Linux FAQs

Linux FAQs

Why Linux is not as user friendly as Windows?

Why are there so Many distros / live CDs?

Which Distro is best?

Why does Linux matter when Windows is doing what I want it to do?

Which Live CD do you really use at least once in a week?

Linux GUI issues

Its loyal to its core

I mean its tightly integrated with the command line interface of the OS

It was designed, developed and used by techies.

The end user feels confused

Why Linux

Localized Software

Flexibility

Supports Old Hardware

Performance

Quality

Availability

Support

Cost

Security

Why many Linux Distros?

There are different distros for different people, purpose and processes

different distros for different people, purpose and process

People
* For Techies - Fedora, suse * For beginners - Ubuntu, Puppy * For Support people Knoppix * For Music lovers musix, movix

Purpose
* Games * Education * Science - Scientific Linux * Languages - BOSS for hindi * Religious - Muslim Live CD

Processes
Linux LiveCD Router or GParted LiveCD

Linux Installation Options

LinuxLive CDInstallationLight weightDSL / PuppyFull featuredKnoppix / UbuntuInstall Option

Number of Applications and Users are growing

Windows History

Windows 3.1 early 90s

Windows 95 Launched in Nov 96

Windows 98

Windows 2000 and XP

And Now Windows Vista
AFTER 7 YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT!!

Windows is NOT keeping Pace with the growth

Why?

Developers in the future will need more flexibility and room to extend the OS

Open Source is the solution

Free is the right price

Linux is here and will change the computing in the long run

Enough Windows bashing

What is my point?

Which Distro do I really use?

Puppy Linux

Why?

Why?

Extremely lightweight 60 MB

Boots in RAM
Therefore extremely fast

All needed applications bundled together

Easily open word / excel files (once you mount the hard drives)

Connect to the LAN easily

Option to connect and work on the windows network

Puppy listed at No. 18 at distrowatch.com (March 31, 07)

Wizards

Click on Desktop and choose Wizard

Choose Network Connect to network

For Anything and Everything there is a wizard

People love wizards and NOT commands!

Boot into RAMdisk

FAST

Frees the CD Drive

you wont hear much noise coming from your hard drive!

And the beauty of working entirely in RAM is that whatever phishing and spyware is going on wont make it to the hard disk!

Why not have your O/S run from RAM all the time?

Think: How about Linux based Thin Client?

Boot from other media

To create a Puppy Linux boot thumb drive, you simply choose the option "Install Puppy USB card" under Setup on the Start Menu.

The script will give you the instructions for creating the thumb drive.

ease with which Puppy Linux can generate a bootable USB thumb drive version of itself.

The killer feature : rdesktop

rdesktop allows you to use any Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 server exactly as if you were sitting directly in front of it.

an open-source version of the Windows NT Terminal Server client.

put my server's IP address in the data entry block below the heading server. For e.g. 10.0.0.11

For the options heading, I would enter -a24 (for 24-bit color) and -f (for full screen)

As soon as I selected OK, the screen would display my Microsoft XP login screen.

Once I am logged in, it would be as if I were working directly on my Microsoft XP server.

Highlights:

Puppy Linux is not based on any other distribution. Puppy use a different binary package format than the more popular distros.

unlike Damn Small Linux, which was originally derived from KNOPPIX

Creator and lead developer Barry Kauler wrote almost everything from scratch.

Giving way to many unique ideas that have captured the interest of Linux users

Applications: out of the box

GAIM messenger which handles all the major IMs like Yahoo! and MSN.

pdf reader

An Internet suite, firewall, media player, word processor, FTP program, spreadsheet program, DVD/CD player/burner, and an IRC client

Word Processor: Abi word

Puppy Linux with gxine playing DVD

Puppy Skins

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/DotPups

scroll down to the section on WindowManagers

Click on "IceWM Full" and download it

After that, grab "IceWM Menu for Puppy" and "XP Theme for IceWM."

Use the filemanager, Rox, to install the applications you downloaded

get out of X Windows by hitting alt-ctrl-backspace

Once you are back at the command line, type in startx

Puppy will now have a new look and feel

You can then test out the available themes under the Start Menu --> Themes

Needs more than 64 MB RAM for storage

Puppy Skin

Install extra packages

Install extra packages not found on the main distribution by using Puppy-Unleashed compressed (.tgz) archives.

Official way to install extra packages: PupGet

Unofficial way to install : DotPup

the installation is so simple that even a novice could do it

Both are intuitive, providing a large range of open source software packages for every taste and purpose.

Official way to install extra packages: PupGet

Go to the start menu and chose PupGet.

A green window will pop up.

Chose the Install or remove packages and a list of applications that you can add will pop up. The system will download and then, using the file manager the system will find the files and a simple click on the program will install.

Once the new files are installed, you have to stop X windows in order for the new applications to become accessible.

Ctrl-alt-backspace will stop X windows and you can restart by typing startx.

Unofficial way to install : DotPup

it provids a long list of third-party software built by Puppy Linux enthusiasts.

Since Puppy supports Unionfs (if you specify the option at boot prompt), software packages can also be installed while in "live CD" mode.

Save your data on to the Live CD

Remaster is SO EASY

Puppy Linux allows you to save your data on a CDROM version of itself.

It means that you can create a live Puppy Linux CD that has all the documents you need to carry with you

Create and distribute applications with OS

EduPup - to let the children to learn computers having some fun at the same time with TuxPaint, TuxType and TuxMath.

Hacao - a Vietnamese-language Puppy

Grafpub - for digital imaging professionals and graphic artists with GIMP, Inkscape, scribus

Games

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