[Tormod]

Maybe it would be nice to start a forum here about Linux and open source software? We could also put up a news section on the topic.

I am asking out of personal interest since I have finally got SuSE linux 9.2 up and running on my home PC and although I will be dual-booting for a long while yet I realize I have caught a Linux bug and it would be nice to follow it up with a separate forum.

It would be a nice addition to our forum and also perhaps a good reason to start reorganizing our forum structure by splitting some of the forums into multiple forums since the topics are become rather wide.

What do you folks think? Any other Linux users here apart from Alex...?

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by Tormod

What do you folks think? Any other Linux users here apart from Alex...?

My usual linux box is awaiting another hard drive at the moment so I'm running knoppix on my windoze box whenever I need Linux for the time being. Normally I try to keep one or two of my boxes running one distro or another. I don't know how much I would use a forum though. Once in a while, if I encounter a question I can't find the answer to in one of the how-tos, I just post it to one of the LUGs.

[alexander]

Well, so far i know that aside from myself, Irish, Nemo, Killean and Uncle Al, all use Linux to some extent (Irish (and Nemo) most of the time the time, Killean started a Slack box, and Unle is a pretty heavy linux user)

[Dark Mind]

I'm a "windoze" user myself.

Sorry alex!

[alexander]

I'm a "windoze" user myself.

Sorry alex!

You dont have to be sorry, Dark, however the fact that you have not yet been converted to Linux is sad, as long as you at least realize that there is something out there that is a lot better than windows and that there is an environment out there that offers you true freedom, something that is as beautiful as the crisp chill before the sunrise on a very hot day, the nature after a rainstorm in the middle of the driest season the land has seen in decades, the smell of freshly ground coffee when you open up your eyes to wake up, that well-deserved A on a test that you didnt study for, the smell of fresh flowers in the mountain air after a few long months of cold winter... (ok, i think thats enough with metaphors)

[Dark Mind]

I personally think you carried it too far myself, but yeah. I got your point.

[alexander]

sorry must be that south park episode (where a big coffee shop moves into town)that was getting to me...

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by Dark Mind

I'm a "windoze" user myself.

Sorry alex!

If you'd like to try Linux download and burn a copy of Knoppix. It's a version you can run live from a cd without installing it on your computer. You'll need use a broadband connection for the download since it's around 750mb. Of the available locations I've had the best luck with this server. The latest release is KNOPPIX_V3.8.1-2005-04-08-EN.iso

[alexander]

but there is a problem with knoppix, so many people only boot knoppix, and never boot knoppix 2 and work without any gui, but think what that is true and real linux (you can also use fluxbox), then they get to real linux and they get all mad about not being able to do something in a gui and having to do that something through command line (even though command line is still much more versatile and powerful than any gui)...

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by alexander

but there is a problem with knoppix, so many people only boot knoppix, and never boot knoppix 2 and work without any gui, but think what that is true and real linux (you can also use fluxbox), then they get to real linux and they get all mad about not being able to do something in a gui and having to do that something through command line (even though command line is still much more versatile and powerful than any gui)...

Isn't it better that they try it at all as opposed to plugging along in windoze without ever trying linux. One of the things I like best about Knoppix is burning a few cds and taking them over to Best Buy or Circuit City and rebooting their demo boxes in Linux. It's fun to listen from the next aisle over as you hear things like "ooooh! ahhhh! Is this the next Windows?" from other customers checking them out