who in their right mind uses a server os as a desktop?



well it is.

by a new computer. try an older version of kubuntu.

if your computer is too old i'd try Xubuntu.

i made this forever ago. sorry.

centos is mostly a server os. ubuntu is pretty much debian.

Looks like crap. osx clone. it's too noob friendly

don't use solaris.
it's crap

you can start messing around with it in a VM. Break it if you want.

Debian is very fast. If you have a fast computer, I recommend SLED 10.

SuSE is very good, but has requires high specs.

i don't think there's an easy way to do that.
the best thing would be to download the cd images from fedora's site.

I recommend debain. easy to install, and very fast. you might also want to look at slackware, a little bit trickier, but a very fast distro.

IE sucks, don't use it. firefox is so much better. there are hundreds of IRC clients for linux.

why? fedora 2? that's like choosing a model T over a ferrari.

i started this two years ago, and it's still going.

you might have to manually configure xorg, or whatever you're using. You'll have to edit the text file, but i can't remember where it's located at.

xandors sucks. they made it look like windows, which is retarded. it's ugly and sucks.

go ubuntu!

>ts illegal to run windows vista in something like virtualbox

that doesn't mean he can't do it. I recommend vmware server, it's free and works very well, very easy to configure. But you should go...

ubuntu all the way!

how good is cedgea now? the time i tried to use it, i needed some promo code which they weren't giving out, so i could never really test it out.

They're not neceseraly stuck with it. MS has thousands of people who work on just windows. And they all try to come up with solutions. Vista is a great operating system, and people should stop...

>IMO no need to be sorry, Joe. the guy is outright rude.

What do you know?

shipit is best way to go though.

>There's a difference between leet speak and just flat out not knowing the english language...

why don't you just go back to your geek's lounge threads and leave the linux forum alone.

>Um, all of those are free.

Nobody asked you.

Sturm, how is openBSD the most free?

ok, nevermind then. for some reason i thought it cost money.

>[Taken from that translator, of course]

That's the funniest thing I've seen (not really, but it's close)

Doesn't pcBSD cost money? Like netBSd and openBSD.

>'Lookout' when referring to Outlook.

never heard that one before.

I was just being sarcastic.

it sucks i dont' have an internet connection at home, but oh well.

i'm joking. sorry, should have put "operating". guess i wasn't thinking about it.

Windoze is not Windows. It's just you got lazy and wrote it differently.

>Windoze

what is that? a new operation system of some kind? a windows clone?

because i don't have an internet connection where i live right now, and i like having the latest version on CD for other installs.

yeah, shipit. i love it. use it for every new release.

you can actually order a ubuntu cd for free. no charge.

22 cd's is too much. you have asked here first if you needed all of them.

what does that even mean.

>Unlike most other distros, there are almost no configuration helpers.

For some one who has no linux experience this is not a good starting point. They should start out with something simple, like...

Well good for you. You should put in a good word for me.

how are you a moderator? you only have 345 posts and have only solved 5 threads? what the heck? i want to be a moderator.

SLAX is an excellent livecd, as well as DSL. Most distros comes with livecd's you can test before installing the system on the computer.

>You could also try Fedora. It has a whole host of security additions plus it is a zero cost branch of Red Hat.

No. Fedora is way to buggy and to packed with useless things. Use something more...

>So what's the point of replying to a post which is going to get deleted anyway? What's even the point of replying to spam? It's not like the spammer is going to read your post.

That's true, I...