Linux or Windows Operating System?

men i've been thinking of this issue now for days. i've been using windows all my life all of a sudden i decided to do something crazy and i picked up a linux cd and installed it. i run both on my pc. so far i haven't achieved much. You know linux might never catch up with windows in the number of customers why? linux generally isn't user friendly i can site examples. i have about three modems a motorola l6 on entering linux it detected it easily i was happy i said linux must be very powerful next i found my way to internet connection for me to pick my modem i saw
"/tty/ bla bla bla. my point exactly if it were windows it would just say motorola l6 although in the fardware manager it showed it but i don't even know any of the modems cos it gives different slah options linux got to step up and even the attitude of those using it is one of the things killing it. it safe secured but nearly immposible i dont even know where the sql server is on it. it didn't detect my vga card properly so games hang even to update it i don't know i use red hat version9.2 help needed

hm ubantu i heard about the distribution but would it answer my /tty bla bla bla question would i be able to browse on it with my motorola l6 modem that is the issue. also my internet connection is slow its vmobile dialup so what is the way out where can i get the cd.Thanks for the ubantu info i should give it a try

what a pity i never knew who he was but he sound real important anyway Chxta plz reply my post about browsing with my motorola l6 cos that the only way i get to connect to the web and u know it's tieing me down to windows
thanks

esquire, wat exactly is your point? As far as am concerned, u dint solve adewale's problem. U may b a don but man uve gotta step down a little 2 help a noob. If u av a solution, we'l b glad 2 learn 4m your wealth of experience. wats wrong with vmobile's wap? if it satisfies his needs, no prob!

adewale, ps can u give us more info? i browse wit my se k700i on my linux pc using bluetooth wit vmobile.

adewale, i tink d first tin 2 do is to upgrade or change your linux distro. chxta recommended ubuntu & i support him. RH9 is quite old - fedora is better. i use suse
on my machine. mandriva is also very good. d only problem i c is ow you can get linux cds. i wish i can help u wit dat. i hope to gist more wen i use my computer. by d way, i assume ure using usb 2 connect 2 your machine, r u? Takia

adewale, i tink d first tin 2 do is to upgrade or change your linux distro. chxta recommended ubuntu & i support him. RH9 is quite old - fedora is better. i use suse
on my machine. mandriva is also very good. d only problem i c is ow you can get linux cds. i wish i can help u wit dat. i hope to gist more wen i use my computer. by d way, i assume ure using usb 2 connect 2 your machine, r u? Takia

Too bad how 2 of u Adewale & Fisayo turn me a Ogree or monster. You know its like after reading linux myth my thinking change on how people condem something. Adewale if  have wronged you in anyway am truely sorry please (omode l'on se mi). I am a learner like all of us not in anyway a don as Fisayo puts it, by the way see Fisayo who is talkin i read all your post and was tripped. Hmm, you're such a geek. I need 2 learn from u, so when is the tutorial gonna commence       seriously now am planning 2 dump redhat but i need 2 know 2 compile softwares i.e software installation both open source and non open source any suggestions will be highly welcomed and after i will install suse so that u always help me out of my problems. Adewale, Brotherman please i need all the procedure you use in configuring your phone with your system maybe that will help me cause i do all posting and surfing with my phone alone. Post the configuration steps both in linux and windows my phone is Sagem mys-7 thanks Adewale & once again am sorry to have talked that way. Cheerio.      

Am not just using the internet service even before Vmobile started dishing out internet service thats what my phone uses and it was configured at Vshop at Ikeja and all my post in this nairaland is done wit my phone. I tried configuring it but thing did not just go my way so i'll like an advance explanation on how to in about it.   

its normal to encounter problems mine didn't work for like 2days before it started plz tell me what the problem is or what error message is it giving you.

ok lets start over go to control panel and remove any thing that looks like your phone cos i think you might need to querry the modem from the phone and modem option in control panel, if that doesn't work then do a fresh installation of your phone driver. if your fone uses a usb cable make sure the port u use would be the one u'll be using throughout. insert your phone and manually locate the driver after installing, then querry the modem from the phone and modem option in control panel to confirm if it was successful

Dey on the system runing Kubuntu and have finally deleted my redhat partition and have run the live cd of both Ubuntu and Kubuntu and have decided 2 settle with the later and cos am a KDE man so am presently on the beautiful KDE environment will hit you back when am thru. Hey everybody where is Fisayo i command you by thunder and fire come out of your hiding place   . Fisayo where you @.  

@Chxta
thanks i got it from him yesterday, i saw his message and called him on sunday evening around 7 o'clock i tink

@esquire
has your phone started browsing yet? and that gnome environment is so frustrating but still better than my old redhat environment KDE Rules

,  on windows. ttyS1 is COM2 on win, etc.

4 a usb device, it's /dev/ttyUSB0 if it's d first or only usb device. it can b USB[1,2,3,etc] depending on kind of device. a cool way of checking is typing dis command 'dmesg | grep USB' , u should c d exact address of d device. bluetooth and ir r not so straightforward. wen i get 2 use my pc, i hope 2 shed more lite. ps bear wit me. happy computing

Chxta have not seen your Ubuntu Linux thread around for a while now. Since you almost initiated everybody including me in using the almighty Ubuntu which i my self is propagating the good news every where i get d opportunity 2 talk bout computer. You need 2 like raise the thread from it slumber and you'll be amazed by how many Ubuntu linux user we have in the house most of which are courtesy of you and provide some kind  of miniature support 2 all d noobs in the house. we go dey pay you salary . Seriously man i need 2 see that thread among the top 5 always. peace man and cheerio

@esquire
i think we will be needing those prayers of yours to bring fisayo out incase she doesn't reply quick

@fisayo
thanks to a program i just downloaded, http://fs-driver.org/download/Ext2IFS_1_10b.exe it allows me to copy and even store on my linux partiton from my windows plattform. whle i ran that command you gave(thanks), i brought out this so i saved it. plz interprete it 

[4294671.271000] PCI0 UAR1 USB1 USB2 USB3 EHCI  AC9  MC9 ILAN SLPB
[4294675.144000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[4294675.145000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 1
[4294675.145000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294675.246000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 2
[4294675.246000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294675.347000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 3
[4294675.347000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294675.451000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus num ber 4
[4294675.451000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 De c 2004
[4294675.451000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294676.490000] usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[4294676.934000] usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[4294689.256000] input: Chicony  USB Keyboard as /class/input/input0
[4294689.256000] input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Chicony  USB Keyboard] on usb-00 00:00:10.0-2
[4294689.341000] input: Chicony  USB Keyboard as /class/input/input1
[4294689.341000] input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [Chicony  USB Keyboard] on  usb-0000:00:10.0-2
[4294689.362000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:10.2- 1
[4294689.362000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[4294805.913000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[4294806.236000] cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[4294806.242000] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.23:USB Abstract Control Model d river for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[4295315.698000] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[4295341.496000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[4295471.457000] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[4295478.163000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[4295478.693000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[4295479.223000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[4295479.733000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[4295605.413000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
[4295605.571000] cdc_acm 1-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[4295707.707000] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 7
[4295718.163000] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[4295718.448000] input: Chicony  USB Keyboard as /class/input/input5
[4295718.448000] input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Chicony  USB Keyboard] on usb-00 00:00:10.1-2
[4295718.535000] input: Chicony  USB Keyboard as /class/input/input6
[4295718.535000] input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [Chicony  USB Keyboard] on  usb-0000:00:10.1-2
[4295725.612000] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[4295725.782000] cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[4295748.913000] usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[4295749.076000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:10.2- 1
wale@wale-desktop:~$

whats this acm about plz help me 

Now that is cool. Its such a pity Ubuntu cannot work seamlessly on the intel macs cos I want to get me a macbook. I might have to leave Ubuntu for Fedora or Suse who support the macbook without much stress.