hi dude, total open source OS, Linu/Unix super noob here.
all the while with MS, even development also all MS (.NET, SQL)

so, i heard you talking about Virtual PC, I just installed that and the intention is to try some other OS on my virtual PC.

so far after reading the post here and there, here's the rank I got.

1. Ubuntu, SuSE, PCLinuxOS (Windows like, can install apps without much hasle)
2. Knoppix (runs off the CD)
3. DSL Linux (can run on P1, 32MB)

please advice which distro I should start with which I can get on with my life like those days when I have Windows

I dont want to get my hand dirty under the hood yet.. appreciate your advice!

This post has been edited by bobtiang: Dec 20 2006, 11:39 PM

hi guys, so I decided to go with Ubuntu..
i downloaded the ISO Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS and installed it in Virtual PC.

the ISO loaded successfully, 1st screen is looking good with the choices menu


but after this, the image just get distorted.. nothing can be seen.
any idea why?

This post has been edited by bobtiang: Dec 21 2006, 02:06 AM

I manage to get the graphic right after select
- Install in safe graphic mode



I am using Virtual PC 2004, coz MS make it free now
i might want to try VMWare if its something better than virtual PC.

i felt asleep last night, this morning when i woke up. the installation is done, and need a reboot. during the reboot i saw that it failed to STOP the RAID driver.
but later on it manage to boot into the OS, and I leave it to run 63 latest update.

so excited to play it around after work, err...where can i found application like MSN for Ubuntu? is there something like this? or i am asking something silly?

This post has been edited by bobtiang: Dec 21 2006, 10:14 AM

great! GAIM is cool.. AOL, Yahoo, MSN.. all in one

hi sifu out there, got a couple of question on my new installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake
I installed it on MS Virtual Machine 2004

1. my sound device is not working, my sound card is Creative Sound Blaster ZS 2


2. I share a folder from Ubuntu, in my host machine (WinXP), i can see ubuntu in the network place. but when i try to click on that, it prompt the login box. I enter the Ubuntu login and password. but it wont work.


please advice, thanks a ton! newbie here..

This post has been edited by bobtiang: Dec 22 2006, 02:11 AM

hi guys, thanks for the info. I will try out the long Samba installation later.
now, I want to install BT Downloader, I had downloaded the installer in something .tar.bz2

here's the simple instruction I got from the site:
1. Extract the archive.
2. Check README to ensure you have all of the required dependencies installed. Unfortunately, the configure script is not too intelligent at the moment.
3. ./configure
4. make
5. make install (as whatever user you need to be)

please advice on how this work? where is ./configure?
what is make?
sorry if this is too noob. thanks...

hi kons, thanks for the help. unfortunately, it failed at steps 3 (Type ./configure in the same directory).
this is what I got:

admin@bob-Ubuntu:~/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

and attached is the config.log

thanks

This post has been edited by bobtiang: Dec 28 2006, 03:17 AM

hi Kons, i had installed the C compiler from the Synaptic packager manager. i installed the build-essential.
but still I got this... please advice:

admin@bob-Ubuntu:~/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Hi Kons, thanks a lot for helping out.
intltool was not install, so I had just installed it.
and the command ./configure so powerful, done damn lots of stuff..

but at the next step where I am request to type MAKE
I got this..



admin@bob-Ubuntu:~/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27$ make
Making all in man
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/man'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/man'
Making all in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/po'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/po'
Making all in share
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share'
Making all in desktop
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share/desktop'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share/desktop'
Making all in schemas
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share/schemas'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share/schemas'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/share'
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/src'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Desktop/BTDownload/gnome-btdownload-0.0.27'


the other thing, in Ubuntu rite? is there something like the address bar in Windows?
coz in Terminal windows rite, sometime I wanna go deep into some folder. i need to type in all by hand only?

thanks in advanced again!