LINUX AND NOTEBOOKS
 

It all depends on what you want it to do. Must Linux distros will come with a basic installation that usually takes around 500MB of disk space. If you don't want a GUI with all of the extra apps then you can shrink that to about a quarter of that space.

Red Hat/Fedora is very user friendly, and with everything installed (including dev tools) the total space will be around 1.5GB. As for memory, 128 is fine and you shouldn't need any more then that.

http://www.linuxiso.org/ <--- is your friend. Check the forums and get the links/guides there.

Red Hat 9 with a nice KDE gui is usually what I recommend. Other distros would be Mandrake, Debian, and SuSE. Look into those, nice features and support.

linux redhat is pretty good, and shouldnt take up that much space

Oh, I forgot to mention that installing Linux on a laptop can be a big pain in the ass because of the lack of hardware support. Just make sure you do some research before chosing a distro.

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stfu and talk to me about it in the aM forums

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are microsoft apps compatible with linux?

I believe that there is a program that lets you use windows programs under linux.

[quote="Sgt Stryker":d6cc6]I believe that there is a program that lets you use windows programs under linux.[/quote:d6cc6]

I haven't used them, but I've heard some bad things. Oh and gerv...

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[quote=Bleuachdu]I haven't used them, but I've heard some bad things. Oh and gerv...

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Gerv has potatos for balls!!! rock:

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you have to use a program called wine to run some windows applications

what's the advantages of using linux instead of windows? I don't know anything about linux at all.

[quote="Garry Coleman":997db]what's the advantages of using linux instead of windows? I don't know anything about linux at all.[/quote:997db]

Less Hax0rs and Virusesesssesess to worry about...plus if something goes wrong you have 9478648076084 people working on solving the problem not just microsoft's support team

[quote="TGB!":fd556]All I'm going to use this Notebook for is word processing, maybe some art bullshit and interweb surfing. That is it.

Da Fug is KDE.[/quote:fd556]

Just get RedHat 8 or 9: it's GUI, doesn't take too much space and functions well.
Kthx...

[quote="Garry Coleman":b3a77] happy:[/quote:b3a77]

[quote="Garry Coleman":cde58]what's the advantages of using linux instead of windows? I don't know anything about linux at all.[/quote:cde58]

Linux is better for doing actual work,
we use Linux machines at work for Quantum calculations (really fucking hard chemistry/physics that I don't completely understand).
They are more stable and prone to less hackers and viruses, but the downside is practically no games; but one shouldn't be playing games at work anyway

[quote="Sgt Stryker":c4a10]but one shouldn't be playing games at work anyway[/quote:c4a10]

oOo:

I bet you're a blast to hang out with in real life.

HAW! That struck me funneh.

I was playing "Blue Max" on my C64 emulator at work yesterday...heh heh. Was waiting on a new build to test and didn't have shit to do.

KDE = Nice GUI front end with it's own set of applications and games. As for as using office in Linux, you can do it, but I'm not sure if the program is free. There is a very expensive program for enterprises that requires you to buy licenses and shit.

But Linux has OpenOffice, which is free and comes with most Linux distrobutions. It's very similar to Office, don't knock it until you try it.

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[quote="Tripper.exe":b04ce]i am linux[/quote:b04ce]

Not according to your sig

[quote="TGB!":fbb11][color=violet][b]Da Fug is KDE.[/b][/color][/quote:fbb11]

It's one of the GUI's for Linux, see [url="http://www.kde.org/"]http://www.kde.org/[/url] for details.



[quote="Sgt Stryker":fbb11][quote=TonyMontana]are microsoft apps compatible with linux?[/quote]

I believe that there is a program that lets you use windows programs under linux.[/quote:fbb11]

It's called WINE: [url="http://www.winehq.com/"]http://www.winehq.com/[/url]

gnome is also a desktop client

i'm using Linux SUSE 9.0 its excellent also

Yeah but KDE is better then Gnome

[quote=Hollywood]Not according to your sig[/quote:36f94]

pwnt

[quote="@rkley":250d8][quote=Hollywood]Not according to your sig[/quote:250d8]

pwnt[/quote:250d8]
yes i have been pwnt

[quote=KTOG] oOo:

I bet you're a blast to hang out with in real life.[/quote:60d59]

LOL, naw I have a couple games on my work PC (Windows) but my professor don't give a f***.
Just ones I could find a crack for because its a pain in the ass to remember bringing CDs to and from work all the time.

But my work is the kind where you are either working and don't have time for game or you might as well drive home and take the rest of the day off, so I go home when bored.

exactly, i use Redhat with KDE, its really nice, just really hard to use for beginners.