Linux And Other Things

[holy_devil]

figure this is the best place to ask sooo :

i've asked some of these things before but i want to see what everyone has to say

1. if i wanted to change my windows partition to be a win partition and the rest for linux, the best thing = partition magic?

2. what distro of linux would you reccomend to a new linux user, pretty good computer with broadband(dont believe this matters though, but i'll download anything to abuse the bandwith ), preferably with a printable install guide for n00bs

3. is it possible for me to get HL running under linux? i've heard different things, but never really got an answer

i'll edit w/ more questions as i know i'll have them :| thanks for help in advanced!

[That Annoying Kid]

never fear zer is here!


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it may take a second becuase he is dicking around with photoshop and his anime sigs...
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[Uranium - 235]

Zerwalter, get your own damned account.



That said, Partition Magic is... wierd. It's fixed my partitions without forcing a reformat and such... but.

First time I ran partition magic: I managed to somehow 'delete' my D: drive. It was just... GONE. The computer had no idea it was there. After a few days, it suddenly reappeared from a vacation, or whatever.

The second time, it managed to lose three gigs of space. Eventually I managed to coax it into putting it all back, except there's still 55 megs of undesignated space floating around in my drive...

[zerwalter]

1. I highly recommend Partition Magic. It works everytime unless you pull out the plug on your computer (and if that does happen do not panic but more importantly do not do anything to the drive. I can help you fix it

2. I would recommend Red Hat Linux or Mandrake Linux for the beginning user as they come with great documentation and are rather user friendly.

3. It is possible to run HL as a dedicated server under Linux relatively easily. You can find some info here I am not too sure about running as the game but you can look for info about that here

Good Luck and I hope this helps. If you have additional questions... ASK before you do it because you do not want a computer that does not work.

[That Annoying Kid]

Zerwalter, get your own damned account.

he has his own, as you can see

[zerwalter]

lol TAK you forumite

[zerwalter]

Please ignore him... He is just a random person sitting next to me in Programming.

I still recommend Partion Magic because of its easy of use.

kthnx___

[holy_devil]

thanks for the help zer i'll wait a day or two more before i do anything to get more opinions, but those sites help a ton <3

as for the topic hijackers, remove those posts! i r h8 topic stealarz

[Niteowl]

thread cleaned of  mind numbing off topic rants.

Mandrake is uber straightforward, go with that. Knoppix is a linux distro you can run off a CD, and no need to install onto the HD (not holy devil, harddrive)

what else.. if you want to be UBER leet! go with debian.

[JHunz]

I've heard WineX runs Half-life and Steam rather well.

[DynamicPerformance]

What mind-numbing rants? i said Disk Druid is a much better program

Can't i voice an opinion? or do i just get censored?

Do you hate Disk Druid that much that you have to take it out on me?

Anyways, Disk Druid works much better, but partition magic is ok.

[devicenull]

Mandrake, Red Hat,
I prefer freebsd, but it doesnt have a nice little installer..

[holy_devil]

ok well decided upon red hat, curious to which of these i will need:

 shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso  13-Mar-2003 22:39   608M  
 shrike-SRPMS-disc2.iso  13-Mar-2003 22:43   645M  
 shrike-SRPMS-disc3.iso  13-Mar-2003 22:46   425M  
 shrike-i386-disc1.iso   03-Sep-2003 17:54   638M  
 shrike-i386-disc2.iso   13-Mar-2003 22:30   646M  
 shrike-i386-disc3.iso   13-Mar-2003 22:35   485M

not editing the list cuz im lazy :/

[Niteowl]

What mind-numbing rants? i said Disk Druid is a much better program

Can't i voice an opinion? or do i just get censored?

Do you hate Disk Druid that much that you have to take it out on me?

Anyways, Disk Druid works much better, but partition magic is ok.

sorry about that, you did make mention of diskdruid, my bad. i was just on a spree deleting noise from the thread. but you make a valid point.

[devicenull]

I would guess the i386 ones

[lolfighter]

I'd recommend giving Knoppix a go first. I'd NEVER have tried out Linux, going through the hazzle of installing another OS is too much work "just to try something out". But with Knoppix, you're not making any commitments. I still don't use Linux, but I'm a bit more interested now that I've tried out Knoppix.

[Grimm]

If you do get knoppix though, make sure you get the English version, instead of making the mistake of getting the German version like I did the other day when I was trying to back up some files when my comp was crapping out on me.

Unless, of course, if you can actually read German.

[Geminosity]

I hear tell of some linux users using 'gen 2' or something and speaking very highly of it... but I don't know much about linux itself outside of the fact you should get mplayer regardless of which build you nab ^^

[Niteowl]

I hear tell of some linux users using 'gen 2' or something and speaking very highly of it...

gentoo, i believe is the distro. it's apparently a type of penguin

[rad4Christ]

One word, Lindows!!!

EDIT: teh link... www.lindows.com