First one to post here! w00t!!

[Jager]

Bill got 0wned...

[lore]

Eh eh.. good one

[Jager]

Here's another one...

[N.B.]

Nice pictures !
Hopefully we all can help users with linux as well .. so people with not that much knowledge are guided on the way to a Linux desktop system

[Midnightangel]

i have wondered about the benefits of changing to linux, why is it so good? what does it offer that windows does not?.

(please no smart arse repleys like: duh, cuz it dont suck)

[ipdave]

Offers stability, low-cost (Free), and teaches you a lot about networks, operating systems, and is just plain kewl.

If you want to check out Linux without partitioning your hard drive or messing up another OS installation try:

1. VMWare & load it in a virtual machine (file name) -- still takes up drive space.

2. Live Linux-On-CD that boots and runs right from the CD, no need to install anything (even works with some laptop wireless NICs) --> try h#p://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

3. Best of both worlds --> run Knoppix (#2 above) in a VMWare virtual machine - takes up almost no room, no need to install on your hd, full x-windows, networking, etc.

;-)

[Midnightangel]

thanx ipdave but "whooooosh" right over my head lol.
whats a virtual drive?.
i guess you need brains to use linux, oh well

[N.B.]

Originally posted by ipdave
Offers stability, low-cost (Free), and teaches you a lot about networks, operating systems, and is just plain kewl.

Yeah, totally right ! I have a server running now for 130 days WITHOUT any reboot
It really owns ... you will see .. stable, and for free ..

[ipdave]

Midnightangel, a virtual drive is just a big file on your hard drive that can be used as a hard drive inside your existing drive. A "fake" drive that is "virtually" there. It has nothing to do with Linux, it is a VMWare thing. Many people use a VMWare virtual drive to load a different version of windoze on their windoze machine. For instance, I use xp, but have VMWare "drives" of win2k, .net/2003 server, linux, and even a test version of xp (to check service pack updates, try new proggies, etc). I can run all these in a window just like any other program inside windoze. 2 versions (or more) of operating systems at the same time!

But to skip all that, just go to h#p://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html and download the KNOPPIX_V3.1-10-09-2002b-EN.iso image. Burn it in Nero (or whatever) and boot from the CD. You will have a full Linux without installing anything. Good way to check out linux without all that virtual drive stuff or re-partitioning your hd, etc.

[Midnightangel]

thank you ipdave, that helps alot, i am going to try the linux you recomended and who know i might be a convert!!! hehe
thanx alot dave

[lore]

hmmm that's the best way to fu*k M$

[peters]

Thanks ipdave, for your short and descriptive information...

[elpresidente]

hmm... sounds like something to eat ...lol...but interesting ...I think I will download it and give it a try !

üsse

[venim]

Thanks about the pics too...

[thorz]

Originally posted by ipdave
Many people use a VMWare virtual drive to load a different version of windoze on their windoze machine. For instance, I use xp, but have VMWare "drives" of win2k, .net/2003 server, linux, and even a test version of xp (to check service pack updates, try new proggies, etc). I can run all these in a window just like any other program inside windoze. 2 versions (or more) of operating systems at the same time!

I am planning to install Vmware for help with some MCSE tests, before I have had multiboot systems, but the disadvantage has always been that I only have 2 machines here, and I cannot really recreate a big network.

Is it possible to install 2 or 3 virtual machines of Vmware with W2000 server and make then internetwork between them succesfylly and with the host machiene? Like that I could test lots of things with only one machine.

I apreciate your comments on this one.