What Linux

Duzmor · Post by **Duzmor** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:10 am

What Linux are you running - I am New to Linux and I would link to see What everyone is useing

Thanks

Duz

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:47 am

I'm newer than new to Linux..in my latop here, I keep a CD of Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

Based on Debian I guess...comes rather "plug and play" filled with other apps built into it like Firefox, GAIM instant messenger, OpenOffice, etc.

They did a promotion on their site a while ago, you could order a CD for free. CD comes as 2. First CD is the actual installer. Second CD is a bootable one that you, well, boot from....takes a few minutes to load the OS (as it's booting from a slow CD rather than a hard drive)...but a fully functional OS that you can sandbox with before actually going through the process of installation.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:51 am

Red Hat ...was struggling with it but it's getting better daily

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:03 am

Damn Small Linux
Auditor
Knoppix
Whoppix

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:50 am

SuSe 9.2, need to reinstall it, need a system for it! lol

Paft · Post by **Paft** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:10 pm

Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
Fedora Core 3
Mandrake 10

mmione · Post by **mmione** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:37 pm

i have used knoppix and i used to dual boot mandriva/mandrake.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:27 pm

Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:28 pm

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
By far the easiest installer too.

Paft · Post by **Paft** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:51 pm

Amen.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:10 pm

TonyT wrote:Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
By far the easiest installer too.

I would argue that Suse is easier

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:02 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:I would argue that Suse is easier

It could be, I don't have much experience w/ suse. I have installed debian about 50 times so far on different rigs, experimenting, wiping the partitions and reinstalling, etc. I now just use a basic boot cd from an iso, the netinstall from here:
http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/.
Believe it or not, the install is much faster using the net than a 52x cdrom!
(this is NOT the new debian installer, the new one which imho is crappy.)

What I dig most about debian is that I can rapidly install the basic linux system and add only the packages that I want.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:10 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:I would argue that Suse is easier

SuSe uses yast - at least they used to.

Redhat uses diskdruid - ar used to - I think that was pretty clean. It had options for base install only - you could then use rpm to add any packages you wanted.

Debian uses a similar system to the BSDs (apt-get)

gruven · Post by **gruven** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:48 pm

Gentoo.

If you can read (and pay attention), it is extremely easy to install.

Plus, it has the best (IMHO) package manager there is. Portage.

iaus10 · Post by **iaus10** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:49 am

Slackware
Knoppix (bootable CD operating system)
Cygwin on the windows boxes (mostly for ssh file transfers, and md5sum utils)

Knoppix now has a bootable 3.5GB DVD with more software than you could imagine. Runs slower than a OS installed on the hard drive, but a good way to try out everything Linux.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:37 pm

iaus10 wrote:Slackware
Knoppix (bootable CD operating system)
Cygwin on the windows boxes (mostly for ssh file transfers, and md5sum utils)

Knoppix now has a bootable 3.5GB DVD with more software than you could imagine. Runs slower than a OS installed on the hard drive, but a good way to try out everything Linux.

A bootable DVD is a great idea. You could have an emergency OS with a fully functioning setup mirroring what was on the HDDs.

Man, thinking of dual layer and blue ray discs theres a lot that could be done! lol

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:54 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:A bootable DVD is a great idea. You could have an emergency OS with a fully functioning setup mirroring what was on the HDDs.

Man, thinking of dual layer and blue ray discs theres a lot that could be done! lol

Yep, your right on the money.. I had a hard drive that was messed up on one xp computer... loaded Knoppix live cd on in and was able to transfer all the files I needed from that computers hard drive thru ssh server running off of the Knoppix live cd, to another windows computer's hard drive using a windows ssh client. Very handy thing to have.

I use Mandrake 6.0 and Mandriva 2005 LE, Knoppix Live Cd (7.x?)
and I am starting to use Ubuntu Live and full install distro(I'm on the Ubuntu at the moment).. Not bad, a little bit less in packages, but really easy to install on a hard drive, the Ubuntu is.

Shinobi

iaus10 · Post by **iaus10** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:11 pm

Shinobi wrote:Yep, your right on the money.. I had a hard drive that was messed up on one xp computer... loaded Knoppix live cd on in and was able to transfer all the files I needed from that computers hard drive thru ssh server running off of the Knoppix live cd, to another windows computer's hard drive using a windows ssh client. Very handy thing to have.

I use Mandrake 6.0 and Mandriva 2005 LE, Knoppix Live Cd (7.x?)
and I am starting to use Ubuntu Live and full install distro(I'm on the Ubuntu at the moment).. Not bad, a little bit less in packages, but really easy to install on a hard drive, the Ubuntu is.

Shinobi

I've used Knoppix and Slackware (rescue disk #2) to recover countless files on corrupt Windows filesystems... even some that UBCD4Win and BartsPE tools wouldn't read. Transferring via ssh in that scenario is a good idea, I'll have to try it. I usually hotplug a usb drive to move files.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:29 pm

iaus10 wrote:I've used Knoppix and Slackware (rescue disk #2) to recover countless files on corrupt Windows filesystems... even some that UBCD4Win and BartsPE tools wouldn't read. Transferring via ssh in that scenario is a good idea, I'll have to try it. I usually hotplug a usb drive to move files.

Here is a good graphical client that you can use on your
Windows machine to transfer filese from the ssh server om the Knoppix Live cd.

http://winscp.net/eng/docs/introduction

Download Here -> http://winscp.net/eng/download.php

Shinobi