Not sure Nick, have you had success, I haven't that's all?
Lance Blackler
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:44:05 +1200
sirlancelot wrote:
Hu Matthew, in my experience, you could install MEPIS in 20 minutes on
your machine and you'll already know if everything works OK before you
commit to it since it installs from a live disk install. It really is
easy, even your dynalink modem will work (installed automatically, but
only with the 2.4 kernel).
why not with 2.6?
Others will have different ideas, but that would be my choice.
Lance Blackler
Matthew Whiting wrote:
Hi all,
New to Christchurch and to this list, so hello all!
I'm in the process of buying a new machine and wondering whether or not to
get XP with it. I don't really want to spend hours and hours struggling to
set the machine up with Linux. I've spent considerable time in the past
partitioning drives, installing Mandrake 8.2 and running Win98 on the
other partition. So, three questions:
1. With a reasonably new machine, can there be issues with drivers being
available for all the hardware? Haven't got all the specs with me at
present, but the motherboard will be an INTEL D915GAGL UATX LGA775
MOTHERBOARD, will be a Philips LCD and DYNALINK 56K INTERNAL PCI MODEM.
But, just in general, how much time and effort would generally be needed?
I know Linux distributions are getting more and more user friendly these
days. I'm a programmer and not really a hardware person. If some of the
setup is not straightforward and requires editing configuration files I'd
rather instructions on how to do this. Have no desire at all to try
hacking config files :o)
2. I am sure there are many opinions on this, but a good Linux version to
start with? I'd rather not a bloated OS with bits and pieces I may never
need but would prefer a minimal installation where I can keep tabs on
everything I've installed and install extra software as needed. So, yeah
something crisp and easy to maintain! Initially I'll be looking to use the
machine for web-based programming - PHP with an Apache webserver, MySQL
database... Maybe one day I'll look at doing some graphics programming.
3. Where can I get a hold of the necessary installation cds?
Thanks for any thoughts...
Cheers
Matthew
