OT: Linux

Esben Mose Hansen · #1 July 24th, 2004, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SalsaDoom:

Course, all of the above is just my opinion

--SD

And untrue. E.g, Gentoo left at it's defaults is not optimized beyond the basics. (-O2 -march=..). Gentoo is stable as a rock, as long as you keep yourself to stable ebuilds. Please don't spread FUD about things of which you are obviously ignorant. Thanks.

#2 July 24th, 2004, 12:29 PM

Uh-oh. We're just done with the obligatory Nazis thread, and now it's time for the OS religious wars. Run for your lives!

Arryn · #3 July 24th, 2004, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mark the Merciful:
Uh-oh. We're just done with the obligatory Nazis thread, and now it's time for the OS religious wars. Run for your lives!

Damn! I missed the Nazis thread!

Sigh.

Gandalf Parker · #4 July 24th, 2004, 04:19 PM

One of my many sig files says....

-- I guess the new social rule is that politics, religion, and operating system are not topics for polite company.

Sheap · #5 July 25th, 2004, 09:18 AM

Slackware is a little more oriented to the advanced user, but I learned on Slackware (back when it was still the #1 distribution). If you are used to working in a commandline environment then you will be OK. You don't need to know any programming to set up or use the system, but if you do have some programming ability you can do additional things that you couldn't do otherwise (but this is not specific to Slackware, it's true of all Unix).

I use Slackware myself, primarily because it is very tolerant of being altered. Many distributions get a little antsy if you start tinkering with their stuff.

As far as Linux vs. NT/XP filesystems:
Linux has its own filesystem, called ext3. (There are other filesystems around, but this is more or less the "standard" one). Windows XP uses NTFS, which is called NTFS because it was originally developed for Windows NT. Files stored in a Linux ext3 filesystem can't be accessed by Windows, and while Linux can read NTFS, it can't write to it, at least not to recent Versions. It can both read and write DOS and Windows 95/98/ME filesystems. (And there are third-party commercial programs for both Windows and Linux that allow full access to the other OS's filesystems, if you really need it).

Esben Mose Hansen · #6 July 25th, 2004, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sheap:
Linux has its own filesystem, called ext3. (There are other filesystems around, but this is more or less the "standard" one).

Is ext3 standard? I'm not sure that is the case. If think SuSE use reiserfs (namesys made), and Gentoo recommends ext2, ext3 and reiserfs. The Last major filesystems in XFS (SGI made this, do not use without an UPS!) and JFS (which IBM made, and which rather sucks, I gather

)

Just in case you encounter any of the others...

Thilock_Dominus · #7 July 25th, 2004, 05:27 PM

Just wanna say I've complete the download Mandrake 10.0...next step burning

While I'm at it, I have some questions.

Seems there is alot of filesystems to linux, which one is "best"? and where do I find them? Or should I go with the one which comes with mandrake?

On my XP I'm using Nero to burn, is there something similiar or better to linux?

I like to mess around with PSP8 on XP and it would be cool with a paint program as good or better to linux?

I stumble on the web with a program called Wine, is it any good to run M$ application and other windows program with?

best regards
Thilock

[ July 25, 2004, 18:00: Message edited by: Thilock_Dominus ]

Thilock_Dominus · #8 August 26th, 2004, 04:51 AM

Installing Dom2 on the Linux OS - fixed
The root problem - fixed

I must say I learned alot

Now I just have to pathes Dom2, it is just an override of the old files as it don't 'self-install' itself, right?
What's the consol command for moving files? I've been searching guides and websites without any luck.

Many thanks for being so patience with a newbie Linux user I really appriciate that. Special thanks to Liga, Johan, Esben, taqwus, Sheap

best regards
Thilock

Ps. Thanks to the guy which gave me a 'low star' star rating. Nice to know that if people are asking question they'll get a bad rating. [/sarcasm]

Esben Mose Hansen · #9 August 26th, 2004, 05:48 AM

Just untar it over the directory. Despite tar's archaic options, I prefer doing this from a command line, so something like this should do the trick:
Code:

su -

tar -zxvf /path/to/patch/dompatch212_linux_x86.tgz /usr/local/games/dominions2

Sorry about the star (No, it wasn't me, honost!)

guybrush threepwood · #10 August 26th, 2004, 05:49 AM

"overriding" files in a linux command line is done by either copying or moving the source file to the target file.

So either

1)

Code:

mv /home/lukeskywalker/myfile /whereeveryouwantthefile/myfile

or

2)

Code:

cp /home/lukeskywalker/myfile /whereeveryouwantthefile/myfile

Option 1 would remove the source file whereas 2 would keep it.

EDIT: Looks like Esben beat me to it

- and yes Esbens Version is probably the easiest in this particular situation.