...A christian version? Wtf?
Well, I'm downloading Ubuntu right now. Half-way done.
...A christian version? Wtf?
Well, I'm downloading Ubuntu right now. Half-way done.
Ubuntu is a good place to start. Someday you may graduate to a better distro, like Gentoo. You can switch distros pretty easily (if you do it correctly). All the Linux distros are like brothers and sisters. Ubuntu is the popular one. Gentoo is the smart kid. Slackware is the weird ugly kid who likes to eat paste and talks to himself.
HA! Jokes on you UNNE! I don't eat paste anymore!
(you will prolly find one of the strongest rivalries between gentoo and slackware, Genj)
Yeah, Ubuntu isn't really the strongest distro when it comes to really decking things out, just because of how it's built in a little bit of a different way - I've had packages that I really wanted to install that weren't from an Ubuntu repository, and though the dependencies were satisfied, it still said that one library (which was there, same version and all) wasn't there. So occasionally wonky behavior there. But for new people, it's a great way to dive in.Originally Posted by Dr Unne
Gentoo is good if you want to spend more time tweaking your system than getting work done.
Gnome and KDE are desktop environments which house window managers like metacity, KWin, or Beryl. '
Gnome has a smaller footprint than KDE.
Ubuntu has the best Linux community. By best I mean biggest.
memory wise, but from what I hear, Gnome is kind of a processor whore.Gnome has a smaller footprint than KDE.
[B]http://www.psychocats.net/essays/kdevsgnome[/B]this link has a great article on the two in my opinion. All though it does bitch slap my "KDE is windowseque" arguement
I usually idle between 1-3%. Xgl takes up the most processor cycles.
Ok, some more questions. I downloaded PowerISO and its starting to piss me off. Not sure if I'm doing this right, but I opened the ISO with it and extracted it to a folder, and then theres a folder called "install". I opened it and theres a SMB or BIN (I forget which) called "smb". I tried opening it with PowerISO and it says the filetype isn't supported, yet I look at the supported types and .bin and .smb are in there.
You need to burn the entire .iso file to a CD. Don't extract it. Use something like Nero or Alcohol to burn it.
Oh alrighty. Do I just burn it there like normal?
Well, there should be an option to burn as an iso. That's why I mentioned Alcohol and Nero. Both those programs have options to burn an iso onto a CD. Essentially you're just burning the seperate disk image onto a CD, so once you've burned it and go into the CD to browse its contents, you will see all those folders and files extracted.
Alright. I'll try that out now.
Ok. It boots from a disk now. A window pops up with stuff like Installing Firefox, GIMP, etc. How do I actually install the OS?
You have to reboot your PC with the CD in the drive, and if your PC is set to look to your CD-ROM drive for a boot device, then you'll be all set. If not, you'll have to change the boot order in the BIOS. You can get into it by restarting the computer and seeing if you PC says anything like "Press F2/Del/etc. to get into setup." Press whatever key it says and poke around until you find something labelled Boot Order or Boot Devices, and make sure that the CD-ROM is above the hard drive in boot order. After saving your changes, it'll reboot and everything should be okay.
If your computer reboots and doesn't say anything about enetering setup, a lot of common keys to enter the BIOS are F2, F12, and Delete.
Some newer bios allow you to specify boot device without actually entering the bios setup. Usually with F12.
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