Q. if not, then i what is the password so i can access things administrator can do like add users and stuff. I use the live cd right now.
can someone find me the password on the website because i couldn't find it
can someone find me the password on the website because i couldn't find it
A. if you have logon into linux
you will get
$
prompt
means it is normal shell
if you want admin like rights
then
do following things
$ sudo su -
# passwd
New password: (Enter your new password)
Re-enter password: (Re-enter your password)
the main user in linux is root and not Administrator
Anything else ?
you will get
$
prompt
means it is normal shell
if you want admin like rights
then
do following things
$ sudo su -
# passwd
New password: (Enter your new password)
Re-enter password: (Re-enter your password)
the main user in linux is root and not Administrator
Anything else ?
Anybody here think Linux Gentoo is a good OS for a beginner with Linux and should i build my own computer?
Q. Ive grown up with computers since 1992. Ive used Windows 3.0, 95, 98, NT, XP, and i recently switched to Mac os x 10 and leopard.
Which linux os is good? Can it do everything windows can including playing pc games and dos games. How about video editing, burning dvds, cds, blurays and sound editing?
Which linux os is good? Can it do everything windows can including playing pc games and dos games. How about video editing, burning dvds, cds, blurays and sound editing?
A. It is a matter of opinion but I believe Ubuntu is an easier Linux distro to start with. As far as gaming is concerned...Linux is getting better, but still falls a bit short. Video, burning...etc. is as capable or better than Windows in most respects. Any Debian based distro is great as the Debian repositories of softwares are huge...much larger than that of the RPM based repositories.
linux gentoo or linux mint or stay with ubuntu or kubuntu or xubuntu?
Q. not a hard core programmer or anything. I just want something fast and easy, but im more familiar with ubuntu. Cureently have a laptop with intel core 2 duo ati X1700 mobility radeon with 1 gb of ram. I'm more interested in linux mint, but i dont knw if the way mint works is like ubuntu.
A. Miint is based directly off of Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. All 3 are qutie similar, all use Gnome for their default desktop., all 3 use .deb files for packaging. You can use your Synaptics Package Manager that you are familar with on all 3 distros, however if I'm remembering right, I think the default package manager on Mint is something else.
With Debian, you have 3 choices as to how "cutting edge" the package versions are... There is the "stable" release, "testing" and "unstable - Always called SID" (Sid was the boy in Toy Story who broke things...)
Ubuntu is based on the "testing" release of Debian, so it is half-way between Debian Stable and Un-Stable (which is quite stable, way more so than any Microsoft release) as far as stability and "newness" is concerned.
Gentoo linux is a completely different distro... It will almost always be more "up to date" than any of the above distros, as it is a "rolling release" As new packages are released up-stream and you update your system, you have that new release. Each package is compiled specifically for your hardware (assuming you set up the make.conf file correctly.) so is a little more optimized and tends to take advantage of all the features availabe on your CPU. Because Gentoo automatically downloads the source-code, compiles it, and installs the software on your system, updates take longer (sometimes a ***LOT*** longer) to apply than with a pre-compiled release like Debian (and redhat and every other "major" distro.) What you gain from Gentoo is speed, customizaiton, and a deeper understanding of your Linux system. (Read that "deeper understanding" as meaning "The learning curve is steeper") Because Gentoo is a "rolling distro" there is never a "version release" of the operating system... They have 1 or 2 releases a year just to be able to support newer motherboards to get the thing installed initially, but it doesn't really matter what version you "install" once you update, it's the same "version" as me who installed it 4 + years ago on this sytem I'm writing this message on.
If you want a "rolling release" distro based on Debian, that keeps up with the newest kernel releases and hardware, check out Sidux. It's tied directly to the SID (unstable) version of Debian, but with stabiltiy enhancements and some newer cutting-edge packages (like the newest kernel releases.) It is the priimary distro I run on my laptop... The only down-side is they do not "officially support" the gnome desktop, since gnome 2.24 (the latest version which is is SID) has some bugs in it yet, and Sidux prides itself on being stable, so it defaults to KDE 3.5.X desktop. (You can do an "apt-get install gnome" and it WILL install gnome without any problems, but they don't "support" it.)
With Debian, you have 3 choices as to how "cutting edge" the package versions are... There is the "stable" release, "testing" and "unstable - Always called SID" (Sid was the boy in Toy Story who broke things...)
Ubuntu is based on the "testing" release of Debian, so it is half-way between Debian Stable and Un-Stable (which is quite stable, way more so than any Microsoft release) as far as stability and "newness" is concerned.
Gentoo linux is a completely different distro... It will almost always be more "up to date" than any of the above distros, as it is a "rolling release" As new packages are released up-stream and you update your system, you have that new release. Each package is compiled specifically for your hardware (assuming you set up the make.conf file correctly.) so is a little more optimized and tends to take advantage of all the features availabe on your CPU. Because Gentoo automatically downloads the source-code, compiles it, and installs the software on your system, updates take longer (sometimes a ***LOT*** longer) to apply than with a pre-compiled release like Debian (and redhat and every other "major" distro.) What you gain from Gentoo is speed, customizaiton, and a deeper understanding of your Linux system. (Read that "deeper understanding" as meaning "The learning curve is steeper") Because Gentoo is a "rolling distro" there is never a "version release" of the operating system... They have 1 or 2 releases a year just to be able to support newer motherboards to get the thing installed initially, but it doesn't really matter what version you "install" once you update, it's the same "version" as me who installed it 4 + years ago on this sytem I'm writing this message on.
If you want a "rolling release" distro based on Debian, that keeps up with the newest kernel releases and hardware, check out Sidux. It's tied directly to the SID (unstable) version of Debian, but with stabiltiy enhancements and some newer cutting-edge packages (like the newest kernel releases.) It is the priimary distro I run on my laptop... The only down-side is they do not "officially support" the gnome desktop, since gnome 2.24 (the latest version which is is SID) has some bugs in it yet, and Sidux prides itself on being stable, so it defaults to KDE 3.5.X desktop. (You can do an "apt-get install gnome" and it WILL install gnome without any problems, but they don't "support" it.)
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