Linux Os?.?
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at
06:50
Ok well I’m building a system and I don’t really have the money for an os. I heard Linux was free. My question is is it really free and is it any good?
Hmmm….games are important to me. Any way to get free windows?
Thanks, I got xp pro for free
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yes Linux is free.
refer this link
http://www.linux.org/
Linux is free, and most distributions of Linux (which bundle it up with useful software) are also free (there are exceptions, such as Red Hat). Ubuntu is a generally good choice, http://ubuntu.com/
And yes, it is good.
If you’re using a wireless card, you may have problems getting the driver to work. Other than that, most big Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuse, and more) should support everything in your computer.
As for software, the only thing that’s lacking is games. You could use Wine to run Windows programs on Linux, but Wine has a lot of shortcomings.
If you don’t play games, you’ll be satisfied with Linux. You’ll be able to control your computer in many many more ways than you could with Windows. It’s really a lot of fun and there’s always support from online communities if you have any trouble. Every problem I’ve ever had (except my Laptop’s wireless) has been solved after a few google searches.
A few fancy Linux things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMFSFmfTSMA&hl=en
Couldn’t find a good Cinelerra video =\
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Psh, games. Waste of time!
Um…
thepiratebay.org + uTorrent
Oh gosh. If you have a little technical knowledge and a CD-Burner attached to a system with at least 700 MB free disk space (and obviously preferably more), yes.
As to whether it is any good, if you are a Unix GEEK it is awesome. Okay, some Unix geeks don’t like it, but they have a tendency to get over it and most of the younger ones came to Unix through Linux.
A serious discussion can get long, but, one thing you have to get used to is Security. UNIX is a modular operating system (which is why you will hear about the Linux kernel — essentially Torvalds wrote the core of the operating system to run UNIX programs like X windows on PCs) and it runs most applications and programs in user space rather than administrative or kernel space where Windows encourages you to run it. Now the advantage from Windows point of view is that some things can only be done in administrative space (such as updating programs). The disadvantage can be summed up by the phrase "If you surf the ‘Net as root you may as well be running Windoze". Root is the administrator’s account. Even today you generally have to access it more often than with Windows, either directly or through the programs su (Supervising User) sudo and gksudo. And you have to use the terminal a lot (something a lot of us older folks don’t see as a disadvantage.
An advantage which might not be apparent to most people will surprise you. Firefox emerged, in essence, out of the ashes of Netscape, which ran on UNIX/X-Windows (and therefore Linux before it ran on Windows. ID Software’s Doom, Quake (through Quake 3 Arena) and Wolfenstein were all written on networked UNIX/Linux computers. While there are some tasks you can only accomplish on Windows, others are better accomplished on the other side.
I generally don’t advocate jumping to Linux just because you hate windows or can’t afford it. It is still a better Development environment, for one thing. And you can surf the net and do most office tasks with less sophisticated hardware and greater efficiency. Heck it had a 3-D desktop five years before Aero came out (if you wanted one) and you can pick up a computer which runs it for about $500-800 compared to the hardware requirements of an Aero box.
Ubuntu is a common distro, the company will mail you a CD anywhere in the world, for free, and it focuses on creating a simple experience for unsophisticated users, rather than on cloning the Windows desktop, which was the focus of distros for newbies before. Check out:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
Fedora is, in essence, a venerable distro which is still trying to stay new and which has always had some appeal for n00bies. It requires more hardware than Ubuntu, but less than XP, generally. Check it out too:
http://fedoraproject.org/
Maybe you’ll like them, maybe you won’t. In any case, good luck with your system.