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William R. Mosher
Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William
William
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John Jay Smith
Most of them use the same thing..
Samba client and user...
the easyiest to use was Linspire. It worked right away.
Linspire is not free though...
Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William
Samba client and user...
the easyiest to use was Linspire. It worked right away.
Linspire is not free though...
Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William
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A Guy Called Tyketto
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Any and all of them.
BL.
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William R. Mosher said:
Any and all of them.
BL.
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rockwell
William said:
I use Fedora Core 5, but it doesn't matter which distro you use so much
as which version of Samba you use on any given distro. I would suggest
using the latest. Good luck.
J
John Jay Smith
correction : Samba client and Server ! lol
Mandriva worked well for me...
"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message Most of them use the same thing..
Samba client and user...
the easyiest to use was Linspire. It worked right away.
Linspire is not free though...
Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William
Mandriva worked well for me...
"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message Most of them use the same thing..
Samba client and user...
the easyiest to use was Linspire. It worked right away.
Linspire is not free though...
Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William
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jonah
I like SuSE but any of the major distros are as good to learn on,
Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva & Suse being the main ones CentOS is more
business oriented but very good also.Its Samba that is the usual
application to do the network stuff these days and its common to most
distros, but can be tricky to set up.
Lindows (Linspire) is supposed to be the most user friendly of them
all but Linux although a lot easier than a few years back still
requires a lot more effort than Windows, the learning curve is fairly
steep, make the effort though its worth it.
In fact the best way to get a Linux expert quickly is give a box to
someone who has never seen Windows, far easier to learn without having
to un-learn Windows habits at the same time. I ask my 10 year old
Grandson questions re SuSE these days, he has only ever used SuSE and
finds it easier than I do.
Jonah
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Ground Cover
William said:
None. Linux does not work well, period.
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John Boy
Ground said:
Ground Cover is as full of horse manure as one
individual can be!
I have used several Linux distributions and
networked ALL OF THEM with Win XP, both x86 and
x64. I have not gotten around to looking at it
with Vista. The distribution I am really
impressed with is Xandros. I currently have the
free 3.02 version installed and am seriously
considering the latest version 4.0. Xandros has
to be the best distribution available currently.
It installs almost flawlessly and definitely
faster than any flavor of windows!
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Ground Cover
You proclaim your own *******. I almost pity you.
J
John Boy
Ground said:
Obviously your ignorance is at a level that
attempting to carry on an intelligent discourse
with you would be an exercise in futility.
Hopefully you will mature and become educated as
you grow up.
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Ground Cover
I don't attempt, I do. It is you who are "attempting" to "carryon on
intelligently". I wish you well in the endeavour. Scarpping off Linux from
your computers would decidedly bolster your efforts in this regard.
MaxBlast4 has a zero-fill utility that is excellent in getting rid of
harddrive grub infestations.
intelligently". I wish you well in the endeavour. Scarpping off Linux from
your computers would decidedly bolster your efforts in this regard.
MaxBlast4 has a zero-fill utility that is excellent in getting rid of
harddrive grub infestations.
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Luke Fitzwater
Depends on what you are trying to do with Linux. Like Windows, Linux is
not perfect; however I have found it to support older hardware where as
Windows and/or the manufactures of said hardware have given up years ago.
As far as working well, lets just say all my servers are Linux here at
my shop because of the reliability of the platform.
I even ran dual boot with XP for my game machine, and my Elder Scrolls:
Morrowind runs faster and more stable than XP has ever ran it.
-Luke
not perfect; however I have found it to support older hardware where as
Windows and/or the manufactures of said hardware have given up years ago.
As far as working well, lets just say all my servers are Linux here at
my shop because of the reliability of the platform.
I even ran dual boot with XP for my game machine, and my Elder Scrolls:
Morrowind runs faster and more stable than XP has ever ran it.
-Luke
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Raven Mill
I'm always teased by the LFWPT because I prefer Mandriva2006 when it comes
to setting it up on a home windows network. As of yet, I haven't had many
problems getting the thing up and going along side the windows machines.
I'm sure there's better but considering how many distros there are and how
long it would take to install each distro to try it out, I'm sticking to
that.
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Takali S. Omega
Manager, Raven Mill Computers
Owner, SynTaks E-Works
Host of TechTAK on KFAR 660am
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Intel Presler Pentium D 950
2GB OCZ DDR2-800
2x eVGA 7600 SLI
2x WD 250 SATA2
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| Depends on what you are trying to do with Linux. Like Windows, Linux is
| not perfect; however I have found it to support older hardware where as
| Windows and/or the manufactures of said hardware have given up years ago.
|
| As far as working well, lets just say all my servers are Linux here at
| my shop because of the reliability of the platform.
|
| I even ran dual boot with XP for my game machine, and my Elder Scrolls:
| Morrowind runs faster and more stable than XP has ever ran it.
|
| -Luke
|
| Ground Cover wrote:
| > William R. Mosher wrote:
| >> Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation
| >> with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
| >>
| >> William
| >
| > None. Linux does not work well, period.
| >
| >
to setting it up on a home windows network. As of yet, I haven't had many
problems getting the thing up and going along side the windows machines.
I'm sure there's better but considering how many distros there are and how
long it would take to install each distro to try it out, I'm sticking to
that.
--
Takali S. Omega
Manager, Raven Mill Computers
Owner, SynTaks E-Works
Host of TechTAK on KFAR 660am
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ASUS P5N32SLI Deluxe
Intel Presler Pentium D 950
2GB OCZ DDR2-800
2x eVGA 7600 SLI
2x WD 250 SATA2
-------------------------------------
| Depends on what you are trying to do with Linux. Like Windows, Linux is
| not perfect; however I have found it to support older hardware where as
| Windows and/or the manufactures of said hardware have given up years ago.
|
| As far as working well, lets just say all my servers are Linux here at
| my shop because of the reliability of the platform.
|
| I even ran dual boot with XP for my game machine, and my Elder Scrolls:
| Morrowind runs faster and more stable than XP has ever ran it.
|
| -Luke
|
| Ground Cover wrote:
| > William R. Mosher wrote:
| >> Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation
| >> with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
| >>
| >> William
| >
| > None. Linux does not work well, period.
| >
| >
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Ground Cover
Understatement of the decade.
So what? I dont use the i486 anymore.
No kidding. But with older hardware one is much more likekly to find a
Windows driver than a Linux one (yet another fact of life Linux advocates
ignore)
What a 53% uptime? Windows gets uptime beyond anything Linux/UNIX ever
achieves:
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/200...able-than-redhat-linux-yes-says-yankee-group/
Games and Linux now? - Hmmpf - la la land - let's not get beyond ourselves
here.
So what? I dont use the i486 anymore.
No kidding. But with older hardware one is much more likekly to find a
Windows driver than a Linux one (yet another fact of life Linux advocates
ignore)
What a 53% uptime? Windows gets uptime beyond anything Linux/UNIX ever
achieves:
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/200...able-than-redhat-linux-yes-says-yankee-group/
Games and Linux now? - Hmmpf - la la land - let's not get beyond ourselves
here.
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Luke Fitzwater
Quit picking on my 486's; they make great router/proxy/dns servers. No
seriously, the older hardware dilemma is facing a lot of companies that
have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, into
computer systems that Microsoft nor the hardware vendor will support
anymore. I'm not talking ancient i486/i386 systems either, but actually
computers and peripherals that are less than three years old.
Thats nice that you can pull stats out of your rump, but you may want to
use real world stats next time you pull a link from a search engine.
Also you also may want to proof read what they are saying. Windows
Server 2003 is based off of XP code not Vista (Vista's server code is
called Longhorn). Secondly, the same link also discredits the origins
and the group that did the study. Lastly, it's a blog ... do I need to
say more? If you would like to read the original article off of Yankee
Group site, here ya go
http://www.yankeegroup.com/public/n...leases/news.serverreliabilitysurvey.DiDio.htm
It just states that Windows Server 2003 had finally achieved a high
state of reliability pushing past Red Hat Enterprise Linux in uptime and
it was still bested by two POSIX OSes, Sun Solaris 10 and HP-UX. Those
two OSes are still UNIX core. Unfortunately the article does not state
the nature of the failures: hardware, OS, software, other... I wouldn't
be surprised that ALL the server failures on the test were hardware
(including Windows 2003 Server).
Try these stats:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/06/six_hosting_companies_most_reliable_hoster_in_may.html
It seems that in the month of May of this year 9 of the top 10 most
reliable hosting companies use POSIX based OS, 5 of those 9 trust Linux.
If you want to see a bigger sample check out the current top 50 hosts.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters 22 of those 50 use
Linux, and only one of those have a failure time of 0.63% of the time;
the rest have an 100% uptime.
Games under Linux or POSIX in general is also a subject you obviously do
not know about. Let me enlighten you.
There are an abundance of games available for Linux. Some exclusive,
some have been ported to or from Windows. Poke around these two sites
and see for yourself. http://www.linuxgames.com/ and
http://happypenguin.org/
If these two sites do not have the types of games you are looking for
then you might want to try WINE or TransGaming (aka WINE-X) to play your
Windows games under Linux. available at http://www.winehq.org and
http://transgaming.org
If you really want to see what can run under Linux, try this link
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/
And lets not forget about native Linux support from two of the biggest
game engines in the world, The Unreal engine and the Quake engine. Both
Epic Mega Games and ID Software develop and support Linux gaming with
native binaries. These two company's engines are responsible for over
66% of the new release titles that are available today.
The next time you quote me, please use the entire statement not just
what you pull out of context. If you were going to add something to my
post, please make more sense than "Luke should slither himself back to COLA"
At this time I would like to invite you to try Linux, Ground Cover.
http://fedora.redhat.com/ or http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/
or http://www.vectorlinux.com/
-Luke
seriously, the older hardware dilemma is facing a lot of companies that
have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, into
computer systems that Microsoft nor the hardware vendor will support
anymore. I'm not talking ancient i486/i386 systems either, but actually
computers and peripherals that are less than three years old.
Thats nice that you can pull stats out of your rump, but you may want to
use real world stats next time you pull a link from a search engine.
Also you also may want to proof read what they are saying. Windows
Server 2003 is based off of XP code not Vista (Vista's server code is
called Longhorn). Secondly, the same link also discredits the origins
and the group that did the study. Lastly, it's a blog ... do I need to
say more? If you would like to read the original article off of Yankee
Group site, here ya go
http://www.yankeegroup.com/public/n...leases/news.serverreliabilitysurvey.DiDio.htm
It just states that Windows Server 2003 had finally achieved a high
state of reliability pushing past Red Hat Enterprise Linux in uptime and
it was still bested by two POSIX OSes, Sun Solaris 10 and HP-UX. Those
two OSes are still UNIX core. Unfortunately the article does not state
the nature of the failures: hardware, OS, software, other... I wouldn't
be surprised that ALL the server failures on the test were hardware
(including Windows 2003 Server).
Try these stats:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/06/six_hosting_companies_most_reliable_hoster_in_may.html
It seems that in the month of May of this year 9 of the top 10 most
reliable hosting companies use POSIX based OS, 5 of those 9 trust Linux.
If you want to see a bigger sample check out the current top 50 hosts.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters 22 of those 50 use
Linux, and only one of those have a failure time of 0.63% of the time;
the rest have an 100% uptime.
Games under Linux or POSIX in general is also a subject you obviously do
not know about. Let me enlighten you.
There are an abundance of games available for Linux. Some exclusive,
some have been ported to or from Windows. Poke around these two sites
and see for yourself. http://www.linuxgames.com/ and
http://happypenguin.org/
If these two sites do not have the types of games you are looking for
then you might want to try WINE or TransGaming (aka WINE-X) to play your
Windows games under Linux. available at http://www.winehq.org and
http://transgaming.org
If you really want to see what can run under Linux, try this link
http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/
And lets not forget about native Linux support from two of the biggest
game engines in the world, The Unreal engine and the Quake engine. Both
Epic Mega Games and ID Software develop and support Linux gaming with
native binaries. These two company's engines are responsible for over
66% of the new release titles that are available today.
The next time you quote me, please use the entire statement not just
what you pull out of context. If you were going to add something to my
post, please make more sense than "Luke should slither himself back to COLA"
At this time I would like to invite you to try Linux, Ground Cover.
http://fedora.redhat.com/ or http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/
or http://www.vectorlinux.com/
-Luke
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Ground Cover
Slither back to COLA and have yourself a kernel panic.
J
jonah
Well I have had enough of your crap pal
kerplonk!
Jonah
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Ground Cover
I'm not going to call you a lunatic Linux loonie now .. but, hey, you are
plonking someone who prefers Windows, and doing so in a Microsoft Windows
newsgroup. I think there's a disconnect here? Do you see it? No? Did your
kernel panic again ??
plonking someone who prefers Windows, and doing so in a Microsoft Windows
newsgroup. I think there's a disconnect here? Do you see it? No? Did your
kernel panic again ??
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A Guy Called Tyketto
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I have to laugh at you. You're just so pathetic.
I have to wonder.. how many patches has M$ come out with for
vulnerabilities over the last 15 years, compared to linux? How many
different architectures has Windows been ported to compared to linux? To
be honest, I can only think of 3: x86, x86-64, and Alpha. One of those,
is no longer made. Linux? I can think of at least *10*. Yes, 10: x86,
x86-64, ia64, alpha, sparc, S390, arm, m68k, powerpc, mips, sparc64..
hell, even the Apple II and the VIC 20 run linux. I know the same could
not be said about windows.
Kernel panic? hardly:
bradl@aurania:~> uptime
10:22:34 up 819 days, 16:06, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.04, 0.01
bradl@aurania:~> uname -a
Linux aurania 2.4.26 #1 Wed Apr 4 15:53:30 PDT 2006 x86_64 AMD
Opteron(tm) Processor 142 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
bradl@aurania:~>
Your uptime, sir?
Your claim about drivers is a farce. I've been using this kernel
on not only the above opteron, but also on a 486SX/20. No lack of
drivers for any reason. Like another poster said, your lack of research
kills any and all credibility you and your claims have.
In short, your arrogance is only overshadowed by your ignorance.
BL.
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Ground Cover said:I'm not going to call you a lunatic Linux loonie now .. but, hey, you are
plonking someone who prefers Windows, and doing so in a Microsoft Windows
newsgroup. I think there's a disconnect here? Do you see it? No? Did your
kernel panic again ??
I have to laugh at you. You're just so pathetic.
I have to wonder.. how many patches has M$ come out with for
vulnerabilities over the last 15 years, compared to linux? How many
different architectures has Windows been ported to compared to linux? To
be honest, I can only think of 3: x86, x86-64, and Alpha. One of those,
is no longer made. Linux? I can think of at least *10*. Yes, 10: x86,
x86-64, ia64, alpha, sparc, S390, arm, m68k, powerpc, mips, sparc64..
hell, even the Apple II and the VIC 20 run linux. I know the same could
not be said about windows.
Kernel panic? hardly:
bradl@aurania:~> uptime
10:22:34 up 819 days, 16:06, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.04, 0.01
bradl@aurania:~> uname -a
Linux aurania 2.4.26 #1 Wed Apr 4 15:53:30 PDT 2006 x86_64 AMD
Opteron(tm) Processor 142 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
bradl@aurania:~>
Your uptime, sir?
Your claim about drivers is a farce. I've been using this kernel
on not only the above opteron, but also on a 486SX/20. No lack of
drivers for any reason. Like another poster said, your lack of research
kills any and all credibility you and your claims have.
In short, your arrogance is only overshadowed by your ignorance.
BL.
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PuppyBreath
This infantile expression of Microsoft envy gets so old. If you like Linux
and it works, use it and shut up about it for crissake.
and it works, use it and shut up about it for crissake.