Needed - Mandrake Linux 9.2 or above complete binaries

by **Lucifer** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:45 pm

In the absence of an organised piracy market in the city (unlike Delhi / Mumbai) I have to make this appeal to the junta of FHDBs to lend a helping hand.

Does anyone here have the complete binaries (3 CDs) of Mandrake Linux 9.2 or above? Need them like yesterday. Can anyone help out?

by **Red Combat** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:46 pm

Usse pirate karna padta hai kya ? You can make copies of Madrake without any obligation as long as you include the licenses, right ?

by **Red Combat** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 6:50 pm

Agar aap ko kareedne ka ichcha hai tho.

http://www.gtcdrom.com/Index-1.html

Its 600 bucks for 3 CDs

by **JOhnny** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:40 pm

Lucifer wrote:In the absence of an organised piracy market in the city (unlike Delhi / Mumbai) I have to make this appeal to the junta of FHDBs to lend a helping hand.

Does anyone here have the complete binaries (3 CDs) of Mandrake Linux 9.2 or above? Need them like yesterday. Can anyone help out?

I have Mandrake 10.0, but moi in mumbai.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:20 pm

Red Combat wrote:Agar aap ko kareedne ka ichcha hai tho.
http://www.gtcdrom.com/Index-1.html
Its 600 bucks for 3 CDs

there are shops in Park Lane/SD Road that give u ANY software at 50/- per CD

by **Red Combat** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:21 am

Red Combat wrote:Usse pirate karna padta hai kya ? You can make copies of Madrake without any obligation as long as you include the licenses, right ?

bhai log, can someone enlighten on this thing please ?

Can I make copies of Mandrake or Suse / RedHat anything ?

by **Red Combat** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:21 am

Red Combat wrote:
Red Combat wrote:Usse pirate karna padta hai kya ? You can make copies of Madrake without any obligation as long as you include the licenses, right ?
bhai log, can someone enlighten on this thing please ?
Can I make copies of Mandrake or Suse / RedHat anything ?

I mean legally.

by **Lucifer** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:09 am

Red Combat wrote:bhai log, can someone enlighten on this thing please ?Can I make copies of Mandrake or Suse / RedHat anything ?

Mandrake and Red Hat are freeware. SuSE is not, which is strange because the very idea behind Linux is to give software for free. Anyways, to answer your question, you can make as many copies of Mandrake as you desire without any legal hassles.

And, CAD, which shops?

by **akhilis2cool** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:24 am

Lucifer wrote:And, CAD, which shops?

i guess he is reffering shops in Chinoy Trade Centre, park lane.....

by **Tiger** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:01 am

Its easy to get it - Just go to Suprnova.org

Click Apps, then click Linux... Scroll through the list till you find the Mandrake torrents.

Download the torrents, then open it with a bit torrent program and download the actual ISOs.

Easy

by **Cowboy** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:29 pm

Lucifer wrote:
Red Combat wrote:bhai log, can someone enlighten on this thing please ?Can I make copies of Mandrake or Suse / RedHat anything ?

Mandrake and Red Hat are freeware. SuSE is not, which is strange because the very idea behind Linux is to give software for free. Anyways, to answer your question, you can make as many copies of Mandrake as you desire without any legal hassles.

And, CAD, which shops?

Nothing strange. The idea behind Linux is not to give sofware for free (as in free beer) but to give software for free( as in freedom). So, if you actually buy a SuSE set (or any other Linux distro), you get the software for almost all the softwares. Well, technically, you'll get the source for all the software released under GNU GPL.

If you are in Hyderabad, I can give you CDs of Fedora/Red Hat/Mandrake/ SuSE/Debian/Slackware/FreeBSD/OpenBSD. Just drop me a message and hope that I'll log into fullhyd

Disclaimer: In the above post, LINUX refers to the Kernel of the Operating System, but not the entire OS itself. For reasons not described here, I prefer to call such systems as GNU/Linux.

by **Kenny** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:09 pm

Tiger wrote:Its easy to get it - Just go to Suprnova.org

Click Apps, then click Linux... Scroll through the list till you find the Mandrake torrents.

Download the torrents, then open it with a bit torrent program and download the actual ISOs.

Easy

yeah... you beat me to it (not that I know a thing about linux)

by **Cowboy** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:19 pm

Okay Lucifer, I got those ISOs ready. Let me know when you want them!!!

by **CtrlAltDel** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:38 pm

cowboy-bhai, since u seem to be linux expert, i need some info...

i am planning to have a Linux partition in my PC mainly for browsing www.

does Linux need an antivirus and if so, can u recommend a good one...

i am having the latest licenced McAfee for my windows2000 and i want to know if i can install the same for Linux...

do multimedia software (flash, director, dreamweaver, photoshop etc) that i have installed on windows work on Linux or i need seperate versions...?

by LP » Sun Sep 19, 2004 2:22 pm

You can also get Linux from the Digit Magazine.They usually give away Linux and other free stuff on their DVD's.

by **Cowboy** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:12 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:cowboy-bhai, since u seem to be linux expert, i need some info...

Not an expert. Just another power-user

i am planning to have a Linux partition in my PC mainly for browsing www.

Welcome buddy. There are lots of guys out here to help you.

does Linux need an antivirus and if so, can u recommend a good one...
i am having the latest licenced McAfee for my windows2000 and i want to know if i can install the same for Linux...

Linux does NOT need ANY anti-virus. Because, there are no known viruses for Linux. What kind of a stupid virus-writer targets the 2% of the computers anyway!!!

do multimedia software (flash, director, dreamweaver, photoshop etc) that i have installed on windows work on Linux or i need seperate versions...?

Oops, no idea with that. I've never used anything more than an editor to do all the stuff I wanted to do. There is one software called "Wine" to run windows programs on Linux. That is, you can run the programs that are already installed on your windows partition.

Adobe Photoshop's equivalent - GIMP (http://www.gimp.org)

Dreamweaver(is it the one to create webpages? ) - Quanta, Bluefish, Emacs

Flash/Director - NEVER used them.

If it's of any interest to you, you get 2 office-suites and half-a-dozen browsers with almost all the standard distros. But, I'd suggest you to get the latest version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox. Use it on windows first and if satisfied, continue. Also, MP3s won't work on some distros - copyright issues. You need to install additional stuff for that.

For any more additional help/support I'd suggest you to send a mail to lug@students.iiit.ac.in or the Twin Cities Linux User Group on Yahoo groups (forgot the actual name).

by **CtrlAltDel** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:33 pm

thanX for the info..

...will get back to u for any suggestions as soon as i install it...

by **asli_badmash** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:41 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:thanX for the info..... will get back to u for any suggestions as soon as i install it...

Before you do that make sure to check if the system you want to load linux on, has hardware that has linux drivers for them. Else you might find that you were able to load your OS but the H/W on your system doesnot have drivers for linux.

Just a thought...

by **Cowboy** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:02 am

asli_badmash wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:thanX for the info..... will get back to u for any suggestions as soon as i install it...
Before you do that make sure to check if the system you want to load linux on, has hardware that has linux drivers for them. Else you might find that you were able to load your OS but the H/W on your system doesnot have drivers for linux.

Just a thought...

Well, if you are a proud owner of some legacy system, I'd suggest you install Fedora Core 2 or Mandrake 10 or SuSE. Personally, I prefer FC2, 'cos it's more geeky, got the latest stuff and well, works reliably. Don't even go near Debian. It's a PITA for new users and Gentoo is a nightmare.

Anyways, my computer is 5-6 years old - Celeron 600MHz

And FC2''s working fine with all the hardware in proper condition. You shouldn't be worrying too much

by **Tiger** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:28 am

Hi CAD,

If you are planning to have both Windows and Linux on the system, be sure to install windows first before installing linux as else windows will overwrite the Master Boot Record of the Partition table.

Also if you are planning to install Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6, note that it can cause windows not to boot. This issue can easily be fixed. See this site for more info:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-t ... 02143.html

This is not an issue with Mandrake 10 or Suse 9.1.. You will be better off using them. Also, you can use Simply Mempis. This is a good distro based on Debian Testing. It is very simple to install and use and more importantly very easy to keep it updated.

Also note that Linux does not have any support for writing to NTFS partitions. You will be better off creating 4 partitions - An EXT3/ Reiser FS partition for Linux, a SWAP partition for Linux, an NTFS partition for Windows and a FAT32 partition to share between Linux and Windows.

There are no viruses for Linux. However, if you still feel paranoid and want to check documents that people send you, you can download and install the free ClamAV antivirus. Let me know what distro you decided to install and I will tell you the command to install it.

As for Software,

Flash - Linux browsers can display flash websites with Macromedia flash browser plugin. This is free and can be downloaded from Macromedia.

Director - Does not work.

Flash (full version) - No native version, but works well with Codeweavers Crossover software from Codeweavers.com

Photoshop - Works with Codeweavers

Dreamweaver - Works with Codeweavers.

There are equivalent packages for Linux:

Quanta, Bluefish and Amaya as replacements for Dream Weaver.

Gimp as a replacement for Photoshop.

Also, for ofice suites - MS Office works with Codeweavers. However, you can use Star Office or Open Office for natve performance on Linux.

Also if you are installing FC2, note that it does not have a lot of multimedia functionality due to licensing issues. This is easy to fix by adding the livna repositiory and the Dag Weirs repository to /etc/yum.conf and then doing a yum install <prog name>.

Welcome to the linux club.

Let me know if you need any help.

by **Lucifer** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:44 am

Tiger, the overwrite behaviour of windows can be over-ridden by simply re-installing the master boot record using the Linux installation CDs. That takes about two minutes. So, it really does not make a difference what you intall first.

But, CAD, hardware could be an issue. A few internal modems do not work with Linux though most external ones seem to have no issues. Also, find out if your ISP supports a Linux machine.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:35 am

wow! so much info......its somewhat confusing...i plan to do this within next 10 days....i will surely need lotsa help guys...never handled Linux this deeply b4....just used it on few occassions.

*takes a deep nervous breath....*

by **Lucifer** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:52 am

Psst... CAD. You have an unsuspecting neighbour? It always pays to do all this stuff the first time on someone else's computer.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:55 am

Lucifer wrote:Psst... CAD. You have an unsuspecting neighbour? It always pays to do all this stuff the first time on someone else's computer.

no such luck....

...i am my own guinea pig

by LP » Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:36 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:
Lucifer wrote:Psst... CAD. You have an unsuspecting neighbour? It always pays to do all this stuff the first time on someone else's computer.
no such luck.......i am my own guinea pig

Yup just like me.Planning to install Redhat.BTW lucifer which do you think is better of all the linux's.I mean which is more easier to operate.Never used Linux but I am sick and tired of using CAD every couple of hrs.

Oh and I heard that I need multiple partitions to install linux,now is that the case for all the Linux's?

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