clay31 Posted January 3, 2004 Posted January 3, 2004 hello all im a win xp user but i dont really like the main stream so i was wondering if some one could fill me in on the difference between the two.all i really now is that thier to seperate op systems. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted January 3, 2004 Posted January 3, 2004 Linux is Opensource and is based off of Unix (some people say it isnt but it is unix like which, IMHO means the same thing)... Linux is free, there are many different tyoes avaibile today... they are called distros... Linux is slightly harder to set up but will be nicer in the future... finally, linux can play some games but not a lot... currentlly the big games that ot can play are UT2k3, and Quake3 (also Quake and Quake2 and mods). For beginers try redhat, once you learn how to do stuff in Redhat you can then move onto a slightlly harder distro. such as Slackware or Gentoo, Linux installs programs differentlly than windows... some programs come in a thing called an RPM (Redhat Package Managment) these are really easy to install but are binaries so you dont get a speed boost that you would get from compiling from source... there are also source tarballs... these are very nice as they can install on ANY platform (most can even install on Cygwin, a linux emulator for windows) finally in a few distros there are things called ebuilds... these basicall will get the source for you and all you have to do is type 1 line of code... Linux is also dangerous... as you can delete the entore system if you play around as root... finally a good place to download linux is linuxiso.org Hope that helped Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clay31 Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 thank you for the reply it was very informative. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 No problem Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 Linux is great, but changing from windows to Linux will take long to get used to, you are going to struggle... I understand when you say you want to get away from the mainstreem I totally agree. I HATE the windows setup so that leads me to search for alternatives, I have tried Linux but I have found it isn't for me, maybe if I gave it more time I would learn to like it, but I didnt... I did find something else it is called Lightstep .. you can search it up on google. forgo the link.. basicaly its another shell that you put ontop of XP.. not just changing the theme.. but the ENTIRE setup, it takes some time to get used to, but when you do learn it its great, you can download themes for it too. Its a very basic, extremly funcionable and visually pleasing alternative. I think you should give it a try. roadkill Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 but that totally deffeats the point of using linux... IMHO Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 what is IMHO? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 In My Humble Oppion Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TypicalSloan Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 Try http://www.lindows.com/ Its linux for people who dont want to struggle with the freeware versions of it, anyway they explain it better on thier site. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 which again defeates the purpose of linux Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TypicalSloan Posted January 4, 2004 Posted January 4, 2004 not really, linux is a cheap or free windows alternative, but it doesnt reach the masses cause its to hard to use, so in comes lindows and spreads the use of a dumbed down linux to the masses Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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