Okay, so a friend of mine was kind enough to drop me an ISO file containing Vinux which had Ubuntu on it. But if I wanted to get more flavours like Debian or Arch, where can I get them? Is there a central location where you can get a direct download withouthout going through many steps? I'm the kind of person who is cautious and wants to see things work without running into many error messages, and trust me, I had several of those, but they all meant nothing to me.
There's DistroWatch, but you still have to go download the distros from the original vendor.
Do all Linux distributions come with Orca?
No. I know Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo and Debian do, but others...
Do you activate the screen reader with alt windows s?
This seems to never be a constant, not even with Ubuntu . So no.
Also, I'm thinking of getting a Raspberry Pi. How do I go about converting it to the Raspberry Vi?
Raspberry Pi's work via SD Card's. Micro ones, in fact. I've never imaged a raspberry Pi -- hell, I've never actually fully used one -- so I'm certainly not equipped to answer this question.
If I'm going with Linode, which distribution should I choose, and how do I get into the system to enable Orca if Linux doesn't use a remote desktop connection like Windows does?
With Linux, there are usually two types of Distros -- server and desktop ones. There's sometimes embedded, too, but that's a totally different thing. All distros found on Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. are all server distributions. What this means is that they don't come with a desktop environment, they don't come with Orca... they don't come with any graphical tools whatsoever. They come with a command line, dialog, and maybe some other tools that can make text user interfaces. But no GUIs. So if you want to set up word press, LAMP, etc. better master the command-line first.
To answer your other question, there is no central WAMP package for Linux. There is no IIS for Linux. There are, however, separate packages for different things: web server (i.e. Apache, Nginx, etc.), Database Servers (MongoDB, MySql, Oracle, etc.), and PHP. Unfortunately, due to the incredibly diverse Linux world these days, there is no "central" way to set up word press, or, really, anything that uses a web server.
I recently had an internet change. I now have fibre-optic internet. I can do one of two things. If I want to use multiple devices like a printer, my iPhone, my Book Port Plus, and my computer and my iPad, I'd need a router that is connected to the wall via an Ethernet cable, not a coaxial cable. However, with routers, you have two networks now, and you have to do port forwarding. Another way I could go around this is to disconnect the router from the wall and plug it directly into the back of my computer and bypass any port-forwarding problems. Any ideas on how I can get started? I've been at this for two whole months and I still haven't given up. Somewhere out there lies a solution waiting to be discovered.
I wouldn't go with the second option. If you do that, then you only give internet access to those devices that you directly connect to the router. If you go with the first, you can have a centralized network hat all your networked devices can connect to. You'll have to deal with port forwarding, but that's just life -- and it's probably the best method too.
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