Quote from: tomwoods on April 10, 2013, 03:38:12 PM

Quote from: Coincrazy on April 09, 2013, 03:10:55 AM

Some silly questions : what about a web bowser ? Which is most recommended ?
What about some word processors and so sheet ? Again which are reco ?

Firefox is installed by default, I found it was faster / more responsive than Chromium.
Re:office "Libreoffice is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for microsoft(r) office."

By the way, if what you want is to play with Linux, I would suggest you do a Windows Install, instead of installing to USB since it will run much faster. A Windows Install (one of the options if you mount the Mint Image using something like Daemon Tools) is that it installs Linux as a program in windows, creating a virtual partition of sorts that doesn't mess up your hard disk, then when you re-boot, you finish the installation into this virtual partition and you are set. I've done this and it is great.

The advantage of installing it to USB for security purposes, is that you can stash your bitcoins in the USB linux and throw it in a safer, bury it, or whatever, hehe.

Hi Tom woods and others

Thanks for the great tutorials

I have three questions here

1. How to connect to net while on Linux
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I used Linux live USB to create a bootable USB. This worked fine. i choose dam small Linux version 4.x and created a bootable disk, not unbuntu but as you know a knoppix variant

I could make a clean boot from the USB , i am able to see other things on the linux like explorer etc, but I am unable to connect to the net while within Linux

What am I doing wrong ? I'm hoping you know about DSL ..damm small Linux and can help me

Question 2. Existing bit coin client on windows
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I have already run a bit coin client while on windows . This is before I did anything about Linux ...i havent done any transactions or anything with that

i havent given out that address anywhere

should I un install that ? Or ?

Question 3
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I know a little bit about Ppg ..I've used it to test send e mail etc. I unrstand key pairs etc.

could you please explain to such a user , what is a bitcoin wallet ? What is the function of the private key ? Etc a little more than on lay man terms

Thanks and regards