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Feb 13, 2005, 12:54 AM
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Linux resources
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- 1.0: first version (md5) - 1.1: added MPlayer (Kombatant) - 1.5: new links and categories (md5) - 1.55: new links for getting help (md5) New to Linux? Need to find appropriate drivers or programs to do everyday tasks? Read on... Note that this list is by no means complete. Additions and suggestions are welcome  Special thanks to RedSolar for the help he provided  Introductory information - Linux general info Picking the distribution that suits your needs - Linux.org - DistroWatch Drivers you may need: Graphics cards - ATI Linux Drivers: 32bit - 64bit - NVIDIA Linux Drivers: 32bit - 64bit Sound - The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) project Modem drivers - Linux Winmodem Support USB devices (including ADSL modems, scanners, printers, keyboards etc etc) - The Linux-USB project - Linux-USB device overview Network drivers - Linux network drivers Printer drivers - Linux printing Hardware monitoring - lm_sensors Wireless networking - NdisWrapper - linux-wlan Plus, you can find many, many more driver resources here: http://www.linux-drivers.org/ Programs you may need: Instant messaging - Gaim Internet browsers - Firefox - Opera E-mail readers - Thunderbird Office applications (equivalent to Word, Excel etc) - OpenOffice Image editing - The GIMP 3D Graphics creation - Blender Image viewers (like ACDSee) - XnView Music and Video playback - X Multimedia System (XMMS) - Beep Media Player (BMP) - MPlayer (all around media player which supports many formats) - VideoLAN (one of the most well-known cross-platform video players) Sound software - Audacity - Sound and midi software for Linux Video Editing - Cinerella Flash and Shockwave players - Macromedia Web Players Games under Linux - Cedega (play Windows games under Linux - formerly known as winex) - The Linux Game Tome - LinuxGames Misc - The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux - Find RPMs in rpmfind and rpmseek Documentation and help - Read the man pages first! Type "man command" - Ubuntu wiki - Ubuntu forums - The Fedora FAQ - The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) Last edited by Kombatant; May 25, 2005 at 04:27 PM. |
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May 2, 2005, 10:18 PM
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You should add MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html) a really good video player for almost every video format
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May 25, 2005, 04:28 PM
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Done
 Any more suggestions, just post in this thread
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Jul 14, 2005, 05:41 PM
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Added more categories and links, enjoy
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Jul 22, 2006, 02:02 PM
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Freedom is a feature.
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I suggest adding wine under "Games" and xine under "Audio/Video".
P.S. I can't thing of any other <something>ine you might add here
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May 29, 2010, 05:17 PM
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Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications
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Jun 1, 2010, 02:52 AM
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Re: Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications
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You don't have permission to access this server. Your Details have been logged as: IP: *.*.*.* User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 Referrer:http://www.hardwareheaven.com/linux-operating-systems/68248-linux-resources.html 
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Jun 1, 2010, 04:44 PM
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Re: Linux resources
Works for me, try using IE.
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Jun 2, 2010, 01:13 AM
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Re: Linux resources
No difference. Same thing.
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Jun 2, 2010, 02:39 AM
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Re: Linux resources
Are you daisy chaining through some university or research servers? Try and aim for as direct a connection as possible.
Or are you trying to log on from an institution of some kind? |
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Jun 2, 2010, 02:58 PM
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Re: Linux resources
No no, I'm using my home 100/100 and I'm not using any proxy or routing table.
Strangely enough I get through if I try with my mobile through WiFi on my own network so it seems to me that windows is blocked Gonna try with linux.. |
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Jun 3, 2010, 04:15 PM
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Re: Linux resources
Do try and let us know what happens.
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Jun 19, 2010, 05:44 PM
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Re: Linux resources
Nope, I can't access through linux either.
This is really weird. I can access through my phone through my wireless on the same router but not my computer... |
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Aug 22, 2012, 02:14 PM
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Re: Linux resources
Awesome resources ! I just started using Debian on VirtualBox and will deffo check these out !
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