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1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Recommend a Linux distro for a complete newbie please..? (Message 8747)
Posted 6 Feb 2005 by old_user52424
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I like knoppix too, it was what helped me to decide to use linux. I personally think that you can't beat the Fedora/Red Hat route though, especially if you're a linux novice. Really easy to install and learn to use, and when you want to install/uninstall software, you just use the rpm -ivh and rpm -e (I think...) commands to do it. There's also at least 4 different programs available on the installation cds, to do any given task you might want to do. But it doesn't come much easier than fedora, in my experience.

Just beware that with (certain?) 2.6 kernels in many different linux distros, you get problems with samba, the windows filesharing service.

A fedora-specific issue is that you need to install an mp3-codec to get mp3 music to work.
2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : dual booting... (Message 8706)
Posted 5 Feb 2005 by old_user52424
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Oh well, thanks anyway! I've just had a brainwave though. I'll try it and then post the result in this thread just in case anyone else has the same question.

I quite often "wine" programs that are already installed on my windows disk when there aren't linux equivalents available, so I figure I might just be able to wine the windows binary from where it's installed on my windows partition. It's got the best chance of working if I tell wine that my windows 'program files directory' is my wine 'program files' directory as well, so the paths are essentially the same. Suppose it's worth a try, anyway. If anyone tries this, needless to say, backup your climate model datafiles so you don't screw up your experiment!
3) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : dual booting... (Message 8680)
Posted 5 Feb 2005 by old_user52424
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if i dual boot between windows and linux is there any way of getting each boinc client to work on the same model, so i'm not doing one model and then the other?




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