OT: Linux

#1 July 24th, 2004, 12:29 PM

Uh-oh. We're just done with the obligatory Nazis thread, and now it's time for the OS religious wars. Run for your lives!

Arryn · #2 July 24th, 2004, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by Mark the Merciful:
Uh-oh. We're just done with the obligatory Nazis thread, and now it's time for the OS religious wars. Run for your lives!

Damn! I missed the Nazis thread!

Sigh.

Gandalf Parker · #3 July 24th, 2004, 04:19 PM

One of my many sig files says....

-- I guess the new social rule is that politics, religion, and operating system are not topics for polite company.

Sheap · #4 July 25th, 2004, 09:18 AM

Slackware is a little more oriented to the advanced user, but I learned on Slackware (back when it was still the #1 distribution). If you are used to working in a commandline environment then you will be OK. You don't need to know any programming to set up or use the system, but if you do have some programming ability you can do additional things that you couldn't do otherwise (but this is not specific to Slackware, it's true of all Unix).

I use Slackware myself, primarily because it is very tolerant of being altered. Many distributions get a little antsy if you start tinkering with their stuff.

As far as Linux vs. NT/XP filesystems:
Linux has its own filesystem, called ext3. (There are other filesystems around, but this is more or less the "standard" one). Windows XP uses NTFS, which is called NTFS because it was originally developed for Windows NT. Files stored in a Linux ext3 filesystem can't be accessed by Windows, and while Linux can read NTFS, it can't write to it, at least not to recent Versions. It can both read and write DOS and Windows 95/98/ME filesystems. (And there are third-party commercial programs for both Windows and Linux that allow full access to the other OS's filesystems, if you really need it).

Esben Mose Hansen · #5 July 25th, 2004, 10:52 AM

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Originally posted by Sheap:
Linux has its own filesystem, called ext3. (There are other filesystems around, but this is more or less the "standard" one).

Is ext3 standard? I'm not sure that is the case. If think SuSE use reiserfs (namesys made), and Gentoo recommends ext2, ext3 and reiserfs. The Last major filesystems in XFS (SGI made this, do not use without an UPS!) and JFS (which IBM made, and which rather sucks, I gather

)

Just in case you encounter any of the others...

Thilock_Dominus · #6 July 25th, 2004, 05:27 PM

Just wanna say I've complete the download Mandrake 10.0...next step burning

While I'm at it, I have some questions.

Seems there is alot of filesystems to linux, which one is "best"? and where do I find them? Or should I go with the one which comes with mandrake?

On my XP I'm using Nero to burn, is there something similiar or better to linux?

I like to mess around with PSP8 on XP and it would be cool with a paint program as good or better to linux?

I stumble on the web with a program called Wine, is it any good to run M$ application and other windows program with?

best regards
Thilock

[ July 25, 2004, 18:00: Message edited by: Thilock_Dominus ]

Cainehill · #7 July 25th, 2004, 06:56 PM

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Originally posted by Thilock_Dominus:
Just wanna say I've complete the download Mandrake 10.0...next step burning

While I'm at it, I have some questions.

Seems there is alot of filesystems to linux, which one is "best"? and where do I find them? Or should I go with the one which comes with mandrake?

Well, there are a lot of filesystems - some of them are possibly higher performance, some (reiser, I think) provide journaling, etc. If you're new to linux then you probably ought to just go with the default - there's books full of information about filesystems, and I doubt you want to go into them starting off.

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I stumble on the web with a program called Wine, is it any good to run M$ application and other windows program with?

The more recent Versions of Wine I've heard some people speak favorably of. Note that with Wine, you generally won't be able to run any of the newer cutting edge games, because Wine will always lag somewhat behind M$ (having to play catchup).

Since I have zero interest in running M$ apps (to the point of uninstalling IE and OE), I wouldn't know about using Wine for that - from what I understand, some apps run okay under Wine, some don't. If you also have a Windoze partition, I'd think you're better off using them from Windoze, but if you get to the point where you're in linux most of the time, I can see where it'd be worthwhile to experiment to see which apps you can Wine and dine.