mine fo this reason.

**Chiefster** · 07-19-2006, 01:26 AM

Nope; I'm pretty sure it was fried before it got to me though, but I got a good monitor out of the deal. :-D

**Chiefster** · 07-26-2006, 01:22 AM

Hey Slag or Admin, is there something that can one can d/l say in the way o a graphics enhancer to make certain sites appear more vibrant? For example the colors on the Chiefs Crowd are very dull and light when viewed through Fire Fox.

**slag02** · 10-01-2006, 11:30 PM

there is a IE view Extension for firefox you might like

http://ieview.mozdev.org/

BUT-

I have found the BEST live CD i think so far

so if you want to give it another chance. and have at least a 486 processor and 128meg ram then you should be good to go

http://www.knoppix.com

try it out

I endorse it