[nflug] welcome to GNU/Linux !

[Tommy Rogers]

Thanks for the info. I have been trying out different dists. and I know 
what you mean about them each being a little different.

Like I said I have found the Linunx community very helpful and supportive!

Daniel V wrote:

>Hi Tommy,
>Welcome to the LUG (Linux User's Group).
>
>I see your question was addressed.
>
>I highly recommend you try a few different GNU/Linux
>distributions, it would be very productive. For a new
>user I recommend ...
>
>1. CentOS's CentOS4.2 (http://centos.org) (They
>actually offer several OS's, based on Red Hat
>Enterprise
>offerings,http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat
>). 
>Why am I recommending RedHat Enterprise variant over
>the Fedora Project offering
>(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/,
>http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora)?
>I think it's critical to get a New User's system up
>and running as easily as possible, and it needs to be
>easily configurable. I tried Fedora a while back and
>it didn't provide the functionality I needed, plus I
>wanted something that easily updated.
>I would like to try the new Fedora OS, to see how far
>it's improved. Why am I recommending an Enterprise
>GNU/Linux over something that is specifically marketed
>to new users? I feel people should see the power of a
>robust system, and since it's widely used, you're more
>likely to find answers to your questions, and plus
>there's lots of information out there on it, starting
>with Red Hat's documentation. Of course, there's a
>tradeoff between usability and ease of use.
>
>
>2. Knoppix (http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html)
>A bootable GNU/Linux distribution, available in
>several variants, http://www.knoppix-std.org, for
>example ). 
>
>3. Damnsmalllinux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/)
>This 50 MB Knoppix-based distro is a powerhouse, which
>easily and quickly installs to your hard drive.
>http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall
>
>Over at distrowatch.com, I see that Ubuntu is the most
>popular distro, so I need to check that out.
>http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
>
>It pays to experiment with different distributions, I
>know that there is so time to try them all out. Where
>I've had problems with older computers and Knoppix,
>Damnsmalllinux has worked fine.
>
>I'll be posting a meeting for community education in
>Buffalo shortly, perhaps you might be interested in
>attending.
>
>regards,
>Daniel Villarreal
>
>P.S. My wife is interested in GNU/Linux, it's a matter
>of showing her how to do things she would usually do
>in that other OS.
>
>--- Tommy Rogers <magtom2003 at dm-dos.com> wrote:
>  
>
>Hello All,
>I just wanted to say hi.  I am new to this group. I've
>been running Linux for about two weeks now.  As of
>this point it is just more for fun than anything else.
> I am having a blast and finding myself wanting to
>spend every possible minuet fooling around with it. 
>(to the dismay of my wife :) ).
>
>Because I'm so new at all of this please forgive me
>for asking a lot of questions.  I have found that the
>Linux community, as a whole, is VERY supportive of
>newbies, which I'm very greatful.
>
>My first question:
>I have installed a game that has a Linux Client
>called Neverwinters Nights.  I can get the game
>working fine, but because the game itself has software
>mouse rendering the mouse is very jumpy.  A user has
>created a program called NWMOUSE and it will force the
>game to use hardware rendering instead of software.  I
>have been having problems getting the program to
>complies.  Here is the error message:
> 
>tommy at org-xandros:/usr/local/games/nwn$
>./nwmouse_install.pl
>NOTICE: NWMouse: Executing: gcc -Inwmouse/libdis -g
>-fPIC -shared 
>-Wl,-soname,libdisasm.so nwmouse/libdis/libdis.c
>nwmouse/libdis/i386.c 
>-o nwmouse/libdis/libdisasm.so
>NOTICE: NWMouse: Executing: gcc -shared -g
>-I/usr/include/libelf 
>-Inwmouse/libdis -o nwmouse/nwmouse.so
>nwmouse/nwmouse_cookie.c 
>nwmouse/nwmouse_link.S nwmouse/nwmouse_link2.S
>nwmouse/nwmouse.c -ldl 
>-lelf -Xlinker -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXcursor -lSDL
>NOTICE: NWMouse: Please check for errors above
>NOTICE: NWMouse: nwmouse executable built. Please
>modify your nwn 
>startup command to
>NOTICE: NWMouse: set LD_PRELOAD to include
>'nwmouse.so', before 
>executing nwmain.
>
>Does anybody have any Ideas?  Thanks !
>
>Tommy
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