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Trash Talk - Lindows

Helicon - Fri Jun 20, 2003 11:46 am
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Anyone here mess with Lindows???

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Jun 20, 2003 11:23 pm
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Yeah, TOO much cloning of XP for my tastes of a linux distro. If you want to give linux a try, without too much work, i recommend Knoppix. Its a live cd, which means you burn to cd, and boot with it directly. Nothing to install, don't even need a harddrive. Very good to try out with, because you don't need to partition anything, nor worry about screwing up window's installation. Plus you can fuck around with a person's mind by booting with this CD if they went somewhere. When they get back, you'll be playing around inside linux, and freak them out making them think you've just deleted windows.

After that, recommendations go towards how easy you want to use the computer (Redhat), or how much of linux you want to learn (Slackware/Gentoo).

Dr Brain - Sat Jun 21, 2003 10:08 am
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Well, while i have never tried lindows, I do belive that it being too like XP is a good thing for most people. When I start selling comps, I plan to sell them with Lindows pre-installed.

Knoppix is an exelent recovery disk, and also something to bring to school with you so you can work

.

I would also like to add Linux From Scratch (LFS) to the list of learning distros, as there really is no way to learn more about linux.

Helicon - Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:50 pm
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id always been most familiar with installing and running Debian, though i need to learn more GNOME.

Is lindows really so much of a xp rip? Like carbon-bit copy-style?

BTW, can anyone recommend a low-resource dependent windows XP shell replacement???

Dr Brain - Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:55 pm
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Helicon wrote:

BTW, can anyone recommend a low-resource dependent windows XP shell replacement???

I think there is a zsh for windows. Don't know how well it works.

It's not a copy of XP, it simply resembles XP.

Being like XP isn't a bad thing for 99% of the computer users in the world.

Helicon - Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:40 am
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i phrased that wrong. i was merely wondering to what level of detail the XP shell was modelled over linux.

BTW, tnx for the tip off KNOPPIX, i can't believe ive never run across that before. That's what i get for not hanging around with enough CompSci majors...

Snidjer - Tue Jun 24, 2003 2:15 am
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http://www.linuxiso.org.

I bet you didn't know there were so many.

I'm personally a FreeBSD guy myself

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Helicon - Wed Jun 25, 2003 1:27 pm
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i've hit linuxiso many times... to dl my copies...

I've messed a little with FreeBSD and X Windows. Not too bad

Anonymous - Mon Sep 01, 2003 3:56 pm
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At the moment I'm experimenting with damn small linux (www.damnsmalllinux.org), it's based off Knoppix/Debian and is less than 50mb (business card CD), good for the 56k users out there (I can even run asss off it and it configured internet connection sharing by itself on booting to the annoyance of the person using the phone at the time

).

Although I need to figure out how to save my settings to a floppy or the hard disk. And how to get windows files sharing to work.

One more thing, windows users shouldn't bother getting linux just to try out SnrrrubSpace...(the one available at SSDL) it doesn't work (and eats the cpu on a PII 233/64mb).

AlphaBoB - Mon Sep 01, 2003 4:05 pm
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Correct about SnrrrubSpace.