Re: A Simple Linux question?
From: Steven Scott (sscott_at_invatron.com)
Date: 08/22/03
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:48:20 -0400 To: lenroc@hotmail.com
I hate to trouble you, but you might have the solution to a question I
have posted as it seems you are quite knowledgeable about Redhat linux.
I am looking to be able to print HTML documents from a linux command
line via scripts (without user intervention) and I was wondering if you
know of any tool that may do this. I have looked around the web for
printing with Linux, but pretty much everything I find is for setting up
printing, not actually doing the printing. I can convert the HTML if
another tool will do that in the script. I also require that all the
graphics, formatting, etc... be maintained.
A second question I have concerns the hard drive. Is there a
compression program that works via the operating system to compress all
stored files and expand them as they are used similar to the Compress
option of Microsoft Windows? I am using a computer for the HTML
documents that does not have a lot of hard drive space, and I would like
to take advantage of the compression tools when storing the documents as
text compresses really well. I need the tool to work without scripting
though as people will be trying to view the documents via a normal web
browser at times as well.
Lenroc wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:16:19 +0100, half_pint said:
>
>
>>I wish to run Linux on my IBM PC, how do I do it?
>>I understand it is opensource so I won't be paying much/anything?
>
>
> This goes to the "free beer" vs. "free speech" difference. Just because
> something is "open source" (Free software) does not mean there is no cost
> to obtain it (free software).
>
> You can go to the store and buy a copy of Linux, but you are correct that
> there are definitely free ways to get it too.
>
>
>>Presumably once I have the source I have to compile it?
>>If so how?
>
>
> If you download the source for a program, yes you have to compile it. Just
> because something is "open source", that does not mean that you can only
> download the source code to use it. There are binary distributions
> (precompiled) of most software.
>
>
>>Basically I want a link to download and install Linux.
>>(Or get it on a 'free' CD).
>
>
> You can download free ISOs from Redhat.com
>
> Here is the link to the "How to download RedHat Linux" guide. It is really
> quite short, and quite a good description of the process.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html
>
> I would also recommend reading the full installation guide, but there are
> links from the above link.
>
> I would recommend RedHat, since that's what I use (I'm certainly not an
> expert, but I didn't have any problems getting it installed). There are
> other good distros too... you might check out Mandrake, for example.
>
> RedHat is an example of a distro that is good for newbies because of the
> package manager it uses, RPM. This allows for relatively painless
> installation of apps. Other distros also use RPM, and I'm sure other
> people will respond with exactly which ones they are ;)
>
> HTH, Good luck!
>
>
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