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10/02/2006 at 11:14 am #759909
Thanks Slag! I’ll give it a shot! 😆
05/30/2007 at 5:09 am #765883slag02;1096 wrote: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
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http://chillplace.net/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/desktop_new.jpgIt 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- etcYou have the Freedom to do what you want with it… No big Company to say you cant know how “that” works
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_LicenseWhY 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 http://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 issuesRemember, 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 SHIt up!!
Now… if you like what you see .. and hear…. continue
huh?? free beer?? where
05/30/2007 at 6:30 am #765887Why did you wake this old thread up?
05/30/2007 at 9:05 am #765888Canada’s #1 Chiefs Fan;8721 wrote:huh?? free beer?? whereI think this had something to do with it.
05/09/2008 at 12:46 am #840311Ubuntu.
This is the fastest, easiest way to put Ubuntu on your current machine.
Simply download the installer (about 1 megabyte) and run it.
It will download Ubuntu for you, then ask you a few questions.
After it installs Ubuntu your machine will ask you whether you want to boot into Windows or Ubuntu.
It’s so simple even Chiefster could do it.
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05/09/2008 at 12:57 am #840312hermhater;87551 wrote:Ubuntu.This is the fastest, easiest way to put Ubuntu on your current machine.
Simply download the installer (about 1 megabyte) and run it.
It will download Ubuntu for you, then ask you a few questions.
After it installs Ubuntu your machine will ask you whether you want to boot into Windows or Ubuntu.
It’s so simple even Chiefster could do it.
:biggrin:
HA! 😆
Thanks for the info bud.
05/09/2008 at 1:13 am #840316My bad.
I forgot to put the link up.
Download the installer, follow the instructions, and you will have a machine that will allow you to boot to either Windows or Ubuntu.
Takes about an hour with fast internet.
05/09/2008 at 1:17 am #840317hermhater;87556 wrote:My bad.I forgot to put the link up.
Download the installer, follow the instructions, and you will have a machine that will allow you to boot to either Windows or Ubuntu.
Takes about an hour with fast internet.
What are the advantages of this program?
05/09/2008 at 2:31 am #840339royalswin100games;87557 wrote:What are the advantages of this program?Are you asking what the advantage of the installer program is, or the advantage of using Ubuntu the Operating System are?
05/09/2008 at 12:00 pm #840387royalswin100games;87557 wrote:What are the advantages of this program?Well, with this operating system you can certainly double your computers download speed with the douple compu mega helix striker system. The DCMHSS is definitely th wave of the future. It was accidentally discovered when running DOS off the mainframe and the helix threaded triple worm surprisingly slipped into the virtual mega hyper link. I think you know what happened from there!! :bananen_smilies046:
05/09/2008 at 7:25 pm #840429Ubuntu roolz.
05/09/2008 at 7:38 pm #840432m0ef0e;87671 wrote: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.
05/09/2008 at 7:44 pm #840437hermhater;87674 wrote: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?
05/09/2008 at 9:08 pm #840452m0ef0e;87679 wrote: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.
05/09/2008 at 9:13 pm #840454Oh 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!!!
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