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After what i heard about mandrake, I decided to try it out...i love it already. So as of now, I too am a linux user. Any suggestions for a newbie?
 
try to upgrade KDE to 3.0.3 and you'll quickly see the problems that still exist in linux.

er... looks like it ships with 3.0.3. Wait till 3.1 comes out and try to install that (or try it with the beta) and you'll see....
 
I:


Check mail
Program
Use GIMP for photos
Listen to my mp3s
Watch um... movies...
Chat
Play UT
Design web pages

Basically everything I can do on Windows. Do you use GNOME? KDE? E?
 
Yes. First of all, almost never log in as root. Rather, log in as a user, and then use the su command at the command line to get superuser privileges. Oh, and the command:

rm -rf /

is not recommended. It'll delete all your files on all your partitions.
 
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Anyone know any good sits for n00bs? I want to learn but have NO idea where the fsck to begin 😕

I already have Mandrake 8.2 and RedHat 7.3 burned, but have no idea wtf i'm doing 😱
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Anything I should know?
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./configure
make
make install
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also

your.program.ix86.rpm is installed by:
rpm -Uvh your.program.ix86.rpm

and

your.program.src.rpm is best installed by:
rpm --rebuild your.program.src.rpm

then cd to /usr/share/RPM/RPMS/i686/ (I think that's it anyways)
to find:
your.program.i686.rpm
and install by:
rpm -Uvh your.program.i686.rpm
 
Originally posted by: thawolfman
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Anyone know any good sits for n00bs? I want to learn but have NO idea where the fsck to begin 😕

I already have Mandrake 8.2 and RedHat 7.3 burned, but have no idea wtf i'm doing 😱
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linuxnewbie
 
If you need help, when you need to ask somone a question, be sure to be as specific and detailed as possible. Theres so many people that just ask questions like..."My linux isnt working how can I fix it????" No one ever answers those 😉

Be sure to RTFM alot too. Most problems can be solved by doing so.

Oh, and installing/upgrading packages isnt as hard as notfred makes it, he must have been snorting a ton of crack that day... you really just need to find binary mandrake rpms which isnt too hard. I hear mandrakes urpmi package management system rocks, but I havent tried it.
 
Originally posted by: OmegaNauce
right now KDE...just messing around. Anything I should know?
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Learn how to compile source tarballs, how to enable and disable services, how to configure the supplied ftp, web, samba servers. Familiarize yourself with the command line. Learn how to compile a new kernel, along with how to add features you want to it and remove those you don't. Familiarize yourself with the file system, and its differences from FAT32/NTFS. Try other window managers, try using WINE.

For fun, try running an X server on a Windows box, and output the X display of some program (GAIM, for example) running on your linux box over to the Windows box...

Buy (or check out from the library) a book on linux, and read it.

Have fun!
 
There are many quirks that i dislike in my install of SuSE 8.0. Im in KDE right now infact and still a "n00b" but there surely are some annoying things.....
 
Originally posted by: thawolfman
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Anyone know any good sits for n00bs? I want to learn but have NO idea where the fsck to begin 😕

I already have Mandrake 8.2 and RedHat 7.3 burned, but have no idea wtf i'm doing 😱
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www.linux-newbie.org. Do a search in there first before posting any questions.


Mandrake is easy to install. Just make sure you have all 3 cd's before installing. Some packages require the 3rd cd (don?t need 2 and 3 for a successful install, but you'll be missing a lot of stuff).
 
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: thawolfman
<attempted thread hijack in progress>

Anyone know any good sits for n00bs? I want to learn but have NO idea where the fsck to begin 😕

I already have Mandrake 8.2 and RedHat 7.3 burned, but have no idea wtf i'm doing 😱
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www.linux-newbie.org. Do a search in there first before posting any questions.


Mandrake is easy to install. Just make sure you have all 3 cd's before installing. Some packages require the 3rd cd (don?t need 2 and 3 for a successful install, but you'll be missing a lot of stuff).
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I didn't need cd3 for anything on my 2.2 gig install... 🙂
 
Originally posted by: XZeroII
The day that Linux has everything Windows has and is easier to use is the day that I switch. No matter how you slice it, Linux is inferior to Windows in the Desktop market. And don't give me any of this "You can do anything in Linux that you can do in Windows" BS because I'm not gonna deal with incompatibilities and finding out that something doesn't work with WINE and spending 2 hours trying to do something that I can do in in 5 minues in Windows. Don't get me wrong, Linux has it's uses in the Server market, but as a desktop replacement it has miles to go.
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How does that apply to what the original poster was asking?

Any suggestions for a newbie?
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I haven't used Mandrake since 8.1, I think, which wasn't all that long ago. Just about to install 9.0 on my desktop here at work and see how I like it. 😛

Rob
 
I think Mandrake has a way to do it easily, but make sure you install Windows TrueType fonts, and set your browser to use them, it will make browing the web with Linux MUCH better.
 
I'm in the same boat as you. I downloaded Mandrake 9 yesterday and installed it on a spare computer. It was my first experience with Linux, and I was VERY pleasantly surprised. I've always been hesitant to try Linux because I didn't consider it to be a "mature" OS, and in the past, I stuck to Windows XP on the desktop and FreeBSD for servers.

The install was remarkably straightforward. It was by far the easiest OS install I have ever done. Mandrake detected all of the hardware on my very old, obscure, motherboard and configured all of the drivers properly right off the bat. I didn't need to reboot even once before I was up an running. KDE seems pretty straightforward and easy to use. Can't say much about the stability because I've only been using it for one day. The only complaint that I have so far is that the Mandrake installer leaves a lot of services (webserver, FTP, SSH, etc) ON by default. Seems to me that this could be a security risk for newbies who don't know that all of these services are running in the background. FreeBSD on the other hand turns everything off by default and allows you to enable only those services which you will be using.
 
Originally posted by: atrowe
I'm in the same boat as you. I downloaded Mandrake 9 yesterday and installed it on a spare computer. It was my first experience with Linux, and I was VERY pleasantly surprised. I've always been hesitant to try Linux because I didn't consider it to be a "mature" OS, and in the past, I stuck to Windows XP on the desktop and FreeBSD for servers.

The install was remarkably straightforward. It was by far the easiest OS install I have ever done. Mandrake detected all of the hardware on my very old, obscure, motherboard and configured all of the drivers properly right off the bat. I didn't need to reboot even once before I was up an running. KDE seems pretty straightforward and easy to use. Can't say much about the stability because I've only been using it for one day. The only complaint that I have so far is that the Mandrake installer leaves a lot of services (webserver, FTP, SSH, etc) ON by default. Seems to me that this could be a security risk for newbies who don't know that all of these services are running in the background. FreeBSD on the other hand turns everything off by default and allows you to enable only those services which you will be using.
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I found that kinda interesting...but it will get you experience in trying to figure out how to turn them off.
 
If you need help with anything man, drop me a PM, no questions are stupid questions, although that isn't the attitude you'll find very often since most linux users seem to think they are the only ones in the world who use it..
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Good luck, and congrats 🙂
 
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