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Re:HOW TO INSTALL LINUX
Get yourself a KNOPPIX ISO (http://linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=44). Burn this to a CD and you should be able to play with a linux system without having to touch your Windows install.
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The proper solution is...
Being
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Re:OS Comparison
Having used FreeBSD since 1999 or so for one reason or another, and having looked at several Linux distros, I'll throw in my 2cents.
FreeBSD looks like UNIX (oversimplification, albeit) down-and-dirty. I ran X on it for awhile (enlightenment or fvwm95 on a 486DX/66) and will never again. It really is not set up for a GUI, and you will do a ton of work getting it there. It will run Linux-compatible binaries provided you have the right libraries.
This is what I would use as the server because I am comfortable with it, and feel it is faster and more secure in this capacity. (I have little proof of the proceeding statement, but know there are thousands of benchmarks that prove me either right or wrong)
Linux distros I've tried range from pretty and trendy (Mandrake, Knoppix), to Windows clones (Lin---s, Licoris), to down-and-dirty UNIX type (Slackware). Mandrake would be my choice for the laptop and the development box because I just like the way it feels.
The FreeBSD live CD doesn't seem like anything more than an educational tool, because, IMHO, FreeBSD is supposed to be installed, customized, and left to what it does best, run server daemons. Check out linuxISO.org if you haven't already. It is a quick resource for information about a TON of different distros. -
Re:I really hate this saying...****WARNING****
The tilde-ana kournikova virus has infected your
system! Please download the patch for your Microsoft
Windows system here.
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Re:Does Red-Hat cost more?
I have a RH v9.0 server, patches and updates are free. I got the installs from this website.
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Wrong title for articleThis article claims to be about the fastest growing Linux distribution, yet it is nothing of the sort.
It should be retitled "Linux shares amongst web servers accessable from Netcraft" because that's all it deals with. Its as if file-servers, database-servers and desktops don't exist. I know its difficult to get accurate figures for the latter uses of Linux but that shouldn't mean that they are ignored.
This distorts the figures by, for instance, ignoring the fact that many distributions are targetted at the desktop (especially the home user's desktop) and so are never likely to register highly on a sample of internet-linked web hosting servers.
As many of these distribtions achieve their market share by being downloaded rather than purchased in a box, some idea of their level of distribution would be gained from the multi-distribution download sites (linuxiso.org etc) or sites like Distro Watch.
For instance, over the last 6 months the average hits-per-day by people looking for information on Distro Watch are
- Mandrake : 991
- Red Hat : 696
- Knoppix : 643
- Debian : 567
- Fedora : 518
- Gentoo : 477
Yet in this article Mandrake is an non-player and Knoppix doesn't merit a mention.
if figures could be assembled from download sites, i have a shrewd suspicion that Debian and Mandrake would be well ahead, with dists like Gentoo and Knoppix definitely contenders.
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Linux much cheaper!
I use it as my main OS. The only reason why Windows is on my system is because I have an old copy (Windows 2000) that I use just for mucking about with. With your typical Linux Distro, you get a Operating System, Desktop Environment, Office Suite, Multimedia Player, Internet Suite, Games, Development tools, Image editors, Document publishers, Movie production tools and More for a very low cost. Most of them are absolutley free as in beer. So what are you waiting for. If you havent tried Linux yet, then grab your self a copy
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Re:Which version will this be?
Look here for all the SCO-free libraries you could possibly want. Any chosen at random should be safe.
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Guide for Windows users!There is a rumour that migrating to Linux from windows is hard, scary and for geeks only. But it cant be further from the truth.
In fact, If you have a BroadBand internet connection and a CD burner, than Linux very easy to install. Even if you dont, linux cds can be bought from most good computer shops, can be often found on linux magazines in your local news agent and libaries and bookshops often sell Linux books that come with Linux cds! Since Linux is legal to copy, you can ask a freind who has Linux to borrow their cds. I have lent mine out to several of my freinds.
The best places to download linux are
Linux iso
Distribution Watch.
The best distributions out there are Mandrake, Fedora, Knoppix and Ark Linuk.
Most downloaded Linux distributions come in
The 1st cdrom is a "magic disk", that is that they dont need an operating system to run. Unfortuantley they cant be ran from windows. So if you are running Windows, you will need to restart your computer, by going to Start > Shut down > Restart. Your computer will now restart itself. Make sure your first disk is in the cd drive. If it is successful then you will be greeted with an installation screen for Linux. Press the enter key to start installing. If it doesent work, then your computer may not be configured to read magic disks. You will have to go into your BIOS setup and make sure that the CDROM drive is the primary boot device before the hard drive. If you have an older computer then it may not support booting from the cdrom drive. Dont worry though, most distributions have a soloution. Most offer the chance to create a boot floppy, and 99.99% of computers are capable of starting from a floppy!
Once you have seen the installation screen and pressed enter, the installer will load and you will be greeted with an installer program. Follow the intructions from there. Here is some help for the most common questions
Partitioning. Linux needs at Least 5GB of space for it to run well, so resize your windows partition using the tools or delete it althoghter. If you are going to resize, make sure that you have ran scandisk and defragmented your disk to minimize the risk of data loss, of course, make sure you have enough disk space.
If it asks you about packages, you will generally want KDE, Office Suite, Games and Internet tools. I recomend personal desktop if you are installing Fedora, KDE workstation if using mandrake.
If you have an error installing packages, your CD-R or CD-RW may be dirty or scratched. For best results, I reccomend you buy the offical editions of disks as the CDROMs are more resistant to scratches.
In most cases your hardware will be detected automatically. Again, the offical editions often have more drivers as they can licence drivers from companies.
If the installation is successful then eject your disk and restart your computer. If you have opted to resize windows, you will see a menu offering you the chance to load either Linux or Windows. Choose Linux. Chances are that you will never want to select the Windows option again!
I hope this information will help Windows users who want to migrate to Linux operating systems. Remember than KDE 3.1 is currently the prevailing desktop, you will have to wait a few months for Linux distributions to start being installed with KDE 3.2. Mandrake 10.0 will be out soon, and that will include KDE 3.2, I reccomend that version.
If you have any problems, then you should- Consult the instruction manuals that come with your distro, this is often known in
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Re:RMS
If you'd like to desperately try Hurd you can desperately find it here
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Re:No case...
On one hand, Micro$oft should not be able to win due to the law.
But they can (and probably will) circumvent the law by outspending this poor kid and winning anyway.
Here's an answer to this: Linux! -
Re:Time it takes to download distributions
Depending on your skill level and whether you know, for instance, whether you want KDE/Gnome, OpenOffice.org/Abiword/Gnumeric/KOffice, yes.
Most of the Debian-based distros are nicely pared-down; and, you can always apt-get what you need later. Knoppix is a (relatively) easy install. Lycoris, thought not Debian-based, can be had on one CD.
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Not just my Video Card! :)
I found a way to upgrade not just my video card, but my whole PC!
It is right here!
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Re:good for them
I totally agree, and Mandrake is a great distro. I don't like SuSE's way of releasing their distro (ftp anyone?), and Redhat dropped the free version entirely, so for the desktop I usually recommend Mandrake for people just wanting to try Linux. I have great respect for their installer, which I find to be excellent!
IMHO this is great news, and as you say hopefully others will follow this model.
The latest version can be bought of Mandrake or downloaded from Linuxiso.org.
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Re:Most people download Linux distros from websiteThe latest slackware ISO is only available on bittorrent.
Are you sure? Try linuxiso.org
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-1 Pointless, Unfunny
And while you're at it, be sure to check out <insert favorite distro here>.
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Re:QuestionWhere do you want to go tomorrow?
i can answer that one for you: to linuxiso.org to get a copy of debian or freebsd or gentoo or mandrake...
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Boycott DEBIAN!
Debian is the SOLE REASON WHY PEOPLE THINK LINUX SUCKS! EVEN THE GEEKS THINK IT SUCKS!
I suggest that if you are using debian, then STOP USING IT RIGHT NOW! Debian makes linux look bad because!
It uses software from the Linux dark age!
It imtimdates their users
Its hard to install!
It has polital flamewars and encourages residents of the USA to voloate copyright and patent law!
So, if you are a debian user, then please go to Linuxiso.org, download a REAL distribution, then tell ALL yourr debian using freinds to switch too! If more and more people stopped using debian they wouldn't think linux sucked so much!
Real distributions don't have to edit text files
Real distrubtions don't tell you to RTFM
Real distributions don't use the secuirty hole ridden 2.2.
And, if your a debian ZEALOT with mod points, please reply and explain before you mod this down! I have switch from Debian to Mandrake, and have NEVER looked back! -
Re:PC world, uhhh, thanks, no & u r missing po
Ah, but if said newbie reads the September 2003 issue of PC World, they'll see that they can get a small utility that does the registry-fucking for them. And undoes it at a click.
Fix your PC, and avoid reformatting your hard drive, with this utility.
License: Trial, Trial, Buy Only, Shareware, Shareware, Shareware, Shareware
Uhhh, thanks, no. I no longer have to worry about reformatting my hard drive, or trial software, buy only software, or stealing shareware because I've moved on to gnu/linux.
Aren't you tired of that pcworld bullshit? It's as bad as flash. That regular utility rundown is one long advertisement for them to shake loose some pocket change, and show off to their editors how creative they can be with their titles.
Which windows version, btw, are you using that runs Konqueror?
You're missing the point. I've disabled flash because I took the time to figure out which file to edit in my LINUX installation. But others won't take the time to edit the file, they'll pretty much accept the flash download, or more likely, use flash straight out of the konqueror installation, as linux programmers are paranoid about making sure linux apps have everything windows has, which is stupid.
While a slashdot reader may take the time to download a registry editing (ugh! I need to go clean my hands after typing that!) utility, the vast majority, over 90% of users from what I've seen on stats of technical knowledge of average users, won't know about the utility, or know what it does, or know how to download it, or know how to use it. And that defeats the whole aim of avoiding flash in the first place, and thereby minimizing the spread of that nasty little virus.
Which brings up the perfect characterization of flash. Think about how msblast and other worms have been spreading. Now thing about flash. It has all the properties of a slower speed worm or virus. We just need an effective extermination procedure for it.
btw, come on over to the dark side. Or take a walk on the wild side. Whatever. If you like those little utilities on windows, give linux a shot. Linux has thousands of those little utilities, and none of them that I'm aware of are "trial" or "shareware". Download Knoppix, burn it to one CD, then set your bios to boot from CD. That's it. Try it out. Won't modify your hard drive. Won't write to your hard drive unless you decide to save settings, create a home directory, or create a swap file (and knoppix can temporarily use existing space on your hard drive for a swap file, which disappears when you shutdown). And if you do decide to create a knoppix home directory or swap file, or save settings, you can always delete the file(s) from windows when you are done.
There's also a free game version of the cd, among other versions, and there are linux game cds by other distros, do the google.
Download the main knoppix distro, check the md5sum (there is a utility for this in windows, just a command line in linux
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A better way, first time, and after every release
Knoppix.
One cd dowload.
Install it to hard disk.
Instant, easy, all hardware found install of debian.
More applications than any french distro, and upgrades to newer releases are a command line away, instead of the utter ridiculous stupidity of blowing away and re-installing a newer release.
And don't mention upgrades instead of fresh installs with new major releases. Google the other major distro archives if you have any doubts whether you have to re-install or not. -
Re:OT Linux questionCan anyone recommend any linux-specific websites for picking up cheap distro cds from?
Downloads from Linuxiso.org; also has pretty cheap "buy disk" links if you're on a modem. Also see Distrowatch.
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LinuxIso.org - just like mom used to burn
LinuxISO.org has been around for a long time. They dont burn CDs, they just provide a place to d/l ISOs from.
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Re:More raids please..okay so we've seen the stick
Wheres the carrot? Starting to look like it might be here!
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This software will DEFINITELY help if you...
... got the virus.
They've posted a free fix here: http://www.linuxiso.org -
Re:Newbies of any stripe don't install OS!Well... I don't know how it went for many people, but for my first contact with Linux, I just bought a book about Linux which included a distro. That way I had documentation to hold my hand and a "free" distro.
I have never bought a boxed set of Linux (ow, sorry... yes, I did... I bought Corel Linux. Worst buy ever).
Nowadays I just run over to LinuxISO.org to get my disto of choice.
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And The Winner Is...
Who's the leading distributor period?
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Re:Im interested...
There is a WineX add-on for games.
You can download a copy at LinuxISO.org.
I'd have to say that I've tried Lycoris and I'm rather impressed with it. It seems to be somewhat picky about what hardware it works with, but otherwise it is a fast, no-nonsense desktop. There is one well-chosen app for each task you could need, and the menu layout is simple and straightforward. I think they were even using Mozilla as the default browser before RedHat was. Everything is designed to look and work like, say, Windows 98; so it is an easy transition for almost anyone. The install is also very quick and easy; this is the one that lets you play solitare while it's copying files. There aren't really any installation options; you get the default install, but it will all fit on a 1gb disk.
The only thing I can't really gauge is whether it would be as easy to upgrade/modify as a distro like Lindows that is based on Debian. Lycoris originally didn't offer development tools for download, but I think their new version has them. I would be somewhat worried, though, about the long-term financial viability of some of these smaller desktop distributions.
I also used to think their productivity pack was something like AbiWord and Gnumeric because of the goofy pictures on their site, but I read somewhere that it is a modified version of OpenOffice.org. -
Make your own...
This is a case of a company hoping a user will just be too lazy to do the work themselves, considering a vast majority of the hardware and software has counterparts available to the consumer.
- EPIA-M10000 NEHEMIAH - RTL$178.00
- 256MB DDR PC2700 CL=2.5 Unbuffered Non-parity 6ns 2.5V 32Meg x 64$45.99
- Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM Hard Drive 8MB Model # 6Y080P0 $94.00
Find your favorite brand CD-RW drive or DVD drive:
CD/DVD R/RW drivesrange from $35 - $359
Find your favorite case:
mini-itx cases max $112
Find your favorite rounded IDE cables:Rounded IDE cablesmax $10 each
Get your favorite Linux ISO:
Do you want/need a wireless keyboard and remote? Those kits are available too. You can use various handheld devices, learning remotes or dedicated programable remotes. You can also use a wired keyboard and mouse.
Yeah, there are bits and bobbles I have left out. Yeah, you need to install Linux and one of the PVR programs available out there. Yeah, it will suck your time, but you'll know a lot more about your machine, you'll have a machine you can upgrade, change, etc at will. You'll have full controll of the software without any need for hacking, for a lot less.
That is a faster machine, likely a faster HDD, probably higher quality RAM, better cables, your choice of cases and whatever else you want. You could throw in a a 1 or 2 slot PCI riser, a Sigma Designs XCard and Remote and whatever else you want.
It's still $550, you still need to pay s/h and taxes where applicable. However, you can decide to save some money on the ram, the case, or any other part.
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Re:Suse must be free
What about the run-from-CD evaluation version freely available for download?
SuSE - SuSE live-eval 8.1 -
Re:...been considering Lindows
Anyone care to clue me in to any disadvantages of Lindows versus some other solution?
(Captain Obvious) It costs money?
Another (IMHO) disadvantage is that Lindows sets out to be a Windows clone (i.e. replicates My Documents and various other "Windowisms"). If you want to use a more "Unixy" OS I recommend Red Hat or Mandrake. The install for each is a peice o' cake, you can pretty much just walk through the defaults, and they're free for the download (try LinuxISO.org). I'm partial to KDE myself, but KDE and GNOME are so similar it probably won't matter to you starting off (it's also really easy to switch between them).
I switched less thana year ago and haven't found the learning curve to be too steep (neither has my wife who is much less computer savvy). Pretty much all my questions have been answered here. -
Re: Mandrake? whatever
>the new iMac is sexy, if I could get one that ran Windows or RedHat (or Mandrake) I'd think about it
You can get Mandrake for PPC here, and also NetBSD, Yellowdoglinux, MkLinux, Debian (!), SuSE, etc.
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Re:Old powerpc'sI'd look at SuSE and RH 7.3. I'm pretty sure those two have support for the older IBM machines. SuSE more than RH. And don't worry about RH being an older version, you can easily upgrade the kernel later if you want.
You have to go to Linux ISO to get the RH version.
Unsolicited advice
I'd play with AIX for a while. It's a great *nix that has some fantastic Disk Management tools that are way above and beyond most other *nixes. IBM has donated a lot of that to Linux, but it's still a little primitive. The AIX LVM is superb as well as tools to move a live partition and resize while mounted, etc.Many people bash AIX (as I did at first), but some of those tools are really very elegant...
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Re:Watch out for certain mirrors
There are links for the PPC live CDs up on LinuxISO.org (at the bottom of the page). Clicking the icon of a disc superimposed on a folder will yield a list of mirrors (only three or four so far), clicking the download link will select one of the mirrors at random. One of the mirrors for Gentoo is iBiblio, which isn't always the speediest mirror to download from but is certainly one of the more reliable mirrors around.
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Re:Pay for downloading iso???
The current version (as reviewed is 2.8); but you can download "Libranet Essential Edition 2.0", dated July 2002, from LinuxISO.org, Download.com, etc. Probably could aptget that to something close to the latest version.
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libranet trolls
Everyone who is trolling libranet has obviously never used it before *waits for more trolls on how it isnt free*... For those that want a preview on what they can expect can go to LinuxISO and download libranet's 2.0 essential version. I have tried it and it is absolutely fantastic--from the installation to the tools (adminmenu) everything worked great, better than any linux distro I have ever used.
Libranet is also well known for having superior technical support and has a very friendly userbase that offers to help the newbies rather than tell them to RTFM.
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Linux ISO
Linux ISO has SuSE live-eval 8.2. -
Re:"comparing" (for a good reason)
That's still not "however you like."
That applies to how many things in life ?
- Selling CDR's with Win XP ?
- (Re)selling legal copies of Win XP ?
- Selling CDR's with Linux ?
- Having sex with the wife ?
- Killing anyone you don't like ?
- Thaught ? ("Honey, how do I look ?" "Gee, darling, real fat ! I mean FINE, FFFINE"
- Speech ? ("Hey boss, you really stink !")
- Flamebaiting/Trolling and have good karma ?
...just embrace any freedom you CAN have
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Redhat 3.0 patch
Is available for free download here for anyone who wants it.
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Re:OH PHEW!!MacOS X is NOT UNIX. It is FreeBSD with a Mach microkernel replacing the monolithic FreeBSD kernel.
However, it is a *BSD, and its marketshare is expanding, so this means all those *BSD is dying trolls should crawl back under the bridges they emerged from.
Proprietary UNIXes, however, are dying. Big time. Why pay for it when you can get in free?
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Re:you did pay for it, right?
you did pay for it, right?
If he used his copy, or burned a set for his grandmother from his copy, it didn't cost his grandmother anything except the blank CD-Rs. Pocket change. He's allowed to do this under the GPL. Or if it was SUSE, he could have done an ftp install (if broadband, if it was dialup, he'd still be there). If it was most any other gnu/linux distribution, he could have downloaded it from the internet legally.
otoh, with windows, doing this is illegal, you are a dirty pirate sc*mb*g, and Jack Valenti and his cronies at the bsa will hunt you down.
- Or maybe he bought her a full distribution, so that she could use the manuals as kindling in her fireplace. Manuals. You remember manuals right?
Or maybe they just got tired of viruses, of spending extra for office/popup blockers/and about 4000 other applications.
Or maybe she just wanted better stability/uptime/reliability.
Or maybe she just wanted to start clustering her bingo odds calculations with OpenMosix (once again, free).
Or maybe she wants a choice of a half dozen better browsers than IE.
Or maybe she wanted free compilers
Or maybe she wanted free database servers
Or maybe she wanted the worlds most popular and free web server
Or maybe she wanted free ftp servers
Or maybe she wanted free vpn solutions
Or maybe she wanted free email servers
Or maybe she wanted free fax servers
Or maybe she wanted free raid software
Or maybe she wanted free file and print server
Or maybe she wanted free OCR software
Or maybe she wanted free multiple firewall solutions
Or maybe she wanted more than 4 free games
Or maybe she wanted free updates
Or maybe she wanted free patches that don't break the system and that work and that don't need 4 hours and two admins to apply
Or maybe she wanted access to the developers
Or maybe she wanted access to the source code
Or maybe she was tired of a company that intentionally breaks backward compatibility
Or maybe she didn't want to bother keeping track of software licenses
Or maybe she wants to donate the computer in the future and doesn't want to cause a software license problem for the recipient
Or maybe she doesn't have the additional money for a hardware upgrade required by that other once popular os.
Or maybe she needs something a bit more powerful for her genome research
Free as in freedom to modify, and in most cases free as in beer.
Look at what happened to aol last quarter. What happened there will happen to your beloved ms. And when the analysts pull their head out of the sand and stop lying, ms will implode. They are losing money on everything except the os and office. Everything except the os and office. Everything. Once product activation weeds out the "pirate" sc*mb*gs, and once gunpoint licensing finishes inflating the numbers, and people finally wake up and realize that market share is going down, not up, revenue on the os and office are going down, not up, then the world comes to an end for ms. Less than 2 years left. Hear that ticking?... -
Re:Unix
Also dont they have a mjority stakholding in SuSE practically the only distrobution you cant download iso for?
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Re:Apples vs Oranges
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Re:I may seem like a troll for saying this
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here's a solution:
Boot a Linux cd (Debiang GNU/Linux for me, but you should start with mandrake) and use it to ERASE DOS(winshit 5.1 is DOS) and install a real operating system (Linux, or any UNIX derivitive) in place of it. Then install xpdf and galeon ('apt-get install xpdf galeon' in Debian and 'urpmi xpdf galeon' in Mandrake). Run Galeon in X and view the page. TaDa!
You can download ISO images of both Debian GNU/Linux and Mandrake at LinuxISO.org. -
ISO Download
Does this mean that the guy from last week will now have 38 Operating Systems on 1 PC?
Since the lunar-linux site is probably bogged down at the moment, you can probably grab an ISO from:
DistroWatch
or
LinuxISO.org
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If you want to Tweak
Shouldn't you be Using Linux anyway? The majority of people who use macs don't want to tweak, they want hardware that looks good to impress their yuppie friends and software that is eye catching and easy to use.
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Re:Is this free?
You can download it at the linuxiso site.
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Re:Is this free?
You can download it at the linuxiso site.
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Think different, think LinuxPPCjust to complete the picture: Yellow Dog is not the only Linux distro running on PPC. I've tried successfully: LinuxPPC (now dead, last distro is 2000'Q4), Debian and Gentoo. And I heard about some success of porting of FreeBSD and NetBSD to PPC platform, partiuarly into Mac/PPC.
Why am I telling it? I think Mac OS (including Mac OS X) users should use the same formula as was driving users from PC to Mac - "Think different, think Apple!", but now with a small change: "Think different, think Linux/PPC". Mac/PPC world should not be and is not limited by the dictated choice of the sector monopolist (Apple). And Linux is doing the same great job is it's doing on the PC sector - it's giving the choice for people. The choice of OS.
Seriosly, think about it. What kind of choice Mac gives to people? To spend another $1K for more expensive hardware and then to stick with Mac OS after discovering lots of Mac OS (even OS X) problems? With Linux/PPC people can buy Mac/PPC and use same skills as they have with Linux/x86.
I think that Apple, instead of porting of Mac OS X into PC/x86, should officially support (and contribute!) Linux/PPC. Eventually Apple should either port Aqua to Linux/X11 or to give up Mac OS at all.
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Re:30 dollars?You can download the is here. it's not 2.3 but it just came out, so it should hit there soon.