> Hi.... > > I´ve just discovered "LINUX" and i´m very excited. > I´m a Win95 user from Guatemala, Central America, and around here nobody > knows about the LINUX PROJECT, but i have some doubts..... > > 1) Could i get a LINUX CD versión at home. Do you know a distributor for > Latin America ? >
There isn't one true Linux CD. Various people put together collections of software along with the Linux kernel. These are called distributions. The Debian Project have put together one such distribution called Debian GNU/Linux which is definetely available in CD form. The best thing to do would be to go to the Linux journal home page (http://www.ssc.com/lj) and check their reviews of distributions to see which one seems right for you and then visit the home page of the that distribution (http://www.debian.org/ in Debians case) for additional info as things move fast in the Linux world and reviews can get out of date. In my opinion Debian is the best. (But thats the general opinion on the Debian list. :-) > 2) What kind of source code compounds "LINUX" ? C++, Assembler, Basic or > something like that ? > The Linux kernel is wriin in C and so are most of the utilities just like any other Unix variant but you can use all the languages you mentioned and more if you like. > 3) If i get the source code, the interesting thing is contribute so... > do i need a compiler to make it work ? is the compiler included with > LINUX ? > gcc is a freely available C compiler. Like I said there are various distributions of Linux which may not neccessarily include gcc if they don't want to but in reality I can't imangine anyone who wouldn't. Debian of course does. > 4) I´m not very sure, but does LINUX have a GUI (Graphical User Interface) ? > Yes. It is called X windows and it is used in many kinds of Unix not just Linux. Here again you have a wide choice in styles. X windows can even mimic much of the look of Windows 95. Of course you don't have to use a GUI at all if you don't want to. > 5) Does anybody know about a spanish version of LINUX ? > Perhaps a spansish speaker can answer this? > 6) Could you give me some servers names for newsgroups about LINUX (I´m using > Microsoft News and i need to know the server name to login ). > > Use http://www.dejanews.com instead. They have all the newsgroups. The main Linux groups are in the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
