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wow guys just go linux on me box
wat a beaut, the interface is amazing, installation was a breeze
networking was a pie nice and easy
i'd really recommend it as a windoze alternatives

don't worry i wont be making window bashing threads like someone else we know
but this is beautiful
btw its Linux Suse

Now give us a screenshot

And if it's the first time you've got it up and running, give it some time before making any sweeping statements about giving up on windows

And don't go online - or even work - logged-in as root. Create a user-account and stay logged-in as a user - su to root when you need to, then su back to the user-account when you're done.

I'm probably telling you stuff you already know anyway...

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nice skunkymunky, i myself installed SuSe this week but then I got my RedHat 9 CD's (still need 2 install it) and that beats (according 2 me) SuSe in my categories namely developement and "widespread destruction" by way of ping @ LAN including 12 year old brats

LOL

seriously though, i agree with you, SuSe was a breeze 2 install configure and use, i say use cause i used it for about 7 months on a earlier occasion as a windows replacement, not that i can do anything mildly powerful with linux, i'm still a newbie @ it.

I'm using SuSe on my spare home machine - it's pretty nifty.

Redhat 9.0/9.1 are also cool, but you'll need to add a lot of multimedia support if you want to play divx movies/mp3 files etc.

You can get all the "missing" stuff for Redhat from http://freshrpms.net/

I think I prefer SuSe to Redhat, however, it feels faster.
As for Mandrake - I think they've lost the plot. The last 3 versions have been dissapointing in terms of bugs (in the installer), hardware issues (network cards) and ugliness

thanx for that link bb_matt i'll go take a look

The only problem about installing those extra Redhat packages is the quagmire of dependencies.

I ended up just downloading the entire set of rpms from a mirror (I think internet solutions or saix mirror freshrpms ?)

Installing something like Xine with full codec support took me 30 minutes the first time I did it, because of all the failed dependencies.

That's one thing Linux really needs to sort out for the most part.

Apt Get is one solution I guess.

I was just wonderinig what are the main differences between Suse and Redhat? I've used Redhat 6.2 before but it couldn't detect my modem so I couldn't do much with it.

Does anyone know where I can get a copy or SuSe of Redhat from? I know you used to be able to download it from lots of sites but I'm having trouble finding one now.

i dont know abt redhat and i dont know abt the differences cos i'm just a linux noob

but suse u can get here www.suse.com/us

Thanks

I actually did look there but couldn't find anywhere to download it.
I did find www.linuxiso.org though where you can download all
the different distributions of linux.

Im busy getting SuSe 8.2 now, thats the newest version they've got as ISO.