I assume you are reffering to my screen shot? if so, no, it is RedHat 7.3, Valhalla, I am quite fond of it, seeing as how it lets me play all my games, and listen to all my music and whatnot, UNLIKE RH 8.0, and for everyone, windows and linux users alike, I now fully recommend Opera as the web browser of choice, it is just so nice, with its mouse gestures and what not, almost like the spell system in B&W, but simpler, and more useful

 

I ALWAYS use Opera. The only time I do not use opera is when I play on pogo.com because opera appears to hate Java Scripts. Then I use Mozilla.



Yeah. You're looks like one of the GIMP features in Debian. Ah, I like RH... I wouldn't recommand RH8.0 though. It never complied with me when I tried it on my boyfriend's laptop. So we switched to debian. At first we had Mandrake. Ahh..... I like debian overall

 

This is what i'd to and what i am doing....partition you're hard drive in half. load xp again and instal boot majic. instal mandrake. this way if you need to do something and have no idea how to do it you can do it with xp. when you feel good about getting rid of xp do it.. If you need a copy of boot majic dl it or i'll mail you a copy.

 

fosi still has partition magic (not gonna link it, since it's warez, don't know the rules here. ;x)



I started with good ole newbiedrake. It's by far the easiest to install, upgrading can be a bitch at times, since you gotta dl an assload of RPMs and urpmi them or something..



I use SuSE not too hard to install. EASY as hell to use, and easy to upgrade. Problem is, they don't offer free ISO distrobutions, so you gotta buy it they run about $30 home $70 professional and you get your moneys with with pro (thousands upon thousands of programs with the distro) , or download it from FTP while running the installation program, of find someone who has a distro on CD and ask him to burn you copies (suse is cool with that)



Mandrake all the way for newbies, Slackware for old timers like me (my old satellite runs slack) and SuSE for the novice, but somewhat Linux savvy. :bigthumg:

 

I'm a sysadmin for a large hosting company... they use RedHat for everything... I'm pretty unhappy with it for the most part though. I've used Debian for a few years and have been pretty satisfied but it's not perfect, then again all software isnt. You might find that most of the programs you download that are 'free' will be incomplete, unfinished, or hard to use... then again, most commercial software is like this too... they just make an effort to hide it where 'free' software developers don't really care and would rather it be known so maybe someone will consider contributing some code... if they have spare time. I'm in the process of installing Debian right now actually on my wives' aptiva, it's been a long time since I attempted to install GNU/Linux on a proprietary hardware ridden box, it's a pain in the ***. PCI winmodem, PCI generic ethernet that is coming up as Unknown in /proc/pci <grr> if you have a proprietary PC you might hate your GNU/Linux experience. Debian is a pretty stable system overall, definately less volatile than RedHat or Mandrake, Debian undergoes alot of testing before the release is considered 'stable', however, there is still alot of buggy userland software, no matter what. At least it doesnt take the machine down. You might want to consider joining a local LUG (Linux Users Group) or maybe even attending an InstallFest in your area and bring your machine along... It can make the transition alot smoother and there will often be at least one or two guys who are really familiar with common proprietary hardware and know the tricks to get stuff working 'good enough'...



also... you'll want to keep:

http://google.com/linux

very handy



and have fun...



If anyone has any questions related to GNU/Linux just email me and I can probably offer some assistance, always willing to at least try and help...



BTW, don't get me wrong... most of the buggy applications are graphical relatively worthless tools anyways. A GNU/Linux box with just your typical unix tools and no X at all is already far more productive than any windows machine. If you're looking for gaming though, definately look elsewhere. If you're looking for stability, power, control, freedom, and productivity... GNU/Linux is definately where it's at. And most of my bitching regarding proprietary hardware is just a result of the nature of PC's, not an issue with GNU/Linux at all. Once you learn how to use a full featured shell (bash?), some of the standard unix tools, and regular expressions you'll wonder how you ever survived without them, no ****. It's just a matter of learning.

 

OK people I got Mandrake installed. I am learning ...slowly . Alot of the lingo I don't understand. I am getting used to the file system. I ned to know how to resize the text/ appearance on Geko mozzila browser? See what I mean about the termonology. I am sure I screwed that description up.

 

ok I think I got that. I just zoomed in (cntrl 8) How do I resize a window? Is there a website that explains or teaches linux?

 

How do yo uwant it resized? Is it like too small for your liking?

 

The text is to small and the window is to big.

 

Ahh.. I believe that's kinda normal for mozilla, as that is to me.



Use opera. www.operasoftware.com



Mozilla is great, espically for java stuff, and opera .. well it's just a well respectable all-around good browser.



I can look through mozilla here in a bit to see how to change the font size.