On Aug 26, 6:15 pm, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Dos-Man 64<[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Aug 25, 9:46 pm, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> What distro are you using? And on what hardware?
>
> > I'm at a half way point... I still have 98 installed on my hard
> > drives, so I'm running knoppix from the DVD. It's good enough right
> > now for me to learn (and not have to worry about breaking anything.)
> > The only problem is I don't have internet on my linux machine which
> > makes downloading anything apparently impossible. I'm making good
> > progress though. I learned a lot in the past week so far.
>
> An alternative suggestion, if your hardware will allow it, run Linux
> in a virtual machine. I recommend installing Virtual Box under
> Windows and then installing several Linux distros in different VMs.
> That will give you three things:
>
> 1) a real Linux environment in which you can work
> 2) network access
> 3) a protected environment which won't break your windows.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
Oh, God! My machine is slow, it can barely even run DSL-embedded that
way. Another reason I was using 98 :)
I am going to ditch 98 soon. I'm just keeping around because I
occasionally run into tasks that I don't know how to do in linux.
Anyway, I ordered some software a while ago, and I want to test it
out. As a programmer, I should be able to make good things happen
even with a live distro. I tend to be more focused on writing my own
software than on anything anybody else has created. If I can't create
any useful software with a live distro, then I most likely couldn't
create anything useful with a full distro either.
And I still haven't made up my mind what distro I should use when I do
switch over.
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