Topic: -sigh- Computer Question from a techie

[spott]

Ok, there's a ton of anti-virus software out there now... resources? reviews? thoughts? Norton has become a nuisance / resource hog and the one in Zone Alarm sucks bungholio. Suggestion??

Is is time to make my everyday machine Linux?

Spott

[spott]

Ok, Novell's SUSE is downloading as we speak... err; type - 20 min to go. Now if I could just find that CD drive for the laptop


IBM Thinkpad t20, not supported... looks like mandrake it tis

[John Kelly]

Ok, Novell's SUSE is downloading as we speak... err; type - 20 min to go. Now if I could just find that CD drive for the laptop


IBM Thinkpad t20, not supported... looks like mandrake it tis

If you're a "techie" check out Gentoo.  My favorite distribution by far.

If it's your first linux experience, I'd probably go with Fedora Core 3.

[nic]

if you havent tried it, get the new Knoppix.
its a 1x live cd with great auto-hardware detection and you can install it to the hardrive via a simple gui script.
including formatting my 40gb, it took about 15 mins to install it on my PIII 450 with 256ram!

[John Kelly]

if you havent tried it, get the new Knoppix.
its a 1x live cd with great auto-hardware detection and you can install it to the hardrive via a simple gui script.
including formatting my 40gb, it took about 15 mins to install it on my PIII 450 with 256ram!

Yeah but knoppix isn't that great for an everyday OS.  It's more of a portable OS or a "try before you buy" kind of linux.

[nic]

if you havent tried it, get the new Knoppix.
its a 1x live cd with great auto-hardware detection and you can install it to the hardrive via a simple gui script.
including formatting my 40gb, it took about 15 mins to install it on my PIII 450 with 256ram!

Yeah but knoppix isn't that great for an everyday OS.  It's more of a portable OS or a "try before you buy" kind of linux.

what do you mean not that great for a everyday install?
I've been running Knoppix 3.2 hd-install as my main linux box/server for the past year with no problems.
comes with most every program you need on the 1cd, and apt-get makes installing/updating programs much easier than using rpms.

I didnt have the patience of setting up Gentoo. tried a stage 3 install a year ago and went back to a Debian based system.

[John Kelly]

if you havent tried it, get the new Knoppix.
its a 1x live cd with great auto-hardware detection and you can install it to the hardrive via a simple gui script.
including formatting my 40gb, it took about 15 mins to install it on my PIII 450 with 256ram!

Yeah but knoppix isn't that great for an everyday OS.  It's more of a portable OS or a "try before you buy" kind of linux.

what do you mean not that great for a everyday install?
I've been running Knoppix 3.2 hd-install as my main linux box/server for the past year with no problems.
comes with most every program you need on the 1cd, and apt-get makes installing/updating programs much easier than using rpms.

I didnt have the patience of setting up Gentoo. tried a stage 3 install a year ago and went back to a Debian based system.

I meant as the LiveCD.  Granted installing from the LiveCD would be just as good as any other flavor I would gather. 

The only time I tried Knoppix was for  KnopMyth, but I couldn't get it working properly.

[fozzy]

i use gentoo at work for the servers but would prefer freebsd.  IMHO too much work is involved in setting it up, especially for a workstation.  My main workstation at home is fedora core 2.

[dnsacks]

if virus protection and hating norton are your primary concerns (and if you otherwise like the stuff windoze xp offers) perhaps ditiching it all for linux isn't the best thing to do.

I've heard that computer associates has a much "thinner" anti-virus client that might work for you, I've also heard good things about -- http://www.kaspersky.com/

[spott]

if virus protection and hating norton are your primary concerns (and if you otherwise like the stuff windoze xp offers) perhaps ditiching it all for linux isn't the best thing to do.

I've heard that computer associates has a much "thinner" anti-virus client that might work for you, I've also heard good things about -- http://www.kaspersky.com/

More Linux news at 11:00 - thus far I've tried Panda, NOD32, Kapersky and some others as well... all seem to hose the system (hmmm... possible harware problem?)

[John Kelly]

I can't get Knoppix to recognize my firewire port or my Firewire 410.  Any pointers since there are no available linux drivers for the f410?  I'd love to ditch windoze. 

Don't think it's going to happen without drivers from MAudio.

[Nick in Edinboro]

If you do end up sticking with Microsoft I completely recommend Grisoft AVG.

http://www.grisoft.com

They have a free version, I set mine to autoscan and autoupdate in the early morning (4am-ish) and it does it's magic and has worked well for me the past few years.

[rerem]

PC Cillian is much less of a hog than Norton-McAfee,don't have it constant scan and it doesn't even bother this old relic of a puter I am using until I get the energy to assemle my new stuff