Ok, so I have an extra drive, and want to put linux on it, but not sure with the Linux world today... I have used Mandrake, SUSE, FreeBSD, Fedora Code 4, RedHat, (K)Ubuntu, Knoppix, Lindows (renamed as something else, cant remember), and probably more. but what I hated about all of them, is how hard it is to install anything. Fedora got me the farthest, at least... Xelink, I think you know alot, tell me..
try fedora core 5. core 4 got you the furthest, maybe 5 would be better. plus you can give us a heads-up review of it if you use it.
yeah, I was thinking that, the download would kill me though... downloading at a max of 40kb/s is mega slow. might try a bt..
Me too ^_^ They only reason why installing software is hard for you is because your're used to the Winblows way. In Ubuntu, all you need to do is use the Synaptic Package Manager. It does everything for you, including installing the necessary dependencies.
form what I know, you know know more fo linux than I, and I won't BS otherwise... I've tries Ubuntu with a U and Fedora Core 3... what I can say is that if you know absolutely nothing about linux or next o, ubuntu is probably right for you(automatix is nice) while on the other end an advanced user might like the sheer power of gentoo which is suposed to be about the most powerful distro out there. I've also heard good things about Xandros... but that costs$$$
I do know linux pretty well.. no offense to anyone, but Ubuntu is a bit childish to me... and Gentoo is a monster... I like KDE better than Gnome, but that's me.. I know Ubuntu has a KDE version, called Kubuntu. I'm downloading Fedora Code 5 atm, only 20 hours left...
Ubuntu and kbuntu or something like that are the easiest to learn and are also free, if you don't want to mess with your hard drive i belive you can get it on a CD download it and put it on a CD and run it from there. But yeah the above i am told are the easiest you still need to do a lot to get it to work like windows and a lot of programs like photoshop won't work.
I'm not really learning anything, check my first post. I have loaded several different distros. a live cd? yes, I have Knoppix on one to use to do recovering of data if windows ever goes down. Saved my a ss once.. oh, when there is a will, there is a way.... Ive seen people use photoshop on linux, using wine or other means..
yep. I have v7, somewhere in my 300-cd booklet... Wine can work in any distro, I believe, no matter what distro.
for a beginer i'd reccomend fedora core, when i first started using linux, it was the only one i could get installed. also, if you plan on duel booting, make sure you back up your windowz partition before trying to install linux. (i learned that the hard way)
so did I, Sidewinder. I'm having this on a seperate hard drive. I'm gonna boot it with the bios (Press F11 to go to boot menu)
