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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers why is this so hard when it shouldn't be? Post 56206 by svennie on Wednesday 29th of September 2004 06:23:39 AM
Old 09-29-2004
Lightbulb KNOPPIX
hi. if you wanna take a first look into linux (it assembles on unix, like win2k was developed from win nt) I suggest you should take knoppix. it's for free(!) has a good support (no drivers needed!)and a big community.
also you have an user interface like windows, but you can also go to shell (this is like the real unix, in relation to windows it's like dos).

and the best(!), you haven't got to install anything or format your windows xp. it also detects lots of drives (f.i. your modem) automatically. just download via mirrors

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

because it's a bootable cd, so you can get into contact with unix,linux,shell-programming and so on....

" KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it. "

have fun...and nice try

by the way, next time pleaz be more specific in the topic of your thread...like "searching unix....." or so...
Last edited by svennie; 09-29-2004 at 07:30 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

tdfx

TDFX(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   TDFX(4)

NAME

     tdfx -- Voodoo Graphics and VoodooII Memory Access GLIDE device driver

SYNOPSIS

     device tdfx
     device tdfx_linux

DESCRIPTION

     This driver creates an entry in /dev that allows programs (mostly GLIDE-based software) to access the device memory of the Voodoo Graphics
     and VoodooII 3D accelerators created by 3Dfx, Inc.  This provides an interface for applications based on the GLIDE API or that simply use the
     API provided by the linux /dev/3dfx device to use the video device.

     Supports all cards based on the following chipsets:

	   3Dfx Voodoo Graphics
	   3Dfx Voodoo II

     Specifically, the following cards should work:

	   Diamond Multimedia Monster 3D
	   Diamond Multimedia Monster 3D II

     Note that this driver does not currently have support for the Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo5, or Voodoo6 based cards.  It also does not
     currently support the Voodoo Rush.  It also does not yet handle the SLI feature of the Voodoo II boards.  You can only use each of them sepa-
     rately.

     By including tdfx_linux, you can enable the linux ioctl code for this driver, where the only supported applications currently reside.

FILES

     /dev/3dfx	   Symlinked to default 3dfx board
     /dev/3dfx*    Character Device programming interface

     /dev/voodoo   Mirrors of above interfaces
     /dev/voodoo*  (Some apps use /dev/voodoo)

HISTORY

     The tdfx driver appeared in FreeBSD 5.0, and was originally developed for Linux kernel 2.0.x, later written for 2.2.x and 2.4.x.

AUTHORS

     The driver was developed by Coleman Kane <cokane@micro.ti.com> after the linux version of this driver by Darryll Straus, John Taylor, Jens
     Axboe, Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> and Joseph Kain <joseph@3dfx.com> to be directly compatible with it and support the many GLIDE based
     games available for Linux and UNIX.

BSD
								 February 19, 2001							       BSD
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