Posted in Computers & Tech / How-To's and Tutorials / OS / GNU/Linux
Author: jamesleon Total-Replies: 1



Is enough seemed to windows pruevalo.

Posted in Computers & Tech / Operating Systems / GNU/Linux
Author: marijnnn Total-Replies: 12

first of all, let's not start a distribution flamewar :-)
second: we all agree that linux is better than windows, right? hehe.
third: which distribution do you use?
right now i have debian. it offers you more options on installation, you have more freedom what to install and what not.
untill two weeks ago, i used mandrake 10.1 beta 2, and loved every minute of it. next format, i'll probably switch back :-)

four: newbies
well, let's take away the fears of newbies when talking about linux
i'm talking about mandrake linux 10.1 now, which i'd advise for 1st time users.
first of all: linux is pretty much user friendly. it looks like windows xp and acts like it too.
you have a desktop, a start menu, 'my documents', you can use your cdrom, usb stick,...

installation:
best to do it on a seperate partition. you can make a new partition with partition magic or a similar program. there's probably some freeware around that'd do the job. i'd advise to take about 3 gigabyte at least.
download the 3 cd's from a mirror nearby and burn them using nero or any program you like.
insert the cd and reboot.
press enter.
follow the install untill you reach the screen where you have to choose what you want to install and what not. tick the boxes you'd want (i suggest you install the gnome desktop! it's very user-friendly, better than kde) and then the box on the bottom
now you'll be able to pick any program you want. i suggest noatun and mplayer gui for playing music and movies besides that, most of the things are already installed
oh, right: in the internet client section: choose mozilla!!! a really good browser
then press next, and wait

you'll have to choose a root password. remember it, you'll need it for configuration stuff.
don't log in to the root account too mucht though.
what does root mean? it's a bit like administrator on a windows system, but much more powerfull. you could easily erase your entire harddisk, even linux itself!
press next, next,...

restart, you'll have a menu where you can choose which os you want to use: your good old windows or linux. go for linux, complete the installation.

some more things:
-don't worry about getting programs for linux. like office and stuff like that: most of them are pre-installed. you can open pdf files, word documents, excell and powerpoint,...
-linux does support most modems, so you'll be able to use internet without problems
-you have some kind of configuration panel:
go to settings and choose 'configure my computer'. enter the root password. there you go! just like in windows
-don't worry if you can't see your cd drive in 'my computer'. just insert a cd, it'll apear after a few seconds!
-you have programs to write cd's inlcuded, that are really easy, no command line stuff
-...

i could go on and on
the point is: don't be affraid of linux, try mandrak or fedora. they are really easy! and free! and safe!

Posted in Computers & Tech / Operating Systems / GNU/Linux
Author: dhanesh Total-Replies: 8

Ok .. my question .. would linux support my ADSL modem ? .. i have suse installed on my laptop .. but never had the guts to connect to the internet .. fearing that my system might not be safe and tweaked enuf to go on the WWW. Wouldent go full fledged unless i know my system right. I have never gone nor bothered to see if my modem would install .. but in future .. if i need .. would it be possible ? .. i own a lucent cell pipe 20A usb modem ..

Regards
Dhanesh.

Posted in Computers & Tech / What's New...?
Author: nightfox Total-Replies: 13

So the truth comes out. Actually, I was going to post this here a while back but never got the time to do so. Anywho, apparently the whole "deal" with Novell was just so Microsoft wouldn't have to sue the pants off of every SuSE Linux user world-wide. A quote from the Computer World article:

Uh, excuse me? Patent violations? It's open source and released under the GNU/GPL! What are these violations?


You know, I think Microsoft should just go ahead and sue and then we'll see how everything works out. That would be Microsoft vs. Every Linux User in the World. This is very absurd. They might as well sue the Apache Software Foundation because the Apache Web Server "serves" pages and content just like it's (terrible quality) IIS server.

Anyways, full article here: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/...39;fp;16;fpid;1

[N]F

Posted in Others / The Lobby (No post counts)
Author: Quatrux Total-Replies: 14

Reading this MarkBla Topic

Reinstalling Windows, because you need to do it quite often and it usually makes something to your Linux, that is why it is better to have two HDDs :S

[note=twitch]Seeing as though you wanted to add more [/note]

Posted in Computers & Tech / Operating Systems / Windows (All Versions)
Author: WeaponX Total-Replies: 9

I remember doing this before in the past with a DOS partition. It wasn't working properly, so the office tech told me to use fdisk and delete that DOS partition. Then recreate it. To my surprise Windows still worked after that. I always thought that fdisk would corrupt the Windows partition somehow since it was a destructive partitioning tool. So I have always used Partition Magic instead for my partitioning needs.

If I install Linux on a separate partition and decide to get rid of it later using fdisk, Windows will still be intact right?

From my understanding now, I guess fdisk only will "break" Windows if the partition is merged into the existing Windows partition

Thanks.

Posted in Computers & Tech / Operating Systems / GNU/Linux
Author: qwijibow Total-Replies: 7

Usually, i use the plain un-patched vanilla kernel, or the Gentoo patched kernel.
And they both work quite nicely.

But on my last linux compile, i chose a slightly different optimisations setting in /etc/make.conf.
and the desktop wasnt quite as responcive as it used to be, under heavy disk use, for example video editing.

so i started looking at other ways of increacing desktop responciveness, in other ways that re-comiling the whole system.

this is when i came across the Con Kolivas' kernel patch set.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/

For those who dont know, a patch is a method of changing anouther piece of software.

This patch does some amasing things that are not yet implemented n the kernel straight from kernel.org.

my favorite features...Batch (idle) schedulin

In norml linux, (and windows) each running program gets a share of the processor time, and a share can be adjusted with the priority level (nice settings).

using batch idle sheduling, a process can be made to ONLY have access to CPU time that would otherwise be IDLE.

in other words, i could be compiling somthing huge, or running a video editing porgram, transcoding DVD's, and the desktop and all toehr programs would continue to work asif the computer was sat doing nothing at all.

i could even play a game like Un-Real tournament 2004, while compiling / video encoding, and the game would still run full speed.

What kernels are you guys using ? any exotic ones with cool new features that others would like ot know about ???

Posted in Computers & Tech / Operating Systems / War Of the OS World
Author: jedipi Total-Replies: 1



Finally, Linux wins on this war

sorry, forgot to post the source
http://news.com.com/SCO+e-mail+No+smoking+...ml?tag=nefd.top

Posted in Others / Gaming / Adventure and RPG Games
Author: Giniu Total-Replies: 3

Hi...

Most of us remember this great game - Fallout, Fallout 2... kind old now, hard to run on new operating systems, native ports other than Win? Forget! But... that was yesterday

some time agot hungarian programmer Sztupy decided to create his own engine for running Fallot 1/2 and it will reach 0.5 beta preaty soon giving Linux users to run it as native app! There are also many improvements... of course this is only engine and you still need to have orginal CD, but... now you can comfortly use it:)... just look at screenshots from their site... [IanOut] what do you think? I personaly realy enjoy it, we can call this Fallout Resurection

Posted in Computers & Tech / Operating Systems / Windows (All Versions)
Author: xboxrulz Total-Replies: 27

I think that Microsoft should redesign their BSoD so that regular users can actually read what the heck is wrong with the system instead of just pumping out the debug information!

Heck, even Linux's kernel panics can be easily read than Microsoft's BSoDs.

xboxrulz

Posted in Astahost / Hosted Members Support
Author: vhortex Total-Replies: 7



it works now..

err.. i must stop pingging the server.. maybe the linux got a blue screen?
==

it may be a backbone problem since not only astahost server gamma was affected.. only that gamma was the last one restored..

=)

Posted in Computers & Tech / Operating Systems / GNU/Linux
Author: Feelay Total-Replies: 31

It took me a while to decide where to put this.. In the Linux forums or in the Games forum? But in the end I figured this might fit best here since it's Linux related.

I'm wondering. What's your favourite Linux games? I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and I'm still exploring all the possibilities. I've downloaded some games, but nothing that caught my eye.
I know that Linux isn't the "Gaming-OS", but I'd like to know if you know anything that might be fun. I'd like the graphics to be either 2D or good 3D. In other words, no "bad" 3D with a bad camera and hard controls.

I have a special request actually:
Does anyone know of a strategy game where you, for example build a city or a town or something like that. Say that you build a building or make a research. When you do that, you wont be able to do anything else for say, five minutes. I want this, because it would be fun to do something like that while coding. I know there's a lot of games like these online like Travian, Ikariam and Evony, but I'd like to play a game like this in Single Player mode locally on my PC, because no matter what I do, I always end up making friends when playing such games online, and it's always hard to stop playing when I get tired of the game because of these friends.

I'm also wondering if anyone knows of any good real time strategy game for Linux. That would be great when I have nothing to do.

Thanks!
Regards, Feelay.

Posted in Computers & Tech / How-To's and Tutorials / How to's and Tutorial Requ..
Author: XIII Total-Replies: 7


May be, i always install it, and it always has mp3 support, anyway he can just install automatix, it's the best solution for media support, also for setting up the latest versions of media players, firefox, java and flash plugins and much more, it's really so helpful tool for newbies in linux, specially a debian based distro like ubuntu and kubuntu, and as i said i've kubuntu right now installed on my machine, XMMS works well with it

Posted in Computers & Tech / What's New...?
Author: akashi Total-Replies: 19

I doubt that because it's another cloud OS. AFAIK, it's kind of online OS, means that you have a real OS (google's using linux) and a chrome browser. Your tools can be downloaded online from the internet and run inside chrome. The problem is, could we use firefox inside chrome browser and, could we also install games etc? that would be questions google should answer.

Posted in Computers & Tech / How-To's and Tutorials / OS / GNU/Linux
Author: jamesleon Total-Replies: 0

6 The various Unix-like systems on the market, some of which have a long history and may show signs of archaic practices, differ in many important respects. All commercial variants were derived from either SVR4 or 4.4BSD; all of them tend to agree on some common standards like IEEE's POSIX (Portable Operating Systems based on Unix) and X/Open's CAE (Common Applications Environment). Understanding the Linux Kernel 7 The current standards specify only an application programming interface (API) that is, a well-defined environment in which user programs should run. Therefore, the standards do not impose any restriction on internal design choices of a compliant kernel.[2] [2] As a matter of fact, several non-Unix operating systems like Windows NT are POSIX-compliant. In order to define a common user interface, Unix-like kernels often share fundamental design ideas and features. In this respect, Linux is comparable with the other Unix-like operating systems. What you read in this book and see in the Linux kernel, therefore, may help you understand the other Unix variants too. The 2.2 version of the Linux kernel aims to be compliant with the IEEE POSIX standard. This, of course, means that most existing Unix programs can be compiled and executed on a Linux system with very little effort or even without the need for patches to the source code. Moreover, Linux includes all the features of a modern Unix operating system, like virtual memory, a virtual filesystem, lightweight processes, reliable signals, SVR4 interprocess communications, support for Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) systems, and so on. By itself, the Linux kernel is not very innovative. When Linus Torvalds wrote the first kernel, he referred to some classical books on Unix internals, like Maurice Bach's The Design of the Unix Operating System (Prentice Hall, 1986). Actually, Linux still has some bias toward the Unix baseline described in Bach's book (i.e., SVR4). However, Linux doesn't stick to any particular variant. Instead, it tries to adopt good features and design choices of several different Unix kernels. Here is an assessment of how Linux competes against some well-known commercial Unix kernels: " The Linux kernel is monolithic. It is a large, complex do-it-yourself program, composed of several logically different components. In this, it is quite conventional; most commercial Unix variants are monolithic. A notable exception is Carnegie- Mellon's Mach 3.0, which follows a microkernel approach. " Traditional Unix kernels are compiled and linked statically. Most modern kernels can dynamically load and unload some portions of the kernel code (typically, device drivers), which are usually called modules. Linux's support for modules is very good, since it is able to automatically load and unload modules on demand. Among the main commercial Unix variants, only the SVR4.2 kernel has a similar feature. " Kernel threading. Some modern Unix kernels, like Solaris 2.x and SVR4.2/MP, are organized as a set of kernel threads. A kernel thread is an execution context that can be independently scheduled; it may be associated with a user program, or it may run only some kernel functions. Context switches between kernel threads are usually much less expensive than context switches between ordinary processes, since the former usually operate on a common address space. Linux uses kernel threads in a very limited way to execute a few kernel functions periodically; since Linux kernel threads cannot execute user programs, they do not represent the basic execution context abstraction. (That's the topic of the next item.) " Multithreaded application support. Most modern operating systems have some kind of support for multithreaded applications, that is, user programs that are well designed in terms of many relatively independent execution flows sharing a large portion of the application data structures. A multithreaded user application could be composed of many lightweight processes (LWP), or processes that can operate on a common Understanding the Linux Kernel address space, common physical memory pages, common opened files, and so on. Linux defines its own version of lightweight processes, which is different from the types used on other systems such as SVR4 and Solaris. While all the commercial Unix variants of LWP are based on kernel threads, Linux regards lightweight processes as the basic execution context and handles them via the nonstandard clone( ) system call. " Linux is a nonpreemptive kernel. This means that Linux cannot arbitrarily interleave execution flows while they are in privileged mode. Several sections of kernel code assume they can run and modify data structures without fear of being interrupted and having another thread alter those data structures. Usually, fully preemptive kernels are associated with special real-time operating systems. Currently, among conventional, general-purpose Unix systems, only Solaris 2.x and Mach 3.0 are fully preemptive kernels. SVR4.2/MP introduces some fixed preemption points as a method to get limited preemption capability. " Multiprocessor support. Several Unix kernel variants take advantage of multiprocessor systems. Linux 2.2 offers an evolving kind of support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), which means not only that the system can use multiple processors but also that any processor can handle any task; there is no discrimination among them. However, Linux 2.2 does not make optimal use of SMP. Several kernel activities that could be executed concurrently like filesystem handling and networking must now be executed sequentially. " Filesystem. Linux's standard filesystem lacks some advanced features, such as journaling. However, more advanced filesystems for Linux are available, although not included in the Linux source code; among them, IBM AIX's Journaling File System (JFS), and Silicon Graphics Irix's XFS filesystem. Thanks to a powerful objectoriented Virtual File System technology (inspired by Solaris and SVR4), porting a foreign filesystem to Linux is a relatively easy task. " STREAMS. Linux has no analog to the STREAMS I/O subsystem introduced in SVR4, although it is included nowadays in most Unix kernels and it has become the preferred interface for writing device drivers, terminal drivers, and network protocols. This somewhat disappointing assessment does not depict, however, the whole truth. Several features make Linux a wonderfully unique operating system. Commercial Unix kernels often introduce new features in order to gain a larger slice of the market, but these features are not necessarily useful, stable, or productive. As a matter of fact, modern Unix kernels tend to be quite bloated. By contrast, Linux doesn't suffer from the restrictions and the conditioning imposed by the market, hence it can freely evolve according to the ideas of its designers (mainly Linus Torvalds).