Hello Folks, I thought I'd give you an update on my final decision, How it worked out, and my opinions. Having purchased a new harddrive yesterday, I partitioned it and loaded Win2000 for any unsupported devices ( such as the HP 315 camera ), And also so that I could download Mandrake 9.0, ( Having decided to give it a try, If it didn't work out I could always reload 8.2 ). Having burned the 3 discs last night I proceeded to load Mandrake this A.M. Here are 2 words to describe my experiences thus far : OH YEAHHHHHHHHHH..... This is slick, cool , groovy, fantastic, awesome... uhhh, ok more than 2 words, Anyway All went well. There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola.
Here is my general opinion:. It isn't that Linux isn't ready for PrimeTime, It's that PrimeTime isn't ready for Linux.
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