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harindu89

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I'm using windows versions for 5-6 years.now i want to swich to open source.

I tried many open source operating systems but never found the best one for me.I'm looking for a complete os with user-friendly interface, security updates and multimedia stuff.
 
Do you have any experience with linux at all?

Id prolly go for Ubuntu, opensuse or Debian, all these are easy to install and use. I think you can get live cd's of all of these, so basically you burn the cd, boot from it and you can just use the operating system without having to install anything, kind of like a trial run.
 
I too for a first time Linux user would recommend Ubuntu. Quite a nice, easy install, friendly OS that is pretty much all drag, drop and click based now days. Gives you the best of both worlds. Certainly give that one a try at: http://www.ubuntu.com/

Great forum community too over there so if you get stuck at any point all you need to do is slap up a post on there or go into their IRC chat channel and people will be more than happy to help you.

But also as suggested above, try the live CD first to make sure that the majority of your hardware is compatible. Saves you installing it, finding a few key components don't want to play nice and render you unable to do certain things for a short while.

Rove.
 
Yeh ubuntu has got a great forum and really helpful community, so if you ever get stuck with anything there more than happy to help there :)
 
Come to think of it I haven't used Ubuntu since before the Hoary Hedgehog days :P. Changed a lot since then I'm guessing? I remember the days of having to install it via command / terminal (during the war speech coming on). Had a quick ganders over their forum and what not and it seems a LOT more user friendly than it used to be, which is good.

Rove.
 
Hehe yes, its changed an awful lot, the GUI installer really is the one of the most user friendly interfaces ive ever used. I remember trying to install gentoo not so long ago and having to do it all command line based!
 
Yeah Gentoo was the first Linux OS I used back in the day. Took me just over 24 hours to install the sucker on an 800Mhz if I remember rightly :P. Compiling times succkkeddd on that machine. But when I had it up and running along with Fluxbox I think it were, I adored that OS. Manual was like over 200 odd pages too when I installed it lol. Made a nice read although the ended was kind of disappointing (didn't update it for a while and everything started going nuts when I tried to).

What sort of multimedia applications are you looking for by the way?

Rove.
 
Another vote for Ubuntu. Yes, it's changed incredibly from 5.04 days. It offers ease of use and the power of Linux, so it's great for new and seasoned users alike. Gentoo is a rough Distro to learn Linux on.
 
Thanks guys.

i looked in to ubantu. yeah ! its an nice os! but it needs lot of stuff to run mutimedia applications.i tried to download them on their site "packages.ubuntu.com" on windows.then again it is very complicated.there are too many packages.i don't know wich one is the right one.

i think i can get used to ubuntu.but there is another problem.
i have an adsl usb modem and i don't know how to install drivers for it.

so please post some instuctions about connecting to the internet from ubuntu.if i get the connection, i can download stuff i need directly.

Thanks again !
 
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Well, you need to be running Ubuntu in order to download/install packages for Ubuntu. Driver support for Linux has come light years from where it was even 18 months ago. My advice would be to download a copy of Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD 32-bit, then burn it to a CD as a .iso file. Then boot to the CD and let it load (it will take a while since it will be running from your RAM). Play around with the Live CD for a bit and see how you like it. If you think it's for you, install it to a small hard drive partition, then let it update itself - you will be surprised at how much stuff needs little-to-no tweaking for the average user.

Multimedia applications, for example: 5 minutes of your time and maybe 8 actions and you have everything loaded.
 
harindu89 said:
i installed ubuntu 7.10 .but i still don't understand how to establish my internet connection.

help please.
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Oops! I didn't notice that before I made my post. :o

Anyway... the driver might already be installed. Just click the picture of the computer monitors in the upper righthand corner and see if you network is there. If it is, just click it.

Hehe yes, its changed an awful lot, the GUI installer really is the one of the most user friendly interfaces ive ever used. I remember trying to install gentoo not so long ago and having to do it all command line based!
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My first Linux was Slackware and I had to get a 20 some page guide to figure out how to install it. :D lol It was pretty bad.
 
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