On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:32 am, Peter Mann wrote: Mandrake has come a long way since 7. 9.2 is very good 10.0 is also very good Use 64 only if you have a 64 bit processor if you have a 32 bit processor (most likely) down load mandrake 10.0 isos and burn your self a set of CDs http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ is a good place to start Download Mandrake 10.0 Enjoy > I embarked with Mandrakelinux 7, which came in the back of Sam's Teach > Yourself Linux in 24 Hours book. > It installed itself OK, but then it wouldn't recognize my on-board modem, > my LG CD Burner files, nor my Canon scanner, > and although it could tell me what model of Canon printer I have, attempts > to print did not work. > > Escape from the swampy Winduck (ie short legs) archipelago was looking like > a long expedition. > But then I found the website where one can download Mandrakelinux 10.0 Beta > for AMD64 . > Perfect ! Thinks I. > Latest version might have the missing hardware patches, and is optimized > for my Athlon 1.2GHz cpu as well. > Certainly big enough to contain a kitchen sink for every room in a large > hotel. So I barter with a friend to download the mind-boggling 2.5GB of > executable files via their broadband connection. > And tonight we sit down to run these 3 CD ROMs full of arcane code with an > ISO file extension (never heard of it). > The file manager recognizes the files on the CDs as executable, but they > cannot be induced to execute. > > What I need is a stable, efficient operating system that uses the hardware > that I already have, > and does not have the self-destructive file-corrupting monotheistic > personality attributes of Winduck, > and preferably without being susceptible to the anonymous malice of > demented hackers and their poxy proxy viruses. > It is unlikely that I will ever do any programming or systems development. > Just a nice, reliable, obedient machine will do me fine. > > I am prepared to put in the time and endure the pain that it takes to start > again in a foreign cyberscape, > but be aware that last time I worked directly with an operating system, > it was 1985 and my Morrow MD11 cp/m machine with its 32kB operating system > would blow the doors off an IBM XT, > so be gentle with me. > Peter Mann > > Self-trust is the essence of heroism. It is the state of the soul at war, > and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood & wrong, and > the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. It is > generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations and > scornful of being scorned. It persists ... its jest is the littleness of > common life. > Ralph Waldo Emerson
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