There are many providers which offer free shell accounts with a limited amount of disk space. A query of "free shell account" on any search engine should turn up what you're looking for.

Something like http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/ will offer you a limited number of commands/software. If you want to learn actual Unix though, at the very least download the PuTTY client and get a shell...

How about running VMWare server on Linux -- it's free, and it's significantly more powerful than VMWare Player:
http://pubs.vmware.com/server1/admin/install_server.3.13.html

Plus, it's designed...

Use the -R flag for chmod to make the permissions recursive.

I don't know of any distros offhand that autostart sshd and have a default username and password, but it should be fairly simple to make your own. The FreeBSD docs...

>Can you just tell me what kind of technical term am i supposed to search for a c library????
Try installing glibc.

>Have you ran a sudo apt-get update?
Neither Fedora nor OpenSUSE use dpkg as their package manager...

>Well it cant run office
Which part of Office 2007 are you referring to? Word (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12811)? Excell...

Yeah, only a few insignificant programs like WoW (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14154), Photoshop CS3...

>can I still use the same patch?
Nope. The mempat binary is compiled for x86-64, and oddly enough, I can't find the source for it anywhere.

They are the same, they just use different compression formats. The tarball from mail-archive.com uses a bzip2 compression, the one attached in ubuntu-forums has a gzip compression, and the archive I...

Okay, I did some research on this, and turns out that this is kind of an Acer hardware bug, in which the fan speed is not controlled by the BIOS, but by the software that's supposed to be keeping...

I'd suspect your fan control settings would be in /sys/devices/platform/acer_acpi.

Make sure that your kernel has the necessary modules to detect and control your fan speeds. When I'm running Linux on my MacBook, my fan settings appear in the virtual filesystem /sys:

localhost:~...

>How do I install Fedora OS in a VMware virtual machine?
Same way you would install Fedora on a regular machine. After you've set up the virtual machine so that its optical drive points to the...

First of all, test that it's not the disc by inserting it into your working computer. If it boots fine, then the CD works and you've got a hardware issue. If not, chances are that the CD is defective...

i386 was the first x86 32 bit processor. What this means is that it'll run on practically any x86 CPU made within the last 22 years, but seeing that the architecture was designed so long ago, it's...

Heh, sorry about that. Looks like Call Of Duty 4 works too, though:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10429

I'd still recommend keeping Vista in case for some reason...

Well, these testers seem to be having good results running Call Of Duty under Wine:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=3603

If you've installed Windows on a partition that takes up your entire hard disk (typical Windows installation), you're going to have to shrink it first. If you download the Fedora Live CD, I'm pretty...

Ah, yes. If you need advice on choosing one, I'd suggest searching the forum (or even the internet), as there's tons of discussions on this topic.

>So i was thinking about dual booting windows xp and linux but would this make a differnce in
>speed or should i just keep vista?

Dual booting doesn't affect the speed of a computer, only its...

Okay, I don't know if you're trying to install Linux alongside Windows (so you can dual-boot), or whether you've completely erased Windows and are trying to create a purely Linux-based system.

In...

No. Just follow the instructions in the link.

You want to make sure that you don't simply burn the .iso as a file to the disk. Use Nero's "Burn Image" feature to make sure that the iso is correctly extracted onto the disk.
...

>I can't afford to face no soundcard support, USB support,
USB should work out of the box, and getting a soundcard working in Linux should, at most, require installing a driver and/or recompiling...

But there is a difference between writing in an unfamiliar language and being just plain lazy. When words like 'u' and 'ppl' are used, no attempt at grammar (simply being one long run-on sentence) it...

>How come FreeBSD can run linux apps natively
The FreeBSD kernel has a Linux-compatibiliy layer which allows it to run Linux applications at native speeds (similar to Wine, except with almost...

>Even though Mac is UNIX, most Linux and BSD software does require a seperate Mac port.
Why? It's a Unix system, POSIX-compliant, has the X window system, and it can compile the same software that...

Since you don't seem to be understanding the point I'm trying to get at, let me try another way. Mac OS X is officially certified as Unix. Since it's Unix, it can run Unix software. Now do you get...

>he means software written for OS X, retard, can't you read?
Okay. Assuming I really am a retard, please point out where jbennet said that there is more software written for Linux than OS X.

I think you're confusing commercial and open source software development. Your argument for reaching the most consumers is only valid for commercial development, as the goal is usually money. Open...

>Are there some distros that you could name that are faster?
Probably some of the fastest distros out there include Gentoo, Arch and Slackware. Of those, Gentoo is by far the hardest to install (but...

Something sounds funny, because while I wouldn't rank the distros you mentioned as very fast, they should definitely run at acceptable speeds on a machine like yours. To start with, I'd try...

I tend to recommend InfraRecorder (http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/) for ISO burning software, seeing that it's completely free and open source. However, it's a moot point considering that this...

Open a virtual terminal by hitting Control-Alt-F2. What is the output of the ifconfig command, and if you're using wireless, the iwconfig command? You can test the connection with ping:
ping...

Don't worry. There's no way it could accidentally wipe something out, because everything is virtual and completely isolated from your real system. If you were to look on your hard drive, the virtual...

I'm positive that Virtual PC supports Linux.


Sounds like you're trying to boot from the wrong image. Double-check that your virtual CD drive is set to the Debian CD and that the virtual machine...

>My SATA showed up as sda back when I had Linux on it...
Are you referring to Linux devices, or GRUB's naming conventions? For example, I found this:...

>my server has SCSI disks and they are called SDx
I forgot about SCSI. But IDE and SATA both use hdx.

Oh, and I'm glad that the Ubuntu install went OK. Installing wireless drivers aren't too...