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The t-shirt factor
Top"The t-shirt factor" : People appears to think that is natural to have an imposed O.S. : Windows XP, Vista, whatever is the system Microsoft is selling at the moment. You are not suposed to choose the PC (personal computer) is not personal is equal to millions in the all world. Just imagine that the computer you'd like to buy is not a computer but a t-shirt and the dealer say someting like this : “- We just have those ones to sell : The color is blue and with printed words – Windows Vista – You can add other words : Microsoft Office, Photoshop and many many more”
“- But I don't like the color, I prefer white .... with no words printed.”
“- Sorry sir, you think you don't like blue .... Everyone wears blue ... is the best color for t-shirts.”
Many other products could be used to have a similar dialog, but the main idea is – Freedom of choice
Often
appears that this mentality was built because Microsoft along the
years was an infalible company but go back some years and remember
that on Windows 98 world presentation the O.S. installed on
computer failed to start
(http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/39276.html),
Windows Millennium was a flop, Vista might be a flop too, silly system
errors, blue screens, virus, malware, adware ... and you pay for all
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OK,
let's talk about Linux Ubuntu : 
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Puppy
will easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
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Booting from CD, Puppy will load totally into RAM so that the CD
drive is then free for other purposes.
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Booting from CD, Puppy can save everything back to the CD, no need
for a hard drive.
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Booting from USB, Puppy will greatly minimise writes, to extend the
life of Flash devices indefinitely.
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Puppy will be extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
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Puppy will boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
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Puppy will have all the applications needed for daily use.
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Puppy will just work, no hassles.
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Puppy will breathe new life into old PCs
Zenwalk
is a GNU/Linux operating system, designed to provide the following
characteristics:
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Modern and user-friendly (latest stable software, selected
applications)
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Fast (optimized for performance capabilities)
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Rational (one mainstream application for each task)
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Complete (full development/desktop/multimedia environment)
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Evolutionary (simple network package management tool - netpkg)
Hardware
Requirements
Zenwalk GNU/Linux is optimized for the i686 instruction set, but backward compatible with i486.
These are the minimal hardware
requirements to
run Zenwalk in Xwindow mode, with correct performance
(some lower
configs work - ie : PII - , but might be slow) :
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Pentium III class processor
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128 Mb RAM
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2Gb HDD
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It was originally a remaster of BeatrIX but now uses
a more recent Ubuntu core. BeatrIX
itself was partly
based on an old version of Ubuntu, but
made heavy use of Knoppix
technologies. The common ancestor
of all these distributions is Debian.
BeaFanatIX in its newest version
has left most of the limitations and shortcomings of its venerated
ancestor,
BeatrIX,
behind and, besides from being a lot more modern, presents itself very
flexible and easy to use.
It also offers additional functionality in
some respects.
Features :
System
Linux:
kernel-2.6.15 with patch ck7; compiled with gcc-4.0.1
LibC:
libc6-2.3.5
Compiler:
gcc-4.0.1
Xserver:
Xorg-6.8.2
Desktop:
Gnome-2.12.2
Applications :
AbiWord:
MS-Word-like word processor
Firefox: Web
browser
Gaim:
Multiprotocol chat and messaging client
GQview:
Picture viewer with fullscreen slideshow
Gpdf: PDF
viewer
gFTP:
Graphical ftp client
Gnumeric:
Spreadsheet
Evolution:
Outlook-like email client (compatible with MS Exchange servers)
Beep media player:
Winamp-like audio player (mp3, ogg, wav, audioCD)
Gparted:
Graphical partition manager, able to resize partitions
Firestarter:
Easy firewall configuration
Pan:
Graphical Newsreader
System Components
Cups: Print
server
Samba-client:
Client to access Windows
shares
Nautilus-CD-burn:
Writing ISO images (CD/DVD)
cdr-tools:
command line tools for creating/burning CD/DVD images
Grub: Boot
manager.
File Systems
ext2/3, ReiserFS, JFS, FAT12|16|32, NTFS (read only), XFS, cifs,
cramfs, smbFS, NFS, NLS, UDF, autoFS
Hard disk installation
Installation within minutes
Re-partitioning/resizing partitions
Almost fully automated installation
Windows installations are detected and included to the bootmanager
automaticly, enabling a multiboot system by default
BeaFanatIX Custom
Utilities
LiveCD Save Settings script - allows you to save your work
to when using BeaFanatIX as a LiveCD
Wlan Configuration script - to help you configure your wireless
connections
Post-installation Localization script - helps configure your machine
for easy software management and enables
full
language support
Xubuntu
Ubuntu
is widely considered to be one of the most user-friendly desktop
Linux distributions around.
It's easy to use and very flexible. But,
it also requires a considerable amount of horsepower in order to run.
Most of that is involved in running Ubuntu's window managers -- GNOME
and KDE.
However, Xubuntu brings the ease of use, flexibility, and
power of Ubuntu to older computers.
Fedora
is a Linux-based operating system that
showcases the
latest in free and open source software.
Fedora is always
free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.
It is built by people across the globe
who work together as a
community: the Fedora Project.
The Fedora Project is open and anyone is
welcome to join.
The Fedora
Project is out front for you, leading
the advancement of free, open software and content.
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