A Small and incomplete history
the late 60's, "two projects changed the history of COMPUTING .jpg)
to Forever: The Rise of C Programming Language and Operating System Unix , programmed entirely in C. Already in the late 80's, after several events and several years of history that I will not develop here, a hacker named Richard Stallman (photo) had the brilliant idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a Unix-based operating system completely free. I call this GNU (Gnu is Not Unix). By the early 90's, almost everything was ready, except the core system ( kernel). A young Finnish programmer named Linus Torvalds , with the support and collaboration of the emerging Internet community, developed the core Lin ux and released under license GPL (license created by the FSF - Free Software Foundation-). Thus was born the GNU / Linux, the open system we know today. With years of development and community collaboration Free Software (and here we must clarify that the community is not only a community of developers but also users reporting bugs and providing technical support to other users).
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to Forever: The Rise of C Programming Language and Operating System Unix , programmed entirely in C. Already in the late 80's, after several events and several years of history that I will not develop here, a hacker named Richard Stallman (photo) had the brilliant idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a Unix-based operating system completely free. I call this GNU (Gnu is Not Unix). By the early 90's, almost everything was ready, except the core system ( kernel). A young Finnish programmer named Linus Torvalds , with the support and collaboration of the emerging Internet community, developed the core Lin ux and released under license GPL (license created by the FSF - Free Software Foundation-). Thus was born the GNU / Linux, the open system we know today. With years of development and community collaboration Free Software (and here we must clarify that the community is not only a community of developers but also users reporting bugs and providing technical support to other users). links:
http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.gnu.org/home.es.html
http://www.linux-es.org/
http:// www.stallman.org/
The purpose of this bet
After much reading and wander through a lot of forums and blogs of people who do not know but with whom we share a common philosophy I was born the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking this bet. In principle to return to the community with a small contribution in exchange for all the help, and rewarding moments of quality software that gave me nothing in return. Because that is the philosophy of the community: freedom and collaboration. A bet that involves, first, the following compilation of useful links for the average user is informed and his first steps into the world of Free Software. Second, it implies a commitment to help provide technical support (within my limitations, of course) and personally install a GNU / Linux and leave it in top condition. Is a compromise.
What the hell are the distributions and why are there so many? .
The wikipedia defines GNU / Linux as
A Linux distribution or GNU / Linux (Often abbreviated distro) is a suite of applications that allow us to deliver improvements together to easily install an operating system based on GNU / Linux. There are flavors of Linux, in general, differ from each other by the configuration tools and management systems for installing software packages. The choice of distribution depends on the user's needs and personal tastes.
Here's a first taste of freedom. When a person decides to install GNU / Linux has many variants to choose from. There are distributions for all tastes: designed for servers, for geeks, extremists, new users, masks, designers sound, image and video, musicians, gamers, etc. One can choose a distribution according to a level of knowledge, tastes, needs, ignorance, etc. The important thing is that you can choose. And because of the freedom, the basic principle of free software, the answer to the second part of the question, there is so much
distributions because the system as GNU / Linux is free, that is, anyone can create their own distribution. In fact, there is a tool called Builder for creating a distro.
At this point, I'm using They were Etch for AMD64 . My first distro was Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro. I started Ubuntu Dapper for two reasons: the greater community and ease of use. That's why this bet and links below are related to Debian (and that does not mean that anyone can add links to other Distros or copy this bet, as long as the original linkee, and modify it to bring it to other Distros) . I also tried the Live CD and installed Musix SUSE. I would be interested in any opportunity to test Ututo a distro Argentina, one of the first 100% free and Ubuntu Studio, an Ubuntu-based distro designed for musicians and designers. I also tried Damn Small Linux (DSL) to my old Pentium 166MMX. According to the Web
Distrowatch.com, the most popular distribution of GNU / Linux today is Ubuntu.
links:
http://distrowatch.com/
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
http://es.opensuse . org /
https: / / www.ututo.org/www/
http://www.musix.org.ar/index.html
http://damnsmalllinux.org/index_es.html
http://distrowatch.com/
http://ubuntustudio.org/
Why discard Windows and switch to GNU / Lin ux ?
This is the simplest and most complicated question to answer. It is easy for those famirializados with GNU / Linux ... Bah ... Simple is more than obvious. The stability, security, large lots of free and quality. The community in general. Possibilities. Gnome, KDE, Amarok, K3b, Mozilla Firefox, Mplayer, Console, repositories, knowledge, the best use made of resources, the minimum amount of money needed, the ability to customize the system up down and a lot of reasons quite obvious to us. But go a little to the side of the street:
Microsoft did a damn. And bought QDOS was lucky to sell MS-DOS (QDOS modified) to IBM. MS-Windows 3.0 did in the early 90's what the Mac-OS made since 1984. Promised a great operating system
gramme and gave us MS-Windows 95 ... then 98 ', the basophils of 2000 and the player-zombies clicks largest in history: MS-Windows XP. Since the emergence of Windows NT, Microsoft did nothing to "tune" the OS at the expense of the need to upgrade hardware with each new "tuned." That means: silver, silver and more money for those who want to be "in the latter." To make matters worse, the old myth that Windows is easy .... the habit of clicks fills us with the PC from spyware, viruses, exploits, malware, as the boys call it M $. "They are the" Bienware "perhaps?. Bush reminds me of the creation of a knight of the Crusades against the Muslim Diablo. Crashes, loss of information (how many times I lost my mp3, my docs, my jpg, my videos, my programs ...), instability, waste of resources and every window open I get a paper clip, a dog that hangs me all, and an assistant who treats me like an idiot.
there's the dirty game ....
Because despite being a disastrous operating system, steal, destroy, play dirty. Just shop around the links that leave at the end of this section.
And now we want to get Vista. Ie more money to buy a new computer, which probably cost us a few dollars more to come with Vista preinstalled. And Vista is the worst OS that saw mankind. Besides the fact that DirectX 10 is only for Vista, such as Office 2007, new versions of Explorer, Windows Media Player, want to make a monopoly with the "Vista certified" for the Hardware, the fuckings FUDS (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt 'fear, uncertainty and doubt) and the "standard" Office Open XML, leading to all users to have Vista and Office 2007 to work with docs and xls. A shame that is played in every "Windows is free, Emule me low," "Linux does not work 32536136 Winning Eleven" "I do not want anything more than check emails, watch fotologs, do practical work for faculty, chatting, watching videos on youtube, get out to hear music." EPA!
average user!
GNU / Linux is for you!!
links:
http://tiorubo.blogspot.com ......
http://peluffon.blogspot.com/2006/04/microsoft_02.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/
http: / / www.caravantes.com / humor / pringao.htm
http://www.openxml.info/
But ... There are programs for GNU / Linux?
Yes! and galore !!!!. Now, let's make a table of equivalence of programs at this time come to my mind, programs for the average user:
----------------- Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Windows Media Player
Amarok
----------- ----------- Windows Media Player Mplayer, VLC, Totem
------------ Emule
Amule ------------------------ ---------------- Bittorrent Bittorrent, BitTornado, KTorrent, Azureus -----------------------------
AMSN MSN, Gaim, Nero
Pidgim ------------ ----------------- K3B
Paint - ......... (Do not you realize that the paint is the same crap from Windows 3.11?)
Photoshop ----------------------- The Gimp
Soundforge Audacity Pro Tools ---------------------- -------------------- MS Office Ardour
---- ------------------------ ------------ OpenOffice.org
Adobe Premier ------ Kino, Cinelerra
in case, I leave a couple of links of equivalents.
links:
http://www.linuxalt.com/
http://alts.homelinux.net/
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
http://www . amsn-project.net /
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/
http://www.gimp.org/
http:/ / audacity.sourceforge.net /
http://ardour.org/
http://www.amule.org/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
http://www.openoffice. org /
But I have a Gforce 9999999999999FX ...¡¡¡¡ 35151 with 1GB of RAM and Linux FaxModem and no games!
Nothing could be farther from reality. No games on Linux. Nostalgic for M $, there is even a free version of Minesweeper. But there are many games for Linux. And it is always the possibility that work on Wine. Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) runs pretty good programs Windows on Linux. Eye, is not miraculous, is a project still in development but I can play Warcraft 3 online quite well, for example. The Wine is not just for games, also for all kinds of programs. The compatibility and performance of Windows programs run by Wine are detailed in the database homepage.
links http://www.ubuntugames.org/
http://www.winehq.com/
http://www.linuxjuegos.com/
Linux is ugly Windows is prettier
This is another lie by chance in the last years does not make sense. The three most popular desktop GNU / Linux are in their default versions, many more colorful and pleasing in appearance than any version of Windows. And if this is not sufficient for you, are 100% configurable. And if that's not enough for you, you have programs such as Compiz and Beryl (and the merger of both the Compiz Fusion) and return to your desktop absolutely amazing and leave the Vista Aero very outdated, as well as wasteful of resources (Note : compiz appeared, at least a year before Vista).
links http://www.beryl-project.org/
http://www.kde.org/
http://www.xfce.org/ Http://www.gnome.org/
http://www.gnome-look.org/
I have a USB modem and I have fear ... Who can help?
communities and forums for GNU / Linux on the Internet. Is full. Just open a browser and Google put, for example, "Debian AMD64 Flash" and I'll instantly have thousands of websites that address the issue. In the case of the USB modem is a barrier that I experienced firsthand, but I got over myself in the footsteps of a couple of guides I found on Google. I recently found one in particular, the mentally termed as "the HOWTO final to connect to internet with USB modem from GNU / Linux. "There is always a forum, there is always someone with the same problem, ever. The solution is to find.
http://foro.lugmen.org.ar links / viewtopic.php? t = 40
http://www.ubuntu-es.org/
http://www.esdebian.org/
http://www.google.com
What do I need to get started?
download any ISO (CD image) of any distribution. I recommend to have a first contact, which installs Ubuntu. You can try the same installation CD without taking a single mega your disk Live Cd drive via USB modem If you have, I got what the guide says before doing anything and copy on a diskette or CD-RW or leave it in a hard partition. After installation, I recommend that you download Automatix to tune it and give you a little walk by Getdeb to mob some of the programs that you have to go down. Also, you can give a tour of all the links I left above.
links http://www.getdeb.net/
http://www.getautomatix.com/
http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/
course, if really interests you install it, let me know. And I'll help you install it. I bet you'll like.
;)
A Linux distribution or GNU / Linux (Often abbreviated distro) is a suite of applications that allow us to deliver improvements together to easily install an operating system based on GNU / Linux. There are flavors of Linux, in general, differ from each other by the configuration tools and management systems for installing software packages. The choice of distribution depends on the user's needs and personal tastes.
Here's a first taste of freedom. When a person decides to install GNU / Linux has many variants to choose from. There are distributions for all tastes: designed for servers, for geeks, extremists, new users, masks, designers sound, image and video, musicians, gamers, etc. One can choose a distribution according to a level of knowledge, tastes, needs, ignorance, etc. The important thing is that you can choose. And because of the freedom, the basic principle of free software, the answer to the second part of the question, there is so much
distributions because the system as GNU / Linux is free, that is, anyone can create their own distribution. In fact, there is a tool called Builder for creating a distro. At this point, I'm using They were Etch for AMD64 . My first distro was Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro. I started Ubuntu Dapper for two reasons: the greater community and ease of use. That's why this bet and links below are related to Debian (and that does not mean that anyone can add links to other Distros or copy this bet, as long as the original linkee, and modify it to bring it to other Distros) . I also tried the Live CD and installed Musix SUSE. I would be interested in any opportunity to test Ututo a distro Argentina, one of the first 100% free and Ubuntu Studio, an Ubuntu-based distro designed for musicians and designers. I also tried Damn Small Linux (DSL) to my old Pentium 166MMX. According to the Web
Distrowatch.com, the most popular distribution of GNU / Linux today is Ubuntu.
links:
http://distrowatch.com/
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
http://es.opensuse . org /
https: / / www.ututo.org/www/
http://www.musix.org.ar/index.html
http://damnsmalllinux.org/index_es.html
http://distrowatch.com/
http://ubuntustudio.org/
Why discard Windows and switch to GNU / Lin ux ?
This is the simplest and most complicated question to answer. It is easy for those famirializados with GNU / Linux ... Bah ... Simple is more than obvious. The stability, security, large lots of free and quality. The community in general. Possibilities. Gnome, KDE, Amarok, K3b, Mozilla Firefox, Mplayer, Console, repositories, knowledge, the best use made of resources, the minimum amount of money needed, the ability to customize the system up down and a lot of reasons quite obvious to us. But go a little to the side of the street:
Microsoft did a damn. And bought QDOS was lucky to sell MS-DOS (QDOS modified) to IBM. MS-Windows 3.0 did in the early 90's what the Mac-OS made since 1984. Promised a great operating system
gramme and gave us MS-Windows 95 ... then 98 ', the basophils of 2000 and the player-zombies clicks largest in history: MS-Windows XP. Since the emergence of Windows NT, Microsoft did nothing to "tune" the OS at the expense of the need to upgrade hardware with each new "tuned." That means: silver, silver and more money for those who want to be "in the latter." To make matters worse, the old myth that Windows is easy .... the habit of clicks fills us with the PC from spyware, viruses, exploits, malware, as the boys call it M $. "They are the" Bienware "perhaps?. Bush reminds me of the creation of a knight of the Crusades against the Muslim Diablo. Crashes, loss of information (how many times I lost my mp3, my docs, my jpg, my videos, my programs ...), instability, waste of resources and every window open I get a paper clip, a dog that hangs me all, and an assistant who treats me like an idiot. there's the dirty game ....
Because despite being a disastrous operating system, steal, destroy, play dirty. Just shop around the links that leave at the end of this section.
And now we want to get Vista. Ie more money to buy a new computer, which probably cost us a few dollars more to come with Vista preinstalled. And Vista is the worst OS that saw mankind. Besides the fact that DirectX 10 is only for Vista, such as Office 2007, new versions of Explorer, Windows Media Player, want to make a monopoly with the "Vista certified" for the Hardware, the fuckings FUDS (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt 'fear, uncertainty and doubt) and the "standard" Office Open XML, leading to all users to have Vista and Office 2007 to work with docs and xls. A shame that is played in every "Windows is free, Emule me low," "Linux does not work 32536136 Winning Eleven" "I do not want anything more than check emails, watch fotologs, do practical work for faculty, chatting, watching videos on youtube, get out to hear music." EPA!
average user!
GNU / Linux is for you!!
links:
http://tiorubo.blogspot.com ......
http://peluffon.blogspot.com/2006/04/microsoft_02.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/
http: / / www.caravantes.com / humor / pringao.htm
http://www.openxml.info/
But ... There are programs for GNU / Linux?
Yes! and galore !!!!. Now, let's make a table of equivalence of programs at this time come to my mind, programs for the average user:
----------------- Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Windows Media Player
Amarok
----------- ----------- Windows Media Player Mplayer, VLC, Totem
------------ Emule
Amule ------------------------ ---------------- Bittorrent Bittorrent, BitTornado, KTorrent, Azureus -----------------------------
AMSN MSN, Gaim, Nero
Pidgim ------------ ----------------- K3B
Paint - ......... (Do not you realize that the paint is the same crap from Windows 3.11?)
Photoshop ----------------------- The Gimp
Soundforge Audacity Pro Tools ---------------------- -------------------- MS Office Ardour
---- ------------------------ ------------ OpenOffice.org
Adobe Premier ------ Kino, Cinelerra
in case, I leave a couple of links of equivalents.
links:
http://www.linuxalt.com/
http://alts.homelinux.net/
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
http://www . amsn-project.net /
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/
http://www.gimp.org/
http:/ / audacity.sourceforge.net /
http://ardour.org/
http://www.amule.org/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
http://www.openoffice. org /
But I have a Gforce 9999999999999FX ...¡¡¡¡ 35151 with 1GB of RAM and Linux FaxModem and no games!
Nothing could be farther from reality. No games on Linux. Nostalgic for M $, there is even a free version of Minesweeper. But there are many games for Linux. And it is always the possibility that work on Wine. Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) runs pretty good programs Windows on Linux. Eye, is not miraculous, is a project still in development but I can play Warcraft 3 online quite well, for example. The Wine is not just for games, also for all kinds of programs. The compatibility and performance of Windows programs run by Wine are detailed in the database homepage.
links http://www.ubuntugames.org/
http://www.winehq.com/
http://www.linuxjuegos.com/
Linux is ugly Windows is prettier
This is another lie by chance in the last years does not make sense. The three most popular desktop GNU / Linux are in their default versions, many more colorful and pleasing in appearance than any version of Windows. And if this is not sufficient for you, are 100% configurable. And if that's not enough for you, you have programs such as Compiz and Beryl (and the merger of both the Compiz Fusion) and return to your desktop absolutely amazing and leave the Vista Aero very outdated, as well as wasteful of resources (Note : compiz appeared, at least a year before Vista).
links http://www.beryl-project.org/
http://www.kde.org/
http://www.xfce.org/ Http://www.gnome.org/
http://www.gnome-look.org/
I have a USB modem and I have fear ... Who can help?
communities and forums for GNU / Linux on the Internet. Is full. Just open a browser and Google put, for example, "Debian AMD64 Flash" and I'll instantly have thousands of websites that address the issue. In the case of the USB modem is a barrier that I experienced firsthand, but I got over myself in the footsteps of a couple of guides I found on Google. I recently found one in particular, the mentally termed as "the HOWTO final to connect to internet with USB modem from GNU / Linux. "There is always a forum, there is always someone with the same problem, ever. The solution is to find.
http://foro.lugmen.org.ar links / viewtopic.php? t = 40
http://www.ubuntu-es.org/
http://www.esdebian.org/
http://www.google.com
What do I need to get started?
download any ISO (CD image) of any distribution. I recommend to have a first contact, which installs Ubuntu. You can try the same installation CD without taking a single mega your disk Live Cd drive via USB modem If you have, I got what the guide says before doing anything and copy on a diskette or CD-RW or leave it in a hard partition. After installation, I recommend that you download Automatix to tune it and give you a little walk by Getdeb to mob some of the programs that you have to go down. Also, you can give a tour of all the links I left above.
links http://www.getdeb.net/
http://www.getautomatix.com/
http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/
course, if really interests you install it, let me know. And I'll help you install it. I bet you'll like.
;)
