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Posted by madman91@gmail.com on May 1, 2005, 3:37 pm
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Hello,
I am an xp pro user and have been all my life.. Well 95/98 then xp. I
have recently downloaded knoppix 3.7 and ran it. It was a run from cd
version of linux. I liked it and i am considering getting a full
version to install onto my harddrive. What do i need to know about
linux and its variations? Which variations are used for what. I am
mostly a multimedia user(movies/pictures/ and games). I am not
banishing windows i would just like to use linux for a little bit.
Any ideas? Personal Favorites?
Thanks in advance
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Posted by Moe Trin on May 1, 2005, 8:15 pm
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madman91@gmail.com wrote:
In answer to the subject - religious question larger than the "Less Filling"
verses "Tastes Great" war from the 1980s (or Pepsi vs Coke if you're younger).
>I am an xp pro user and have been all my life.. Well 95/98 then xp.
I quite using windoze in 1992. Been using various breeds of *nix since
4BSD in 1981.
>I have recently downloaded knoppix 3.7 and ran it. It was a run from cd
>version of linux. I liked it and i am considering getting a full
>version to install onto my harddrive.
Knoppix is based on Debian, so you would probably be more comfortable
with a Debian clone such as Knoppix, Progeny, Ubuntu, or Xandros. The
problem is that there are well over a hundred different Linux distributions
that cover the lot - some are aimed at the windoze user who only wants to
click icons, some are at the other end, glorifying the command line, and
LITERALLY everything in between.
>What do i need to know about linux and its variations?
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Start with the HOWTO-INDEX - there are over 480 documents available
http://tldp.org/guides.html
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/linux-doc-project/
Twentyfour books in various print formats. You want to look at
Pocket-Linux-Guide
install-guide
intro-linux
system-admin-guide
users-guide
http://www.distrowatch.com/
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
Three web sites that discuss the various distributions. If you have a good
fast connection, you can download distributions from the first two.
>Which variations are used for what.
Much harder to answer. You could say "all for everything" as all distributions
can be custom tailored to do as you wish, and if you're crazy enough to install
"everything" (5 to 15 Gigabytes of "stuff"), it will take you longer to figure
out what everything is for that you are likely willing to expend. There are
some commercial versions (from the bigger names like Mandriva [formally
Mandrake], Red Hat, or SuSE that have 'Enterprise' as part of their name.
But you can do virtually the same things with a free download version (or
the US$2/CD GPL versions) very nearly as easily.
>I am mostly a multimedia user(movies/pictures/ and games).
Making, or playing? Almost all will play, though you might want to look
at what hardware you are talking about. Making movies - not generally
done on the home user distributions, but possible. Editing or creating
pictures or games? Any.
>Any ideas? Personal Favorites?
Chevy or Ford? Dodge or import? Toyota or Honda? Or if you're old
enough - 'Old Grandad' vs 'Jack Danials'. Get the picture?
Old guy
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Posted by Thor Kottelin on May 2, 2005, 2:01 am
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"madman91@gmail.com" wrote:
> I am an xp pro user and have been all my life.. Well 95/98 then xp. I
> have recently downloaded knoppix 3.7 and ran it. It was a run from cd
> version of linux. I liked it and i am considering getting a full
> version to install onto my harddrive. What do i need to know about
> linux and its variations? Which variations are used for what.
You may want to have a look at
<URL:http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/LDP/gs/node4.html#SECTION00420000000000000000>.
Red Hat Linux is usually considered a good distribution for beginners.
Thor
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http://www.anta.net/OH2GDF
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Posted by xpyttl on May 2, 2005, 1:52 pm
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> What do i need to know about
> linux and its variations?
I'm surprised your answers started out with a few folks liking Red
Hat/Fedora. Seems like a lot of people really hate it. Personally, I'm a
fan.
The big differences between the distributions are in how they are kept up to
date and how new packages are installed. I personally like how Fedora does
that. Some of the distros are supposed to be close, some people even claim
that some are better (hard to imagine how, Fedora makes it pretty simple).
Some, however, are maddenlingly difficult to install new sotware, and many
make it hard to know how out of date you are.
You asked about a mix of icons and command line, and pretty much all the
distros have that. I don't think there are real differences, although there
are quite a number of different window managers, and each has a zealous
following. The look and feel of the GUI can be changed quite a bit compared
to Windows, even on a per-user basis.
One thing that I do, and you may want to consider (although it is fairly
complicated to set up). I have a few Linux boxes on my LAN, some for
specific purposes, but one serves as a sort of general Linux box and file
server. It runs Samba so I can access it's files over the LAN from the
Windows boxen.
On the Windows boxes, I also run Cygwin, which is sort of a Linux shelled
under Windows. Cygwin includes a X-server which is where the magic starts.
I can open up a Cygwin window on my Windows box and run Linux commands, in
fact, most Linux utilities, on my Windows box. I can also ssh into the
Linux box and run Linux commands on the Linux machine from a window on the
Windows machine. If I run some graphical Linux program, the window for that
program opens up on my Windows box. I get the best of both worlds, without
having to reboot to another OS or move over to a different keyboard. I can
even put icons on my Windows desktop that ssh into the Linux box to execute
a command, but open the window on the Windows box, so it acts just like
another Windows program except that the work is being done by Linux.
Gives me a lot of flexibility to flip between the environments more or less
seamlessly.
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Posted by Unruh on May 2, 2005, 3:14 pm
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>Hello,
>I am an xp pro user and have been all my life.. Well 95/98 then xp. I
>have recently downloaded knoppix 3.7 and ran it. It was a run from cd
>version of linux. I liked it and i am considering getting a full
>version to install onto my harddrive. What do i need to know about
>linux and its variations? Which variations are used for what. I am
>mostly a multimedia user(movies/pictures/ and games). I am not
>banishing windows i would just like to use linux for a little bit.
I like Mandrake/Mandriva. They try hard to be user friendly, and to keep up
to date ( ie slightly on the bleeding edge).
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