i have winXP installed and want to install mandriva linux too. is it advisable? what steps should i take to install linux? (i have not installed linux before) like creating a separate partition and stuff….?

Right now our OS is windows NT 4.0 and were using the MS SQL for the database

http://www.mslinux.org/

and they will buy redhat soon. you watch.

I want to get debian OS. It’s too complicated for me. What Exactly do i have to do? If i need to make a Netinst CD then which files do i download and for which one (Alpha, amd64,…… I dont know which one) All i want to do is make linux my operating system. Please Help

I’m asking if how you browse the internet on a Linux os different than,let’s say.Windows XP?
Is your IP the same,as traceable,and/or viewable in the same sense as XP or any other well known OS?

Or am I just an uber noob asking a retarded question?Please, go into detail.

I successfully installed ydl on my ps3
but te problem is that i cant watch videos on youtube i can’t download a file sharing system i tried limewire for linux and super nintendo (rpm files) but when the install process starts it reads: "Unable to retrieve software information. This could be caused by not having a network connection available" and i do have a internet donnection available, please help and ill give you a dollar P>S i tried terrasoft solutins an different websites and all i dont understand anything

So, if I were to download and install, could I use it without any modification? Since I’m such a computer Luddite. (as in just download and install, like any other program)

Please add any warnings/advice if you have any.

Also I noticed that all new laptops that come with linux installed have a very small hard drive. why is that?

Give me the step by step procedure………..

If I do will it erase everything I have on there now? Would it be better to partition my H/D and keep window?

My processor is a Pentium 4 with HT, 512MB RAM and an 80GB IDE hard drive! I am mainly using it for typing/editing flyers and internet, but basically that’s it!

I am having HCL laptop with Realtek 8068C / 8011C (P) fast gigabit Ethernet card. I loaded Redhat enterprise linux 5.0 version. My laptop doesnt detect the ethernet card. So I need ethernet driver for Realtek 8068 card and also guide me how to load this driver since i am new to linux environment please.

when we install a rpm into a linux machine, some times it’ll ask for dependancies. so how can we make a software which is free of these dependancies??

Free and open source must be in your mind.

what I mean of entertainment is that you can play videos (specifically .avi, .ogg and .mkv), music, and well if possible PC games…

Hello there …
I was thinking about Switching to Linux (Putting in Mind that Im a Windows User )
so I saw many Names and Versions for Linux…
Like Redhat,Mandrake …. etc …

So i want to know what the differences are between the Different Linux Products ..
and Which one Should I use ??

I have 2 debian linux computers. One is a media pc server that’s hooked up to a bigscreen. The other is my laptop. I want to be able to control the server from my laptop over a network, so when i point and click it on my laptop, it will start a movie (or whatever) on the media pc. I installed VNC but it seems to only let you login as a seperate session… so im kinda stuck. Any help?
It’s not that I have a ‘morbid fear’ of the command prompt, I just don’t want to have to take the time to learn commands for something as simple as turning the volume up and down, or making a video fullscreen…

it just makes more sense for it to be graphical to me.

If they are using Linux, are they breaking the GNU license by not putting their product source code out there for people to tinker with? Microsoft may be trying to muscle in on the Linux OS so that they can take it over for themselves.

I need a program that is easy to use even to school children (not managing with command line like ImageMagick), I need it for school project scanning and publishing printed books.