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Geek Culture / can someone explain linux and unix to me

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Plastico
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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 16:30 Edited at: 28th Aug 2004 16:31
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what is it? or what does it do? and where can i find it? lol
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Great Knight
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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 17:12
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Its a OS. It does what a OS is suppose to do. Works with the processor to the memory to other things in your computer. You can find it on the web or at a computer store that sells it. Since you asked those quesions I think you should buy a book on it.

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adr
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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 17:52 Edited at: 28th Aug 2004 17:53
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Yeah ... if you're asking the question "what is it" then you certainly don't want it. Like EPO says, it's an Operating System, but it's really for people who want/need it - not people looking for 10 minutes of interest.

Get a new/blank PC and install mandrake and have a play around. Probably not a good idea to install it on a windows machine that you love dearly because I'll bet you make the slightest mistake during install and bam, no more windows.

http://www.mandrake.com
http://fedora.redhat.com


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Lord Ozzum
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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 18:30
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I know this is stupid....but what does indy mean

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Its the name of a Moderator, incorrectly spelt.


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Lord Ozzum
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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 18:39
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the other meaning

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Short for independant :

Indy film maker, game publisher etc etc...


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Lord Ozzum
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ahh, thanks TCA. You are my 9th favorite mod

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if you have over 256mb of ram you can use a trial version of microsoft virtual pc 2004 (that is what i use) so you don't have to go thru a lot of trouble like trying not to format your hdd or overwriting your bootsector and all of the emulated hardware is like really rather old and all the drivers are on even win95 and linux 6-9 so you don't have to download or update drivers

also you will need some space on your hdd for storage of a "virtual"hard disk and you can configure everything on virtual pc like how much ram the virtual computer has how big the hdd is ect
i personally have installed linux 9 onto one and the only thing i can't figure out is how to configure a network to connect to the internet

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Zero Blitzt
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Posted: 29th Aug 2004 03:31 Edited at: 29th Aug 2004 03:32
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There is no such thing as "Linux 9". The kernal is only up to 2.6x. There may be distros with different versions, but Linux & 9 arent really meant to be right near eachother... yet.

Anyway, try www.linuxquestions.org, they have a lot of good help. You may want to try SuSE as a newblet, since YaST2 makes everything very easy to install and configure


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Plastico
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Posted: 29th Aug 2004 08:19
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thanks all
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Newbie Brogo
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I got Fedora Core 2. It's been faithful too me so far, and this is all on my old system with 500mhz, 96mb RAM.... I have it set up as a server too. I like the fact I can edit the files from anywhere through SSH.

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I have yet to try FC2, I need another testing computer, this one is too valueable to me to try and add any more Linuxes onto it, plus I'm a neat freak and I dont like the fact that I will have a Grub boot menu with 7-8 boot options.


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