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good 64 bit linux distro and apps?
So what are some really good 64 bit Linux programs?
And what is a good 64 bit Linux distro? I've toyed around with redhat on my 32 bit machine in the past but I've never found a reason to actually use Linux for anything so I got rid of it. The idea seems good but the practicality just isn't there - unless I'm missing something? But now that I've gotten a nice 64 bit machine (and until MS comes out with a good 64 bit version of Flight Simulator, I am not going to "upgrade" to xp-64 just yet) I've been wondering if 64 bit Linux has anything worthwhile to offer. Is there any reason to bother with trying out 64 bit Linux? Roy ps (I'm not out to start another flame war here - serious posters only!) |
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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:21:06 -0400, a wrote:
So what are some really good 64 bit Linux programs? To do what? All the programs that come with the distro will be 64 bit. And what is a good 64 bit Linux distro? I've only used one. Mandriva 2005LE. I've toyed around with redhat on my 32 bit machine in the past but I've never found a reason to actually use Linux for anything so I got rid of it. The idea seems good but the practicality just isn't there - unless I'm missing something? The main reason I use it is because it isn't MS. Meaning it was written to be a viable multi-user OS with the underlying structure that Tom , Dick and Harry can't screw up the system with viruses. And since it is open source and free doesn't hurt either. Not that that really matted much as I ran OS/2 prior to Linux and it was more expensive than Windows, but also was/is a viable virus free OS. But hardware support pretty much killed it being closed source. But now that I've gotten a nice 64 bit machine (and until MS comes out with a good 64 bit version of Flight Simulator, I am not going to "upgrade" to xp-64 just yet) I've been wondering if 64 bit Linux has anything worthwhile to offer. Is there any reason to bother with trying out 64 bit Linux? Probably not for you. ps (I'm not out to start another flame war here - serious posters only!) I'm not sure I believe this. Too many Linux negative remarks. if you really want to try Linux, there's no need to post about the worthyness of it, just do it. -- KT133 MB, CPU @2400MHz (24x100): SIS755 MB CPU @2330MHz (10x233) Need good help? Provide all system info with question. My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:21:06 -0400, a wrote:
So what are some really good 64 bit Linux programs? Pan works well. ;-) And what is a good 64 bit Linux distro? I've been using SuSE 9.1 for a little over a year. Seems fine. I've toyed around with redhat on my 32 bit machine in the past but I've never found a reason to actually use Linux for anything so I got rid of it. What did you want to "use" it for? Curing the common cold? World peace? The idea seems good but the practicality just isn't there - unless I'm missing something? But now that I've gotten a nice 64 bit machine (and until MS comes out with a good 64 bit version of Flight Simulator, I am not going to "upgrade" to xp-64 just yet) I've been wondering if 64 bit Linux has anything worthwhile to offer. Is there any reason to bother with trying out 64 bit Linux? Personal improvement? Breaking the Redmond habit? Avoiding malware? ps (I'm not out to start another flame war here - serious posters only!) You can't be serious! ;-) -- Keith |
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Maybe I should phase this differently:
What are some 64 bit linux equivalents for the following apps? Internet Explorer Outlook Outlook Express iTunes PowerDVD ACDSee Winamp Quicktime Picasa Yahoo Messenger Windows Messenger Norton Antivirus Spybot SD ZoneAlarm Microsoft Office 2003 The Myst games MS Flight Sim Winzip O&O Defrag Adobe Acrobat Windows Media Player 10 I'm not expecting anyone to have all the answers or to even recognize half these progs, but these are the ones I use all the time. For another question: I've always admired OS 10's Aqua interface. Is there a Linux out there with a similar interface? |
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:09:54 -0400, Dakota650r wrote:
Maybe I should phase this differently: What are some 64 bit linux equivalents for the following apps? This is a couple of years old but should help. http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-l...en/table.shtml Internet Explorer Mozzilla, Netscape, Firefox, Konqueror, and a few others Outlook Outlook Express Mozzila mail, kmail, and about 10 more. iTunes Don't do music. Don't know. Don't care.:-) PowerDVD Totem, Mplayer, Xine, others. ACDSee GTKsee, others? I think there's a few. Winamp don't know it. Quicktime yeah, there;s a quicktime player Picasa isn't that Picaso? Never heard of it. Yahoo Messenger Xchat? I really never use this stuff, but I know there are more than one. Windows Messenger Sorry i don't remember what this is. There are several messanger apps though. Norton Antivirus You don't need a virus program for linux unless you just want to remove the window viruses from stuff that passes through your system and then there's several free ones. I don't use one. Spybot SD ditto. ZoneAlarm Don't recall the name. Microsoft Office 2003 Open office and a conglomeration of other office type apps. The Myst games Never heard of it. MS Flight Sim Never saw it. There's at least one linux flight sim. Winzip There's many of these, that support all the compression protocols. I usuall use Ark. O&O Defrag Linux doesn't need defragging, but there is a defragger I heard about. Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat Reader, and several other pdf displayers. You can generate pdf files with several Linux apps. Windows Media Player 10 One or more of the players plays windows media files. I'm not expecting anyone to have all the answers or to even recognize half these progs, but these are the ones I use all the time. For another question: I've always admired OS 10's Aqua interface. Is there a Linux out there with a similar interface? I don't know what the Aqua Interface is. Water fountain maybe?:-) -- KT133 MB, CPU @2400MHz (24x100): SIS755 MB CPU @2330MHz (10x233) Need good help? Provide all system info with question. My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:09:54 -0400, Dakota650r wrote:
Maybe I should phase this differently: What are some 64 bit linux equivalents for the following apps? Internet Explorer Firefox, Even on Windows you would be much better off using Firefox for most of your browsing. Outlook Outlook Express Evolution. Does everything the Outlook does except spread virues. It can even talk to MS Exchange Server. iTunes PowerDVD ACDSee Winamp Quicktime Picasa Totem, Mplayer, Realplayer Yahoo Messenger Windows Messenger Don't use this stuff, but I think GAIM (which is AOL compatible) dise this Norton Antivirus Spybot SD ZoneAlarm Completely unnecessary. There are all sorts of antivirus tools for Linux servers that support Windows clients but there are no Linux viruses. I think Zonealarm is also a firewall. Linux has very sophisticated firewalling capabilities. All of the major distros include it. Microsoft Office 2003 OpenOffice. You can also run MS Office on Linux machines if you buy Win4Lin9x which allows you to host Win98 on top of Linux. Win4Lin9x runs at native speeds. I use it for MSOffice, Acrobat, Framemaker, Quicken. The Myst games MS Flight Sim Don't know Winzip gzip, bzip2. O&O Defrag Is this a disk defragger? Linux file systems don't fragment. Adobe Acrobat Acrobat. There is a Linux Acrobat reader client. OpenOffice 2 can write PDF files. Windows Media Player 10 Mplayer I'm not expecting anyone to have all the answers or to even recognize half these progs, but these are the ones I use all the time. For another question: I've always admired OS 10's Aqua interface. Is there a Linux out there with a similar interface? What do you like about Aqua. There are a million interfaces for Linux, all of them themeable. I use Gnome which works fine. |
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Hash: SHA1 General Schvantzkoph wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:09:54 -0400, Dakota650r wrote: Maybe I should phase this differently: What are some 64 bit linux equivalents for the following apps? Internet Explorer Firefox, Even on Windows you would be much better off using Firefox for most of your browsing. Lessee.. Firefox, Opera, Konquerer, links, lynx... Outlook Outlook Express Evolution. Does everything the Outlook does except spread virues. It can even talk to MS Exchange Server. iTunes PowerDVD ACDSee Winamp Quicktime Picasa Totem, Mplayer, Realplayer XMMS. Yahoo Messenger Windows Messenger Don't use this stuff, but I think GAIM (which is AOL compatible) dise this You're quite correct. GAIM handles those above, plus the jabber, IRC, AOL, and ICQ protocols, plus more. The Myst games MS Flight Sim XPlane. even more so, that it's approved by the FAA for pilot training. Winzip gzip, bzip2. O&O Defrag Is this a disk defragger? Linux file systems don't fragment. Adobe Acrobat Acrobat. There is a Linux Acrobat reader client. OpenOffice 2 can write PDF files. Windows Media Player 10 Mplayer I'm not expecting anyone to have all the answers or to even recognize half these progs, but these are the ones I use all the time. For another question: I've always admired OS 10's Aqua interface. Is there a Linux out there with a similar interface? Try any of the windows managers themes.. Search for Aqua at http://themes.freshmeat.net. BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: Unix Systems Administrator, | Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! | http://www.sbcglobal.net/~tyketto PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCyxYmyBkZmuMZ8L8RAh3cAKCdEczLAircky1wHqca0S CYfxlEPACgtuwd 5Jl/19EHK0y6E4zmCU61ay0= =261q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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Hi, don't fool your self, the virus hackers are writing virus for all OS,
just had not gotten to Linux yet. "General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message news On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:09:54 -0400, Dakota650r wrote: Maybe I should phase this differently: What are some 64 bit linux equivalents for the following apps? Internet Explorer Firefox, Even on Windows you would be much better off using Firefox for most of your browsing. Outlook Outlook Express Evolution. Does everything the Outlook does except spread virues. It can even talk to MS Exchange Server. iTunes PowerDVD ACDSee Winamp Quicktime Picasa Totem, Mplayer, Realplayer Yahoo Messenger Windows Messenger Don't use this stuff, but I think GAIM (which is AOL compatible) dise this Norton Antivirus Spybot SD ZoneAlarm Completely unnecessary. There are all sorts of antivirus tools for Linux servers that support Windows clients but there are no Linux viruses. I think Zonealarm is also a firewall. Linux has very sophisticated firewalling capabilities. All of the major distros include it. Microsoft Office 2003 OpenOffice. You can also run MS Office on Linux machines if you buy Win4Lin9x which allows you to host Win98 on top of Linux. Win4Lin9x runs at native speeds. I use it for MSOffice, Acrobat, Framemaker, Quicken. The Myst games MS Flight Sim Don't know Winzip gzip, bzip2. O&O Defrag Is this a disk defragger? Linux file systems don't fragment. Adobe Acrobat Acrobat. There is a Linux Acrobat reader client. OpenOffice 2 can write PDF files. Windows Media Player 10 Mplayer I'm not expecting anyone to have all the answers or to even recognize half these progs, but these are the ones I use all the time. For another question: I've always admired OS 10's Aqua interface. Is there a Linux out there with a similar interface? What do you like about Aqua. There are a million interfaces for Linux, all of them themeable. I use Gnome which works fine. |
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:36:39 -0400, Doug Lynn wrote:
Hi, don't fool your self, the virus hackers are writing virus for all OS, just had not gotten to Linux yet. And this from a Linux expert that runs what, Windows.:-) There are no damaging linux viruses. The only virus software for Linux scans for Windows viruses so linux servers can protect you windows users. Here's some good info on Linux virus for people that want to know the truth. http://librenix.com/?inode=21 I've had a home computer since 1980. Never used virus protection software and have never had a virus on my machines. Perhaps that's because I went from DOS to OS/2, to Linux and have never viewed windows as a feasible OS. -- KT133 MB, CPU @2400MHz (24x100): SIS755 MB CPU @2330MHz (10x233) Need good help? Provide all system info with question. My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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