Mike Douglas Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 >_< dewy's in trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewy Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 dewy: It would have been nice had you contacted me before "publishing" my guide on your personal webspace. I am flattered that you found it to your tastes but I do not appreciate you claiming part-authorship of my work. I have noted in the below passage that you have removed Configures name and replaced it with your own email address.This was a guide I put together for neowin members to aid them in getting started with Linux. You were not involved in its creation and I would very much appreciate it if my guide remains exclusive to neowin unless permission is otherwise given. Thankyou. it was just there as a way of sumbmission and i would PM it to u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techquilla Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 i have a suggestion.., many new linux users who come in the forum will ask "help..!! i'm a linux newbie.., which distro should i install?". The Distro guide is very well written, but they would also like to know which distro is used more widely among neowin members, so they might want to choose the mostly used one, and will be able to get more feedback that way.... so i suggest to add a poll to this thread if its possible.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguana Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 A lot of people here use Gentoo, I think that is the most popular distro. RedHat follows; Slackware and Mandrake are somewhere behind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 i pimp the gentoo bandwagon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeR Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 wow this is awesome I just found out about Knoppix Linux and I am running it from my CD no installation what so ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Knoppix is cool, but PCLinuxOS is better. PCLinuxOS is a Mandrake based distro that runs off of a CD. It is very good looking and easy to configure. PCLinuxOS has a Control Center which allows you to configure most settings. It has Mozilla Firebird, Java, Flash, and nVidia drivers all by default. It also doesn't have more than one program to do one task, so it is cleaner to navigate. I use it whenever I install Gentoo so that at least I can listen to music and surf the web while everything is compiling. By the way, it uses ALSA, unlike Knoppix. It is the most advanced, yet easy to use live-cd that I have ever used. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeR Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Knoppix is cool, but PCLinuxOS is better. PCLinuxOS is a Mandrake based distro that runs off of a CD. It is very good looking and easy to configure. PCLinuxOS has a Control Center which allows you to configure most settings. It has Mozilla Firebird, Java, Flash, and nVidia drivers all by default. It also doesn't have more than one program to do one task, so it is cleaner to navigate. I use it whenever I install Gentoo so that at least I can listen to music and surf the web while everything is compiling. By the way, it uses ALSA, unlike Knoppix. It is the most advanced, yet easy to use live-cd that I have ever used. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/ I will try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted January 20, 2004 Author Share Posted January 20, 2004 Looks very promising. I have added it to the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeR Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 ok I searched and could not find a download link for it anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetman Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 which one(s) of the live distros support ntfs (even if it is an addin after boot) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 ok I searched and could not find a download link for it anywhere. Sorry...here is a better link: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p3ngu1n Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 eh... dont forget FreeBSD :DHttp://www.freebsd.org BSD is not Linux!!!!! :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted February 9, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 9, 2004 which one(s) of the live distros support ntfs (even if it is an addin after boot) Reading AND writing to NTFS? Don't go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted February 9, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 9, 2004 Linux Live Systems (Knoppix, Gentoo LiveCD)http://www.knoppix.net , http://www.gentoo.org This kind of distro will completely run from CD, so you don't need to install it and maybe waste your partitions or something. It's a great way to see linux running on your system. There are many different distros, each with different goals. If you just want to "see linux in action", i'd suggest you go for a full-featured distro like Knoppix. Many people also use these distros for recovering data from PCs or repairing their Linux/Windows installation. The key point that is missing here is that Knoppix is based on Debian. That's its number one strength. Once you install Knoppix on the HD (with the provided install script) then you essentially have Debian. Another interesting Debian-based Live CD system is Morphix but v0.5 is still pending. The advantage here is that you get download ISO's preconfigured for GNOME 2.4 (HeavyGUI), KDE 3.1, XFCE4 (LightGUI) or gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewy Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 which one(s) of the live distros support ntfs (even if it is an addin after boot) dunno 'bout rite but this is the BEST LiveCD around (Built on Slackware and only 180MB) - http://slax.linux-live.org/ - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_scientist Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 i have an old win95 laptop, Pentuim 1 , 133 mhz, 32 MB of ram , it runs fine with win 95 .. its my mobile word processor .. to cheap to buy a new laptop .. i was wondering if there is a linux disrto lite enuf to run on it bu still as engouh features to use as a word processor/web surfer/msn/neowin poster/downloader anybody can help me?? [edit] damn i cant type tired [/edit] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 25, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 25, 2004 i have an old win95 laptop, Pentuim 1 , 133 mhz, 32 MB of ram , it runs fine with win 95 .. its my mobile word processor .. to cheap to buy a new laptop .. i was wondering if there is a linux distro lite enuf to run on it bu still as engouh features to use as a word processor/web surfer/msn/neowin poster/downloaderanybody can help me?? Sounds a bit stingy on RAM to go with a full-blown Desktop Environment such as Gnome or KDE. You could go something like TWM for a Window Manager on it and be OK, I think. Or maybe iceWM. Perhaps someone else will have suggestions for preferred Window Managers. Any distro will work on it, you just need to pick what to install, and what will consume too much resources. For example, don't install OpenOffice on this machine. Use something like kedit for basic word processing. Firefox should be runnable, but there are probably lighter-weight browsers if it is too slow on that PC. Give it a try and see what is acceptable to you and what is not. Not sure if you might want to consider an older version of Linux. I would recommend against it, but again, it is ultimately your choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 i have an old win95 laptop, Pentuim 1 , 133 mhz, 32 MB of ram , it runs fine with win 95 .. its my mobile word processor .. to cheap to buy a new laptop .. i was wondering if there is a linux disrto lite enuf to run on it bu still as engouh features to use as a word processor/web surfer/msn/neowin poster/downloaderanybody can help me?? You might want to consider Damn Small Linux. It is very lightweight, running Kdrive as an X server, Fluxbox as a window manager, and various lightweight apps like Dillo for browsing the web. It has a word processor and media players. It'll fit on a business card sized CD. It has Naim for the AIM and IRC networks, but it doesn't support MSN out of the box. Check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_scientist Posted March 5, 2004 Share Posted March 5, 2004 well thanks ppl .. i like damnsmall ( downloaded it) am gonna try some other distros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderDX Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 SuSE 9.1 will be the best. Kernel 2.6.3 (or whatever the latest is at release) KDE 3.2 reiser4? hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 7, 2004 SuSE 9.1 will be the best.Kernel 2.6.3 (or whatever the latest is at release) KDE 3.2 reiser4? hopefully. :o I think you may have not seen the poster's hardware specs: i have an old win95 laptop,Pentuim 1 , 133 mhz, 32 MB of ram Me thinks that KDE would CRUSH the poor PC :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 yeah it would. I run fluxbox and it usually uses 68 megs of ram....more than twice that guys. And that is with a lightweight windowmanage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderDX Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 Ohhhh I wasn't replying to him. It was just a random "Suse owns" thing. For his old system i would say its good enough to run Enlightenment :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_scientist Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 haha i know most of everything would crush my laptop .. i just want something with a bit more support than what win 95 has :) Me thinks that KDE would CRUSH the poor PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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