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« on: December 06, 2008, 10:14:35 PM » |
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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2008, 10:34:36 PM » |
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brrrrrrrrrrrrt
looking right son!!
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Jeremy
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2008, 11:11:20 PM » |
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Nice. As soon as i get my ram ill be rolling with Fedora 10, and ill have XP as a virtual machine.
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2008, 06:53:17 PM » |
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Nice. As soon as i get my ram ill be rolling with Fedora 10, and ill have XP as a virtual machine.
 I'm running an XP VM for CBTNuggets on my D610 and it only has 1.5gb of ram. It works fine. |
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2008, 07:33:58 PM » |
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My 610 at work only has 512mb right now.
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2008, 08:32:45 PM » |
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well this website is running on a server with that much ram too  |
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2008, 09:13:20 AM » |
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yeah mon. linux is pimp. Dusty, where you at? Get rid of Windows as your host fool.................
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To get your body into shape you must first get your mind into shape.
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2008, 09:25:54 AM » |
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yeah mon. linux is pimp. Dusty, where you at? Get rid of Windows as your host fool.................
Give me something to try that you think I might actually like and I will gladly give it a run. |
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Hey there!
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2008, 09:45:47 AM » |
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So for someone like myself who has ran Micro$oft forever now- what would it take to switch over to run Linux and...well whats it like- still GUI...on my home laptop I need to be able to edit images, email, and do the net- is that a logical switch over Windows???
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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2008, 10:22:10 AM » |
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yeah mon. linux is pimp. Dusty, where you at? Get rid of Windows as your host fool.................
Give me something to try that you think I might actually like and I will gladly give it a run. sorry man, they don't make an OS that feeds you pizza, likes and enjoys belches and farts, and will feed you sports headlines all day long.  |
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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2008, 10:25:17 AM » |
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So for someone like myself who has ran Micro$oft forever now- what would it take to switch over to run Linux and...well whats it like- still GUI...on my home laptop I need to be able to edit images, email, and do the net- is that a logical switch over Windows???
what I do is run Linux with an XP vm for Outlook (work uses Exchange 2007) and that's about it. Having the XP vm can help wean you off of Windows instead of going cold turkey. I'm sure some things will frustrate you, but once you get 'over the hump' you won't look back. well whats it like- still GUI download a live CD and try it out. Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS etc all have Live cds. Boot off a cd and give it a try. There are 2 popular window managers, Gnome and KDE. I prefer Gnome, but it's a personal preference. .on my home laptop I need to be able to edit images, email, and do the net- is that a logical switch over Windows??? Gimp is a great image editor, almost on par with Photoshop CS4. Email, there are tons of email clients, Evolution is the more popular GUI client that comes to mind. WWW, Firefox will do just fine. Most everything is open source, constantly developed, and often better and more functional than windows counterparts. |
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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2008, 10:34:15 AM » |
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Pete, you do exactly what I do as well. I need Admin tools that M$ only give me, but other than that and Exchange, all is good with linux baby.
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« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2008, 10:40:19 AM » |
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Pete, you do exactly what I do as well. I need Admin tools that M$ only give me, but other than that and Exchange, all is good with linux baby.
I don't even use the admin tools on my VM, I just use tsclient to RDP to a domain controller. |
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« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2008, 10:43:19 AM » |
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Pete, you do exactly what I do as well. I need Admin tools that M$ only give me, but other than that and Exchange, all is good with linux baby.
I don't even use the admin tools on my VM, I just use tsclient to RDP to a domain controller. you could really get down to just about zero if you had to. |
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« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2008, 10:44:52 AM » |
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oh definitely. Just use OWA for calendaring and use IMAP to pull your email to evolution. I like having my email and calendar in 1 though so until they write an exchange 2007 mapi plugin for evolution, I'm stuck with the VM.
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