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 Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:39 pm
You can't say that, some companies offer a boxed version of there distro and you have to pay somewhere around $50 USD, for it. But it is cheaper than anything else. More things GodFly did not state is: Its a virus free world, and if choose to get a anti-virus program all it is good for is scanning windows partition (if even there)Security updates almost every week so your computer is completely secure.faster bug fixes
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:14 pm
Hi there! I just joined after Zher PM'd me about the guild. I've been using Debian for say a year or two. My fiance is a Debian developer and has been using Linux since all times pretty much, so naturally I followed along.
I have to use a couple of Windows boxes at work occasionally and Photoshop, which I dislike very much. It's so slow and photoshop I find to be dreadfully non-intuitive. I hate that the local community college computer classes are very Windows-centric and you can't get away without a Windows box for a lot of things. I was going for some sort of computer degree but then I saw that the web design class was actually just teaching you to use FrontPage, so basically I'm an on again/off again art student. I'm not a crazy anti-Windows person, but I feel that it's irresponsible for something like a college to make it seem like Windows is the only OS, especially since its students are notoriously poor.
The only problem I have with linux of late is that compiz is the awesome, but my 2/3 year old laptop is a weebit too slow for me when i run it, and the lack of a Flash 8 driver.
Anyways, I guess that's probably enough of an introduction. I'm rather talkative today I guess. ^.^ Thanks for the acceptance into the guild!
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:23 pm
Welcome to the guild, and I'm glad Zher told you about us
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:27 pm
Thanks ^.^ Oh since my name is longish (and a quote from a great movie, The Seventh Seal) feel free to shorten it unknowing if it's easier.
Also, i feel sorta dumb now. Adobe came out with Flash 9 last month! XD It installs rather smoothly and easily too.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:31 pm
I have been using 9 for the past couple of months, they had the beta version open for download at labs.adobe.com.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:52 pm
hey welcome razz nice introduction. So you have a lot of knowlage about linux that is good to hear woman whit a lot of PC experience.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:56 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:15 pm
Ha, guess we weren't paying attention much!
@GodFly well it doesn't take much brain power to use Debian razz
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:18 pm
LOL, so have a look around and see if there is any topic that catches your eye, and my if you get bored enough then you can post screen shots of your desktop in our Feb. Screen Shot topic in the Off Topic Chats, Bump/Spam Treads, Polls Heaven... I think its about time for me to get off for a bit, I can't even remember how to type url xp
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:27 pm
@unknowing hmm still you need to understand Linux a bit if you want to use any but debian isn't that easy as you think but that is probably because I want more from Linux than graphic stuff.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:58 pm
Hey, My name's on the left there. <_<
you can just call me Dan.
I use various *buntu distributions on my machines, along with Windows XP on my main laptop.
I'm still in the learning stages of using *nix systems.
I founded a previous attempt at a linux guild. sweatdrop We all know how that turned out.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:05 pm
Well its good to see you here dan 3nodding So which version the three *bantus do you like best?
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:21 pm
vendion Well its good to see you here dan 3nodding So which version the three *bantus do you like best? Xubuntu. It's light enough to run on almost any of my 8 PCs. xd
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:41 pm
leiutenant_dan vendion Well its good to see you here dan 3nodding So which version the three *bantus do you like best? Xubuntu. It's light enough to run on almost any of my 8 PCs. xd Xubuntu is what I use myself normally. I prefer Gentoo, but I found I was always helping people with Ubuntu installs...and it's a bit difficult to troubleshoot a system you've never used. So I switched to Ubuntu. I find it a more bleeding edge version of debian really. Though the commercial support is nice. wink
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:05 am
Pirogoth Wolfblood leiutenant_dan vendion Well its good to see you here dan 3nodding So which version the three *bantus do you like best? Xubuntu. It's light enough to run on almost any of my 8 PCs. xd Xubuntu is what I use myself normally. I prefer Gentoo, but I found I was always helping people with Ubuntu installs...and it's a bit difficult to troubleshoot a system you've never used. So I switched to Ubuntu. I find it a more bleeding edge version of debian really. Though the commercial support is nice. wink Ohh yes. xd Who doesn't hate being alone when their unsupported OS ********? :
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