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With Ubuntu Live, you get Firefox & Evolution (web & mail) built in. Synaptic will deal with installing/removing everything natively available to Ubuntu in a couple of clicks of the mouse. OpenOffice will deal with your MicroSoft Office related tasks (and is compatible with the MSOffice files!) No need to even bother running off to the shops to get hold of the software, so long as you're connected to the internet. Of course, all of this applies to most of the desktop distro's out there, not just limited to Ubuntu, but the names of different applications that do the same job change. |
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![]() Hence why I would like to have a GUI to do all that at this early stage. |
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TIA. |
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I setup Ubuntu on my dad's machine a few days ago. I can confirm it's a GUI installer, and there's something like 4 screens to it. It'll pretty much setup everything for you. As for java, I write in java for work, and we use the Eclipse IDE, which is entirely written in java itself. I merely downloaded Eclipse (it's not part of Ubuntu) and it ran happily (java doesn't come with it, but it depends on java). I didn't check which version it is, but I'd imagine it's either 1.4 or 5. |
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In the mean time, I would look at RHEL or CentOS. here is something to get you started mate. http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Or...LINUX_12.shtml http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Or...USTER_10.shtml wrt security, Vista is, and never will be more secure than Linux. Nor will XP. Nor, I would imagine, will any closed source OS, unless it is highly obscure. |
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A mate of mine has Oracle running away fine with his big CentOS cluster.
No problems at all he says. There are RPMs, it just works apparently. (I dont use it, because I want fast SELECT speed, so I use MySQL.) |
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Debian for choice here - which is Ubuntu for men
![]() Best way to think of it is SV650N-X1 - Debian SV650S-K6 - Ubuntu I would say Ubuntu for a newbie tho. Mind you, as I have gnome installed you would be hard pushed to know its not Ubuntu at a glance ![]() David |
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Yup, we do this with RHES. We must run about 10 separate oracle instances on VMs
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I think we have made up our minds
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