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Default LINUX AND NOTEBOOKS - 06-04-2004, 11:04 PM
Ahhh for all you L337 Kumpooter G33ks prepare to orgasm at the oppurtunity of showing of your intelligence. I bought an IBM Thinkpad T20 for 300 bucks and it comes with a small 12gig HD (more than enough to do with it what I want), but I really dont fancy XP cock-goobling up more than it needs to. So, how much space does LINUX take up, what are the different types of Linux OS's and which one is the best.

Have at it hax0rs!

EDIT: The T20 has 128mb of memory - MAYBE will get more, and a P3 700mhz cpu.
  
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Default 06-04-2004, 11:12 PM
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.
  
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Default 06-04-2004, 11:13 PM
linux redhat is pretty good, and shouldnt take up that much space
  
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Default 06-04-2004, 11:14 PM
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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Default 06-04-2004, 11:14 PM
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Default 06-04-2004, 11:19 PM
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.
  
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Default 06-04-2004, 11:20 PM
And it has to run Office 2003. I cant live w/o office 2003. And other programs like QT and shit.
  
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Default 06-04-2004, 11:26 PM
stfu and talk to me about it in the aM forums
  
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are microsoft apps compatible with linux?
  
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Thats what I wanna know. If not it aint worth it. I'd blow Bill Gates cock if I could.
  
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I believe that there is a program that lets you use windows programs under linux.[/quote:d6cc6]

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

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