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

[slag02]

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

[m0ef0e]

Ubuntu roolz.

[hermhater]

Ubuntu roolz.

Did you use the wubi installer?


I have done it both ways, and wubi is by far the easiest.

I am still having troubles getting my nvidia drivers to stay loaded after reboot though.

I am a Linux noob and all the suggestions I have tried out from ubuntuforums.com have not worked.

I also am having trouble finding drivers for my wireless card, though others have said that they can get it to work with the same card.

The biggest problem is that the team that supported Automatix is now working for a rival company Pioneer something or other, and now cannot host Automatix2 anymore.

[m0ef0e]

Did you use the wubi installer?


I have done it both ways, and wubi is by far the easiest.

I am still having troubles getting my nvidia drivers to stay loaded after reboot though.

I am a Linux noob and all the suggestions I have tried out from ubuntuforums.com have not worked.

I also am having trouble finding drivers for my wireless card, though others have said that they can get it to work with the same card.

The biggest problem is that the team that supported Automatix is now working for a rival company Pioneer something or other, and now cannot host Automatix2 anymore.

I just downloaded it in .iso format.

For the nvidia drivers, I can't remember exactly what I did but when that dialog box comes up, I checked something and it went away. The drivers load every boot now with no probs. I'll look at it next time I'm on my home PC and see if I can remember exactly what I did.

I also may have had a slightly different issue than you with the nvidia drivers. What card are you using?

[hermhater]

I just downloaded it in .iso format.

For the nvidia drivers, I can't remember exactly what I did but when that dialog box comes up, I checked something and it went away. The drivers load every boot now with no probs. I'll look at it next time I'm on my home PC and see if I can remember exactly what I did.

I also may have had a slightly different issue than you with the nvidia drivers. What card are you using?

I've got a GeForce Go 7150M (MCP67M).

I have found the driver for it on the Nvidia site and went through all this crappy steps to install the drivers and it works.

After installing them and rebooting them Ubuntu says it could not locate the graphics hardware.

I have tried a whole bunch of different fixes and none of them work.

I have encountered others with this same issue, and they are just as frustrated as me.

It's just a crappy onboard video card that came with my laptop, so I assume if I upgrade to a better one this won't be an issue as it will be better supported.

[hermhater]

Oh yeah, I have never had any issues with Ubuntu until this video card and wireless card.

You guys should try it out, there is so much free stuff available it's insane!!!

[Chiefster]

I like the fact that you can load it on your PC and keep Windows as well.

[hermhater]

I like the fact that you can load it on your PC and keep Windows as well.

Did you go ahead and install it?

[Chiefster]

Did you go ahead and install it?

Yup, and so far so good. I haven't had much chance to explore it though. I'm using it as we speak. :)

[hermhater]

Yup, and so far so good. I haven't had much chance to explore it though. I'm using it as we speak. :)

Cool.

It's pretty user friendly, but being a completely different operating system it has huge inherent differences.

Synaptic Package Manager will be your best friend!

[Chiefster]

Cool.

It's pretty user friendly, but being a completely different operating system it has huge inherent differences.

Synaptic Package Manager will be your best friend!

Thanks for the info. :)