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Linux advantages?
Post 37673 by LinguelSanchez on Wednesday 25th of June 2003 08:39:09 AM
06-25-2003
**Can I run all my favorite programmes from Linux?
No you can't because most programs are written for windows, this is because windows is a commercial OS and only an OS. All the extra's you need to buy or download (like Office, ftp client, irc client, ssh client and so on).
Games are mostly only for Windows or MAC (Linux is almost never supported by the gamesupplier)
BUT this isn't so bad because Linux is NOT a commercial OS and has all the software you need (if you install it).
Example: I have installed Red Hat 8.0 once with just the packages (software) I needed and it was 300 MB, another time I installed this same Red Hat 8.0 but I selected almost ALL additional software and that was 2.6 GB. I think this is a PLUS because you can choose exactly what program you want and what program you don't want AND, all these programs are FREE :d
I have like 5 emailclients, 4 ftp clients, 3 ircclients, an instant message client (for icq, messenger, yahoo, ...), spreadsheetprograms, databaseprograms, serversoftware, and so on and on and on.
**Can I still run all my files such as MP3's and MPEGS?
In order to run MP3's you can use winamp (wich is xmms in linux, most of the times provided with the linux installation cd's or free downloadable on the net). There is only this one problem with MP3's wich requires an update so don't forget this (look in google: mp3 linux xmms or something like that).
In order to run MPEGS download mplayer from mplayer.org (this is not very easy but I really like the program, it never lags (like the new Windows Media Players) and it plays almost all formats no matter what codec.
**How can I better monitor my computer and it's resources?
Linux is one big monitor, u can monitor whatever you want with standard tools and offcourse the internet provides more monitor tools for linux than any other OS.
**And any other day to day examples would be great
Linux is not easy, but it's a whole different approach than most OS'es. If I can give you one tip, hang on, TRY TRY and TRY again, keep searchin on the inet and if u haven't found a solution yet, than you can ask someone else
I think it's the most interesting OS there is and offcourse it's free.
No you can't because most programs are written for windows, this is because windows is a commercial OS and only an OS. All the extra's you need to buy or download (like Office, ftp client, irc client, ssh client and so on).
Games are mostly only for Windows or MAC (Linux is almost never supported by the gamesupplier)
BUT this isn't so bad because Linux is NOT a commercial OS and has all the software you need (if you install it).
Example: I have installed Red Hat 8.0 once with just the packages (software) I needed and it was 300 MB, another time I installed this same Red Hat 8.0 but I selected almost ALL additional software and that was 2.6 GB. I think this is a PLUS because you can choose exactly what program you want and what program you don't want AND, all these programs are FREE :d
I have like 5 emailclients, 4 ftp clients, 3 ircclients, an instant message client (for icq, messenger, yahoo, ...), spreadsheetprograms, databaseprograms, serversoftware, and so on and on and on.
**Can I still run all my files such as MP3's and MPEGS?
In order to run MP3's you can use winamp (wich is xmms in linux, most of the times provided with the linux installation cd's or free downloadable on the net). There is only this one problem with MP3's wich requires an update so don't forget this (look in google: mp3 linux xmms or something like that).
In order to run MPEGS download mplayer from mplayer.org (this is not very easy but I really like the program, it never lags (like the new Windows Media Players) and it plays almost all formats no matter what codec.
**How can I better monitor my computer and it's resources?
Linux is one big monitor, u can monitor whatever you want with standard tools and offcourse the internet provides more monitor tools for linux than any other OS.
**And any other day to day examples would be great
Linux is not easy, but it's a whole different approach than most OS'es. If I can give you one tip, hang on, TRY TRY and TRY again, keep searchin on the inet and if u haven't found a solution yet, than you can ask someone else
I think it's the most interesting OS there is and offcourse it's free.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
ipcs
IPCS(1) Linux Programmer's Manual IPCS(1) NAME
ipcs - provide information on ipc facilities SYNOPSIS
ipcs [-asmq] [-tclup] ipcs [-smq] -i id ipcs -h DESCRIPTION
ipcs provides information on the ipc facilities for which the calling process has read access. The -i option allows a specific resource id to be specified. Only information on this id will be printed. Resources may be specified as follows: -m shared memory segments -q message queues -s semaphore arrays -a all (this is the default) The output format may be specified as follows: -t time -p pid -c creator -l limits -u summary SEE ALSO
ipcrm(1), ipcmk(1) CONFORMING TO
The Linux ipcs utility is not fully compatible to the POSIX ipcs utility. The Linux version does not support the -b and -o options, but does support the -l and -u options not defined by POSIX. The portable application shall not use the -a, -b, -o, -l, and -u options. AUTHOR
krishna balasubramanian (balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu) AVAILABILITY
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. Linux 0.99 9 October 1993 IPCS(1)