Linux 101 - The very basics of Linux
January 30th, 2007[ via digg.com ]
How many of you are using Linux? Or have used it in the past? *raises hand*
One of my goals this year is to get Linux running on a dedicated box. I have Mac OS X which has Darwin (a flavor of UNIX called BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). But I’d like to run Red Hat, Mandriva, or Ubuntu distributions on it’s own computer.
Anyway, this is a great introductory article to the world of Linux, which explains the various “distros” one can download:
“Linux is an operating system that is available for free. It is what is known as open source, its source code is freely available for anyone to modify and as a result the operating system is very flexible; it runs on a variety of different platforms. It is commonly used in machines such as mobile phones and ATM’s and it’s now becoming quite popular.“
January 31st, 2007 at 7:15 am
I never used Linux before, but I have always been interested. Maybe I can put it on an old Celeron machine I have. Thinking…
January 31st, 2007 at 9:29 am
Barron: that older Celeron computer should work well if you’re just going to turn it into a Linux box to experiment and play around with.
I’ve dual-booted my old Dell computer with both Windows and Mandrake Linux before, but had some memory issues. So, from my own experience I know that dual-booting can be tricky, if not a bit of a nightmare.
but if you’ve got the older computer that’s not really doing anything, I would try installing Linux on it.