Shiny Doom Forum

[Trool]

If you ever wanted to try linux, but don't want to go through the whole formatting and installing thing, you can run a liveCD that will boot and maybe detect all of your hardware....

here is a nice piece on a bunch of available liveCDs out there for anyone interested

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9569&page=1
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[rklee]

I tried this linux in windows program once. It worked but I couldnt' figure out how to do anything . It also complained when I tried to link the network connection between windows and linux or something like that. I tried downloading and installing programs but I still can't figure out how to do it. I read through some online instructions but I think many of them expect some knowledge of linux first.
Maybe I'll try again with this. Not that I would want to use linux primarily (Microsoft Windows is great) but I want the experience.
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[Trool]

yah that's part of my reasoning to switching to linux on my boxes. I really like the knowledge that I can handle another OS if I ever choose to not go with windows, I'm still running my printer server as a windows box, and my media comp hoocked up to my tv is also windows...it just easier to do things and less hasle cause I don't really care about customizing those things... I also really starting to want a mac mini to try osx and get comfertable in that...

Linux is a strange beast if you want to ever install it on a real partition try Fedora...I have never had any problems or heard anyone having any installing it + it autodetects just about any kind of hardware u'd want, other than some really obscure things....
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov

[rklee]

Ya... I heard about that. My roomie runs that and also Highlander and Sandstorm racers all run Fedora.
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"My Heart Is In the Work" - Andrew Carnegie

[Trool]

yah fedora is probably the most popular.... but, while it is easy to install and start maintaining it and adding apps is much more of a pain. I run gentoo, they have a really nice emerge feature which takes any app that has been added to the public tree...and that is most of them, and compiles it right for your machine and no extra code. It also hunts down all the dependancies and compiles those too, this makes installing very simple, the down side is since it has to compile your whole system, including all the apps you want to use, the initial setup takes a LONG time, I think on my notebook it took over 24hours straight...though I spend only about 1-2 hours in front of it, the rest was downloading and compiling software of the web....
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov