The move to Linux-Things you need to know
It may not be quite as easy as you think...
Friday, April 15, 2005 by PurrBall | Discussion: OS Wars
Update: yum makes life easier. To install a package, for exaple, The GIMP, you would go ito terminal and type 'yum install gimp' or for Firefox, 'yum install firefox' etc. No more web searching!!
Reply #2 Friday, April 15, 2005 3:07 PM
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Reply #4 Friday, April 15, 2005 4:38 PM
Mandrake or Linspire would be a better choice. |
Personally don't like Mandrake that much, and Linspire costs money, got bad reviews from PC World etc. etc.
Reply #5 Friday, April 15, 2005 4:43 PM
Reply #6 Friday, April 15, 2005 5:34 PM
I meant that Fedora is good transition if you are a power user in Windows XP.
Reply #7 Friday, April 15, 2005 6:13 PM
For an outright noob (neither a Windows power-user nor a previous linux-user) I'd certainly recommend getting one of the LiveCD's: Boots from a CD into Linux, doesn't touch your hard-drive(s) and generally contain plenty of linux software to try out- perfect for the Linux curious individual who just wants to see what it does.
Meowy- great article! Succinct, well-designed, and informative
Reply #8 Friday, April 15, 2005 8:44 PM
Meowy.....when this thread was created you really messed with its format...I couldn't even click any response button at all.....
Don't get too 'ambitious' with the coding....there must have been an open tag somewhere...
Reply #9 Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:42 AM
Meowy.....when this thread was created you really messed with its format...I couldn't even click any response button at all..... Don't get too 'ambitious' with the coding....there must have been an open tag somewhere.. |
No complainging to me...
Go over and complain to MS Publisher. I just took the code from the web preview.
Reply #10 Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:46 AM
Do I use KDE or Gnome GUI? |
Gnome seems to be a good GUI.
Also, why I don't like Linspire is because to get some of the features you have to pay $$$. Example: I want GIMP. I go into CNR warehouse and it asks me to pay for a subscription to access these products. So, I have to pay to get GIMP. Darn. But in Fedora, I just go to 'Applications' and down to the prompt thingy and type 'yum install gimp' and then it finds GIMP and installs it without all of the hassle, or $$$.
Reply #12 Saturday, April 16, 2005 9:23 AM
No complainging to me... Go over and complain to MS Publisher. I just took the code from the web preview. |
Fine...I'll take that as an apology for having to deal with it....
Reply #13 Saturday, April 16, 2005 10:02 AM
Fine...I'll take that as an apology for having to deal with it... |
Meowy apologizes to Jafo
Sorry.
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Reply #17 Monday, April 18, 2005 7:14 AM
Moral of the story: Don't use WYSIWYG Editors unless you know how to do it all by hand anyway. That way if you get a glitch, you can find it and fix it fairly easily Oh, and never use MS Publisher
Reply #18 Monday, April 18, 2005 7:32 AM
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Reply #20 Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:02 AM
On a positive note: SuSE was the only distro I've found that came with WINE working immediately right after install. Was able to have Photoshop running under Linux in under 10 minutes. Still haven't gotten it to work under my beloved Fedora Core 3.
(BTW: Big THANKS! to whoever fixed the HTML problem, Jafo, Meowy, whomever...)
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Reply #1 Friday, April 15, 2005 7:50 AM