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[Pepsi90919]

yeah well i'm posting from ENIAC

 

[PHiuR]

posting from windows 3.1

 

[sniperruff]

im posting from windows 2000. i win.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Used Red Hat Enterprise 4 at school a lot... wasn't too impressed. Stability and speed were poor BUT the hardware could've been better (still a p4) and lots of people used 'em.

Windows Server 2003 at work ftw =P

 

[DaiShan]

Ubuntu is incredibly easy to get up an running, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give linux a try BTW Shawn: if you want to use KDE, just use Kubuntu, its Ubuntu with the K desktop Environment.

<--- posting from XP because all of my linux boxes are gentoo sans X11 and links2 kinda sucks for just browsing 😛

 

[creedog]

I will never go back to Windows as it can not easliy and cheaply do what I need.

Fedora 3 server and Fedora 4 desktop. SME backup server running a modified version of BSD (I think). Have tried solaris but did not like the Java destop.

 

[toekramp]

i'm posting from DOS

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: DaiShan
Ubuntu is incredibly easy to get up an running, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give linux a try

would it be difficult to connect a linux box into my windows lan/ home network?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: DaiShan
Ubuntu is incredibly easy to get up an running, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give linux a try

would it be difficult to connect a linux box into my windows lan/ home network?

Difficult only if you have an Exchange server. Samba is your friend.

Edited for clarity

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: DaiShan
Ubuntu is incredibly easy to get up an running, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give linux a try

would it be difficult to connect a linux box into my windows lan/ home network?

Only if you have an Exchange server. Samba is your friend.

would I be able to "share" files and directories as with windows? or does it work some other way? I am a networking n00b and have no idea what Samba is, and only a very vague/ hazy idea of what Exchange is.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: DaiShan
Ubuntu is incredibly easy to get up an running, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give linux a try

would it be difficult to connect a linux box into my windows lan/ home network?

Only if you have an Exchange server. Samba is your friend.

would I be able to "share" files and directories as with windows? or does it work some other way? I am a networking n00b and have no idea what Samba is, and only a very vague/ hazy idea of what Exchange is.

Yes, you can share files and directories. Samba

 

[arcenite]

I am posting from my iPod

 

[SKORPI0]

I'm posting from my house using Windows XP.

I did not know that Linux is a place you can post from. :roll:

 

[gabemcg]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: DaiShan
Ubuntu is incredibly easy to get up an running, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give linux a try

would it be difficult to connect a linux box into my windows lan/ home network?

Thats exactly my purpose for the installation, I recently finished an upgrade, and had enough parts left over for a file server, A friend recommended linux (p33r pr32ur3) and I decidedto give it a spin... my main PC, and my main file server both run the MCE 2k5 edition of XP Pro,

I've got some tutorials I've found that should tell me how to install samba server, so I can hook up to my windows network...

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: DaiShan
Ubuntu is incredibly easy to get up an running, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give linux a try

would it be difficult to connect a linux box into my windows lan/ home network?

Only if you have an Exchange server. Samba is your friend.

would I be able to "share" files and directories as with windows? or does it work some other way? I am a networking n00b and have no idea what Samba is, and only a very vague/ hazy idea of what Exchange is.

Samba technically can... personally I never was able to get it to work. I had to edit this config file by hand and I had no idea what to do, even with HOWTOs and various walk-throughs. It was really a nightmare. But of course Windows XP sets it all up automatically with no fuss.

 

[meltdown75]

i'm posting from my c=64

ah, actually i have a knoppix bootable CD here, but haven't messed around with it much yet.

 

[vedavox]

i love linux, but crappy ati support and few games ported to linux means im sticking to windows. for now.