Sad to hear you're getting sucked into the MS vortex. Yes, learning to
configure Linux is painful. I'm at that stage and the learning curve seems
to be vertical but I did manage to get a basic configuration of Mandrake 6
running and it is solid as a rock. I initially had it running on 16mb or
ram. Try doing that with a MS product.
Although the curve is steep I like the idea of having a choice on how I
configure my box and what get's loaded and what doesn't. A windoze box
without alteration, stuck onto the internet is not a verysecure device.
>From what I can see, if I don't load the ftpd,telnetd or other server
daemons, Linux is a fairly secure desktop.
ks
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Kevin Stewart
Technical Analyst
School District No. 57
>check the speeds of your memory if you have more than one mem chip....
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 12:57 PM
>Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down
>on stability!!
>
>
>> Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of
>> the hardware in the machine that your using.
>>
>> It might or might not be the problem that your experiencing,
>> but this was the problem the last 2 times this happened to me.
>>
>> I usually recomend an AMD processor to windows users,
>> but I'm biased in favour of AMD, but a Pentium does run
>> nicely when its running linux instead of windows in my experiences.
>>
>> Anyone else have some input?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine mewed:
>> > > OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough
>> > > PC savvy to
>> > > get through this..
>> > >
>> > > Linux is driving me crazy!!
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> > > I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!!
>> > >
>> > > Sorry, I just had to shout at someone!!
>> >
>> > I understand completely...I've been trying to get various flavours of
>Linux
>> > to run on my machine for about half a year now - Redhat 5.2, 6.1, Suse
>> > 6.something, and Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make
>it
>> > to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at
>least
>> > with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it
>just
>> > stops working, kaput.
>> >
>> > With this plus all the hassle having to configure every little detail
>> > yourself, I think Linux for me is just going to remain a toy OS for the
>> > forseeable future...
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