well then, you have to take your chances with the not so well tested software.

There are bugs everywhere, where there is software actively developed :) if you want an OS with a small amount of bugs on your desktop, stick to RHEL Desktop edition. No bleeding edge software, but...

worked for me every time I ran it - on lg, hp, dell, lenovo laptops, different desktops and quite a few VMs...

what am I doing wrong? ;)

...and better enterprise grade hardware support makes it better for companies

MS isn't much of an example where OSS comes in


they are also using qmail, which is deprecated everywhere.


it used to be before kernel 2.6 for linux came along. but Linux is nowadays much...

ever considered why freebsd is not widespread in corporate server setups?

Who said you can't get RHEL for free? support and RHN cost money, Linux is free

RHEL5.4 of course.

Fedora for me. the speed of response to BZs is the best I've seen, and everything works out of the box, without trying to be like windows (like ubuntu/pclos/opensuse do)

the core is based on debian unstable/testing.


buggy how? I've been using it instead of ubuntu for quite some time now, and yes, there are bugs, but they are being fixed very quickly....

not even close

Loads of books out there, but for a complete beginner, I'd go with either Fedora 11 or Ubuntu 9, and pick the "Perfect Desktop" tutorial from howtoforge.com

Linux on VPC is not supported. Get a proper virtualization software like vmware server/workstation or virtualbox.

an even better solution would be (if you have VT hardware) would be to urn linux...

why post then?

go with kvm instead of vmware - totally free, opensource and has some tasty features, especially for unattended servers

check the manual for smb.conf for directory and file masking

create mode =
directory mask =

why don't you do the same in bash/perl/python ?

do you have permission to run that file? also, since its a php script, it should be run from the apache+php, not straight as a command line

RHEL and derivatives can provide VNC, I've done that a few times - easy stuff

btw, if you have a ILO or a DRAC, you can use those

well, I certainly get better performance out of my laptop running on an Intel VGA 945 card, with full compiz functionality and other pretty whatnots, than having run vista with aero on the same...

you cah have quite a few administration tools in RHEL/CentOS, and entire GUI for everything in SLES, almost everything in Debian/Ubuntu... all for free, no need to do anything too complicated

I have installed the gnome there, the amount of available applets is extremely poor

have you used powershell or WMI? the scripts are much longer and extremely complex. nothing easy or convenient about them, especially if you're used to bash or (just to keep things in proportion)...

examples please? windows server systems are in most cases much slower than *nix based systems, used for the same tasks on the same hardware.
even windows native smb/cifs is outperformed by properly...

debian netinstall

or DSL

either way, none of them is a newbie OS to install. try following one of the appropriate guides on howtoforge.com

no powershell in core is due to the impossibility of installing .net framework.

transfer rates are not faster, profile sync algorithm is improved to transfer less. these are different things.
...

1. hyperV is very far from Xen
2. scriptable powershell is only available on the full version, none on the core version
3. transfer speeds are the same as before, the bottleneck is as usual -...

as a free server I'd recommend Debian. Especially if this is going to be a node in a cluster or an MTA server.

who said linux cannot be point-and-click?

http://howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts

by using google

are you sure you need a domain? the closest you can get to AD functionality with linux would be by using OpenLDAP, but it is not a trivial task to set it up.

anyhow, ftp, http, print, nfs, smb...

should work on any *buntu

btw, no need to reinstall - just remove the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, and install the xubuntu-desktop

install vmware-server (free) on the XP system, inside the vmware create a VM and install as many other OS's as you need

you do not uninstall an OS, you simply install another, formatting the disk in the process

test with another CD
also, older laptops cannot boot from an external USB drives. if that's the case, you will need to use PXE boot, ifi available, and set up a server to install from

you can try doing that through a network share.

virtualbox is so much better and easier for this

I don't think that currently there is a way to run COD4 on linux
I might be wrong though

1.5? who plays that? :)
that's ancient

COD doesn't work under cedega or wine. sorry mate

yes it does. just switch the encoding to UTF8 in Putty