Feb 21, 2005 Bah. If you have a legal Windows CD or DVD, just extract the typefaces (sorry to nitpick, but typefaces are technically not fonts until style, weighting, and size are instantiated - this is a pet peeve of mine and I blame MICROSOFT for perversion of the word 'font') from the media and use your distribution's font installer to install them on your system. Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community. You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in. Are you new to LinuxQuestions.org? Visit the following links:||| If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please. If you need to reset your password,. Having a problem logging in? Please visit to clear all LQ-related cookies. Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own. To receive this Complete Guide absolutely free. InformationWeek, and concludes: “All told, I consider openSUSE 10.2 to be a real winner for server duties in my labs. Given the number of pre-release packages that are included, this probably isn’t a particularly good choice as a server platform for business-grade networks, but Novell doesn’t position it as such, either (that’s what their ‘enterprise’ products are for). Pixrecovery keygen mac sierra. I don’t think it’s as good of a desktop release as SUSE 10.1, either, and there are better distributions for that anyway, but other people are likely to disagree with me here.”. Yes, it’s an interesting review, but his ideas about distributions seem a bit odd. He says he needs a combination of stability and cutting edge features. SLED 10 and RHEL 4 are not enough bleeding edge for him, yet he uses SUSE 9.3. Then he finds Gentoo and Debian too bleeding edge. ![]() Well, Gentoo has an unstable and a stable branch (the stable is quite conservative) and Debian has unstable, testing and stable branches. None of them suit his needs? He goes on saying that the only one that could replace SUSE is Fedora (which is a bleeding edge distro) Not that it matters, the review itself was good and unusual. But I would have liked some feedback about how Debian or Ubuntu did in that same environment. I agree with him about the Gnome menu. Fortunately I use KDE, but even in KDE I reverted to the standard menu, I didn’t think a lot of the customized one. Ati cards: I had my share of problems too, but eventually I found the right way. I might write an how to somewhere. I had to give up apt4rpm, which was an absolute trauma for me. Now I am using Smart, but smart-gui doesn’t come even near to synaptic. Fonts: I haven’t noticed that they are ugly. I installed the MS Fonts as usual, but if I understand the author correctly, it shouldn’t make any difference. I can’t see why OpenSUSE 10.2 can’t be a good desktop OS: the only problem I have is watching WMP streams, but that has always been a problem with SUSE, even if you download the plug-ins from third party repositories. Yeah, got those as well. Kicked 10.2 out of the window (in favor of kubuntu) after a few days, crippling a media player so it can’t play dvd’s even when you install the right packages, come on?
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