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  1. I've always been partial to Freeduc as an education live cd (though it doesn't have too many secondary education applications) and I've gotten it to run on the worst of computers. For the kids, another good live cd is games knoppix, though at present they are moving to dvds so that might not work as well as others.
  2. With a linux email server, its a little different stakes. Having people get email from your server means that you have people that are either you customers (i.e. a business) or people that are your friends (i.e. a small fun based server). At work we use winblows machines with a linux machine to take care of email and the website. In that instance we use a few AV (not sure which ever since the "main" IT guy got paranoid and kicked me out of the server room blaming me for messing with his servers) because it's much less hassle then going around and fixing virii on every machine. I still stand by my reasoning that a general linux user shouldn't have to be the one to fix everyone else's problems. Sure if you get a file which tries to do funky stuff, don't pass it on, but why should us Linux users have to make sure winblows users aren't caught with their pants down?
  3. Due to the nature of Linux, a virus will only destroy the block its in. For instance if you have Bill, Dave, and Sue, and Dave gets the virus, he's screwed, not Bill, Sue or the entire system. With Windows everything is so integrated that a virus that affects Dave will hose the entire system. It is possible to spread virii through linux with email. I've never done it myself (that I know of) and it would only affect the people I send it to. That is a fairly funny topic though. A friend of mine who makes webpages using IE only tools was complaining to me how Linux users don't care about spreading virii with their systems. I asked him why they should care when he didn't care about them. His response was they should get IE instead of complaining. Two guesses what my response to him was.
  4. The thing I wonder why people haven't mentioned is all of those other wms that were just tossed to the wayside. "Just tell people to use KDE". What about XFCE, IceWM, Blackbox etc (ok, so at least Linus didn't call them crap)? Personally, I prefer KDE because its very familar to me (raised on winblows) and I like what customizability it has. Linus was a bit childish with the comments imho, but he has every right to say what he wants. Thats what free speech is all about.
  5. For me GUI use is preferable (did grow up on winblows) but I am quite competant with cli. Proof of this is my recent administrating of a server via SSH connection.
  6. Thank you. I got one working with xine.
  7. I have some various mov files which I love to watch (as well as a friend of mine only distributes in that format a little video he does) but I can't seem to find something to watch that format in linux. I saw quicktime 4 linux but wasn't too sure of them (their site was very "we might run it, we might not"). Can anyone suggest something that would work for me to watch these files?
  8. From my experience I've never had a dependency problem with deb packages or using apt. I can remember vividly having to urpmi a file to do it to another, another, another etc until I finally urpmied the one I wanted. That is why I've gone over to debian based distros. Maybe the problem has been fixed but now that I've found a good distro no need for me to leave.
  9. I want to make the user ithdesign login and start at the directory /var/www and limit access only to that directory. How do I do this? I'm trying to allow ithdesign (the account used for anyone to edit a home webpage) access only to the website (located in /var/www).
  10. The game looks cool. It says it runs in Linux, so I figured to download the demo to see how I liked it. I only found windows demos though. Is there a linux demo for the game?
  11. I try to play games which cedega, dosbox or linux run all the time, but when I have friends who play only windows games, I play the same games as them. Also I have several hundred dollars worth of games (ok ok, worth 20 by now, but it cost alot to get them) which I can't get to work in linux. Since I get hankerings to play them, I keep a windows partitian around. My motto is Linux for work and windows for play. Hmmm, I havn't booted into windows for a few weeks to play though... To get to a point, while there are plenty of games for linux, there is a definate lacking of some genres and game types so I play them in windows. The selection for linux however is getting better by the day. Its almost to the point where I just don't buy windows games anymore.
  12. I have used a few. Evolution was my first choice when I was using Redhat, but when I started to use mozilla in windows, I switched to mozilla email. When I seriously got into Linux (mandrake) I switched to kmail for 2 seconds before thinking it was junk and switching back to mozilla. Now I use Thunderbird because it didn't make sense to use firefox and mozilla mail. The thing I don't like about evolution is their spam filters. I continually try to make it work (use evolution at work) but nada. Thunderbird however is doing good with catching much of the spam.
  13. A warning though about cedega. It generally only plays well recent games which are popular to the people who buy cedega. Most windows games I've tried (I got hundreds from the last ten or so years) don't work. Several however work as well or better.
  14. I've found these to be my favorites: Unreal Tournament (virtually ever version has either linux installer on cd or easily downloaded off net) America's Army (not so much but still good) Battle for Wesnoth (great strategy game. Reminds me of old Avalon Hill games) Blobwars (platformer but fun somehow) Supertux (you like mario? This is mario with linux :)) Those are my favorites, but if you look through this forum you'll find not only sites dedicated to linux gaming, but some reviews as well (look at the stickies)
  15. According to the source I read, you can't find it anywhere on their website though. This is good news (too bad the OS is just the limited edition rather than the full version). I hope other makers start to use other brands of linux as well. Maybe we can get something where each pc maker uses a different Linux distro.
  16. I took a serious lookt at abiword but my problem with it is that it doesn't export extremely well to .doc format nor does it read it well. That is one thing vital to me since my work and family use .doc format to send me things.
  17. I've never had an opportunity to use Star Office but OO fills every need I have in an office suite so why should I change?
  18. Sometimes just because you no longer use the OS, doesn't mean you still can't hang around and help out. For me I've been toying with a few debian distros primarily Xandros and BeatrIX. The reason I stay was that this forum was so helpful to me (hope to repay it somehow...) that it seems if I have any problem with linux I can find help here. Also its a good place to get the word about linux games (hehehehehehe)
  19. Looks interesting but unless google does something miracless with this, I don't think it'll beat AOL instant messanger (the most popular I've seen). I'm glad to see google doing this, but its nothing that looks like a sure fire winner.
  20. They have some interesting games and I liked the demo of DHLore, but for some reason I can't get the sound to run on it.
  21. fangbite

    Scorched3d

    This was a childhood game of mine. I would play for hours at it. (runs off and downloads)
  22. Personally I think the club idea is brilliant. Free products can ony go so far with supporting the people who make it. As scarecrow said programmers need to eat, and that money comes from somewhere. With the club you have an option for someone who isn't exactly technical to be able to download a lot of software without hassle, drivers without a hassle (the thing which drove me away from mandrake really) and even get some support. However, there is still that free version which if you know what you're doing you can get everything for free. It's all a tradeoff. Do you pay money to make it easy to use or do you save money making it a little harder? Some people go one way, others another.
  23. I bought cedega and it played many games as great or better than in windows. However for most games I have (200+ ranging from 1995 to present) it did jack. If the games you play are supported by cedega then buy it. Its much more economical then winblows. However like me, most of the games I play weren't. I use cedaga for those games which do to slowly ween me off of windows. Realistically though, cedega is only an option for people who play the games which cedega decides to make work. Just one question, why isn't his in games or emulation forum?
  24. Since I run and maintain computers for a living right now, I'd have to say that windows causes as much problems as linux does. The only difference is that windows has a more renowned IT support than linux. This means that an old lady who can't figure out how to run their program only has to go as far as little timmy next door to get the solution. Then she's happy. With linux however, little timmy don't know so it seems that Linux is so full of problems that its not worth taking. "Funny" thing happened the other day. I have this guy at work who everyday comes to me with yet another problem to fix. Spyware, internet explorer crashing, disk not being read etc etc etc. So I set him up with a live cd of freeduc linux (work at a school) to see what he thinks. After a day of using it, he's only come up with one problem. He couldn't see his favorite website (I didn't properly configure something). That was enough for him to tell me to pack it up and give him back windows. I fixed the problem but he said "No I want my old windows back". A few days later I asked him if he had any problems with anything else. He told me no. So the thing I want to know is why he can sit through hours of headaches with windows, but with one problem which was my fault in linux he can't forgive. People have comfort zones. If you've been codled with windows for all your life, then even if there are 100 problems you face everyday, then who cares, its your comfort zone. However if you leave that comfort zone and a problem occurs, then you go back to your old problems knowing that its your comfort zone. Now if that made any sense, I should go into politics right now.
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