No reason not to play with/learn about Linux...
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At our Portland Domino/Notes User Group meeting last week, Carl Prehn from IBM mentioned a website where you could download a bootable Linux CD image. The website is called Knoppix, and their package is an ISO image that you burn to a CD and boot from. All the Linux software runs from the CD, and you don't have to worrry about mucking up an existing box. When you shut down and reboot, you're back at Windows with no trace of the Linux environment.
I did the download and booted the CD on my IBM Thinkpad. Without reading a shred of documentation, I had a Linux x-Windows desktop running in less than five minutes. I don't know how to DO anything yet, but it's a start. The CD has a ton of open source packages on it, including OpenOffice and an Adobe PDF reader (and games, and, and, and....) Everything except my wireless card was working automagically. When Alex (my co-worker) booted with a network connection via cat-5, the system recognized the network connection and he was off surfing with Mozilla.
This is just WAY too cool! No good reason for me to not start toying with Linux now...
At our Portland Domino/Notes User Group meeting last week, Carl Prehn from IBM mentioned a website where you could download a bootable Linux CD image. The website is called Knoppix, and their package is an ISO image that you burn to a CD and boot from. All the Linux software runs from the CD, and you don't have to worrry about mucking up an existing box. When you shut down and reboot, you're back at Windows with no trace of the Linux environment.
I did the download and booted the CD on my IBM Thinkpad. Without reading a shred of documentation, I had a Linux x-Windows desktop running in less than five minutes. I don't know how to DO anything yet, but it's a start. The CD has a ton of open source packages on it, including OpenOffice and an Adobe PDF reader (and games, and, and, and....) Everything except my wireless card was working automagically. When Alex (my co-worker) booted with a network connection via cat-5, the system recognized the network connection and he was off surfing with Mozilla.
This is just WAY too cool! No good reason for me to not start toying with Linux now...
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Posted by Bas At 08:05:31 On 28/10/2003 | - Website - |
You might have some problems sharing writable files though, if your laptop's drive partitions are purely NTFS. Linux can read NTFS, but can't write to NTFS (well, it's not recommended). But if you have a small FAT32 partition to 'share' things, you can have a ball.
Posted by Colin Pretorius At 12:34:57 On 27/10/2003 | - Website - |
Having a bootable full out linux on cdrom is a great idea to just keep around! I can forsee uses like booting it on a pc to read something from a drive or machine that has linux on it -- I've had to do that a few times. I may just go get this toy.
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 17:35:58 On 01/11/2003 | - Website - |
Posted by Thomas Duff At 08:19:40 On 28/10/2003 | - Website - |