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RE: Linux Capabilities
In short, in short. If I gave an accurate explanation to it no-one would would have understood :P
04-13-2005 01:15 PM
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RE: Linux Capabilities
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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.

256 is not enough .. depends what Window Manager ur usin ,, a light one Maybe but a heavyone like KDE or Gnome you need more ,
04-13-2005 01:54 PM
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wine (in short: windows emulator for Linux)
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator

Actually, it IS an emulator. The name is a joke ;-)
04-13-2005 05:31 PM
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RE: Linux Capabilities
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 ;-)
It isn't: it's a direct implementation of the Win32 API on Linux.
An emulator usually performs translations between alike functions. WINE goes one step further and implements the Win32 API as if it was part of a Unix system. This allows faster executable speed while not sacrificing compatibility.
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RE: Linux Capabilities
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256 is not enough .. depends what Window Manager ur usin ,, a light one Maybe but a heavyone like KDE or Gnome you need more ,

I'm running SuSE Linux 9.2 fine with 256MB RAM, 2.53GHz Celeron on a Dell Poweredge SC420 Server.
04-14-2005 02:46 PM
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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 :D

edit: And the screensavers are cool! :D 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 :p

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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 :D

edit: And the screensavers are cool! :D 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 :p

I have two favourites, the random geometrical 3D figures (ubergeek) and the matrix one, with fading and camera-move :gfdrin:
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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:S...Is there a way to bypass it?
I have an Asus P4S800
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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

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