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Joined: Feb 27, 2007
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Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: Wubi - The fastes and safest way to linux!
Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!
Uhhh..... Why not just Slackware, or the latest Fedora?
Slackware is my brand for both optimum speed, and simplicity.
Fedora seems to support more projects, so no having to manually compile a package. _________________ I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
tr1sth3t
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Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:
because this helps people who have never used or maybe even heard of linux get a taste at what it's like without having to go through the process of putting everything together yourself. you get an easy installer that does everything for you with this _________________ It is more likely that a brain randomly forms out of the chaos with false memories of its life than that the universe around us would have billions of self-aware brains.
DOSphantom
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Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject:
Suppose, if only it ran on 32MB ram, and a single CD-R worth of space.
That would be the ultimate, for my dev laptop(that weighs about a ton, from '98).
Thought this vid would fit:
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tr1sth3t
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: Damn Small Linux
Well there is a solution to slower computers as well... Even the ones that do not have hard drives. It's called Damn Small Linux.
This is possible via KNOPPIX which can go on such things that hold 50MB like a CD or a USB pen. And it's all completely free! But since they are a non-profit organization I would suggest buying the USB pen they provide with everthing already set up so people like that can afford to keep giving everyone these wonderful things
This is a really good video staring Tux the Linux mascot! ^_^
Pesadelo
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Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:
4 Linux:
tr1sth3t
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject:
I personally LOVE the Linux OS. Linux is like this amazing solar-powered engine that can be used in a street car, in a F1 or it can be daisy chained to drive a truck or an airplane. Ubuntu is like a car using the Linux engine, a zero emission, fully accessorised and easy to drive all-terrain, with power, acceleration and looks matching far more expensive supercars... Imagine something like that... ...for free. (yes that was stolen from the above website...)
diginferno
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject:
Pesadelo wrote:
4 Linux:
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tr1sth3t
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject:
I love your signature too, by the way, dig. Pesadelo, I believe the quote in yours is giving credit to the wrong author. It comes from the Latin philosophical statement 'Cogito, ergo sum' made by René Descartes. It pretty much started western philosophy... I do take it that Ambrose Bierce made the same statement as well. I just want to make sure someone isn't feeding you false information.
Pesadelo
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Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:
Pay attention, dewbie
Descartes: I think, therefore I am.
Bierce: I think I think, therefore I think I am.
My signature is intended to be satirical. Anyway, Descartes was a religious asshole and Discourse on the Method is boring and stupid* ! I would never quote him anywhere.
*(Razy, I owe you the rights by the use of the word)
tr1sth3t
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Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject:
I see, if he were a Pegan would you have been so prejudice toward his beliefs? And just for the historical side of things if he wasn't a religious asshole he may have been condemned to death... Life wasn't your classic Christian nonsense smile and turn the other cheek back then. So can you really blame him for being so "religious"? That's also his argument for existence. If you are thinking then you are in some sort of reality or even a matrix for all we know. The fact remains that if you are thinking then you must be existing. Things that do not exist do not think.
And now just to get something off my chest on here once again except this time on the forums. Religion can be what you make it. And it doesn't necessarily have to be called religion. One can get the same feeling from science that once gets from science.
DOSphantom
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:
Now I just a parallel CD-drive and I could use DSL on my 486DX laptop. Might just go rescue that '92 Pentium machine from the recyclers, with the 5' floppy, CHS, and everything!
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cjjeepercreeper
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:
DOSphantom wrote:
Now I just a parallel CD-drive and I could use DSL on my 486DX laptop. Might just go rescue that '92 Pentium machine from the recyclers, with the 5' floppy, CHS, and everything!
Yep, my linux box is an 8 or 9 year old pc with a 800mhz P2 and 40 gig hd. Been running Redhat 9 on it for a couple years just for grins. _________________ Not dead, just sleeping.
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DOSphantom
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject:
cjjeepercreeper wrote:
DOSphantom wrote:
Now I just a parallel CD-drive and I could use DSL on my 486DX laptop. Might just go rescue that '92 Pentium machine from the recyclers, with the 5' floppy, CHS, and everything!
Yep, my linux box is an 8 or 9 year old pc with a 800mhz P2 and 40 gig hd. Been running Redhat 9 on it for a couple years just for grins.
See! More electronics, I thought I was drowning in obsolete equipment. _________________ I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
cjjeepercreeper
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Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:
DOSphantom wrote:
cjjeepercreeper wrote:
DOSphantom wrote:
Now I just a parallel CD-drive and I could use DSL on my 486DX laptop. Might just go rescue that '92 Pentium machine from the recyclers, with the 5' floppy, CHS, and everything!
Yep, my linux box is an 8 or 9 year old pc with a 800mhz P2 and 40 gig hd. Been running Redhat 9 on it for a couple years just for grins.
See! More electronics, I thought I was drowning in obsolete equipment.
I can never get rid of old computers, and the parts are usually too obsolete to cannibalize, so you find a use for it. I don't throw anything out, I still have the same Jeep CJ-7 I bought new in 1985. _________________ Not dead, just sleeping.
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