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riteo, i say demon cos i know he's resident linux l3370r, well...
ive recently fuxed my laptop...suffice to say it needs formatting...and the choices to reinstall are as follow....win2k..linux. since ive never tried the latter, i think i'll go with that.
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i know fuk all bout linux. so am wondering if you or someone else could gimme some pointers plz, ya kno, whats best linux distro etc, and how the fuk i go about gettin it on the laptop....thanks
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/me slaps demon and his linux ways.
If you get linux to successfully run on a laptop without having MAJOR difficulties getting hardware to work, then i will be VERY impressed.
/me sits back and watches the flamemaster Demon at work defending his baby penguin......
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not at all - ive got loads of mates who run it on a lappy
imho use rh7.3 cos its the daddeh however u will prob gonna wanna go for the new 1 so go for redhat 9.0. I reckon tho that you should actually dual boot it - stick on windows 1st then linux 2nd so that the grub boot loader from linux works properly.
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lmao!
So to rephrase...
Linux wont work properly without having Windows on the lappy.
/me slaps Demon and his Linux ways.
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rofl
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not at all - im just sayin if it were my lappy id dual boot so u can use both for different functions... u could just put linux on and have no windows but then ud b without useful packages like ms office etc etc... my point still stands tho - go with redhat.
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ps - www.linuxiso.org to DL the latest version of any distro...
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Strange...
I could have SWORN you wrote above that
'Windows should be installed first so that Linux works properly'. 
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kk, and evewrything i need to install is on the redhat 9.0 distro yeh?
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yeah, but what i meant was if u wanna dual boot the system u have to install windows first so that u can use the linux boot loader.
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Redhat is probs a very good one to go with.
However
FreeBSD is good as well, the ports tree make installing appz to do a job very easy but its proper unix not linux. Currently here at work we've just found a new version of linux that is amazingly good. Gentoo linux rox tbh - its got the benifits of FreeBSD with its ports tree etc but the compatability and flexibility of linux, definiatly one to consider although it is a bit akward to go with and i would recomend haveing a second computer online at the same time so u can read the online docco to help install.
Harv - *nix runs supprisingly well on laptops. It struggles with some of the newest of new technology but as for MAJOR problems i've never seen any and we have a load of *nix laptop users here at work. i think its because in order to make laptops as feasable as possible most use standard chipsets and setups, theres no quirky configurations in general and its all in one solid unit not multiple addon AGP and PCI cards.
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oh 4got
another plus with freeBSD is that its probably one of the best documented operating systems out there. and alot of good stuff telling u how to do the simple things like set up X, and use CD's are explained, as well as how to config networks and burn CDs
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http://www.freebsd.org
http://www.gentoo.org
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savage has been reccomending us to use gentoo for over a year...
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ye i remember him flagging it saying it was one to watch but l8ly its got really good. better than b4. its now a very viable alternative if your looking at linux. only downside is its a bit of a bugga to set up by comparison
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its just a different world in here aint it . i was lost after the heading tbh......
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keep at it, you'll get there eventually 
my brother couldnt even use this forum or set up an internet game of CS and hes almost 18 - neither could my dad, so like it or not ur a computer geek of some sorts - bet u know loads compaired to many ppl, hell ur even looking to build ur own pc rather than head to PC World!
keep at it, you know more than you give yourself credit for m8
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aye - youll be a geek like the rest of us soon enough...
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lol....thanks for the help...im in the middle of gettin my old k6 together atm >< so havent had a chance to get linux on the lappy yet, have stuffed xp on there instad for the time being, btw, me, never bought a pc world computer xD always built em xD except for the vox solutions one, but that dont count :P
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