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None. Any distro branded "Mandrake" is long obsolete; the parent company renamed itself to "Mandriva" in 2005.

Yes. Puppy Linux only needs about four files to be on the drive. You can put any other files on the drive, space permitting. If you keep a FAT file system, you can even still use the disk under Windows.

Current versions of Microsoft Windows contain a Start button, Quick Launch toolbar, taskbar, button area, and the tray status area. So do various implementations of Linux distributions.

This question is subjective because everyone's use for their computer is different. Use whatever fits your workflow. If you play big-title video games or use Windows-specific applications, then use Windows.

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Linux Mint, like Ubuntu and most other Debian-based distros, do not enable the root account by default. If you need root permissions to do something, enter the command

sudo [whatever program you want to run]

and enter your password when prompted.

The ones that are listed as part of a standard (such as Posix) will work in all UNIX systems (but not all systems, such as Windows command prompt).

A lot of UNIX vendors add commands that only work in their version of UNIX, so they aren't as portable across systems as others.

One of the most noticable differences between Linux and Windows is the directory structure. Not only is the format different, but the logic of where to find things is different

In Windows, you use this format to access a directory:

C:\Folder1\subfolder\file.txt

In Linux, this is the basic format:

/Folder1/subfolder/file.txt

You'll notice that the slashes are forward slashes in Linux versus backslashes in Windows. Also, there is no drive name (C:, D:, etc.) in Linux. At boot, the 'root partition' is mounted at /. All files, folders, devices and drives are mounted under /. Though it is not apparent from this example, it is important to note that files and folders in Linux are case sensitive. /Folder1/subfolder/file.txt is not the same as /folder1/subfolder/file.txt.

The typical way to view file permissions is to use the 'ls' command with the long listing options enabled, For example, to see the file permissions for everything in the current directory, type:

ls -lsa

Root can refer to either the superuser, a user who can "do anything". or the base of the file system hierarchy.The base of the file system is "/", and subdirectories are placed under it, such as /bin or 'boot.

No, but hardware cards in some computers may not already have drivers (firmware) to interface with the Linux kernel. It is less expensive to replace one card than to develope a new driver.

Purchasing new computers with Linux preinstalled may also provide better tech support agreements than having a local tech run a custom installation on each model.

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Yes

On a technical level? Nothing directly. In fact, as time went on it seemed like Richard Stallman seems to really dislike Linux.

Some claim that Linux wouldn't exist without GNU, which was RMS' doing, but in all honesty Linux could still have easily existed without it. It's nnot like GCC was the only C compiler in existence in 1991.

While SuSE has made a great effort to develop a wonderful configuration tool like Yast, in no way does SuSE restrict or limit the the user to 'have' to use it.

There are plenty of confiuration tools that you can use to fiddle with SuSE and all of them work just fine.

Scp can be harmful but some are friendly and they would like to play with you. Not all scps are nice some are dangerous. I think the worst one is scp 049 because he kills you and you become a copy of him and he is your king when he kills you.

This is dependent on what filesystem is in use.

The de facto standard filesystem in Linux is ext4, which supports up to 255 characters on its filenames.

But if you are using something else it's better to look it up on Wikipedia.

Wow.. no one has answered you yet huh.. I think for that kind of laptop to go ahead and try ubuntu. It seems to pretty much work with anything. Hope this helps

Check the realted links. Try to go to the Linux for laptops site to see what successes and failiures others have had.

basically, if i understand your question, you want to know in plain ol' english what a kernel is. Basically it is just the main part of the operating system that gets information from applications and submits it to hardware for processing. If you want more specific info regarding a kernel, check out the wikipedia page for it.

That depends on the file system and the environment used. When you delete something from the console, it is intended to be permanent, although depending on the file system, you may still be able to retrieve it. In a desktop environment, files are moved to a folder akin to the recycle Bin in Windows, and can be retrieved at any time until permananently deleted.

grep can match the beginning of a line with the '^' character and the end of a line with the '$' character. Any character is matched by the '.' character, so to match a literal "." you will need to use the escaped '\.' sequence. Thus to match a line beginning with a dot and ending with a dot you would use:

grep '^\..*\.$'

This will match any line that both begins with a dot and ends with a dot, and has any characters in between.

it can be modified to fit the specific needs of the company