i reccomend slackware. i learned faster on SW than i ever did on RH/Mandrake/Gentoo
i reccomend slackware. i learned faster on SW than i ever did on RH/Mandrake/Gentoo
i used mandrake 10 for 5-6 months, its good, has all the compilers you'll ever need lol for every "popular" language. but i havent used it now because i got tired of dual booting this thing.
When no one helps you out. Call google();
Just saw your replies to my length of download times. Im on a regular old comcast cable connection, around ~3.5-4mb per sec download
My personal preference is Core, but it's not friendly to new linux users.
With whatever distro you get, you can customize your GUI anyway you want:
http://home.centurytel.net/ravenz/buggy1.jpg
btw I'm viewing Dave Sinkula's code from the C Programming forum. He always does a really good job.
The great thing about Debian is the apt-get, it makes it so EASY to install new software. Like let's say one day you wanted a program like Photoshop (theGIMP):
Then once the procedures are done (downloaded/installed) you go like this:Code:apt-get install gimp
The program starts and you can enjoy the spawns of open source beauty!Code:gimp
SuSE and Fedora both support Apt-Get now too with apt4rpm.Originally Posted by Kleid-0
Additionally, Synaptic (for Gnome) and Kynaptic (KDE) make apt-get easier to use as it gives you a gui frontend to apt-get so you can look at a glance which rpm's are obsolete, have updates available, already installed, not installed etc... so you don't have to query them all manually.
gentoo also has something similar to that (its been a while since ive used it)
If you are new to linux I would recommend Ubuntu it uses the Debian Linux concept but release you from that crappy installer, also has a shorter development cycle wich means more updates. It was elected the Distro of the Year last year. It surely worth try. Slackware is also great for learning but can be painfull sometimes, I've never tried gentoo (by the way I've burnt it but had no time to install yet).
emerge <package name>
And Slackware has slapt-get now... Don't have slack, so I don't know if it is all that great. But the name is cool.
Stop being nerds and just use Windows like the rest of us!
Did I just troll?
edit: 56k lololol; and RoD, I hope "To error is human, but to get even, now thats devine." is intentionally retarded.
Last edited by BMJ; 01-28-2005 at 10:06 AM.
Gentoo guy myself. Tried Debian first, but managed to screw it up completely.
Gentoo is really fun even if you have just a little experience in Linux. But you need to be the kind of freak who enjoys messing with configuration files for hours if you want to use it without knowing a good deal about Linux first. You also need to be ready to start over completely a few times. (I believe I'm on my third installation on my Laptop.)
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
I think that would be fun
Hey, why are you looking at me funny? I think that might be the distro I get.
btw, pretty much nobody has told me what I should do right after I get Linux. Is that something I'm supposed to figure out myself? Oh well, when I get Linux I guess I'll find out.
Stupid things pop singers say
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears
"I love what you've done with the place!"
-Jessica Simpson upon meeting the Secretary of Interior during tour of the White House
Well, that depends what you want to do with that Linux. Do you want to set up a server/router? Do you want to set up a workstation?
I currently manage two Linux computers. One is my laptop, and it's a work computer, but also a multimedia station. I put Totem (a Xine-based video player), XMMS (music player) and a few minor games on it (Enigma is pretty brilliant). I installed Gnome2 as a desktop environment. I put OpenOffice and Gimp on the computer, jEdit, various other programmer's editors that I wanted to try. And I installed a LAMP system, so I could try out web stuff that I was developing.
And then I played a lot with getting the laptop-specific things to work.
On the server, I installed the Samba server, Apache, rsync, Tomcat, FTP, a mail server, ...
All the things that could do things in the background for me.
I didn't play with that system, because I need it stable.
All the buzzt!
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
I'm just looking to use it for pretty much everything I do currently on Windows like program, make images, and play a few games. You've already told me a lot that I need to know for this but I am still looking for anything useful or interesting to install.
Stupid things pop singers say
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears
"I love what you've done with the place!"
-Jessica Simpson upon meeting the Secretary of Interior during tour of the White House
