What's The Best...

[asmithz]

What's the best linux?

[Livy]

redhats a good one, have a look at linuxiso.org

[asmithz]

Thanks but redhat is to big of a download. (4 cd's 600mb each)

[Livy]

red hat total downloafd 1.72 gig. if u use a download manager, do u have broadband

red hat is only 3cds. version 9 (shrike)

[asmithz]

Nope dont have broadband still waiting for my street to get serviced by a certain company. :(

I might get redhat. Depends on if i can find someting smaller. I have winlinux 2001 do you think its any good?

[nostalgia]

Downloaded Knoppix 3.2 and Winlinux2003.
Looks great but don't use them cause can't get my USB ADSL modem to work and must confess I'm a Linux Newbee.

[shn]

Originally posted by Shad0w Hacker@18 September 2003 - 07:30
Nope dont have broadband still waiting for my street to get serviced by a certain company. :(

I might get redhat. Depends on if i can find someting smaller. I have winlinux 2001 do you think its any good?
Today is your lucky day. I have just the distro for you.

50 megabytes of penguin power. A fully functional distrobution of linux with a gui and all. Check it out. Its called "Damn Small Linux" and it works. Its not the distro I use but Ive tried it before. Since you have a bandwitdh problem (dial up) then this might work well for you. Shouldnt take you too long to download 50 megs.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ :)

[asmithz]

Getting it right know, tho i hope i getting it right cuz all of the download mirrors came with a 404 error. Only one worked but it a directory and i never downloaded from a dir before.

[shn]

Get it from this one.

http://dsl.thegeekery.com/damnsmall-0.4.2.iso

Took me 2 and a half minutes to download the 50 meg iso on a broadband connection.

[asmithz]

I am getting this one

http://dsl.thegeekery.com/damnsmall-0.4.6.iso

Should i stop it and get the one you said?

[shn]

This is really a cool distribution. It runs diretly form the cd like knoppix. I lost my other disk so after telling you about it I decided to give it a go myslef, seeing as how it was only 50 megs. Im on it right now. It can download and install mozilla firebird and shockwave flash right automatically that way your not stuck with the crappy browser that comes with it.

If your looking to just play around with linux then you could use this. However I wouldnt recommend it as a primary distribution like red hat or freebsd. Its really not meant for that. Lets say your at a public computer and you dont have your laptop and their running crappy windows 95 or something. If you carry this disk around with you a lot then you could just pop it in the cd drive boot from it and be running linux in no time. That is of course if the group policy settings set by the admins dont restrict cd rom access. ;)

[shn]

Originally posted by Shad0w Hacker@18 September 2003 - 13:51
I am getting this one

http://dsl.thegeekery.com/damnsmall-0.4.6.iso

Should i stop it and get the one you said?
No the one you have is newer. ;)

[asmithz]

I havent used linux before and want to learn, so thats why i have been asking. (of course) Where do i go for simple commands and basicaly a simple tutorial. :P

22% done :lol:

[shn]

Since you never have used linux before then you may not be pleased with that distribution. Its a little more for advanced users. But still try it out because it will give you a feel for it. I highly recommend a more user friendly distro like red hat or mandrake or if you want to run from a cd then knoppix. I understand that downloading is a problem for you. If you really want to run linux without downloading then you could buy a boxed set and have it shipped to your house. Thats about the only way you can get linux "without" paying for it. :P

Anyway here is a list of common shell commands.

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmd.htm?PM=ss13_linux

[asmithz]

nope i dont buy anything for a computer enless its hardware. :D

Thanks for the help :beerchug:

[abu_has_the_power]

i thought that linux wasn't free

[asmithz]

Certain type are free depending on who made it.

[shn]

Besides getting a "boxed" set, all of linux is free. Its the technical support that you are charged for not the o.s. itself.

[asmithz]

When was red hat 9 free, i mean i can get it free, but i dont belieave its free.