Posts by kesmith

I had one for a short time then traded it off. It was supposed to have been 8 months old, and the paint was awful. Another one I looked at buying was supposed to have been 5 months old, same thing.

I thought Linux distros requirements were much less than XP, but thought I'd check.

Quote: Originally Posted by abf KDE -- the most "windows-looking" of the bunch. lots of programs (nice ones too) are built off the kdelibs library or with the qt toolkit. it is pretty hard core in terms of...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 I think the confusion is a result of the fact that the linux kernel is not tied to a gui like the the nt kernel is. MS bundled a graphical system on top of the nt kernel...

Cool beans. Soon as I get a burner (stupid Alienware outlet sent me a system with only a DVD-Rom...) I'll DL the aforementioned ubuntu and kubuntu.

Alrighty champs; please tell me if I have acquired enough knowledge to advance from noob to ... newb? Things I think I learned/remember from my pathetic college operating systems class: 1. Linux is not UNIX. I still actually have no...

So in response to the NO: what exactly is the OS then? Is it just straight up "Linux"? What would be the difference between a distro and the OS (which I don't even know exactly what is yet)? I do understand that different...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Ahh thank you, I knew I recognized it somewhere. There is actually an emulator I have seen pop up specificly for the old Sierra games, I dont know how well this would work for...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Ok first and foremost there is a LOT of good reading in the newbie learning resource thread(Sticky thread above) Secondly a lot of what people use to determine their linux...

@Seablade: Sorry about having too many thirdlies :P SCUMM as you may remember is something like the Scenario Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion or something like that, and the VM is a Virtual Machine that runs it under WinXP. Day of...