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foulplay

08-19-2005, 12:39 PM

Latest Breezy Badger (Ubuntu Linux, 5.10)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/breezy/colony-3/breezy-install-i386.iso

OpenSuSE Disk ISOs
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta2-CD1.iso
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta2-CD2.iso
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta2-CD3.iso
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta2-CD4.iso
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-beta2/iso/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta2-CD5.iso

MD5 Sums:
Ubuntu Breezy:
adeaa0475bf58421b8968a06afb1d161

OpenSuSE:
CD 1: ca31f28d9b1bd94ec19ce36dc0d1560a
CD 2: 87fc35140cd5dfececcd0bac8067ec08
CD 3: 713f57f6ddaab113527ffc3584cfdb4c
CD 4: b2f5b10273214b15386a6ec94fbbf8c8
CD 5: e4e9c87a6ea6a5c42e44934dd0c12cee

Heyyou27

08-19-2005, 12:59 PM

foulplay

08-19-2005, 02:08 PM

and?.......
And what? Either one of those is a complete OS replacement.

Heyyou27

08-21-2005, 12:34 AM

And what? Either one of those is a complete OS replacement.
Yes, But why?

Mario

08-21-2005, 07:43 PM

okay help i am stupid and do't know what all of that stuff means.

Heyyou27

08-21-2005, 07:46 PM

okay help i am stupid and do't know what all of that stuff means.
Places to download Ubuntu Linux.

rahx

08-28-2005, 10:19 PM

I've always wanted to see what linux was like

what would happen to my Windows if I did get that. ..?

Heyyou27

08-28-2005, 10:28 PM

I've always wanted to see what linux was like

what would happen to my Windows if I did get that. ..?
Bill Gates would delete your hard drive!

foulplay

08-28-2005, 10:57 PM

I've always wanted to see what linux was like

what would happen to my Windows if I did get that. ..?
Well you have two options, you could resize your windows partition to allow you about a 10 gig area for linux, then make a 1gb swap partition and give the rest to a ext3 root partition and let the installer put grub on your computer (makes it dual boot, done automatically by default), or you could just go to ubuntulinux.org and download the live cd, which boots directly from a cd (warning it will be slower than normal, much slower.)

Mouse

08-28-2005, 11:17 PM

kewmat

08-28-2005, 11:25 PM

bootable linux eh? :P well i think what you're trying to get at is knoppix, but I'm not sure.

foulplay

08-29-2005, 12:35 AM

Hmm, never been a huge Linux fan but I have thought about switching though. The thing is I have too much stuff configured to Windows to change. I was thinking about getting a second hard drive and installing Linux on there. What about the bootable linux? I cannot remember the name.
There are several 'bootable' versions of linux, usually refered to as live CDs/DVDs.

Knoppix is the most popular, but Ubuntu has a live cd as well, which fits onto one CD, unlike the new Knoppix which is an entire DVD.

john

08-29-2005, 04:35 PM

foulplay

08-29-2005, 09:05 PM

Thank you Rahx.

Drunken_Shinobi

08-29-2005, 09:32 PM

I've always wanted to see what linux was like

what would happen to my Windows if I did get that. ..?
Don't use Linux for everyday computer uses...just use it for running servers simply.

kewmat

08-29-2005, 09:45 PM

Don't use Linux for everyday computer uses...just use it for running servers simply.

ummm, why not? Linux will do pretty much anything windows will, and much more.

foulplay

08-29-2005, 09:57 PM

ummm, why not? Linux will do pretty much anything windows will, and much more.
Yeah, lets see what my linux box can do without spending one cent on software, and with under 15 minutes of work:
Read almost any file system type, and write to several.
Office suite built in
Multiple GUI's with massive customizablity
Support for almost all media types, more out of the box than Doze
Firefox is default browser (in Ubuntu atleast)
apt-get gives you thousands of packages at your finger tips, for free.
There is a replacement for pretty much every windows program ever, and they usually are better made.
Multiple desktops out of the box
low resource usage
ready to go server settings
Cadega lets you play windows games as well, if not better than they play in windows
Wine lets you use windows Apps if need be.
Ubuntu supports my onboard sound and nic on install (as do most debian based distros), while windows has continuous trouble with it.
I have gotten zero viruses and spyware in Linux/*BSD EVER.
Linux is also free legally.

I attatched a .rar of the text file that lists all the packages that come with Knoppix. Just a few.

Mouse

08-30-2005, 11:55 PM

All right, I want to expirment with Linux but have never gotten around to. Do you suggest I use bootable Knoppix?

Personally I have never switchd to Linux because
a) I am too lazy
b) I have too many damned apps that only run in Windows (I know there is stuff like WINE and others but I just havne't really done any research yet), however I am switching to open sources app all the time, Mozilla, Thunderbird, GAIM, Trillian, Notepad++, Open Office.
c) I have also seen no need to switch to Linux. Despite all the crap that people give out about MS, they have yet to mess up my system it all runs perfectly fine and I have never gotten a virus or spyware that I can think off

Snow

08-31-2005, 01:11 AM

So is linux basically a program that takes place of windows?

Mouse

08-31-2005, 01:15 AM

So is linux basically a program that takes place of windows?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

Try reading that, it will explain what Linux is.

isharted

09-02-2005, 03:57 PM

Yeah, LiveCDs are a great way for Windows users to experiment with Linux. It will not touch your exisiting Windows installation at all. You just pop in the CD (that you've downloaded and burned from the site), and as long as your BIOS is set properly, it will boot into Linux (since it's loading off a CD, it will take a while).

When you want to go back to Windows, just take out the CD and reboot. Simple!
only downside is that knoppix is not yet able to write to NTFS partitions (at least last time i checked), which is what pretty much all 2000 and XP users have :(
i'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before they get it all figured out
other than that, knoppix is awesome at everything.....and it comes in a CD or a DVD version

foulplay

09-04-2005, 03:33 AM

only downside is that knoppix is not yet able to write to NTFS partitions (at least last time i checked), which is what pretty much all 2000 and XP users have :(
i'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before they get it all figured out
other than that, knoppix is awesome at everything.....and it comes in a CD or a DVD version
No linux can write to NTFS, only read. That is why if you have a dual boot system you have a FAT32 partition to share....*curses 4gb filesize limit* I just use my pen drive for any transfering really, 1gb is more than enough to transfer anything I need.

Deusparadoxi

09-30-2005, 09:13 PM

I have two reasons for not using linux:
1) Game compatibility. I suppose you could configure an WinEmulator well enough to run most, but that a lot of work and im lazy.
2)I use a cage/cradle system with my harddrives for transfering files/media with people, having different file system types dosnt fly so well.

blackice

10-01-2005, 12:15 AM

No linux can write to NTFS, only read.
You can enable NTFS write access and it will work. Granted its almost guaranteed to corrupt the filesystem but it can write it.

Linux mephisto 2.6.13-gentoo-r1 #1 Sun Sep 11 16:55:50 MDT 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Omnica

10-05-2005, 03:57 PM

Led_Zeppelin

10-05-2005, 04:41 PM

I'm just going to stay out of this one.

Painintheglavin

12-16-2005, 08:13 PM

I have SLAX,Ubuntu,Linspire,Knoppix,Damn Small Linux,Puppy Linux,and SuSE.I want to narrow this down to 1 regular Linux distro and 1 Live Linux distro.What should I choose?

MrNaPaLm32

12-17-2005, 12:02 PM

i use xandros, cuz its free. I also have 12 ubuntu CD's at my house. SUSE takes up wayyyyyyyy to much space. i mean. 10 gigs? why not just use something smaller.

paranoia

08-01-2006, 01:39 AM

Don't install everything on the disk, numbskull.

SuSE has horrible preformance, though. At least it has XGL.

Atomic1fire

08-20-2006, 02:20 AM

I've always wanted to see what linux was like
what would happen to my Windows if I did get that. ..?
get vmware player instead then find the ubuntu vm or go here http://opensource.region-stuttgart.de/test_linux_desktop.php (alot slower then actual linux but it shows you fde so whatever)

MrNaPaLm32

08-20-2006, 02:35 AM

vmware is terribly slow. You have to allot a certain ammount of memory for each operating system, along with CPU power. Just use the Live Trial, it boots from the CD and does nothing to your hard drive.

paranoia

08-21-2006, 01:30 PM

That "Start Linux" thing is horribly outdated. Go here (www.knoppix.org) or here (http://www.slax.org/) for Linux Live CDs, which boot from a CD and allows you to test Linux. Some live CDs (http://www.ubuntu.com/download) have a program that allows you to install the distribution to the hard drive.