I have these doubts about Linux based systems...

- What can Linux Systems do with more efficience then windows?

- What are the good and the bad points of linux?

Thanks

The answers are widely variable, depending on context. All I can say is Linux makes the most sense for business and servers, where the speed, stability and security beat Windows hands down, and Windows is better for home users as it is more user-friendly.

However, I recommend Googling for more information

Well Linux is far more customable then Windows. You can mod stuff and make stuff for it. So that's one positive over Windows.

Linux:
-Stabillity
-Security
-Free

Windows:
-User friendly
-Runs most of the software available (Linux can't run games and some ohter software)

You can find pretty much info on Google.

Ok thank you all ..i'm currently downloading Kubuntu..anyway i have 2 other questions..any driver will work with linux?and all linux software will work in any linux mod?

Linux is free to use, to copy, to distribute and to modify. This makes software developers feel engaged in improving existing software which results in much better designed/capable and more secure than most other propietary closed software.

However, Linux can run closed software perfectly. However, the fact of distributing a source code gives users the option to optimize software for the own machine making it severely faster or environmentally friendly.

It's true that many of the advanced options you may find in Windows are not accessible in Linux but by editing struggling files or typing uncomprehensible commands. but this seems to change from time to time and the competition amongst distributions is a heavy, so every group makes great steps in usability and user-friendliness every release they make.

It's a great chance to explore new horizons without being afraid of compatibility. Don't care about it, there's plenty of programs that will open your PDF's and your MSOffice docs, play your DVD's and get you connected to Messenger. Also, I must say 80% of distributions detected my hardware better than Windows (They even found my rare laptop ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 I couldn't seem to find a driver for, in Windows).

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all linux software will work in any linux mod

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No not nessacarly, most drivers will not work with Linux I believe.

I need to know about drivers ...(Kubuntu is at 38 %)...cause if my Network adapter driver won't work, i might just say i wont use it, cause, i need web lol...anyway, i can have installed with windows at the same time right?(Obviously...) lol...

Linux can happily co-exist with Windows on a dual-boot machine, though such a setup should only be attempted if you feel you can do it.
As for drivers, most common hardware have drivers available, often packaged in the distro. Just be wary about the latest hardware, and more exotic devices.

johny, Kubuntu detects your network cards at the beginning of the installation and allows you to set up the Internet configuration (using TCP/IP) but first autodetects it (using DHCP where available). If you install it on a machine that's running Windows, it will create a GRUB Boot menu that will let you choose between Kubuntu and Windows (and any other distros you may install in the future)

...anyway is it advisable to install in a partition?

No, you must have 2 special partitions for linux, so you will need to have some free space after windows partition. Once you do have, you can tell the setup to automatically part the free (unallocated) space, to have it installed properly.

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No, you must have 2 special partitions for linux, so you will need to have some free space after windows partition. Once you do have, you can tell the setup to automatically part the free (unallocated) space, to have it installed properly.

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You'll need one partition for the operating system and one for a swap drive (like virtual memory).

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and one for a swap drive (like virtual memory)

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Look, leave like 20GB of your HD unallocated (this is there is no partition un that part of the HD). Then start Kubuntu's installation and select the Unallocated part of the disk (using the manual partition setup when asked). Then choose the option to automatically set up partitions in the unallocated space. This will most likely create a 1GB swap partition and a 19GB ext3 format partition. Feel free to use less space if you need it for windows, but you will find yourself installing lots of software, so you'll maybe need at least 10GB in the "working" partition (no the swap one). However, the default installation dowsn't take more than 1GB, iirc.

Thanks KS ...dodgy firefox freezed 3 hours ago when it was at 65 %...now i'm downloading again and it's at 55%...I have to clean my HD  a lot...I have lots of crap i don't need...c ya..thank u very much really

Anytime

Actually I just noticed this was a Thread for linux capabilities and not a support thread for installation of Kubuntu

If anybode cares, please split the last part to somewhere else

I installed ubuntu on vmware, it's a very nice distro

Does anyone know of a linux that will run on 256mb of ram and an intel celeron, i tried to install fedora on it before but it used to take ages to load and then it wud crash

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Does anyone know of a linux that will run on 256mb of ram and an intel celeron, i tried to install fedora on it before but it used to take ages to load and then it wud crash

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Mankdake had drivers for all my hardware except my dialup modem, which I found nowhere else either.

Mandrake's installer auto partitioned my disk for me, thouhg if you want to do it yourself (like I did on my second installation), I recomend PowerQuest Partition Magic 8, works a charm. Hmmm . . . looking for that link I discovered that PowerQuest has been bought out by Symantec, it's now Norton PartitionMagic™ 8.0.

For those that don't know, a partition is a formatted section of a disk. A physical disk with more than one partition will appear as seperate drives in Windows, with theire own drive letter.

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I have these doubts about Linux based systems...

- What can Linux Systems do with more efficience then windows?

- What are the good and the bad points of linux?

Thanks

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Does anyone know of a linux that will run on 256mb of ram and an intel celeron, i tried to install fedora on it before but it used to take ages to load and then it wud crash

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a linux that will run on 256mb of ram

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needs 10Gig HDD

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For me .... linux has more advantages like customisability and speed but it looses out compatibility on stuff like some software and most games.
So thats a total no no for a normal home user who surfs the net, listens to songs, plays games and does some work on the pc. (Normal cause some ppl on the forum r not exactly "normal" users as they do a lot of proggying n stuff. By normal i mean simple basic stuff )
For office n all linux is good for home uses ..... windows is the best imo
So it all depends on what context do u mean it

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home user who surfs the net, listens to songs, plays games and does some work on the pc

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Linux can surf the net, it has many own Browsers and even Firefox works in Linux, You can listen to music al the way long, there's plenty of mp3 players. You can play many games, since they are started to be ported to linux, however, the people at wine (in short: windows emulator for Linux) are doing a great job to get many games to be played in Linux. Doing some work is possible. OpenOffice.org is just as good as MS Office. And better, it's free.

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I know I was refering to it as windows is more user compatible .... helpful to new users

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PC's with some Linux pre-installed.

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wine (in short: windows emulator for Linux)

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In short, in short. If I gave an accurate explanation to it no-one would would have understood

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Hello, talking about different things

Btw, 256Mb is ok for any distribution available. It shouldn't slow it down very much.

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wine (in short: windows emulator for Linux)

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WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator

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It's a bit more complex than an emulator, from what I've read, but it does the basic tasks of an emulator, that's true.

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Actually, it IS an emulator. The name is a joke

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Originally posted by Demz
256 is not enough .. depends what Window Manager ur usin ,, a light one Maybe but a heavyone like KDE or Gnome you need more ,

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Ubuntu does indeed rule. It's very user-friendly, and kicks SUSE 9.2's ass (that's my former OS). With the synaptic interface for apt-get it's easy to install a *lot* of stuff, and the "System" menu lets you setup virtually anything graphically. It looks really nice, and the desktop is very clean. Even the trash-bin is in your panel. The people at Canonical and the ubuntu community are very friendly, so that's another pro. I'm sticking with Ubuntu

edit: And the screensavers are cool! It takes a while to browse through them all and select the ones you like, but then you get real cool screensavers. You can select some, and have these used randomly. SUSE 9.2 could only do random of *all* screensavers, which basically sucked

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Ubuntu does indeed rule. It's very user-friendly, and kicks SUSE 9.2's ass (that's my former OS). With the synaptic interface for apt-get it's easy to install a *lot* of stuff, and the "System" menu lets you setup virtually anything graphically. It looks really nice, and the desktop is very clean. Even the trash-bin is in your panel. The people at Canonical and the ubuntu community are very friendly, so that's another pro. I'm sticking with Ubuntu

edit: And the screensavers are cool! It takes a while to browse through them all and select the ones you like, but then you get real cool screensavers. You can select some, and have these used randomly. SUSE 9.2 could only do random of *all* screensavers, which basically sucked

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I have a problem...to boot from the cd i downloaded i have to acess the bios to change the boot mode or smthing like that right?my bios has password and i have no idea what it is...Is there a way to bypass it?
I have an Asus P4S800

OK, could somebody tell me where to get a basic version of linux for free? i don't want fedora as its too big to download.

I mean basic like windows 95, just so i can learn about linux

www.kernel.org for the Linux kernel IIRC

anything like a free distribution?

Ofcourse he doesn't want the kernel - not stand-alone anyway

Ubuntu is really nice, but It's not windows95 like, and no small download. You need a distro that installs all packages from the net (so you can select which ones you want, and it'll download thes). Another option: Order an Ubuntu-CD. It's completely free (no ads or something): http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/.

So how's that possible? 2 words: Rich african

I have an old abandoned PC, AMD Duron 750Mhz, 128MB RAM, 18GB HDD, 8MB crappy graphics card (i.e. non).

Would that be able to run Linux?

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I have an old abandoned PC, AMD Duron 750Mhz, 128MB RAM, 18GB HDD, 8MB crappy graphics card (i.e. non).

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Yes, it will run Linux, but it won't run GNOME or KDE with all nice-super-special-cool effects turned on. You might want a light window-managerDesktop environment (like xfce). Search for a newbie distro with XFCE

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Ubuntu is really nice, but It's not windows95 like, and no small download. You need a distro that installs all packages from the net (so you can select which ones you want, and it'll download thes). Another option: Order an Ubuntu-CD. It's completely free (no ads or something): http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/.

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* spokes orders 7

7?!? What are you going to do with these?

some guy at my school ordered 30 ubuntu discs, and gave them to people. i'm probably ordering a few soon for me and a friend, plus extra.