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Posted Aug 14, 2008 at 3:53:16 AM
Subject: Which distribution to pick?
Hello, im sort of new to the whole linux world, but i would sure like to try it out some more. As i said im "sort of new", i've been using Fedora core previously, but only in the educational purpose. So now i was wondering if anyone could help me pick out a distro you think i would be pleased to use. Here are some of the qualities im looking for.
Being able to play most of the games on the market, altho World of warcraft in particular.
Being able to program some, by that i mean that it would be cool to have some freeware installed as standard
Be able to use Ventrilo, teamspek and voip and Irc
That's about it, hope that someone can help me. Cheers
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Penguin
Joined Mar 28, 2008
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Aug 18, 2008 12:23:51 PM
Subject: Which distribution to pick?
http://www.linux.com/forums/topic/1676
That's a good starting place for choosing a Distro.
To play WoW on Linux, just use Wine (a quick google for "WoW Wine Guide" or "WoW Wine <Distro> guide" [replace <Distro> with your Distro] will bring back lots of useful pages and guides to do it; it's fairly simple and runs very well (I got ~30 fps faster on Gentoo than XP).
As for programming things; there's a whole plethora of applications, one of the most common being KDevelop - an IDE for KDE: http://www.kdevelop.org/
There's a few IRC clients out there too: irssi is just an IRC client, Kopete is the KDE IM client, which can do MSN, Yahoo, IRC and a few more, and then there's Pidgin (formerly GAIM) which can do most IM protocols including IRC and MSN.
VOIP you again have a large selection, Skype being the most common one, however there are others, like the ZFone project ( http://zfoneproject.com/ ) which allows for encrypting the VOIP stream (better encrypting than Skype I suppose I should say, since Skype is encrypted).
Hope that helps you.
Penguin
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