Linux And Other Things

[BobTheJanitor]

Don't you bring your evil 'lindows' half breed GPL-breaking spawn of the dark lord into this pure thread!

And yeah, I've tried redhat out and found it quite usable. It's pretty easy to get it to read my NTFS partition also, mostly so I could listen to MP3s, because really, why else would you want to read your NTFS partition? As far as running HL for gaming and not server purposes under it, wine or a similar program MIGHT work, but you won't get the same speed as running it under win. If The Chuckster happens by the forums again, I'm sure he'd be happy to tell you all about how he got HL running under linux.

[Dark]

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

eh gentoo is for people very familiar with Linux, and yes it is a type of penguin

picture of a gentoo penguin

[Black Mage]

nobody said anything about knoppix? the linux distro that requires no hard drive at all?

[JHunz]

Niteowl and lolfighter both did, you nub

[holy_devil]

having a weird problem w/ the redhat installer, i can't get it to recognize my keyboard or something, because i try to press like tab or space and it doesn't do anything

[Grimm]

I also said something about knoppix earlier in this thread.

And look, I'm mentioning knoppix again here!

[devicenull]

Yay for freebsd
Where else do you see makefiles that download the necessary packages, all by themselves?

[TheChuckster]

Yes, Geminosity, Gentoo is a good distro but it's geared toward experienced users because of its manual command line installer and the fact that you have to compile everything from scratch. The end result though is a highly customized and tweaked system built from the ground up just for your PC. If you like Linux, like I did, by all means migrate to Gentoo.

Also, like many others have mentioned, I recommend Mandrake as a beginner's distro (just remember to back up first!) but it's only good use really is trying things out because of RPM dependency hell, bad security, difficulty in configuring (editing the auto generated config files or recompiling the kernel often breaks everything), and all of the bloat that gets installed (even if you go to the manual package selection and uncheck everything you still have things on there that you'll never use).

Finally, you can run Steam in Linux using WineX but it's a fight from the start as various problems occur such as low FPS, bad sound, Steam glitches, etc. I managed to get NS running (and quite playable too) but not at Windows speed.

Good luck!