Linux

It is possible to install Linux on a Mac using Boot Camp but it can be messy.

Option 1: If you have Windows installed is to use the Wubi installer (See links below) to install Linux from within Windows.

Option 2: Use Boot Camp to create a Window partition. Boot from the Live CD, run Partition Editor, delete the Windows partition, Run the Installer and install into Free Space.

Option 3: Ignore Boot Camp. Run directly from a LiveCD or USB stick.

Option 4: Ignore Boot Camp. Run in Virtual Box.

if the file is allready runnable you can type in the terminal: ./filename

ActiveX is a proprietary technology created and maintained by Microsoft available exclusively to Windows.

You will not be able to run anything ActiveX on Linux.

You do not need to install PuTTY in Linux as there are built-in utilities that can do PuTTY's job (ssh, telnet)

You have to draw your own conclusions about Linux, based on your own observations. Some people love it, some people hate it, and most have never heard of it or used it.

FE may be an abbreviation for "front end." It can also refer to "first edition," the unofficial name for the first release of Windows 98.

No.

A simple Linux installation uses way less memory than Vista, and even way less than XP. Even with advanced 3d graphics for the desktop, Linux still uses less memory.

Let's expand on that answer. Memory usage by an operating system is based on many factors, not the least of which is the behavior of the application in question. It is not a fair question to ask whether one system or another will use more memory, when the applications are built in different compilers to start with, and the desktop environments, a major memory user, may be radically different. Both systems will work fine with the same amount of memory. I have no idea why Vista is mentioned, since it's obsolete now, and very few people use it, much less XP. Since XP will run well on systems that most recent Linux distributions will not, I suspect the previous answerer is being a little facetious, or is biased.

dmesg lists the most recently connected or removed devices. It also reports errors if any - for example if a driver fails to load, or there is something wrong with a hard drive, etc.

Linux is used world wide, on many different systems, for many different purposes, and there is no country that "usually" uses this operating system. China, due only to the fact that there are more people in China. No single country is necessarily the "major" user of Linux.

A modern Linux kernel can be reduced down to about 300k in size. Numerous older Linux distros were designed to fit on a single floppy disk.

Some more modern Linux distributions that require little space are:

* Tiny Core Linux - 10 MB

* Damn Small Linux - 50 MB * Puppy Linux - 100 MB

* SLAX - 200 MB

The asterisk symbol means 0 to many repetitions of the expression it follows. This means the regular expression "do*g" would match "dg", "dog", "doog", "dooog", ... or "(?>do)*g" would match "g", "dog", "dodog", "dododog", ...

No single person or entity owns Linux. Code is contributed by people and companies from around the world, with each of them holding some copyright to the code.

Shockwave, Silverlight, and Unity are not available natively under Linux and may require some workarounds to get it to work (using a Windows version of a given browser under Wine usually) but may not necessarily work in all scenarios.

Linux and the many variations based on Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, to name but two) are aimed at any one who wishes to use it, and is available for free.

The use of the Linux bandwidth monitor is the way to properly monitor network traffic with reports. They use these to know the bandwidth unique usage.

you can use any program that supports ssh (secure shell)

in windows you have putty and in mac os you use terminal to do that

Yes.

Linux is only a Kernel (Operating System).

Different Flavours of linux have different user programs on top of the same linux kernel.

A high level example : Ubuntu has the user program(package) GNOME while Kubuntu has KDE, whereas both ubuntu & Kubuntu use the same Linux Kernel.

One of the most popular Linux games of Trine 2. Another one that is popular is the role playing massively multiplayer game Heroes of Newerth. Another popular one is Xonotic.

"-j" is a option. For many programs it means different things.

In the tar utility, "-j" means to use BZip2 compression.

Matthias Ettrich started KDE development in 1996.

Linux in itself, that is, the core OS is being developed with more stability, security and support for devices and software in mind.

Nevertheless, the Linux distributions (or distros) are modeled Linux kernels to fit specific needs and they each have a different trend. They all use the Linux kernel in the core, but the uses and abilities can vary greatly.

Check out the different distros and choose one you like. If you are disappointed or don't like it, don't worry, choose another flavor and download, theyre all mostly free.

check out www.distrowatch.com

True.

quicker answer is which linux distro does not work?

Pretty much all will work