Salam everyone
just join the forums , seems pretty nice, looking forward to having a good time here
i am a linuX newbie as well.
by the way anyone in islamabad or rawalpindi could tell me any shop where i could find linux distributions other then RedHat and Mandruke ?
till now all the shops i have checked have mostly RedHat or rarely mandrake ?
I currently use Vector Linux , and its not much fun downloading the 250 MB iso on a dial up, whenever a new version is released.
new member
hi
Warm WELCOME to LinuxPakistan!!!
although i am a newbie aswell
for cds have a look here
http://www.linuxpakistan.net/wiki/index ... hiSoftware
and i suggest you to use slackware if you want to try your hands at something hard.
Warm WELCOME to LinuxPakistan!!!
although i am a newbie aswell
for cds have a look here
http://www.linuxpakistan.net/wiki/index ... hiSoftware
and i suggest you to use slackware if you want to try your hands at something hard.
thanks for the warm welcome
i do want to try my hands at something hard, i started with Slackware, but i switched to Vector Linux cause its based on SLackware , but its a little easy to install and use, and i am quite happy with it soo far .
i want to try some other distrobutions but , most are'nt available , and downloading is'nt much fun.
The CD list looks quite nice , and has almost everything but it looks like they are only available in Karachi ? or am i wrong ??
i do want to try my hands at something hard, i started with Slackware, but i switched to Vector Linux cause its based on SLackware , but its a little easy to install and use, and i am quite happy with it soo far .
i want to try some other distrobutions but , most are'nt available , and downloading is'nt much fun.
The CD list looks quite nice , and has almost everything but it looks like they are only available in Karachi ? or am i wrong ??
pakigeek,
Welcome to the group. You're probably the first member on the group who's said that a linux distribution is actually too easy for him . That said, try Linux from Scratch or gentoo. Guaranteed to keep you (and your compiler) busy for a long time!
Welcome to the group. You're probably the first member on the group who's said that a linux distribution is actually too easy for him . That said, try Linux from Scratch or gentoo. Guaranteed to keep you (and your compiler) busy for a long time!
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Appreciate that!
No wonder Vector is a bit tough to handle but that does not means that it is not easier than SlackWare. It's just getting used to it!
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IMHO, Redhat is the best linux distro ever.
Im using:
Windows 98 Se
Windows Xp SP1 Slipstreamed
Win2k Advanced data Server
Redhat linux 9
All dualboot.
IMHO, most linux distros are same.In the sense that most of them use the same packages like a gnome or kde desktop, mplayer or xine as the media player and so on.Its just how they organize and integrate the packages that makes the distro different from the others.What do others think on this point?
Im using:
Windows 98 Se
Windows Xp SP1 Slipstreamed
Win2k Advanced data Server
Redhat linux 9
All dualboot.
IMHO, most linux distros are same.In the sense that most of them use the same packages like a gnome or kde desktop, mplayer or xine as the media player and so on.Its just how they organize and integrate the packages that makes the distro different from the others.What do others think on this point?
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I use grub as the default boot loader.
GRub and Lilo are both powerful bootloaders but they arent recommended for newbies.
At any time u can uninstall any of ur bootloader and restore the MAster Boot Record to a previous version by either backing it up and restoring it using the debug command in dos or u can also use the fdisk /mbr to restore an earlier copy.
GRub and Lilo are both powerful bootloaders but they arent recommended for newbies.
At any time u can uninstall any of ur bootloader and restore the MAster Boot Record to a previous version by either backing it up and restoring it using the debug command in dos or u can also use the fdisk /mbr to restore an earlier copy.