Q. I want to be able to go in between a windows and Unix operating system. What is the best way to do this?? Are there any really good examples on the web that could help me with this?
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A. Big Ubuntu fan here too. Unix rules. You don't HAVE to have another partition, if you don't want to mess with your Windows partition you can get another hard drive, like a little 160gb one for $40 should be plenty. then you can install Unix on that and dual-boot. Dual-booting is where you turn on the computer and it will give you a menu of which operating system you want to boot into. you can even set a default and a timer so if you haven't made a selection in 5, 10, 20 or so seconds it will automatically go to the default.
If you only want to play around a little bit with different versions before jumping in and doing surgery, look into LiveCD's. Many Linux/Unix versions have LiveCD versions now. A LiveCD is a CD disk with a work install of that OS on it, you just insert the CD and boot up the computer and if the computer is set to check the CD for bootable content it will pop up a menu saying "boot from CD without modifying hard drive?" and you hit enter and it will boot up that OS. Everything it does just runs in RAM so you can't save anything to the hard drive, but it lets you get a feel for the interface, surf the web if it was able to detect your internet connection, play some games etc... LiveCD's are a great tool too because you can make them get into your hard drive if you want, so if a virus has ruined your Windows installation and you want to get your important files out before formatting it, you can use a LiveCD to copy all your files to thumbdrive or to an internet server or email them to yourself etc... Ubuntu is my favorite version for computers built in the last 5 years. Computers older than that run better on Xubuntu, which is a scaled-down version of Ubuntu. In fact I'm on Xubuntu now on an old 700mhz computer.
for a little bit on versions, Ubuntu seems to be the best for home use, like if you want your kids to have a computer to play games on where they can't just errantly delete files and ruin the computer, and they can't click on a popup and get a virus it is great. Xubuntu is about the same but for Older computers. Also Edubuntu is good for kids because it is Ubuntu with a lot more kids games installed. Another one I liked was Fedora. Fedora is based on Redhat and gets the very latest in app updates, so you get the latest and greatest cutting edge stuff, though it can be a little buggy due to being so cutting edge. Centos is also based on redhat, but updates go through more testing before being released for Centos. Centos is very closely related to Redhat Enterprise Edition, so it is sort of the go-to OS for companies looking for a stable and free server operating system. I know a few people that run Centos on their home computers as well, it has a similar interface to Ubuntu so it is very usable as a home machine too, just not quite as ready-to-go as far as games and music and movies, but still can do all that stuff if you google how-to sites. The last one I'll mention is Mint. Mint Linux is supposed to be great at home computing and server computing but I haven't tried it yet, I've heard great reviews about it from several people so it's probably worth a try.
Oh one more, I heard they released Solaris for free for x86 cpu's, Solaris is "real Unix" so if you need to study real Unix in a way that Linux won't cover then that could be worth a try.
Oh one more, Slackware, it is the "open hood" version of Linux/Unix that is geared toward programming, so if you are looking to get into coding and computer science then slackware may be the way to go.
What's the best version to of UNIX Operating System to use with Dell 4100?
Q. I am new to UNIX Operating System and am interested to know what version of it is the best one to use on a Dell 4100?
Whats the difference from Linux and UNIX?
Is one any better then the other? If so why?
What are the links to the best web sights to down load Linux of UNIX?
Any other info regarding this topic would be fine.
A. UNIX is a specification. There are many "UNIX" operating systems, such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and Mac OS X. Linux is an operating system kernel that implements most or all of the features of UNIX but is not certified as such.
When it comes to running UNIX on generic hardware, you're pretty much limited to Solaris. All other forms of UNIX have specific hardware platforms. Solaris may run on your system if you have maxed out the RAM, although it may still be slow.
Linux supports a wider variety of hardware, is free, and can be tailored to almost any systems specs. As such, I would generally say it is "better", unless there is some specific application that won't run on Linux, or your goal specifically is to learn UNIX administration. The command line tools provided with most Linux distros aren't strictly POSIX compliant and will work slightly differently than the standard UNIX ones.
Downloads:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen - Solaris
http://www.ubuntu.com/ - Ubuntu
http://xubuntu.org/ - Xubuntu (may run faster on your system)
http://www.centos.org/ - CentOS (based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an Enterprise-grade Linux distro)
http://www.debian.org/ - Debian (my personal favorite)
What unix operating system should I install on my macbook?
Q. I saw here a list of some unix operating systems: http://www.tech-faq.com/download-unix.shtml
Which would be recommended to be installed on my macbook? (Please tell me whether the operating system is known to work without problems on a mac.) I am a comp. sci. student.
A. I don't think you need to install Unix on MAC since MAC OS X is itself built on Unix OS.
All functionality of unix is present in OS X.
Search for origin of OSX on wikipedia.
If you would still like to try another flavour of
linux try Ubuntu since it is easy to install and you can first try it using Live CD.
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