i always like seeing what other peoples desktops look like :D

Im soo jealous of linux users, is it easy to set up and things, and is Fedora cheap.

Id like to get a linux thing going on to replace the normal english xp (fucking pointless having it dual booting 2 XP's)

fedora is free...and its SWEET
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
you can get the 4cd install or dvd.......:D


oh and its a breeze to set up....you might need to learn a lil command line later but thats cake too

"Might"? If you're using Linux, you NEED to know at least ./configure, make, make install, and the basic commands like cd, rm, mv, mkdir, cp, dir, emacs/vi, and su. Anything less and you literally will be unable to install software unless it comes in an RPM.

lol...i meant besides the basics.
and most programs come with readmes that tell you what commands you need to run
and you can move/del/etc in any GUI

Originally posted by Izeberg
lol...i meant besides the basics.
and most programs come with readmes that tell you what commands you need to run
and you can move/del/etc in any GUI
Not as superuser you can't. At least in KDE, to use GUI to move files around, you have to log in as root then start KDE. You can use the console to log in then do your commands and such, and I find that plenty easy.

Just open the Konsole and su borg! Log out? Are you psycho?

I've used three distributions. Slackware, SuSE and Mandrake. I never got Slackware working, but I like the install, it's a pretty much minimal install and you don't get like twenty shells, fifty video and music players, or a hundred browsers. SuSE is definately best for a first time Linux user, it knows basically every damn hardware piece in existance(except my 3D acceleration never worked right, and a friend's 20 year old printer didn't work), but is WAY overbloated and horrendously slow. Mandrake is what I've used recently(not now because the boot loader fucked up and Windows wouldn't boot and pretty much died, reinstalled that and tried another boot loader, it failed, so now I've given up until I get ungrounded).

Another warning. RPM dependencies. EXACT version only in most(pretty much all) cases. Serious issues regarding compatability among programs and libraries. Unless done by manual install you can only have one library version, and you'll always end up needing something that's either outdated or brand new and needs the corresponding library versions. In short, all goes to hell and your computer gets horribly screwed up from the dent you put in it's case and the jolting done to all of your cards to where they pop out of their respective slots.

yea i can move anything as my reg user...minus stuff in the root folder which is nothing.
i use gnome...but i can do it fine in kde too


i've had trouble with bootloaders...well grub because it tried to put it on my windows drive and it screwed up the partition so i had to format...so whenever i install linux i unplug the windows drive and put grub on the linux drive then edit the grub.conf to add the windows drive to the boot menu

i never have much problems with dependencies...if i need something i can get it from rpmfind more times than not and everything is golden then :D

Originally posted by Blibblob
Just open the Konsole and su borg! Log out? Are you psycho?
I said GUI. "su"ing in the console doesn't give you root priveleges with the GUI.

yea it does....you open up any console and su then you can keep your root privlidges and you get keys in your taskbar showing you have the access
or also you can do anything that makes you put in the root password, like preference wise then keep the access

Originally posted by Izeberg
yea it does....you open up any console and su then you can keep your root privlidges and you get keys in your taskbar showing you have the access
or also you can do anything that makes you put in the root password, like preference wise then keep the access
Never did that for me in KDE...

does it fine for me in KDE and Gnome....not xfce tho...but its as simple as possible.


but someone post some desktops....lol

I said GUI. "su"ing in the console doesn't give you root priveleges with the GUI
Why use GUI at all is my question in that area. I mean, it's always faster to use the shell anyways. GUI tends to slow me down in stuff like that, I only use the GUI on linux for watching things, not messing with settings or moving things around.

does it fine for me in KDE and Gnome....not xfce tho...but its as simple as possible.
Might be a fedora thing, because it never did that in SuSE or Slackware or Mandrake. Besides, it's unsafe to stay in su for too long. Root access should last for a few minutes. (Paranoid)

well you have the option to keep it or get rid of the access...thats the idea with the keys in the taskbar....it very well could be a fedora thing...i've only seen slack on a friends comp and never got a chance to mess with it so i'm limited to fedora knowledge.
regardless i can move and delete any files in Gnome without root access except from the root folder because of my settings on my everyday user.
i still have to su sometimes in konsole
and i have to put in the root password to change any system settings (once again the taskbar key comes into play there as well)