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BaronJ:
--- Quote from: DavidA on May 20, 2014, 01:43:54 PM ---Reboot went ok.
I believe that the term 'mount' goes back to the days of reel-to-reel computers. When Unix reigned supreme.
Dave.
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Hi Dave, Guys,
Unix still reigns supreme ! The whole Internet is based on Unix ! Remember that Unix pre-dates Windows by around 30 years.
Its the graphical desktop that made Windows what it is today. I believe that concept was borrowed from Xerox Labs along with the Mouse and Icons. The word "WIMP" springs to mind.
Anyway Dave its great that you are up and running Linux now. Congratulations. :ddb:
Pete49:
Well congrats DaveA . Now if only I didn't procrastinate I would be as well. Just another question if you don't mind .....can I still access the forums on Linux or is it win only access? Years ago I set up red hat on a puter and had fun but then succumbed to XP and forgot all about it. Still have the original disks and setup manual :wave:
Pete
mattinker:
--- Quote from: Pete49 on May 20, 2014, 11:27:11 PM ---Well congrats DaveA . Now if only I didn't procrastinate I would be as well. Just another question if you don't mind .....can I still access the forums on Linux or is it win only access? Years ago I set up red hat on a puter and had fun but then succumbed to XP and forgot all about it. Still have the original disks and setup manual :wave:
Pete
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You can use the internet like any other operating system (like you can on a Mac). There are the same sort of programs and even the same programs available, fire fox, Google chrome etc for web access.
I have a relatively recent machine that I built cheaply, using a dual processor (2 x 2.6 G), 4Gig of Ram, a 1tera hard disk and a video card, I am at the moment using Ubuntu Studio that comes with a decent range of Graphics, sound and video programs not to mention the Libre Office suite. For those of you that are interested, it uses the Xfce desktop, which is more light weight than the other desktops, more suited in my opinion to the older generation, it's not trying to keep up with the transparent borders type widows!
I would like to point out that as Linux programs are frequently developed by their users, the more used something is, the better the programs, a good example is Video applications, the Linux one's are good, but not as user friendly as the Windows ones or so I've been told, I don't have a windows computer so I can't speak from personal experience!
I would like to encourage people to have a go at Linux on an old machine, it's much more in the madmodder spirit than Windows!
Regards, Matthew
AdeV:
--- Quote from: Baron on May 20, 2014, 04:17:46 PM ---
Its the graphical desktop that made Windows what it is today. I believe that concept was borrowed from Xerox Labs along with the Mouse and Icons. The word "WIMP" springs to mind.
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WIMP: Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer.
The history of the Graphical User Interface is convoluted and full of intrigue. It's widely believed that Windows was a copy of the first "production" GUI, written by Apple and seen on the Lisa (which pre-dated the Mac and, to my eye at least, was a much more handsome machine). Apple, in turn, allegedly stole the idea from Xerox - who had a demo(?) system running at their Palo Alto labs.
Until the lawsuits in the late 1990s/early 2000s, I think it'd be fair to say that both MAC and Windows GUIs were essentially totally parallel and independent developments - yes, they stole look & feel from each other, but the actual codebases weren't the same.
Of course, Linux then came along and muddied the waters with Gnome, KDE and a bunch of other interpretations on the same old WIMP environment...
DavidA:
Pete.
You just (single) click on the 'browser' icon and you are in a place very similar to Firefox. Bookmarks etc are all very similar.
I'm still marveling at the speed this system boots up.
Dave.
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