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Nice post for Linux information.  Should help out all the people new to Linux(including me).

ajk2005

Thanks.. For a while there I thought it was strange I wasn't getting any posts in my thread.. It's a sticky right at the top!! And it's good stuff! 

"There are times when silence has the loudest voice" 

They are all just so amazed and awe-struck upon seeing my post with all its awesomeness that they couldn't find the motor-control to click the reply button.. Ya, that must be it.. 

Edit: By the way, if anybody has some awesome links or urls that should be added to the list, just post them below and I (or another uber) will add them to the list.

Some wireless info may not be bad, here's an interesting project:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html

 

and when all else fails, there's always:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ 

I can't believe this went under my radar. Very extensive

 

Ya, one of the few threads I've made that I'm especially proud of..

 

*grin*

I know what you mean. This should get more recognition! 

 

Sidicas:

Ya, one of the few threads I've made that I'm especially proud of..

Thanks for putting this together, I'll be using it, I'm back to my Linux project, this time I'm installing PCLinuxOS.

I have always felt so lost trying to use Linux. Still do sorta.

You should give it another try. I did test a few Linux distributions before I found one that I really like, the two distros that I like the most are Suse and PCLinux OS, this last one is awesome, and the chance to play with so many applications and a brand new system all free it is so cool.

Here are the links in case you want to try it again:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/

http://www.opensuse.org/

When I tried a Live distro of Ubuntu, I was going to put it on a hard drive that i formatted just for the OS, and it managed to screw up my Vista install. Lost everything and had to start from scratch. Luckily, the only important thing I lost on my C: was my Music folder which contained about 8GB of music at the time and had backed up right before I tried the distro.

I'm sorry about your lost.  

I tried all the Ubuntu's distributions (except server) and it  didn't change my mind about using Windows less and becoming a Linux supporter. The Ubuntu team had done a great job in promoting Linux, but for the ones of us coming from Windows it can be a real challenge, even frustrating.

I began to really like Linux when I installed Suse, but I still find the installation process a little weird, then when I found PCLinuxOS I felt I can really recommend this or install it on a customer machine without fear.

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This is a quote from the about us at pclinuxos.com, which explains why it might be more easy for people like me:

PCLinuxOS utilize the Advanced Packaging Tool (or APT), a package management system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with Synaptic, a GUI frontend to APT.

PCLinuxOS was originally based on another distribution under the name of Mandriva and shares many features of Mandriva such as the Control Center and the Draklive Installer. Texstar and team would like to thank the developers, contributors and others associated with Mandriva who may have indirectly contributed to the PCLinuxOS distribution.

In addition to Mandriva, PCLinuxOS would also like to thank the developers of the Gentoo, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu as we also use patches and bugs fixes from those distributions.

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I think they took the best from the better distros and created one that will suit almost everybody. It's still a work in progress of course.

One of the best things of PClinuxos is the installation part, (the Draklive Installer) it's very clear about which part you want to use of your hard drive, the new 2007 comes with a tutorial that runs when you click on the installation icon from the live CD.

Here is a link to the crucial partitioning process:

 http://docs.pclinuxos.com/index.php?title=Partitioning/0.93

 

Bump

very nice post  keep up the great work

It seems that Linux forums are very good. maybe I should spend more time there.

 

One common mistake that noobs to linux commonly make is with the bootloader.  Most distros use the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB).  If you don't tell it where you want it the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the first boot hard drive will be overwritten by GRUB.  The original MBR can be restored with fdisk or any utility that can write a generic windows MBR then run your Windows install disk in the repair mode to restore normal windows booting.  If you plan to install Linux on the same box as windows it is a good idea to become familiar with multibooting.  The only people that have problems learning linux is those that learn windows first.  MAC OSX and linux are cousins in the unix family tree.