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08-01-2020, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by desert rat
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While researching distros I came across Kali. Fitting name. LOL!
I also considered Arch, however I'm not that experienced with Linux and it sounded like Arch might be a tad difficult for an inexperienced user.
All in all I'm finding Kubuntu amazingly easy to use. Turning on ufw and installing Sophos in Terminal was a snap. Epson even has Linux drivers for my Workforce 845 all-in-one, although I installed software by Turbo Print on a 30 day free trial. I like it better than the Epson software under Windows but if I want to keep using it after that it'll cost 40 euros. Oh, I also installed the Brave browser using Terminal.
I did kind of goof on my install and I'll probably redo it this weekend. I used ext3 instead of ext4 for file system because somewhere I came across an article that stated ext3 was super-stable and ext4 might not be, but of course today I came across an article that contradicted the previous one and also listed all the benefits of ext4 over ext3.
By the way, I am an IT nerd (programmer/analyst) but of the IBM mainframe variety. At least I understand the concepts and can draw parallels, and truth be told the Linux environment is a lot more transparent than Windows, or at least that's how it seems to me.
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08-01-2020, 11:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Phoenix AZ USA
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Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are easy to use . Many of the programs that run with Kali are command line and must be correctly used . On programming , I learned basic. in the 70s . From the YouTube videos I have watched languages like c ++ and python use the same commands , just in a slightly different way .
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09-01-2020, 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by desert rat
Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are easy to use . Many of the programs that run with Kali are command line and must be correctly used . On programming , I learned basic. in the 70s . From the YouTube videos I have watched languages like c ++ and python use the same commands , just in a slightly different way .
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Junior year of high school I took basic and senior year fortran & cobol. That was in the mid-70s and I went into the Air Force in 80 on a guaranteed contract for computer programming.
Command line stuff can be a pain. Even on the mainframe we access through an emulator on our laptops and for pushing some data around we use native ftp which is all command line stuff in the run window.
I do have a small bit of Unix experience from back in the mid-90s with GE that I don't remember too well. It was on a failed effort to port a mainframe system to a server running Solaris. I did quite a bit with shell scripts and I remember, what were they, oh yeah Awk and Sed commands and Cron for scheduling.
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19-02-2020, 06:39 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: The green & pleasant land
Posts: 3,382
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Hi JASG, I'm trying to set as default browser on new laptop. I've clicked on settings, then advanced settings, but there's no option there like on my old laptop. Any ideas? Thanks.
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