which destro is well suited for study perpose .....mean learning a linux system.

[Anorion]

You don't need to install most Linux distros to check them out. So run through a few like Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu etc. If you want to install a distro, first backup all data in a hard drive and then go ahead with the installation. Linux Mint comes with most codecs in the box, so it is the easiest linux to handle... from the ones I have tried so far.
If you want to learn the ins and outs of linux, then there is nothing like open BSD, for that purpose.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

OMG really great replies ......thanks all of u dear .Specially vamsi360,MetalheadGautham,j_h,QwertyManiac.


I do that budy first assign me ur email id......ha ha ....!!!

I have installed ubuntu .......my first linux destro .....i m really happy...........!!!!! I want i go this same time a another linux ....which may be fedora.....??

Atlast some of the destros i never heard of it .....it is hard to analyse them ....!!!!

You have hardly learnt anything yet.
But if you want to migrate, get Fedora 10.
But then you need to use it for a touch longer than ubuntu. Atleast half an year unless you learn really fast.

Practice using and getting used to using commandline applications/commands/scripts like sudo, g++, vim, nano, less, ls, dir, rpm, yum, ping, shutdown, halt, reboot, etc.

Learn to love man command and reading man-pages doccuments.

man nano

for example, would give you a brief tutorial on using nano.

Once you master commandline after using fedora, you can go to ArchLinux and see REAL beauty of commandline.

Because in arch, you will learn to appriciate using cd and dir to navigate and edit text based configuration files using nano. Thats the final step in commandline knowledge basics course completion.

 

[ambika]

@vamsi360,vinayasurya,Anorion,MetalheadGautham

U all take my words wrong I had said .......i will go for another distro ......means two distro Ubuntu and fedora.
Is this not a good idea to learn two distro at time ??
also i have an option of live cd??

Anorion.....u said linux mint and open bsd .......have u tried these two ......is open bsd is truly commandline like unix ?? I just started learning soo i have a little knowledge about these.

Atlast i have to say .....i am in great need of a distro which have programming capability fine .....
as i have to learn java,dbms,c etc .

Can someone assign me a open software for webdesigning ........like dreamweaver ....
which work for linux.

Why with in a short time are you changing a distro?
Ubuntu is a good distro and has a package management system which is the best in the present world followed closely by redhat's new package kit.
I suggest you use Ubuntu for some time so that you get used to linuxing.

for programming stuff........launch package manager and then click add CD-ROM and then keep your Ubuntu DVD in the drive and mark gcc,g++ and then install them.That's it! then as I told to you in the other thread follow the procedure to compile.

My advice..stick with one distro (I suggest Linux Mint or Ubuntu ) and then use it and when you get something advanced then you move on to fedora...

I get these error messages than what ..........??

E: Sub-process gpgv returned an error code (2)

W: Signature verification failed for: /cdrom/dists/hardy/Release.gpg

 

[thewisecrab]

@vamsi360,vinayasurya,Anorion,MetalheadGautham

U all take my words wrong I had said .......i will go for another distro ......means two distro Ubuntu and fedora.
Is this not a good idea to learn two distro at time ??
also i have an option of live cd??

Anorion.....u said linux mint and open bsd .......have u tried these two ......is open bsd is truly commandline like unix ?? I just started learning soo i have a little knowledge about these.

Atlast i have to say .....i am in great need of a distro which have programming capability fine .....
as i have to learn java,dbms,c etc .

Can someone assign me a open software for webdesigning ........like dreamweaver ....
which work for linux.

Dont change your distro so soon. First get used to this distro's environment, it's working etc. and when you can navigate/operate through this distro efficiently, then you can go for another.
Nvu can do web designing (although it's basic)
Most distros do support programming (I did run Java on Ubuntu a while back, but I dont remember how I did it )
It's best you wait for more to reply..

 

[MetalheadGautham]

@vamsi360,vinayasurya,Anorion,MetalheadGautham

U all take my words wrong I had said .......i will go for another distro ......means two distro Ubuntu and fedora.
Is this not a good idea to learn two distro at time ??
also i have an option of live cd??

Learn one at a time. As for software, ALL distros have same set of software available.
I suggest keeping ubuntu for some time longer and then getting fedora next year after a few months.

Keeping two distros on same PC at a time would also kill your internet connection. Lots to download if you want to keep both updated.

Anorion.....u said linux mint and open bsd .......have u tried these two ......is open bsd is truly commandline like unix ?? I just started learning soo i have a little knowledge about these.

Linux Mint is best said as Ubuntu for the casual user. Don't consider it now that you installed Ubuntu. Its pointless now to install it. You would learn much faster with ubuntu.

And OpenBSD is not linux. Its a BSD. Definitely not recommended at this stage. You have a long way to go before you can find OpenBSD comfortable to use. First learn linux.

Most collages are now teaching linux instead of unix and most unix commands work on linux. However, if you are one of the unlucky few who need to learn using UNIX, the only 100% unix compatible OS which is free to use is Sun Microsystems' Solaris OS. Its not too hard to use BTW.

Atlast i have to say .....i am in great need of a distro which have programming capability fine .....
as i have to learn java,dbms,c etc .

sudo apt-get install build-essential mysql-server mysql-client eclipse netbeans python bluefish

I may have missed some, but you just need to use search function in synaptic package manager.

Can someone assign me a open software for webdesigning ........like dreamweaver ....
which work for linux.

sudo apt-get install [B]kompozer[/B]

You would love it, because its the best freeware html editor available for ANY OS. It may not be a DreamWeaver, but its definitely usable enough for newbies. And its FREE.

 

[Anorion]

any of you guys actually compiled your own distro?

 

[MetalheadGautham]

I did

 

[mrintech]

Till Now I have only used Ubuntu 8.02 LTS (I think this is the name) only for 1/2 hour

 

[ThinkFree]

Till Now I have only used Ubuntu 8.02 LTS (I think this is the name) only for 1/2 hour

Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu's numbering(as well the distro itself) is very easy to remember. The number on the left of . tells the year and on the right of . tells the month. It's released every six months (April,04 and October 10). So it can have X.04 or X.10. That's why ubuntu version number started with 4 and not 0 or 1. So 8.04 = version released in April, 2008.

 

[parthbarot]

ubuntu rocks.... simply the best...

regards.

 

[thewisecrab]

Till Now I have only used Ubuntu 8.02 LTS (I think this is the name) only for 1/2 hour

You mean you just finished installing it a while back or altogether?
And it's 8.04 LTS

 

[mrintech]

You mean you just finished installing it a while back or altogether?
And it's 8.04 LTS

Altogether Ubuntu sent me Free CD 6 Months ago and I ran it in Live Mode. Never installed Linux on my PC. You can say I am a N00B in installing Linux and Windows on one HDD. And my system configuration is also too low so I will not take the risk. HDD is making KARRRRR KARRRR noise too My system is 5 years Old

Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu's numbering(as well the distro itself) is very easy to remember. The number on the left of . tells the year and on the right of . tells the month. It's released every six months (April,04 and October 10). So it can have X.04 or X.10. That's why ubuntu version number started with 4 and not 0 or 1. So 8.04 = version released in April, 2008.

Thanks for the info.

 

[thewisecrab]

Altogether Ubuntu sent me Free CD 6 Months ago and I ran it in Live Mode. Never installed Linux on my PC. You can say I am a N00B in installing Linux and Windows on one HDD. And my system configuration is also too low so I will not take the risk. HDD is making KARRRRR KARRRR noise too My system is 5 years Old

Then you made the right choice. Ubuntu really crawls on old systems. (saying this out of experience)
However, Linux Mint, (based on Ubuntu) revived the same system to quite an extent
So you can try that. (I sense another distro war )
And dual booting XP with Ubuntu is really easy. NucleusKore had posted a tutorial on the same earlier which is really helpful.

 

[ThinkFree]

Then you made the right choice. Ubuntu really crawls on old systems. (saying this out of experience)
However, Linux Mint, (based on Ubuntu) revived the same system to quite an extent
So you can try that. (I sense another distro war )
And dual booting XP with Ubuntu is really easy. NucleusKore had posted a tutorial on the same earlier which is really helpful.

Xubuntu should run fine on 5year old pc.
And ubuntu installation(even on pc with windows already installed) is easier than that for XP.

 

[thewisecrab]

Xubuntu should run fine on 5year old pc.
And ubuntu installation(even on pc with windows already installed) is easier than that for XP.

Oh yeah. I forgot about Xfce
It is a really light yet simplistic DM

 

[vamsi360]

any of you guys actually compiled your own distro?

Excellent question!
Once last year there was an article in digit to make a own distro and I didnt find it complicated at all and I did it.

But, I have not written my own code and compiled all the things together. But at times I sincerely say to myself "I myself will write a kernel in 10 years and come up with something close to linux just to challenge myself and use it at home" (geeky stuff which I want to achieve) .

 

[ThinkFree]

"I myself will write a kernel in 10 years and come up with something close to linux just to challenge myself and use it at home" (geeky stuff which I want to achieve) .

What? You won't share it and deprive users of VINUX(vamsi-nux after unix and linux)

 

[MetalheadGautham]

One of the basic things everyone needs to learn is how to compile your own kernel. Its actually much much easier than it sounds. You basically need to scroll between hundreds of options and choose add, discard or modulize. I recommend modulizing whenever possible and if some feature is SERIOUSLY USELESS then discard it. You get to optimise the kernel for several things, like support for upto 16GB RAM on 32bit OS, no. of cores, etc. Then compile using a ready-made script.

Quite a simple job, but pisses the crap out of you and needs HUGE amount of PATIENCE to read all those descriptions.

Luckily, you get to do the configuring in parts, and for a guy who lacks patience, it may take a whole week of 1 hour long sittings. But if you are a real gandhi, you can do it in a single sitting. Experts don't need to READ the descriptions so it takes them only a few minutes.

Before that, you need to set your cflags right.

 

[jck]

the first time i installed linux it was after jee and there was a kubuntu cd integrated with chip/digit and we had vista on the desktop(it worked pretty well with 512 mb ram and no gfx card). I was a total noob then and after installing ubuntu vista gave an error when booting up and i wasnt able to connect to my dial up connection in ubuntu (modem wasnt detected). i went to a comp place and begged for a vista dvd to repair installation but vista wasnt booting thru that dvd and it was the only one he had(he also claimed to have installed our vista thru that). then i tried to acces the vista dvd through wine and it said not enogh ram.... finally after hours i gave up.
and after getting the comp back frm the comp guy i was too scared to try again.



but now that i think about it it feels soo good to have control of my laptop completely
and that linux installations dont **** up other os's

i dont know why i wrote this huge long post now..... but im clicking post nevertheless

 

[Ross]

Then you made the right choice. Ubuntu really crawls on old systems. (saying this out of experience)

my computer is 5 year old too but Ubuntu (8.04, 7.10) runs fine, haven't tried 8.10, it may crawl so does F10, OpenSUSE 11.0 and Mandriva 2009.