OT: New Virus?

[Xrati]

How do these OS's function with the different motherboards and chipsets out there? Is it going to take days to get up and running once you install one of them? I wish I had a better understanding of Linux because I don't want to lose functionality of my computer for any great length of time while installing and configuring! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon45.gif[/img]

[Thermodyne]

For a free first nix install, redhat is an easy install. After you have a feal for it then go to Debian. You can also dual boot nix and windows on the same system with ease.

For a web server I would recomend FreeBSD over a nix workstation build.

[parabolize]

For a free first nix install, redhat is an easy install. After you have a feal for it then go to Debian. You can also dual boot nix and windows on the same system with ease.

Many Debian based distros have easy installers (Ubuntu, Mepis, knoppix...). Redhat Package Management (RPM) has frightened a great many people back to windows.

For a web server I would recomend FreeBSD over a nix workstation build.

FreeBSD is unix based...

[Thermodyne]

[b]parabolize said:
For a web server I would recomend FreeBSD over a nix workstation build.

FreeBSD is unix based...

Sure, but it is a true full server build.

[parabolize]

Thermodyne said:

Sure, but it is a true full server build.

Not sure what your talking about.

[Jack Simth]

parabolize said:Many Debian based distros have easy installers (Ubuntu, Mepis, knoppix...)

I can't in good conscience call knoppix an install. I'm sorry, I just can't. I burned a knoppix disc - it "installs" by booting from the CD. When I'm done working with Linux for the day, I remove the CD from the drive, and reboot. About the only changes made to my machine are the ones I specifically told it to make. Knoppix runs from the CD; it doesn't really install to your machine. Quite the useful tool for your toolbox - almost no virus can touch a CD (espcecially if it isn't in a CD burner drive....) very little can attack linux anyway, and a virus that is on your windows system is unlikely to be able to deal with a linux boot. Very useful for cleaning up a system (provided, of course, that knoppix can write to it's hard drive format)

[Fyron]

Knoppix is most certainly capable of being installed as a normal installation, not needing the live CD anymore. Same with Mepis.

[Jack Simth]

Imperator Fyron said:
Knoppix is most certainly capable of being installed as a normal installation, not needing the live CD anymore. Same with Mepis.

Sure you can, but that's rather far from the intent of the distributions - check it's website; from the main page, under "What is Knoppix":

KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).

The primary thing that differentiates Knoppix from other flavors of Linux is that it is intended for a boot disk. Most other flavors of Linux (not all) are intended to be permanently installed on the main hard disk of a computer.

[parabolize]

There is nothing wrong with using KNOPPIX on a hard drive. All the main distros have a live cd or dvd. Some distros (like KNOPPIX) use the live cd as a install cd.

[Fyron]

Jack Simth said:Sure you can, but that's rather far from the intent of the distributions - check it's website; from the main page, under "What is Knoppix":

I am well aware of what Knoppix is. Nothing wrong with installing it. It is a fully functional distribution. Para's post summed it up well...