MarkK: 1(
Here I am, hoping to stick it to Microsoft by
migrating to linux and I'm already stumped at
how to even download, never mind install suse
8.2.
Judging by all the unintelligible tech garble
on these linux ng's, maybe I'd be better off
not bothering....
Put off Newbie, Mark K.
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REPLY: 2(
I converted to Linux several years ago, and now
I would not even DREAM of going back to MS-windblows.
Free at last, thank God almighty, free at last!
MSW is an "operating system" with a lot of
"users". Linux is a community, with a lot of PEOPLE!
MSW is a black-box. If it doesn't work, who do you
turn to? How do you fix it? You're stuck with
whatever MS gives you, and by supporting MS,
you're helping to forge your own chains.
Linux is an open book. There are hundreds of
forums and documentation sites available. Here's
two:
http://www.tldp.org/ -- The Linux Documentation Project
http://www.linuxdoc.com/ -- The Linux Review
The disadvantage is that you have to actually READ
the book, and THINK and search. But after a
while, this activity becomes pleasurable, for
the same reason that learning about ANYTHING is
pleasurable. You begin to lose the desire to
be dumbed-down.
..
Don't RUSH the process. Give yourself TIME to
explore. Don't do anything till you are really
READY to do it and really WANT to do it. Give
yourself plenty of time to READ and do research.
The time you spend reading will not be wasted: You
will be able to use the information you pick up,
once you have your system working.
My first attempt to install Corel Linux failed. I
then set Linux aside for about three weeks. Finally
regaining my courage, I removed a network card I
wasn't even using and tried Corel again. I
installed it into a DOS partition and ran Linux
under DOS. Linux came up with no problems. I then
began to play with Linux.
I thought I would run from a DOS partition forever,
but then after a while, I found my courage and began
to seek out new adventures. This time, I installed
Corel 1.0 in its own partition. At that point, I
stopped using MSW altogether, and turned to Linux
exclusively.
A year or so later, I decided to try Corel 1.2. I
installed it in a partition beyond the 8G line, and
set up a separate partition just for swaps. I was
SURE I would destroy the entire hard-disk. But it
didn't happen. There WERE some install problems
because of the 8G limit, but I got some help over
in the Yahoo forum for Corel Linux users (COLUS), and
the problems got fixed.
Now, I have just installed RedHat 7.0, and soon I'll
be installing Xandros, the successor to Corel.
From what I've heard, SuSE is the most difficult
to install, RedHat the second most difficult, and
Xandros and Mandrake are the easiest. But I'm still
just a novice, so I'm not speaking from experience
here. I just know that I found Corel (now Xandros)
very easy to put on.
If you oppose MS as much as you claim to, spend $100
dollars or so on a Linux distro. Even if you never
install it, your $100 helps to support the Linux
programmers who develop and maintain the code that
has already set millions of other people FREE.
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markkzoom@hotmail.com (MarkK) wrote in message news:<d64a268.0306251206.23e1591e@posting.google.c om>...
In article <8bc70ae9.0306260959.2ed99434@posting.google.com>,
JoyInStruggle wrote:
You speak wisely, sir. Just one thing about instaling Linux. I've never
installed Xandros but hear it's easy. What I _do_ know is, Mandrake and
SuSE installations need no brain on the admin side. Red Hat is close. Some
distributions still have installers that may not look familiar to old
Windows users, but any distro is as easy to install than Windows.
The thing is, people never do install Windows, they get it with the
machine. If you install, say, Red Hat, you'll be all set in an hour, with
a full set of office, graphics, net, and other applications. With any
version of Windows this will take hours of installing Windows, device
drivers, applications, and you'll have to reboot numerous times.
--
Juha Siltala
