Just a couple of days ago I put in a new hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP on my Dell notebook.. however it's complete crap, there are issues with drivers, and issues with the internet. Anyway, I just want to scrap everything and install Linux, but no matter how many of these posts I read, I still am so confused about a lot of things..

 

What exactly is KDE and Gnome, etc, and what are Ubuntu and Fedora in relation to them?

 

and does anybody have any suggestions for how I should go about getting Linux? or what "distro" I should install? I mostly use my computer for multimedia.

 

Lastly, after reinstalling XP, I was told that I needed all these drivers from Dell to make it function. Am I going to run into this problem with Linux?

 

I know I am not very good at this computer thing, and I appreciate any help that you guys can give me!

I am an extreme Linux noob any help would be greatly appreciated.

I need to know how to remote into my LTSP running fedora 6, from my windows xp workstation at work.

I do know how to use terminal commands, and things such as that. Please help, my boss says I need to figure this out in a hurry.

Ok i've been wanting to use linux for well over errr..... about 10 yrs and with recent innovations with making the GUI's so damn simple and install a breeze i can't say no any longer.

I've decided to install Ubuntu or Mandriva Power pack (any suggestions as to which one would be appreciated). I'll be installing onto my laptop which is a celeron 2.4 with 7xxmb ram. I don't use it for anything other then surfing the net and checking my emails. therefore won't be too intrusive of a change.

 

Now the question is at present my email program is outlook 2003 and i was wondering if there was a way to transfer/use the *.pst file from outlook2003 to be usable in linux ? as they're emails for my business so i don't want to loose them. Also the laptop is run wirelessly with a oldish 3com PCIMCIA (whatever the acronym is) wireless card would that pose a problem with linux ? i'm abit lost when it comes to the drivers and file system of it all (what i hope to learn in the process). Also would there be a problem with the touch pad on the laptop ? it's got a scroll ability ? (driver side run i assume)

 

All help appreciated.

 

Kudos for having a great forum

 

apologies all round if this has been asked before and i was too lazy to search (thoroughly)

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What is Linux good for?

Who uses it?

 

Background: these are serious questions. I have been dual-booting since Kubuntu 5.04. I also use Windows 2000.

 

I have checked out many torrent programs. None have the features of uTorrent for Windows... I mean showing peers, showing file chunks and progress, showing DL speed, all on different tabs, being able to specify high or low bandwidth on select torrents, being able to specify high or low or "don't DL at all" priority on the individual files within a torrent.

I have checked out many newsreaders. None have the features of Xnews for Windows by Luu Tran. And I mean simple stuff -- show the messages AS the group loads. Show the binaries with a special icon. Show the regular posts with a different icon.

I have checked out Nvu and looked at the interfaces of other web design programs. Dreamweaver for Windows lets me see code and design at the same time. Nvu and other Linux programs don't.

The Gimp forked into Gimpshop in 2005 and hasn't been updated since.

I can find no Linux software that does what CDex does, ripping AND encoding into Ogg and FLAC and MP3. I tried to install the latest version of LAME encoder (see end of message) only to crash and burn. To upgrade encoders in Windows, I drag and drop a new DLL into the directory, replacing the old one.

Classic video games are a lot of fun! The latest MAME compile, though, is from 2005 or 2006, I forget which. I could compile my own, sure, but see the end of the message about trying to compile LAME.

Two randoms: 1. My sound stopped working in Flash. Youtube vids are silent. Checked settings, asked for advice, puzzled folks, gave up. 2. Applets like KWeather install without icons. Yeah, I know the arcane process to start them. It's still really silly.

Examples abound.

 

I am in a position where I am currently or will be running WINE or a virtual PC in Linux to run Windows apps for multimedia, torrents, newsreading, web editing, graphics work, MAME gaming, encoding my CDs.

 

What do Linux users use Linux for? Is it just programming software? Is it using FOSS versions of programs I use, but getting by without features?

 

I better qualify that last one. I know it's possible I'll get a "they don't lack features!" response. Look at Amarok. Then look at every media player for Windows. The comparison is like a Swiss Army Knife (Amarok) to a nailfile (Windows apps).

 

So I am asking seriously. It's not like Macromedia (Adobe) have patents on showing code and design in web design software. Xnews wasn't made by a large corporation. I find threads about people getting it to run under WINE. Same for uTorrent -- WINE. CDex is open source for Win32. No port? And Linux users MUST play golden age games?!? Did no one compile MAME since 2005? If they did, can they not offer it for download?

 

Is Linux for developers only?

 

BTW -- yeah, if a piece of software does any of the above functions, I've tried it. I have installed dozens of packages of every type for everything above and see none with replete feature sets. But that's really NOT what I'm asking about.

 

What's the trick? Is running Windows virtualized, or Win32 apps in WINE, the dirty little secret?

 

What do you folks do with Linux?

 

I run it to learn. And I CAN learn, but running all Win32 software comes close to defeating the purpose of running another OS.

 

 

The problem with compiling LAME

I want to learn compiling so I go Googling, and go to

[/url][url=http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2005/9/25/h...on-debian-linux]http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2005/9/25/h...on-debian-linux

When it comes to step 4, ./configure && make && make install, I get:

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

MAME, same story.

Of course, this ignored everyone who told me that "having to compile your own software is rare. All you really need is APT." I never believed that, so it wasn't a rude awakening, but I don't even find this set of circumstances on Google.

I loaded up fc6 x86_64 and did the usual new OS stuff. After setting up the servers and using konquerer in superuser to view the maillog file "by right clicking on the file and edit with kwrite" I closed konquerer and did a yum update. After a reboot I went back to check the mailog file and got the following error KDEinit could not launch 'kwrite'. I tried to view the maillog file with a different editior and still the same error only with the selected editor name where kwrite was. I tried to use krusader but got the same error. After a little while I started looking on Google and discovered that this not only happens in fedora but in other distribution as well and it most often happens after a major upgrade (mephis,suse,knoppix) KDE. After trying several things that were posted on Google and finding most them worthless I came across this:

 

open terminal session as user and execute the follow at the prompt:

xhost +local:0

 

after I did this everything seems to work find now. If anyone knows more about this issue please follow up so I and others can learn something.

 

Thanks o_O

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hi all,

 

the site is starting to gain traction now and I wondered about changing it's catch phrase,

 

its in my signature and on the top of the page

 

'linux-noob: forums, tips, news, reviews and stuff :-)'

 

with the amount of noobs joining here and posting there problems perhaps we should make the phrase more indicitive of that,

 

ie: something like

 

'linux-noob: created by noobs for noobs'

 

or whatever, so please get your creative hats on and post some decent suggestions here peeps

 

thanks !

 

cheers

anyweb

Hi All.

I am Aussie living in London. Network Admin, and we've just decided to use Nagios on Fedora Core 6 for network monitoring and geeeez the learning curve is steep.

Im pretty keen to get good at this linux stuff - i've always liked "first principles" but it's very trying.

 

looking forward to participating here :)