Comment: Who uses Linux (as a Desktop)?
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I successfully installed Linux on my server at the weekend.
I am running the Caos distro, was a painless install.
There are no official drivers for my laser printer, just some open source ones in beta, my friend had to package them up. Turns out that they give better colour matching (on default settings than the windows drivers, which I am really happy about as I print a number of flyers and price lists every month for my wife's business and was the main worry for me swapping over to Linux.
The default file system is XFS, but we could get it to work as a boot partition so had to create a boot partition in EXT3.
I'm running Gnome (its a 700mhz Duron with 512mb ram), Open Office, Firefox and Amule are the main apps, that's all I need, as the machine will run mainly as a file/print server.
Took me a while to juggle data off the other drives in the machine (NTFS), also remember how to do all the command line stuff to partition, mount format etc the drives and add entries to the etc/fstab file.
When I get time I will be swapping my laptop over to Linux as well, but it will be good to move away from Windows (well I still have to use Windows for my .net development at work, but I hope that will change as well).
Now using Firebug, quite useful, reminds me of the Visual Studio debugger (which is a good thing). Will try out Bluefish, already had that recommended to me.
Nick
I am running the Caos distro, was a painless install.
There are no official drivers for my laser printer, just some open source ones in beta, my friend had to package them up. Turns out that they give better colour matching (on default settings than the windows drivers, which I am really happy about as I print a number of flyers and price lists every month for my wife's business and was the main worry for me swapping over to Linux.
The default file system is XFS, but we could get it to work as a boot partition so had to create a boot partition in EXT3.
I'm running Gnome (its a 700mhz Duron with 512mb ram), Open Office, Firefox and Amule are the main apps, that's all I need, as the machine will run mainly as a file/print server.
Took me a while to juggle data off the other drives in the machine (NTFS), also remember how to do all the command line stuff to partition, mount format etc the drives and add entries to the etc/fstab file.
When I get time I will be swapping my laptop over to Linux as well, but it will be good to move away from Windows (well I still have to use Windows for my .net development at work, but I hope that will change as well).
Now using Firebug, quite useful, reminds me of the Visual Studio debugger (which is a good thing). Will try out Bluefish, already had that recommended to me.
Nick
by NickR on Feb. 14 2007
