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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Titan on August 30, 2002, 03:43:27 PM
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Is Linux worth buying? I want to know because I\'m very interested in getting it. What are people\'s opinions?
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dont buy it, download it
its open source (free)
when you buy it in the store, you get a nice shiny package to keep it in
i\'d go with either red hat or mandrake if yer a 1st time user
linux is not easy. there\'s no executables, there\'s no real play and play.
but it will do just about anything a windows box can do and better, EXCEPT play games
that will change eventually
i run red hat linux 7.3 on my 2nd PC on my network
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Originally posted by mm
dont buy it, download it
its open source (free)
That what I meant. I\'m a dufous. I\'m planning on getting the Red Hat one and partition my hard drive when I get cable. I\'d like a challenge and from what I heard, it helps with computer knowledge or something like that. I can\'t wait to get it. Thanks mm.
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Since I don\'t have a CD-RW drive, I bought Mandrake on two CD\'s (just payed for shipping and the CD\'s). And it had a graphical installer and found all my hardware. It wasn\'t much unlike installing Windows - so it can be done rather easily if that\'s what you want.
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What\'s the difference between the Mandrake and Redhat?
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mandrake is the most friendliest of linux flavors
red hat is slightly more complicated BUT more powerfull
from there it just goes up the scale from SUSE, to slackware, etc...
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Which one would I use if I want to make a game? (I hear it\'s good for making a game)
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Red Hat has little differences from every distro that make it annoying. Even tho it\'s what I use I\'m tired of them packaging gcc2.96 w/ every release and not updating their KDE rpms enough. But those are minor things. It runs well.
Mandrake is good too. I\'ll try Suse next.