Best Linux variant for a n00b
MarkIsaN00B
I am not completely lost with computers. What is the best Linux
variant for a home system, and where is a safe place to download it
from?
Conrad Lawes
The Youtube video below should prove useful to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhnLk3gviWY
Mint Linux, which is also a derivative of Ubuntu, is also cool and easy to use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ShbhYytrQ0
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Alex Xavier
and all your queries are answered in 5 minutes in the forums..
Conrad Lawes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8a-smrPlvE&NR=1
Regards,
Conrad Lawes
Shaun Marolf
derivative which uses the KDE desktop instead of the Gnome desktop.
Google both to see which of the two you prefer. Keep in mind that both
can be modified easily enough to get the look and feel you want.
Roy
Canonical will ship you a free disk of either Ubuntu or Kubuntu or you can download either from Distrowatch.org. Most distributions today use a Live CD or DVD meaning that you can run the OS from the CD for a test drive. K/Ubuntu can also be installed from inside Windows using WUBI (the Windows Ubuntu Installer).
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MarkIsaN00B
about halfway through installation. It isn't Ubuntu's fault though; It
was tried on a really hacked together system(SCSI harddrive as 0 in a
PCI slot in older SATA machine, couldn't see it). I am replacing the
hard drives tomorrow, and I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the info.
The information on just Youtube is pretty extensive for training, but
it mostly focuses on tricking Ubuntu out. Are their any nuts and bolts
training suggestions?
On Dec 12, 7:59 pm, Abhudaya Sagar <connect...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I will also go with ubuntu.
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> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Roy <linuxcan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree with Ubuntu, but would suggest that you look at the KDE variant,
> > Kubuntu. Ubuntu uses GNOME and it looks rather dated. It looks more like
> > Windows 95 than Windows 7 while KDE 4 looks as good or better than Windows
> > 7. Both take the same space and perform about the same. You can run GNOME
> > applications in KDE and vice versa. They are just different graphical user
> > interfaces or desktop environments laid on the same framework.
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> > Canonical will ship you a free disk of either Ubuntu or Kubuntu or you can
> > download either from Distrowatch.org. Most distributions today use a Live CD
> > or DVD meaning that you can run the OS from the CD for a test drive.
> > K/Ubuntu can also be installed from inside Windows using WUBI (the Windows
> > Ubuntu Installer).
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notebook and am VERY happy. I only wish I had switched sooner. It
has performed beautifully. The first thing I noticed was that it was
not running my hard drive like a whipped horse like WinXP was used to
doing. Once you are up and running I would suggest you bone up on
bash commands. If you did much with DOS you will see what DOS was
supposed to be but MS just couldn't pull it off. My humble opinion.
Velocity
Scott Vargovich
I will also suggest Ubuntu you can check www.distrowatch.com
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Shaun Marolf
> Let me also throw a suggestion into the pile - Linux Mint -
> http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php . It's based on Ubuntu, but has
> a lot of the codecs and firefox plugins that Ubuntu doesn't have by
> default.
issue with Mint in General concerning them blacklisting a couple of
Admin tools I like using stating security issues in their use. However,
for the desktop user it shouldn't be an issue. Its a good rock solid
media ready distro.
tuxsun1
The UNIX console was around long before Microsoft even existed. DOS
"borrowed" all its ideas from UNIX and ended up with a subset of the
commands and functionality available in the various UNIX shells.
Microsoft did with computers what MCI did with telephone technology;
repackage and remarket it... and try to add some frills and features to
make it more user-friendly, but the underlying technology was created by
others. The current Windows was born from a collaboration with IBM,
where MS got all the knowledge they needed, they sent their business
partner packing. MS did the same thing with Sybase.
Thank goodness for AT&T's Bell Laboratories, DARPA, and XEROX's Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC). Those were the *REAL INNOVATORS*, not Bill
Gates. Solely my opinion, of course. Others may agree or disagree, but
if it weren't for Linus Torvalds and Linux, I doubt MicroSoft (original
spelling of the company name--an abbreviation for microcomputer
software) would even be talking about open source software today.
My $0.02.
Welcome to the FREE thinking and FREE knowledge sharing of Linux and the
foundation the INTERNET was originally constructed on! The cost of
FREEDOM here is lost profits for some, but the gains far outweigh any
short-sighted business motivation.
Now you've had my $0.04 worth. LOL
spokeman
Kubuntu difference is a distraction. Later, maybe in a year, when you
know your way around a bit, you might want to try the KDE variant.
I will make another suggestion tho - openSuse. I've been distro-
hopping all over the place over the last year to find MY answers to
your question. OpenSuSE and Ubuntu have done the best by me, in "just
working". I've used some mighty fine distros along the way, and some
not so great. These two did the best on a couple of different hardware
setups, and are the easiest to use after installation. Ubuntu has
great forum activity, and lots of ppl making youtube how-to's.
OpenSuSE has less forum activity, but has GREAT documentation - and
the forums will help you find that documentation.
As to Mint, for some reason (unknown) it is running s-l-o-w-l-y on the
machine I installed it on. Since the typical reasons don't apply, I'm
moving that machine to a different distro. Good concept, but by
default, it is always behind Ubuntu, and Linux distros have been
moving light-years in the last 2-3 years. So, a little behind is the
same as a LOT behind. Getting codecs, Flash, and Java to work in
Ubuntu isn't hard, and has been well covered with how-to's.
I will also add this: toss a coin if you need to, but once you've got
a distro that will install, stick with it. The distros vary quite a
bit in how they make things run, and the differences are in the little
knowledges that you are going to have to learn about - one of the
steep parts of the learning curve. This is things like: "What files
are my startup files?" "Where do my program files go?" "How do I
uninstall something?" "How do I install this funky other program that
I absolutely HAVE to have, but which isn't in the repository?" These
are little pieces of knowledge that we take for granted in the Windows
world, but which can really spoil your day when you are looking for
the answer. Once you've been around for a year or so, and you know
what "ps -A" (and much else) does, then go distro hopping if you like.
That's my advice.