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Linux

Grandtheftcow

Grand Wizard of TK
I’m thinking about getting it.

I’ve got a computer I use when I’m doing work that doesn’t require the Internet. It’s a used one I took apart and rebuilt to suit my needs.

I’m using an ASUS P4S800-MX motherboard that has everything built into it with a Pentium 4 2.4 Gig processor and a little 6 gig hard drive.

Like I said I just do work on it like website design, image editing, coding, things like that so I don’t use it as a gaming rig. So I’m more interested in which software I get or can get with it.

Is it worth it for what I want?
 
For a computer that "small" or low-end, I'd say yes. Just pick a nice distro. (I can't recommend any, I've only used knoppix)
 
Well, for a gaming rig, Linux sucks, so you're on the right track.

However, for what you want, Linux rules.

I use a free distro called Ubuntu, but I don't do much of the stuff you're suggesting. For that sort of software, I recommend a solid distro like RedHat or Mandriva. A word of advice: spring for the enterprise edition...it'll save a lot of headache in downloading and dependency problems.
 
RedHat requires a subscription though doesn’t it? Since I’m such a cheap bastard I’d prefer a free download I can burn to disk.
 
What about Slackware? A lot of people around where I live went with it. Would it be just as good as the subscription stuff?
 
Slackware is Ares' territory. Contact him. I tried it once and thought it too much a pain in the ass to set up.

One thing I'm talking about is having a nearly complete system with the distribution discs. Enterprise editions of different distros tend to have it all there for you, and you avoid those bullshit dependency problems.

Just to add: SuSE is also good.
 
Seems I'll have to shop around for a while before jumping into it. Fortonatly there seems to be plenty of documentation out there. Lucky for me I can follow instructions :D
 
Go with SuSE, it's pretty friendly to people new too linux. Once you get adjusted to working with Linux, i'd try Debian/Ubuntu. It's packet manager thinger is good stuff.

Your best bet is google up some Linux community sites, they usually have a FAQ for every question your gonna have

The only problems you'll probably have in the beginning is getting used to the way Linux does it's Hierarachel (sp?) folder system, thats about a day or 2 to get used to it. And learning how to install programs and dependency stuff, which isn't bad either
 
I didn't have much problem with the folder hierarchy. Installation is fine with RPMs, tough installing from tgz's is a little harder. SuSE's YaST tool is fine for that.

My main beef with SuSE is dependencies...esecially when you're attempting to grab stuff from repositories like Packman. 9 times out of 10 I ran into problems.
 
I think I’ll be going with Mandrake. Its free, seems relatively easy to install and tries to be somewhat similar to Windows.

I won’t be switching over till around Christmas when I upgrade my harddrive, which will give me plenty of time to figure out the installation.
 
I'm down loading SuSe now. Guess what? It's a 40 hour download. 700MB. Now I can minimise and do other stuff and that shouldn't affect the quality, right?
 
Forty hours? Are you on dialup???

GTC: the installation is a snap. You'll be able to partition the HD so that you have the linux partition, the swap file, and a windows partition if you want. Mandrake installation is one of the easiest to do.
 
What would installing Linux do to a hard drive series in RAID 0 configuration? I'm thinking of going dual-boot, just to learn Linux -- expand my knowledge base and skill set a bit -- but I don't want to sacrifice performance on my system.
 
If I understand it correctly, it's where two or more drives are linked together in such a way that your computer sees and uses them as a single high-capacity drive.
 
I have no clue. My knowledge of linux extends to whatever I've needed to know.

If I had to guess, I would say the installer would simply detect the whole network of drives as one big drive since it's only interested in how much space is there, but don't hold me to that.
 
SuSE 10.0 just got released this morning, so if you guys are lookin at SuSE, they just updated it, Neon, since you're already downloading it, your fine with 9.1

Raid 0, aka disk striping, is fine in Linux, it's done through the BIOS and not the operating system, Linux has supported RAID since before windows anyway. The only thing you might need to look for is the proper set of drivers if RAID is set up through SATA harddrives. Considering most servers on the internet run linux with apache and SQL or MySQL and they're almost all in either RAID 5 or 7 (disk mirroring)
 
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