Giving Linux a try.

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  • How many actually use linux?

    8 47.06%
  • How many have tried and given up?

    3 17.65%
  • How many like me have the cd's in their desk?

    5 29.41%
  • How many think learning a new os is like learning French?

    1 5.88%
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    Registered User eboyjones's Avatar
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    Giving Linux a try.

    Be honest. If you look at the price and options Linux certainly exceeds Windows. Many flavors, but are we just too stuck on Windows to learn something new.
    Last edited by eboyjones; January 31st, 2004 at 09:10 AM.
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    The only reason I've set aside my using Linux is just a financial one - ie: I can't spare the hardware to run a dedicated Licux PC (and I need to have Windows for professional reasons).

    I'm currently toying with WarLinux and Knoppix, bith of which are off boot CDs.

    Hopefully I'll be able get some more disks so I can at least have a decent Mandrake/FreeBSD partition in there.
    Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams

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    I run RedHat - Fedora 1 on a little box as a server. Great program. My PC is fast enough (1ghz w/512megsRAM) that the X sessions are very quick. I run apache, sendmail, ssh, quake3 (urban terror), samba (for windows file sharing), and so much more.
    It's really a solid OS - and I'm glad I picked it up a few years ago, as open source seems to be coming on hard - i.e. Novell buying SUSE linux, Apple and their X server...etc...
    Worth spending the time on.
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    Here's my story. I was home from work with a temperature of 102. I got bored and decided to try installing linux on one of my computer. Well in order to get the HD to work I needed a promise controller. In order to install linux on the hard drive I needed a linux driver for my promise card. Needless to say I crawled back into bed and passed out at this point. I just haven't tried again because of laziness.

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    I would really like to try Linux, I don't like being a slave to the 'Evil Empire.' I also want Bill Gates to have some competition. Sometimes I feel like we are sheep following our master because everyone else does.

    But some things scare me:

    1) I hear most of the games I have won't work with Linux
    2) I hear printers are really hard to install on Linux
    3) Linux won't run Windows Cd's (that my friends give me)
    Last edited by Orangeman; February 3rd, 2004 at 05:48 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orangeman
    I would really like to try Linux, I don't like being a slave to the 'Evil Empire.' I also want Bill Gates to have some competition. Sometimes I feel like we are sheep following our master because everyone else does.

    But some things scare me:

    1) I hear most of the games I have won't work with Linux
    2) I hear printers are really hard to install on Linux
    3) Linux won't run Windows Cd's (that my friends give me)
    It's great to try on a second machine. I've gotten most games to work in linux with linux versions or by using 'wine' (lets you run windows apps on linux). Printing isn't hard at all - actually found it relatively easy to setup network printing. It does run Windows CD's - at least you can access them. If you need to run something, then 'wine' would take over. I'm not a pro at it, but I've been really lucky with learning how to do things with it.
    Do you smell something burning?....

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    I dual boot Win2k and Slackware 9.1 at the moment, although I haven;t booted into Windows for about 3 weeks now. The only time I do witch to Windows is for games. I know I can get games working in Linux, I just haven't had much chance yet.

    I like this learning a new OS thing, its not as bad as French, but then I'm not being forced to do it, unlike at school (eh, Msr & Mme Lafayette with your petit chien that has been burnt into my memory. B4st4rd French Teachers)
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