Sunday, January 13, 2013

What is the best, newest & most efficient LINUX distro for SOHO?

Q. I am building a small office with 5 PCs. I am interested in Linux since it is cheaper. But I donât know which distro I should use, since I am not familiar with Linux. Also, where can I find Linux softwares & Linux tutorials?

Thanks.
Is it possible to run a Windows XP on Linux using some emulators? Is there any ASP Server besides IIS that runs on Linux? Or, can I run IIS on WinXP, which run on emulator as local web server? Because I am planning to build a web application using ASP.NET.

A. Setting up 5 PCs will likely be easiest with a 'ready-to-go' distribution such as Ubuntu. You can find a lot of information about the software, where to download it and more at it's homepage:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

There are however many linux distributions available, but if you're new to Linux, the differences will likely not matter too much to you. However, you can look here for a comparison of most of the more popular Linux distributions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions

On to your second question, you can run ASP.NET 1.1 natively in Linux using Mono, however it is only a partial implementation. You can find more information on the project homepage:

http://www.mono-project.com/

Additionally, you could run a copy of windows using a piece of virtualisation software such as Xen (free) or VMWare (commercial) to run a copy of Windows that you own.

http://www.xensource.com/xen

I would consider not developing a web application in ASP.NET if you wish to be in a Linux environment.. Several other powerful tools exist which allow much easier development in Linux such as PHP, Ruby on Rails and Django.

http://www.php.net
http://www.rubyonrails.org/
http://www.djangoproject.com/

However if you're dead set on using ASP.NET, you'll need a IDE, Eclipse may work, and there are plugins available to make it work better as a .NET IDE.

http://www.eclipse.org/
http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/plugin_details.jsp?id=266

Good luck!

Can I get Youtube partnership through my brother in UK if it's not supported in my country?
Q. I have a channel about Linux tutorials that has millions of views and subs. Youtube partnership program is not supported in my country. So if I change my id location to UK and give my brother's address (or whatever) who lives in UK, would that work?
I mean i could give ownership of the ID to my brother and change the country in account settings to UK, but upload videos from my own country.

A. If you really trust your brother, and he is indeed trustworthy, I don't see why not. I would however make a formal arrangement so there is no confusion later. The basic terms is that he acts as a representative for you in respect to you-tube and cashes out the money in return for something like 5% or 15 pounds per moth, whichever is less.

Does anyone know of a website with Linux tutorials?
Q. I'm looking for a website with simple tutorials for Xandros Linux. I've been looking around, but the only ones I've found are for Ubuntu.

I probably will change to Ubuntu or similar soon-ish, but in the meantime, I'd just like a webpage with simple instructions for simple tasks, like customizing my computer/ installing programs.

Thanks!

A. Here is a link to a few xandros tutorials. There are no manu around because xandros offers a fee for support service and tries to steer people to that. Many of the xandros tutorials here are for the eee pc which is a specialized "frugal" install to fit the eee pc. As you can see there are also tutorial for ubuntu on the right and many other distros.
Ubuntu has many more tutorials available.
have fun




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