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| Author: | Caspius=GCHQ= [ Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Right then... Linux |
I've got a spare 50Gig Partition... Going back to basics: 1. What do I need to do to install linux? Considering its a dual booting operating system..... Starting from scratch. 2. If I get bored with it  Is it easy to remove?
3. Which one looks the nicest? Are there any rip offs of OSX?
4. In everyday usage what can I use it for? Considering I use photoshop, Quarkxpress, MS Office, Acrobat and Gaming... The XP does these pretty fine... 
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| Author: | elbow=GCHQ= [ Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:11 pm ] |
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i use SUSE (5 cds download edition) on me laptop, went on nice and smothely, only hiccup was me deleting my windows partition (twice )
i'd reccomend finding a cheap copy of the DVD full OS version though, that comes with everything (and saves downloading 4 gigs of disk images) |
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| Author: | maxiplad [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:59 am ] |
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Removal procedure is easy. You only need to delete partition with linux, and then, boot from windows xp CD then recovery console, then type fixmbr, to restore the original master boot record. Those are the "relative" software: Photoshop - The Gimp MS Office - Open Office 2.0 Acrobat - Acrobat (there are a lot of readers) QuarkXPress - Alyssa (if my memory still workin') For gaming... There are some game that are native for linux and windows like America's Army, Doom 3, Quake. Other games, some can run under "Wine", other can run under "Cedega", a lot of others... dont run 
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| Author: | Grey Wolf=GCHQ= [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:58 pm ] |
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Dirext X games only run on Windows, such as CS:S abd CoD2, while Open GL games will work on Linux such as Doom3 and.....some others.......I think. |
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| Author: | Caspius=GCHQ= [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:21 pm ] |
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Decided after reading these posts I'm not going to bother... 
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| Author: | 3jorn [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:26 pm ] |
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Caspius=GCHQ= wrote: Decided after reading these posts I'm not going to bother...
lol was thinking the same... "Linux would be interesting to try out"... |
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| Author: | Seric=GCHQ= [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:59 pm ] |
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3jorn=GCHQ= wrote: Caspius=GCHQ= wrote: Decided after reading these posts I'm not going to bother... lol was thinking the same... "Linux would be interesting to try out"... I was going to partition my 300gb drive up to try linux..but Its just too much work for something that I dont really need. Windoze works just fine for me 
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| Author: | LeBeourfCurtaine [ Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:37 pm ] |
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There are OSX skins that you can install. Apple's interface is based on an open source standard that's used by all over the shop - Solaris being an example. Ian neglected to mention OpenOffice - it's free and the latest version is much improved with a lot more similarities to MS Office (Don't know if that's a good or bad point )
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