I use ubuntu because it seems easier to use to me, while not being so simple it's frustrating.
but I'm always open to trying different ones.
Alright so Linux is running all up in here. How do I get ratings to work? The panel to use them doesn't show up.
What do you mean? What ratings?
Nevermind I got it. I meant the ratings of posts.
I like Fedora and Ubuntu, Red hat is okay meh, I don;t mind Linux I just dislike most of the fanbase surrounding it, most the "It is open source, free and better than windows!" If those were true Microsoft would be bankrupt
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;17025813]I like Fedora and Ubuntu, Red hat is okay meh, I don;t mind Linux I just dislike most of the fanbase surrounding it, most the "It is open source, free and better than windows!" If those were true Microsoft would be bankrupt[/QUOTE]
you're most likely going to get flamed for that, but I have to agree. while it would be nice to have one free os, I still get tired of the "open source philosophy" types.
but I still get mad when people sell ubuntu at hamfests for $10 each.
Alright new issue.
I installed it to my hard drive and such, but whenever I boot it goes through its nice wall of text then stops at "Waiting for root' or something like that, then times out after one minute and then says the message "Kernel panic: attempting to terminate" or something like that. Does this have anything to do with mount points because that was really the only thing in the installation process that I didn't understand. I have a 133 GB partition with root mounted on it and 12 GB partition for /tmp.
Did your install disk just not work?
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I always just give the entire partition to /.
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;17025813]I like Fedora and Ubuntu, Red hat is okay meh, I don;t mind Linux I just dislike most of the fanbase surrounding it, most the "It is open source, free and better than windows!" If those were true Microsoft would be bankrupt[/QUOTE]
Fedora and Red Hat are basically the same thing. Fedora is just the test bed for Red Hat. What is now Fedora 11 will be RHEL 6.
[QUOTE=limulus54;17025891]you're most likely going to get flamed for that, but I have to agree. while it would be nice to have one free os, I still get tired of the "open source philosophy" types.
but I still get mad when people sell ubuntu at hamfests for $10 each.[/QUOTE]
I don't mind If I get flamed I would love to hear the counterpoints, I just would like to set things straight there maybe a secret to Linux that I don't know. I mean installing flash for average users is hard to none WAIT I downloaded flash.deb it isn't running why?! if the distros were more unified it would help improve the overall experience but linux isn't suppose to be unified
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[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;17027602]Fedora and Red Hat are basically the same thing. Fedora is just the test bed for Red Hat. What is now Fedora 11 will be RHEL 6.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I am Using Fedora 10 right now, I heard they were about the same only fedora was a tiny bit more user friendly, probably should try red hat as I need to get a Cert in it
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;17027384]Did your install disk just not work?
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I always just give the entire partition to /.[/QUOTE]
Everything seems to work on the second try for this. I did the exact same thing with the installer and it worked this time. Not that I am complaining.
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;17027684]
Yeah I am Using Fedora 10 right now, I heard they were about the same only fedora was a tiny bit more user friendly, probably should try red hat as I need to get a Cert in it[/QUOTE]
I don't think you can get the real Red Hat for free; you have to buy their support. But you can try CentOS, which is a community version of Red Hat, the only difference is that they had to take all the Red Hat logos and stuff out.
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;17027684]I don't mind If I get flamed I would love to hear the counterpoints, I just would like to set things straight there maybe a secret to Linux that I don't know. I mean installing flash for average users is hard to none WAIT I downloaded flash.deb it isn't running why?! if the distros were more unified it would help improve the overall experience but linux isn't suppose to be unified
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Yeah I am Using Fedora 10 right now, I heard they were about the same only fedora was a tiny bit more user friendly, probably should try red hat as I need to get a Cert in it[/QUOTE]
Well you see that's the thing ;D. It [B]wouldn't[/B] improve the whole experience. It would change it, which on an opinion basis may improve it for some people, but worsen it for others. A lot of people like their setup to be unique, unlike on Windows where everything is pretty much the same for everyone.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;17028012]I don't think you can get the real Red Hat for free; you have to buy their support. But you can try CentOS, which is a community version of Red Hat, the only difference is that they had to take all the Red Hat logos and stuff out.[/QUOTE]
for college students it is pretty much free
[QUOTE=Dark_dragon1;16195207]Good for hacking... I'm a white hat by the way don't get scared lol[/QUOTE]
bash doesn't count kiddie
[QUOTE=spacerat;17022226][b]W[/b]ine [b]I[/b]s [b]N[/b]ot an [b]E[/b]mulator, [b]WINE[/b]. Wine is basically the Windows APIs reverse engineered to run on linux so that Windows programs which think they're calling Windows APIs on Windows are actually calling Wine APIs on linux/BSD/OSX. It doesn't emulate Windows in the way an emulator like VMware does.[/QUOTE]
it's an emulator.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator[/url]
[url]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/emulator[/url]
[quote]to imitate (a particular computer system) by using a software system, often including a microprogram or another computer that enables it to do the same work, run the same programs, etc., as the first.[/quote]
ho dam
[QUOTE=The Pro;17040327]it's an emulator.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator[/url]
[url]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/emulator[/url]
ho dam[/QUOTE]
It doesn't emulate a system as a whole, it wraps portions in software and hands them off.
i want to put linux on my laptop. Which distro do you find generally boots quickest?
The most minimal ones. Arch, Gentoo etc. But they are more complicated to set up.
Arch and Gentoo are compicated yeah, so I'd recommend Puppy if you want an easy fast system. I've got no intentions of running it on my desktop PC, but it sure is a good lightweight os. The iso is about 100MB.
I'm not sure if he wants one that is for old computers though. Mainly one that just boots fast and runs fast, but isn't like Puppy or DSL.
well i want functionality, so i can use Firefox and open office, but i would also want to play basic/simple games like Cube and doom.
but fast boot times.
Is Ubuntu fast to boot i've tried it off of a flash drive and it was good but i've heard it can be slow to boot. my Laptop is currently running XP which is a bit slow although i've managed to speed it up a bit. so i just want something that can boot like relatively fast but still has good functionality.
I just tried out FC11/Sugar as a Python hacking environment (you can drop down into the source of your current activity using a button after enabling it in the settings). P. nice, although it took me ages to figure out where the Journal system stashes everything.
[QUOTE=HubmaN V2;17064543]I just tried out FC11/Sugar as a Python hacking environment (you can drop down into the source of your current activity using a button after enabling it in the settings). P. nice, although it took me ages to figure out where the Journal system stashes everything.[/QUOTE]
Sugar is the OLPC interface isn't it? Yuck.
I'd rather use Clutter, which I think is coming in Fedora 12.
[url]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin[/url]
Moblin uses Clutter, which looks like this I believe:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCpIeLLoT8&feature=related[/media]
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;17064701]Sugar is the OLPC interface isn't it? Yuck.
I'd rather use Clutter, which I think is coming in Fedora 12.
[url]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin[/url]
Moblin uses Clutter, which looks like this I believe:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCpIeLLoT8&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE]
Eh, I'm quite a fan of it. After reading a bunch of the documentation I got the Home Screen icons to hover around on the screen.
Sles11 <_<
Bump for great justice and maybe a sticky.
I like CentOS for something I'm going to use now and then but mostly leave alone sitting in a cupboard/room/data centre and so on. Ubuntu for desktop because the software manager thing is excellent for a Linux distro. And because it never seems to have trouble with my desktop/laptop drivers INCLUDING wifi.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;18999251]Bump for great justice and maybe a sticky.[/QUOTE]
New portal thread coming soon. Was looking for this yesterday as reference.
[QUOTE=Dark_dragon1;16195207]Good for hacking... I'm a white hat by the way don't get scared lol[/QUOTE]
Every time I mention Linux someone says this. It makes me sick. And it is Mac users who usually say it. If you want to hack a network, A mac would do it the exact same way. Besides being able to install stuff from terminal, Mac, and Linux terminal are identical.
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