Official Linux Thread

[TDMVPDPOY]

a few users on here using linux....

currently im tryin out the LISA mint version

i seem to cant add google chrome either through terminal and GUI method keeps on sayin corrupted...

another problem is how come u cant make hidden folders fkn....

[redzero]

"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux."

[sinok]

another problem is how come u cant make hidden folders fkn....

Just put a dot in front of the folder name, it will instantly become hidden.

For chrome:


sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

[spursncowboys]

I've been using ubuntu mostly but I want to try mint. Is lisa just the version name?

[spursncowboys]

I really want to try slackware but everyone tells me it is not much gui and I'm not sure if I'm ready for that.

[spursncowboys]

Here is a pretty sweet family tree of all the linux distros and their origins.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gldt.svg

[Libri]

Cool. I partitioned the hard drive and have an older version of Ubuntu. I would also like to try Slackware.

[baseline bum]

I haven't used Slackware since the early 2000s. When they were stuck on the 2.4 kernel for years I had to drop it and move to something with 2.6, but that was the original distro I used for years. Is it any good now? Does it still have the ridiculously slow bootscripts? I hated that back in the day when it would take 3 or 4x as long to boot as Gentoo or LFS.