Any Suggestions...?

[Raja Sekhar S]

Recently Purchased a Laptop with 8gb Ram, 1 Tb Hdd, 2gb graphics, Win8.. Mostly i do Development Stuff, gaming, little bit of Photoshop, Heavy Browsing... can any one suggest some must have software's for security, system maintenance, Folder locking.. Any light weight anti virus..? Never used any other OS except those of windows... so am trying to get my hands on Linux Operating systems. Planning to install VMWare Player... Can any one suggest which flavor of Linux should i start with...

[OriginalGriff]

Raja Sekhar S wrote:

Any light weight anti virus..?

MSE - works for me!

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[Joan M]

Raja Sekhar S wrote:

Can any one suggest which flavour of Linux

Depending on what you want: If you want something easy to start go for UBUNTU. If you want to get dirty in Linux internals, go for DEBIAN. There are plenty of options in between. As a server, I've only tested redhat (and it truly works well) but CENTOS is the "free redhat version" something based on redhat that's free. Try it there are plenty of them that are free, test, and if you are not happy, change it. :thumbsup:

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[Raja Sekhar S]

Thanks for the Suggestion Joan Murt... First i'll try UBUNTU... then i'll try with DEBIAN...

[Chris Quinn]

Take your pick from the stuff on offer at www.ninite.com[^] Lots of useful stuff in one place with all of the crapware stripped out

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[Raja Sekhar S]

Nice one.. Installing now...:thumbsup:

[Brisingr Aerowing]

I personally like Fedora Linux. Very user-friendly.

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[Rage]

Raja Sekhar S wrote:

Any light weight anti virus..?

It is included in Win8. Just make sure Defender is turned on.

~RaGE();

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[Raja Sekhar S]

will try that...

[Raja Sekhar S]

k will do that....:thumbsup: