I have no IT experience beside playing with Office03.
I wish I could become an administrator.
I am giving myself 1 year to accomplish this goal.
My boyfriend told me that go for UNIX?? But why??

im curious, suppose there was a person or more that one person using unix/linux instead of windows who was working for microsoft. would bill gates immediately have them sacked and hung?

I’ve heard of GTK+, Cocoa API and others, but which API do you recommend to learn to program applications for Mac, and other Unix/Linux systems like Redhat and SuSE?

My buisness just outgrew itself, and we now have way too many clients to be using just a dell poweredge server with ubuntu on it. What I want is an open-source(preferably linux/unix based) enterprise network/server operating system with client support. Does anyone know of such a thing(similar to Novell’s Netware) that is open source-like GNU/BSD/LAMP based? Because I refuse to shell out 0 out of my own pocket for Novell when there are so many other open-source projects out there. And I’m SURE one of them is an enterprise OS!!!!
Requirements: FTP, Active directory, Proxy support, client support(logging, group policy, etc.), DNS, print server utilities, and remote management/access.

What are some operating systems that are not a version or distro of Mac, Unix, Windows, Linux OS
Also excluding any os’es that reverse engineer mac, unix, windows, linux

I mean Windows is a pretty much well known O.S…and as far as embedded development or ASIC design is concerned why do companies use UNIX/LINUX system..Why don’t they use Windows…?
( I just learned that to work in ASIC or some embedded platforms I need to learn either or both OS)

When i tried opening the archive downloaded from the Unix section this message appear "Could not open "rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm"

Archive type not supported."

What can i do?

If you have ever checked out http://groklaw.net then you may know quite a bit about this case. It seems so frivilous (in the legal sense) on the part of SCO, and revelations are piling on top of each other to reinforce that impression. Microsoft is propping up SCO financially (at least through ‘license fees’). Will Microsoft face DoJ heat by the time this fiaSCO is through? Is SCO performing a FUD-puppet function for Microsoft?

Billions in damages – really?
Sorry coragryph. Your answer is bogus, give me a break. The code for SCO Unix is proprietary, and unless you’ve signed a nondisclosure agreement, you’ve not seen it to compare with Linux. Neither has anyone else in this world (who is free to comment).

I’m looking for informed input. Anyone?

I’ve observed that file sizes of installers/setups of programs for Linux and UNIX are generally larger than their ports for Microsoft Windows. Examples of these include Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, JRE, OpenOffice.org, etc.

One example can be seen here:-

http://download.openoffice.org/680/

Why is this so? Does it have something to do with the architecture of Linux/UNIX? Do smaller file sizes of Windows counterparts imply a better API or better compilers?

What year was UNIX developed? and

What date of the years is new versions of Windows released?

Hello everyboby! I have a question about computer operating system,that is: Is it necessary for a scientist to master Linux OS?

I mean physicist and astronomer, I’ve heard that physicists and astronomers usually use Linux/UNIX, not Microsoft Windows. Is it true? Lots of people say that Linux/UNIX is very difficult to use, I’ve tried Ubuntu Linux and found it’s really hard to use.
Thank you!

Does anyone out there use Linux / unix and what problems do you have communicating with people using mac/PC, crossover applications like the unix equivalent of MS Word, Excel, etc.

Does it make sense to switch to Linux / Unix for a computer dunderhead like me?

anybody knows about any open-source anti-virus for linux/unix systems???

there’s one I know, I think it’s called untangled or entangled or something???
thanks everyone, I know what to do now… =)

Even the mouse pointer is a big square with unreadable suff!Bu the way! Letters are pne over another!

Do yo think linux ubuntu is the same?? I mean i want ot try linux now! Is ubuntu open source??- if not tell me a linux wich is open-source and its link please! Does linux have same commands like Solaris and is Linux an Unix -based environment system??

I have an old pc Pentium 4 with Intel motherboard. I need a linux distro to be installed for programming purposes and also to learn more about system programming. It should be good for programming C, C++ & Unix. Should I get a debian, rpm, gentoo / slackware based? kde desktop would be preferable. Thanks in advance!

As Microsoft begins its slow migration to the integration of open-source software into it’s system, amazing things have happened. Most recently, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of code as a contribution to the linux Kernel which include 3 linux-based device drivers, all in the hopes of enabling Linux/Unix distros to be virtualized into programs such as Hyper-V for cross platform integration.

What is your opinion on this? Do you like it or not, and why?

Guys,i am new to Linux/Unix and Gnome,Can i install Gnome over win XP or it is only for Linux.I have Linux Redhat 9 running on one machine.How to install Gnome,do i have to download it from website directly on Linux machine?