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Poll: Your OS?

Every time I see a poll like this I really have to wonder . . . would the access logs match up with the poll? We can only vote once, I wonder how many people posted their linux distro sitting in the abyss of dual booting while they were in windows.
- thecombatwombat
- Post #57
- Feb 4, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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1 GIG or 512 on XP Pro?

Have you considered that stability of both systems? Stable ram makes all the difference, unless they happen to be the same/very similarly rated sticks, I'd put both of the two new modules into the one machine that is your "primary" machine. Speed's a factor too, I wouldn't want to mix...
- thecombatwombat
- Post #6
- Feb 3, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Best version of Linux for n00bs?

I say RedHat. I've been using linux as my only operating system for about a year and a half now, and was weened away from Windows by Redhat 7.0 about two years ago. Now I use Debian, and I totally believe it is the ultimate distro for the power user. Slack is nice (/me strokes slackware...
- thecombatwombat
- Post #4
- Feb 2, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Mandrake with KDE or Gnome make it look more like mac OS X?

well, limewire doesn't play movies, and if you could post any errors/steps you took to install xine maybe we could help.
- thecombatwombat
- Post #6
- Jan 18, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Mandrake with KDE or Gnome make it look more like mac OS X?

For your themes, check out art.gnome.org and kdelook.org, my desktop was very aquafied for a long time. As for avi's, no problem. (By avi I assume you mean the various flavors of divx) Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu, installing mplayer can be slightly tricky, but it's a fantastic media player...
- thecombatwombat
- Post #3
- Jan 18, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Securing Linux (Mandrake 9)

Your setup is probably quite secure, but while we're on the topic, here's two cool linux security tools. Bastille Linux A set of security "hardening" tools, that I believe still support mandrake specifically, very handy, and educational. For all your packet filtering needs Fire Starter is a...
- thecombatwombat
- Post #4
- Oct 31, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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LINUX QUESTION - best Window Manager?

Well personally I love gnome. clean, easy, and affective. I suppose it looks more like "Apple Teletubby Crap" than "Windows Teletubby Crap." Sawfish/Metacity are both very simple/useable managers, especially to someone initially coming to windows (so I've found at least.) Enlightenment is...
- thecombatwombat
- Post #8
- Oct 31, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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UNIX/Linux related questions. Linux is a Unix type of OS, can anyone tell me exactly what is UNIX?

OK, Unix was developed by Bell Labs, way back in the 70's, at roughly the same time as the C programming language, which by the way, linux is written in. Don't be put off by it's age, UNIX by it's nature is very modular, adaptable, and scaleable, anyone telling you such an old OS is low-tech is...
- thecombatwombat
- Post #7
- Oct 31, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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whats the WINZIP equivalent of Linux Mandrake 9.0?

I can't say specifically for mandrake, I use debian, but linux is linux after all, and there's a great archive manager for linux (gnome) called File Roller that acts alot like winzip. And for business cards, another gnome app, (Oh how I love gnome. . .) called gLabels. This one I've never...
- thecombatwombat
- Post #9
- Oct 31, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems

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