Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 21st, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 3,441 http://www.squid-cache.org/
Google search for the thousands of HOWTOs available on the Net. |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 7th, 2006 |
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Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 3rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 28,178 cat /etc/fstab
will show the list of partitions/slices that are mountable on the system, along with their filesystem.
Example (from a FreeBSD system):
cat /etc/fstab
# Device ... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 26 Views: 11,023 You can install Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD across the Net using 2 floppies. Don't know about any other distros - I've only done it using those I mentioned, and it keeps the CD... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 5,444 ?!
I burn between 10 and 40 CDs per week on either a 48x or a 52x drive (including Linux & UNIX ISOs) and have never heard of "anything faster than 24x will cause problems." Most of the burning... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Dec 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 22 Views: 9,170 They don't offer Linux as an operating system on their desktops or laptops anymore because there wasn't much of a demand when they did offer it. Now they offer machines with no operating system... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 3rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 6,996 If you want to learn UNIX, why not learn it on UNIX, such as FreeBSD? (There's also a free Solaris download for x86 available from Sun.) MOST of the commands in Linux are the same in UNIX, but there... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 28th, 2004 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 7,178 xlulux: Do your homework, Bub. There *are* some flavors of UNIX that are free (see my last post in this thread) and widely used.
As far as hardware support, NetBSD runs on pretty much... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 28th, 2004 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 7,178 OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD are all UNIX, Open-Source, and FREE. (The Open Group actually owns the "UNIX" trademark, but HP-UX, Solaris, et al are all unices for the sake of argument...)
... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 19th, 2004 |
| Replies: 25 Views: 5,807 FreeBSD.
'nuff said.
:)
Well, OK. Slackware and FreeBSD. |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro May 19th, 2004 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 9,551 Comparing RedHat to Gentoo is like comparing Mandrake to FreeBSD. They both use different packaging methods, different libraries, and have an altogether different directory structure (in some... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Apr 29th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 28,178 Sorry I've been away for awhile - work followed by a sunny vacation in Florida, doncha know...
I'll be posting a bunch of stuff next week after I get caught up at the office. Some howto's,... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 23rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 5,073 /usr/doc/
/usr/share/doc/
/usr/local/doc/
man
info
apropos
Who needs 'net for docs? :) |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 4th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 28,178 A few minor corrections:
ln sourceName destDirectory create symbolic link to a file
Should be:
ln -s source destination (the -s switch denotes a symbolic link)
sh the standard... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Mar 3rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 9,228 Not too bad, but here's some you left out:
http://www.sans.org/ (Computer Security Education and Information Security Training)
http://www.gocsi.com/ (Computer Security Institute)
... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 18th, 2004 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 9,228 This forum isn't meant for arguments, so I won't post any comments about that, except that any network that doesn't have some kind of firewall or antivirus protection deserves to get owned/infected. |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 17th, 2004 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 9,228 More advanced does not always mean more stable, just like easy doesn't always mean unstable.
More advanced does NOT mean more user-friendly. Try Slackware to see what I mean.
Also, keep in... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 17th, 2004 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 9,228 I disagree. It's not a myth at all, but a reality. Those distributions were designed with "easy" in mind, regarding installing and upgrading packages. Show me a first-time Linux user who knows... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Feb 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 10,270 Don't forget about gnoppix, which is basically Knoppix with a Gnome wm, as opposed to KDE.
http://www.gnoppix.org
There's also LindowsCD, which is the same thing as Knoppix & Gnoppix - a... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jan 21st, 2004 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 3,273 I'll be there tomorrow and Friday. Would've been there today, but I had a client who had "issues." |