non-microsoft alternatives

[trains are bad]

Can anyone tell me anything about linux?

What about web browsers such as mozilla and others besides netscape and IE?

[fire1811]

im not a fan of linux.


as for browsers i use firefox. you can get it at www.mozilla.org
most secure browser you can run right now. all sorts of cool extensions you can get. and once you use TAB browsing you will never go back to I.E.

i love firefox

[trains are bad]

thanks a lot. I just bought a new custom laptop (per AO reccomendations) and that's probably what I'll do. Why no linux fan?

[FatMan]

Can anyone tell me anything about linux?

What about web browsers such as mozilla and others besides netscape and IE?

What do you want to know? I've been running Linux for years on a wide variety of things.
I use Galeon, which is based on Mozilla, firefox is also good.

FatMan

[Kevmaster]

Apple....the most anti-Microsoft you can get.

But yeh, Mozilla based browsers are the hottness...down with IE. I use Apple's Safari...woulnd't ever want to use IE again

[painTech]

if your just getting into linux i recommend Debian (easy to use, not to setup) Fedora core(red hat) or Mandrake.

I use galeon. never could spell it, take me like an hour to start it from shell/kernal/ thingy

[danheneise]

I myself started looking at linux probably a year ago and since then have tryed too many distros to even count, the main ones that i seem to have luck with are Slackware 9 and 10 and mandrake (haven't tryed the latest version), i tried debain also mainly becuase of it's apt-get which is a software installation/downloading program but am unable to get usb working at all on it . I have a samba server (windows networking) and apache (http) running on a pentium 4 machine with slackware 10. If i wanted to i could leave it up and running and probably never worry about it doing stuipd things like windows likes to do. I suggest you check out mandrake or Fedora (Red Hat's free edition NOT developed directly by Red Hat themselves though) these distros are the easiest to use and allow you a nice entry into the world of linux without the hastle of getting stuck at a command promt right away and not having a clue as to where to start.

[Fixion]

I run debian and I love it. I've been using it for the desktop and servers for a few years. Apt (software managment system of debian) makes installing things simple. But you can't get everything from apt*, after a while you'll have to learn how to compile from source, which isn't hard at all. If you want a minimalist system (unlike redhat and most others, but slackware is cool), its the way to go (hint: net-install).

But setting it up (properly) and configuring it may be a challenge for you**, especially if your new to linux. I recommend you download knoppix (google for it), and see how you like it. Then install debian if you do like it.

But once you have everything running, you don't need to touch it again.

By the way, I also use firefox, both on linux and windows.

*besides you don't really want to get everything from apt. Compiling it locally optimises it for your system.

**getting sound, usb, video card drivers, etc. working the way they should.