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biatch0

Sep 15 2004, 12:34 PM

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There have been way too many of these threads lately, and somehow nobody wants to ask the question in one common thread; so here is one.

Distro Home Page
Debian
Fedora
Gentoo
Knoppix
Lycoris
Mandrake
Mandriva
SlackWare
SUSE
Trustix Secure
TurboLinux
Ubuntu

Download links
Redhat 1.0 to 9.0

Additional info
Threads like which linux to choose and related stuff will be merged into this pinned thread.

Cheers

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IwAp

Sep 15 2004, 12:40 PM

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Unix Base distro
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD

List of Linux Live CDs

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biatch0

Sep 15 2004, 12:45 PM

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On a side note, Theo De Raadt of the OpenBSD project will be arriving on the 1st of October for the HITB SecConf04 which will be running from October 4th to 7th at the Westin, KL.

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The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.

a usefull table for Linux Newbies.

edit for link update

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maianeh

Sep 16 2004, 10:43 PM

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distrowatch.com for reviews of the major distros

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Sep 24 2004, 02:29 PM

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I know some of you might be annoyed with this but I'd like to buy a book on Red Hat Linux... What's the latest Red Hat + Fedora version release?

Any book you guys can recommend for beginners? SAMs or etc?

ngtisu

Sep 26 2004, 07:05 PM

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i'm kinda non-linux user but interested to use one.... it'll be great if someone write a simple intro. yes i know its available on certain sites eg, distrowatch.com but it'll great if we can share info too.. =) hehhe

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Sep 29 2004, 05:03 AM

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Slackware+Dropline GNOME

http://www.slackware.org
http://www.dropline.net

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Sep 29 2004, 08:35 AM

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http://www.linuxiso.org/
a place to download linux distro

maelzx

Sep 29 2004, 08:59 AM

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I've been using Xandros Desktop Standard Edition for quite sometime.

http://www.xandros.com/

the cd is bundled with PC Authority MAG ... so it's free.

but you can also use it by downloading the Open Circulation by using Bittorrent at here (free) : http://www.xandros.com/products/home/deskt...c_download.html

m4djack

Nov 5 2004, 12:06 AM

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if you are located inside malaysia and wants a fast download, go to www.asiaosc.org. I downloaded Mandrake 10 from there. Quite fast...Well..at least faster than the other mirrors.

samurai1337

Nov 7 2004, 05:01 PM

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as a newbie in UNIX-based system, am i advisible to use FreeBSD? or i'll just stick with newbie driven distro such as mandrake and SUSE? suggestion needed

ngtisu

Nov 7 2004, 06:05 PM

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actually i started off trying knoppix to see whether i like it or not... then i downloaded mandrake and still stuck in my hdd, haven't install yet. but i've tried suse 9.1 personal... not bad actually. simple to install too...

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Nov 9 2004, 12:24 AM

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just to inform you guys that fedora core 3 already released
check the link in first post

APIITian

Nov 13 2004, 03:48 AM

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Knoppix STD
PHLAK
Local Area Security

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Nov 17 2004, 02:44 AM

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debiankl

Dec 21 2004, 01:36 PM

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I am a die hard fan of Debian and Slackware. Ocassionly I still keep in touch with FreeBSD and Fedora Core. Any Debian fans out here.

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Dec 21 2004, 08:19 PM

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yups, i'm a Debian fan too. although i don't contribute to it yet, i still evangelise it whenever possible

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Jan 2 2005, 04:52 AM

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QUOTE(samuraiKidz @ Nov 7 2004, 05:01 PM)

as a newbie in UNIX-based system, am i advisible to use FreeBSD? or i'll just stick with newbie driven distro such as mandrake and SUSE? suggestion needed

fbsd is easier for a lot of people who are used to DOS

plus there's a really thick manual and it's free

nsdin

Jan 4 2005, 01:12 PM

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Check this site :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winik/

This distro make by local ppl.

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