Thursday, December 3, 2009

Japanese Wedding Greetings

Linux! Linux! Linux! Fedora 12


How to evoke a great white ... :-D
Then, a few friends experienced problems in being able to enjoy the game of common favorite team (yes, I've not yet mentioned, is the legendary Genoa, and I am a appassionatissimo Griffin) trying to buy the service Mediaset Premium (I really wanted to write more commonly, but then I end up closing the blog).
Score: money spent (bad) game and followed by radio, and now that there are rattellano the phone with poor underpaid workers who know nothing and can do nothing. Maccome, you may say, with all that is streaming on the net? The objection was (do not be offended Giulione, if given in full: you know I respect you ;-)): (talking about TVU) "Some time ago I had it installed but then I have antivirus and spyware that had infected not reported only the PC but also your TV, washing machine and the grill! Seriously sometimes seen but is a repository of junk information that pollute the computer. " Yeah, we are privileged and maybe some of those protocols do not run on Linux, but we can do better, and here comes the sense of reflection that I report in this post.
Most users of a PC / laptop / netbook statistically using the instrument mainly for the following functions:
- Networking
especially the browser, like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Safari, Chrome, or unfortunately (especially for those who use it), Internet Explorer.
The browser has already replaced many of the specific applications (with the browser and its plugins are already manages the web with its beautiful forum, social networking (propane, imo the end of this facebook is ), the mail The gaming network, blogging, usenet, photos, multimedia files, file sharing, drawning, the networked storage
, VoIP, and in a little ', as the trend towards cloud computing, all applications needed, including professional ones) - Document Management office suite
- personal storage. - gaming installed permanent neglecting the aspect of gaming in the latest permanent, which requires specific hardware and software, a machine used for these purposes with Windows to manage the system is exactly like seeing the Genoa with Mediaset. pay for a package. Linux (Ubuntu or Fedora, one of the most popular distro, and I, as you know, use the second), free operating system, free, open, shared, now has plenty of mature and particularly suitable for such use, especially with regard to security, and those who switch to Linux it is usually so pleased that no longer feels the need to return to Win, or at least this is my experience over the past five years. No more viruses, no more menate.

course, on Linux, at least for now, is not all there is to win (in some respects, indeed, much, much more), but there is no remedy at all as long as the machine used does not suffer in terms of performance.

A desktop PC, for example (prices from medium to low performance, but more than enough for a normal user), essentially consists of a case (container or chassis) (approx 30-40 E) with power (about 40 E), a motherboard (about 60 E), a processor (known CPU, possibly dual core, that is, with two units in, almost two processors in one, even better if quad core is four units in a) (80 E ca core 2 duo, quad core about 120 E), a video card (from 30 E), volatile memory banks (RAM, random access memory) (4 GB ca 60 E), one or more hard drives (1 TB ca 80 E), a DVD or Blue Ray (20 to 140 E) and any other devices, though not essential. Motherboard, CPU, RAM and video go hand in hand and must be assembled with the right technical and economic criteria, the power supply must have adequate power to the required components, the case must be well ventilated. With a good core 2 duo (dual core with 4 MB of second-generation of Level 2 cache, technologically antiquated already) and 4GB of RAM, Linux kernel 2.6.31 (latest) runs perfectly, and allows you to run without great delays, two essential programs for the nostalgic to Win: Wine, which lets you install and run Linux in some applications (many would say) that are found only in the Windows version, and VirtualBox, a virtualization program very popular and very functional. Just then, in Linux, start virtualbox and run the operating system you want (there can be several depending on the installed capacity and performance of the PC), WinXP, for example, goes to great, and in this system (as if it were a box inside another box, type Matryoshka) you can install within certain performance limits, what you want in native form (eg, TVU Player, SopCast, Mediacenter, PPLive, U95, UUSee, TVants, StreamerOne, etc. .), and damage from viruses or malware, as long as they exist, will be felt only inside the inner box, which you can manipulate as you want, just like a hamster in a wheel .... So: what are you waiting to take the plunge? ;-)