linux???

[mimo]

hi,

now i'm trying out linux.

i like it, dont care if it is hard ot easy as long as it is stable, fast and secure.

i'm currently reading, and practecing on RH7.3

but i need to ask some questions every now and then, and one of them now is about utilities.

-Antivirus : I already found it.

-Image viewers: i think there must be a program out there that is close to ACDsee, sure other than that with KDE 2.*.*, i dont remember its name now.

-Recovery: when i tried Ontrack easyrecovery it couldnt see the partitions, so is there any proggie to recover lost data in case of a virus or HDD failure for linux?

-A PDF editor : linux has many viewers, and a limited creator, i didnt like it, but no pdf editor for linux now.


dont wanna make it long for u guys but sure i'll ask later

this is my favorite place :-D

 

[mimo]

thanks pokopiko for the info.

and i'd be happy to know if there is a PDF editor for linux, i'm not looking 4 freeware or GNU

 

[USS]

Linux?

You should install a Windows emulator, so that you can use the good softwares... lol ;-)

Allright, it was a joke I couldn't resist to do, but with a part of thruth in it Life is too short to keep busy with learning how to confing an FTP server by editing a text configuration file.

Linux is not yet user friendly enough (I tried RH 7.2, last time). It is becoming, but is not yet enough, IMHO.

And when it will be really user friendly, it will have bugs and stability problems, similarly to Windows. Maybe not as much, I don't know, but when the code gets bigger, and when the differend modules are more numerous, you can't escape to all the bugs.

I'm something like happy when a Linux virus is discovered, or when an exploit is found.
Happy only in that way: it reduces the amount of critics that goes to Windows. Windows is far from being perfect, but the latest versions runs smoothly and are stable enough, and it's the most user friendly at this time.
I hope I don't make any offense to the computer lover guys who fidn a lot of advantages in Linux, but there are other things to lean than computer sofware development, programming and so on. I prefer electricity, for instance, and electronics, but I still love computers for all the usefull softwares we can make use of to ease our life.

Anyway, without any doubt, Linux is still of great use for many applications, but for home usage, it's not for me yet. Maybe later, though, if software companies develop more things for it, and when it's even more user friendly.

 

[wickedz2000]

shit linux is as stable as a rock.....ya want user friendly???? try mandrake 9.0 beta 4 or wait till it is final I am using beta 4 and it kicks serious ass.....firewalls ftps webservers php perl tcl some 3d games winex .......pop the disk in and it is all self explanitory.... easy to set up and use.....and if ya have trouble the easiest way to find a solution is to type in your browser wxw.google.com and then search "howto your problem" and whamo your answer awaits.......

 

[USS]

stability

The kernel is stable until now, yes.
Windows 2000 and XP are damn stable (the earlier versions were not stable at all, I agree).

For the rest, I happened to have crashes in 2 applications that comes with the default installation of Mandrake 8.1 (or was it 8.2, I am not sure anymore).


So, I would say just use what fits your needs. I need DivX 3.11 and DivX5.02 encoders, I need some good flight sims (Il-2 sturmovik, right now), an office suite, and some Internet apps.

You can find the office suite and Internet apps for inux, but about games, and Divx, Linux can't help me. And I don't wish to spend time for maintaining 2 OSes on my puter, when one can fullfill everything I need. It's a matter of choice.