All freeware PC

[El Gee]

Does anyone run their comp. solely on freeware programs. And what are
they. Am looking to do the same but don't know where to start, if
anyone has any info to share I would be much appreciated to you.

Joe

My Primary PC (the one me and my wife use) is Win2K professional (I can
legally use this OS at home as long as I stay at my current job (but
that is very OT). It has all freeware on it except MS Office (again, I
can legally have it as long as I stay with my current job, but that too
is OT). You can see the list on my home page at the "tools of the
trade" link.

However, the server and our laptop (both of which are tired old 400 mhz
machines) run all "free" software utilizing Ubuntu Linux. I really like
that distro. Rather painless but still very configurable. I ordered 10
CD's and got them free (no postage or CD cost).

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[Bob McConnell]

Forgot to mention I am running Windows 98SE

That's definitely not freeware, so you have already failed to reach
your goal. You will have to get rid of all Microsoft products just to
get started. Take a look at Knoppix. You can run it without installing
anything on your hard drive. I am in the process of switching
everything over to Slackware. I have three servers on it so far.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP

 

[Freeware Fanatic]

Yes

Where? How?

 

[Mike Dee]

Where? How?

Type/paste 'official/iso/10.1/i586' into Google, then choose a suitable
mirror site.

 

[coolchinchilla]

Where do you get Mandrake for free? (Dense head here, sorry)

coolchinchilla

 

[joe..bee]

joe..bee a écrit :


Win 98 SE is not freeware. So your comp. is not running "solely on
freeware programs".

I didn't say I was running freeware, but was asking the question if some
people were running all freeware on their comp. that's all.

 

[joe..bee]

That's definitely not freeware, so you have already failed to reach
your goal. You will have to get rid of all Microsoft products just to
get started. Take a look at Knoppix. You can run it without installing
anything on your hard drive. I am in the process of switching
everything over to Slackware. I have three servers on it so far.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP

As I said to a poster before, I was asking if some people were running all
freeware, I didn't say I was.

 

[Le Loup]

coolchinchilla a écrit :

Where do you get Mandrake for free? (Dense head here, sorry)

Australia
# ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Sydney)

Austria
# ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Graz)
# ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Vienna)

Belgium
# ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586

Czech Republic
# ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Brno)
# ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Brno)
# ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
#
ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Prague)
# http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Brno)

Denmark
# http://klid.dk/homeftp/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Danish only)

Finland
# ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/mirrors/Mandrake-linux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Espoo)

France
# ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Nancy)
# ftp://ftp.cru.fr/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Rennes)
# ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Cachan)
#
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Paris)
#
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Paris)
# ftp://ftp.mandrake.ikoula.com/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Courbevoie)
#
ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Strasbourg)
# ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Versailles)
# ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Toulouse)

Germany
#
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Esslingen)
# ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Giessen)
#
ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Wolfenbuettel)
# ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Goettingen)
#
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Chemnitz)
# ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Wolfenbuettel)
#
ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Dresden)
#
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Aachen)
#
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Chemnitz)

Greece
# ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Athens)

Hungary
# ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://ftp.prew.hu/pub/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586

Ireland
# http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586

Israel
# http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586

Italy
# ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/pub/mirrors/Mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Bologna)

Japan
# ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/packages/Mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
# http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586

Netherlands
#
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Amsterdam)
#
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Amsterdam)

New Zealand
# ftp://mirror.inspire.net.nz/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586

Norway
# ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Stockholm)
# ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Oslo)

Poland
# ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Szczecin)
# ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Gdansk)
# ftp://ftp.tpnet.pl/d2/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586

Romania
#
ftp://ftp.craiova.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Craiova)
#
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Iasi)

Russian Federation
# ftp://ftp.mrtech.ru/pub/mirror/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Moscow)
# ftp://ftp.sibsutis.ru/pub/.1/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586

Saudi Arabia
#
ftp://ftp.isu.net.sa/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Riyadh)
#
http://ftp.isu.net.sa/pub/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Riyadh)

Singapore
# http://mirror.averse.net/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586

Spain
#
http://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Madrid)

Sweden
#
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Uppsala)

Switzerland
# ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Zurich)

Taiwan
# ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://linux.ntcu.net/dists/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
# http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586

United Kingdom
# ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Coventry)
#
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/ftp/linux/mdl/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Canterbury)
# ftp://ftp.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(London)
#
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/ftp/linux/mdl/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Canterbury)
# http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(London)

United States
#
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Pennsylvania)
#
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(North Carolina)
# ftp://ftp.ale.org/pub/mirrors/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Georgia)
#
ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Florida)
# ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(California)
# ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Indiana)
# ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu/pub/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Texas)
# ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (New
Jersey)
# ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Indiana)
# ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Tennessee)
# ftp://hosef.ics.hawaii.edu//Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Hawaii)
# ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Pensylvania)
# ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
#
ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
# ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586 (Utah)
#
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/10.1/i586
(North Carolina)
# http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mandrake/official/iso/10.1/i586
(Georgia)

;-)
Cordialement,
Hervé LOTH
-=-=-
LE LOUP THEATRE
www.lelouptheatre.tk

Rien n'est perdu tant que vous n'avez pas commencé à vous en occuper.

 

[Bill]

Et comment on l'!installe ???

Blague à part, s'y retrouver dans tous les fora et les groupes de
discussion est épuisant pour quelqu'un qui a toujours utilisé Wintruc sans
vraiment se demander comment cela fonctionne.

J'ai essayé Knoppix pour me faire une idée:
install sans problème
mais ensuite différents plantages que je n'ai pu résoudre qu'en coupant le
courrant.

Plantages en changeant la résolution d'écran et en ouvrant un programme de
jeu.

Le desktop de Knoppix est ok, mais les fenêtres des différents programmes
sont trop petites et illisibles, c'est en essayant de changer la résolution
d'écran pour remédier à cela que mon PC (Shuttle Pentium IV - 1 GB de ram)
s'est planté.

J'ai essayé d'avoir de l'aide dans le forum de Knoppix: je me suis enfui,
il semblerait que mon QI est malheureusement trop bas :'(

 

[Le Loup]

Bill a écrit :

Et comment on l'!installe ???

on met le cd dans le lecteur et on boote

Blague à part, s'y retrouver dans tous les fora et les groupes de
discussion est épuisant pour quelqu'un qui a toujours utilisé Wintruc sans
vraiment se demander comment cela fonctionne.
J'ai essayé Knoppix pour me faire une idée:
install sans problème
mais ensuite différents plantages que je n'ai pu résoudre qu'en coupant le
courrant.
Plantages en changeant la résolution d'écran et en ouvrant un programme de
jeu.
Le desktop de Knoppix est ok, mais les fenêtres des différents programmes
sont trop petites et illisibles, c'est en essayant de changer la résolution
d'écran pour remédier à cela que mon PC (Shuttle Pentium IV - 1 GB de ram)
s'est planté.

ça n'a rien d'étonnant (les causes possibles sont innombrables)

J'ai essayé d'avoir de l'aide dans le forum de Knoppix: je me suis enfui,
il semblerait que mon QI est malheureusement trop bas :'(

;-)
ça fait 2 ans que je m'y suis mis, avec des moments de découragement
monstrueux
y a pas longtemps, quelqu'un ici demandait un soft gratuit pour passer
le temps et se titiller les neurones : nombreux ont été ceux qui ont
répondu : Linux
Ca marche plutôt bien, sur des configs pas trop exotiques et si on
s'accroche. Il m'a quand même fallu 3 semaines avant de réussir à
configurer ma clé usb !

Cordialement,
Hervé LOTH
-=-=-
LE LOUP THEATRE
www.lelouptheatre.tk

De toute façon, tout s'arrange toujours, même très mal.

 

[Bill]

[sorry for the french intrusion, it's only temporary]

Regards!

Bill a écrit :

on met le cd dans le lecteur et on boote

j'y avais pas pensé 8-[

pourtant j'en ai reçus deux avec mon PC Shutle -> Mandrake Linux mais sans
indication de version sur les CD's (achat en Juin 2004)

je suppose donc que c'est du hardware compatible

ça n'a rien d'étonnant (les causes possibles sont innombrables)


;-)
ça fait 2 ans que je m'y suis mis, avec des moments de découragement
monstrueux
y a pas longtemps, quelqu'un ici demandait un soft gratuit pour passer
le temps et se titiller les neurones : nombreux ont été ceux qui ont
répondu : Linux
Ca marche plutôt bien, sur des configs pas trop exotiques et si on
s'accroche. Il m'a quand même fallu 3 semaines avant de réussir à
configurer ma clé usb !

C'est assez décourageant. Avec wintruc j'ai pas vraiment de problèmes: les
instructions sur la manière d'utiliser certains progs (video, photo, audio)
se trouvent facilement sur le net et sont souvent claires et sans ambiguïté

d'un autre côté, rien que par PRINCIPE, je préfèrerais utiliser Linux
mais je me demande si le temps consacré, ou perdu, en vaut vraiment la
peine

Cordialement,
Hervé LOTH
-=-=-
LE LOUP THEATRE
www.lelouptheatre.tk

De toute façon, tout s'arrange toujours, même très mal.

Murphy' law ?

@+

 

[Le Loup]

Bill a écrit :

pourtant j'en ai reçus deux avec mon PC Shutle -> Mandrake Linux mais sans
indication de version sur les CD's (achat en Juin 2004)
je suppose donc que c'est du hardware compatible

voui
plus, y a pas, sauf knoppix
pour info, la Mandrake, c'est 3 cd

C'est assez décourageant. Avec wintruc j'ai pas vraiment de problèmes: les
instructions sur la manière d'utiliser certains progs (video, photo, audio)
se trouvent facilement sur le net et sont souvent claires et sans ambiguïté

par essence, les contributions sont plus nombreuses pour Win, puisqu'il
y a plus d'utilisateurs

d'un autre côté, rien que par PRINCIPE, je préfèrerais utiliser Linux

c'est pour ça que je l'utilise en partie (et parce que ça m'amuse)

mais je me demande si le temps consacré, ou perdu, en vaut vraiment la
peine

non
mais entre ça ou un shoot'em up, je trouve que c'est un poil plus
enrichissant intellectuellement

Murphy' law ?

yep !

Cordialement,
Hervé LOTH
-=-=-
LE LOUP THEATRE
www.lelouptheatre.tk

Ça ne marchera pas.

 

[Adrian Try]

But can one get Mandrake for free, without paying for the
I typed mandrake into Google, and I think it was the second official site
listed that offered me a free download. (Basically it asked me whether I
was already a member, or was willing to consider becoming one in the near
future.)

Also it's currently on the cover of one of the Linux magazines.

Adrian

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Does anyone run their comp. solely on freeware programs. And what are they.
Am looking to do the same but don't know where to start, if anyone has any
info to share I would be much appreciated to you.

Yes, I do - well, unless you count ad-supported Opera and Eudora
(which I'm hoping to convert to FireFox and Thunderbird).

Pretty much everything else I use is freeware (well, I got an alarm
clock program which is unpaid-for shareware - but I have some alarm
clock programs I haven't gotten around to replacing it with.)

I use IrfanView for image viewing, Winamp for media viewing (well, I
view my DVDs on the WinDVD I got with a drive) and music playing,
TextPad (more unpaid-for shareware I haven't gotten around to
replacing with the half-dozen other freeware editors I have - except
jEdit which I'm using more of) for text editing, OpenOffice for the
office suite (which I actually use very little so far), yProxy and
Free Agent for newsreading (which I may replace at some point), WS-FTP
Lite for FTP, freeware version of WallMaster for wallpaper management,
puTTY for Telnet/SSH, PowerDesk for desktop management (hoping to
replace that with something that irritates me less), ZipGenius for
archive management, AVG for AV, Kerio Personal Firewall, Ad-Aware for
spyware control (I get very little), CDBurnerXP Pro for burning CDs
and DVDs (when I don't use the Nero that came with the drives) plus
literally hundreds of freeware utilities for things like file
renaming when I need it.

And of course on the other side of the machine I have Red Hat 7.3
(soon to be upgraded to more current status, then replaced with
something like Fedora Core 3 or Mandrake 10 or SUSE 9.2) - and I have
five or ten GIG of free software to try out on that OS - not counting
thirty or more CDs and DVDs from Linux Format magazine full of Linux
software!

Getting the time to USE - or even REVIEW - this stuff is my
problem... And I've got only a fraction (but the best fraction) of
the stuff that's out there!

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Does anyone run their comp. solely on freeware programs. And what are they.
Am looking to do the same but don't know where to start, if anyone has any
info to share I would be much appreciated to you.

Oh, I forgot - all my Windows OS (Windows 98, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP) didn't cost me a dime - and it was all (mostly) legal.

I got the 98 and 2000 from a developer who pays for ten seats - and he
gave me one of those seats. I got the XP from Microsoft's Academic
program via City College of San Francisco. I also got Microsoft
Project, Visio, and Windows Server 2003 that way - none of which I
use.

Find a community college near you that participates in the Windows
Academic program, sign up for a computer course (they only give the
freebies to computer students) and get yourself Windows XP
(Professional version, no less, not Home) for free!

For any snide remarks from others, I do PC tech support - I have to
have Windows on my machines. Otherwise I'd ditch them all for
Linux...

 

[Space Madness]

As I said to a poster before, I was asking if some people were running all
freeware, I didn't say I was.

OIC; UC, U R S2PID.

 

[Space Madness]

Oh, I forgot - all my Windows OS (Windows 98, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP) didn't cost me a dime - and it was all (mostly) legal.

I got the 98 and 2000 from a developer who pays for ten seats - and he
gave me one of those seats. I got the XP from Microsoft's Academic
program via City College of San Francisco. I also got Microsoft
Project, Visio, and Windows Server 2003 that way - none of which I
use.

Find a community college near you that participates in the Windows
Academic program, sign up for a computer course (they only give the
freebies to computer students) and get yourself Windows XP
(Professional version, no less, not Home) for free!

For any snide remarks from others, I do PC tech support - I have to
have Windows on my machines. Otherwise I'd ditch them all for
Linux...

You are scum.

 

[/3iff //ullins]

Does anyone run their comp. solely on freeware programs. And what are they.
Am looking to do the same but don't know where to start, if anyone has any
info to share I would be much appreciated to you.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Joe

 

[joe..bee]

OIC; UC, U R S2PID.

Another trollboy comes out of the woodwork, what a clever UCk witt.

 

[Space Madness]

Another trollboy comes out of the woodwork, what a clever UCk witt.

NAZI!