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What Did You Do First With Linux?
ruphus13 writes "OStatic has an interesting article on remembering the first time you used Linux. Quoting: 'I'm not sure if the admission that I remember my first Linux installation much more clearly than any date with my first boyfriend or my first date with my husband is a really wise thing to put in writing. I will freely admit it wasn't quite as anxiety-inducing as a date, and the long-term relationship that sprang from it taught me quite a bit about myself, how I learn, and how to passionately load kernel modules at boot. So, what was your first Linux experience?'"
...it was a Mini-Linux distribution in size of four floppies which I downloaded from some BBS. This distribution used the UMSDOS file system and could be started from a DOS prompt (didn't have a spart hard drive).
I remember that I even managed to get X working after a while, but to be honest Linux looked for me as a huge step back from OS/2 Warp which I preferred those days.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
A bit off topic, but extremely easy to do on any Mac.
First things first. Install ReFit to make the OS boot selection easier. Very nice boot manager for OS X.
Next, you install your Bootcamp, which will partition your OS X HD into two OS partitions (Refit first, OS X, and then Bootcamp partition last). Once completed, go into Disk Utility and shrink your OS X partition by whatever number of GB you want your Linux partition to be (Bootcamp should always have the last partition on your HD. If it isn't last, it doesn't work with the built in tools.
Install whatever flavor of Linux you like and ensure you install your boot loader on the actual Linux partition and not on any of your other partitions (usually in the 'advanced' setup during the partitioning process in distros I've set up. Check the documentation)
Rinse and repeat as needed for any number of OS's.
That's it in a nutshell. VERY easy to do...
i knew about linux but stayed away in fear of messing up the windows install. then i came to know about this linux distro aimed at windows users which could be tried first without modifying the current data (live cd). so the first time was when i put in the dapper drake cd and the brown wallpaper showed up in 800x600.
Wealth is the gift that keeps on giving.
Couldn't be done on Windows at that time. Was blown away. Never looked back.
This is all just my personal opinion.
Linux was really good for hiding porn from my religious parents. Even back in 1995 you could lock down your computer to keep prying eyes out. It took until Windows XP before the "home" version of windows offered file access controls or user logins of any kind. Even today, file ACLs are crippled unless you want to buy a more expensive version of windows.
Since I moved out, I also realized that removing physical access is also a good part of computer security.
Don't use Ubuntu if you want to configure things yourself... Try LFS (Linux From Scratch)... Even Gentoo is fairly automated these days.
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Same can be said of windows, it's unlikely to support modern network cards out of the box unless you have a special oem version with drivers included... Linux actually stands a better chance of supporting your nic.
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Similar story. Gave up on the X-server setup. Come Ubuntu, and apt-get, the tables turned and Linux was just easier.
Eh? RedHat 7.3 worked beautifully for me every time. I just had to tell it what monitor I had because it the hardware did not know about DDC. Win98, on the other hand, failed miserably and I couldn't use 1024x768 on it.
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comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
but my freshly installed Slackware played them without any trouble. It was what got me started on switching everything over to Linux and that's where I've been for the last few years.