Tom: Quite a story uh? I am sure everyone of us has a tale to tell, about the aproach used to install and become acquainted with linux. That is what I need, some distro easy to learn while leaving ms windows behind. Thanks. Chava >From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Distro >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:32:12 -0600 > > > > I am newbie not only to mandrake distribution but to linux as well. > > > Of course I would like to know the downs of this distribution. > > > I know that sometimes picking a distribution is matter of > > > preference as is choosing the flavor of an ice cream on a sunny > > > day. > > > Chava. > > I like KDE, altho I often feel Gnome apps 'behave' better. Mandrake >is _THE_ KDE distro. I also like that it's not dumbed down to i386. > > ... but to digress ;> I first tried Linux years ago with some of >the 'linux on a floppy distros' while running Windoze. Let me say as >hindsight I believe this is a good way for those who are not all that >familiar with Unix to learn it's ways and mannerisms. Basically you >can find out a lot about Un*x commands and structure in short order, >without actually havin to install Linux. > > So when I got a new HDD for Windoze I kept the old drive and bought >the Red Hat 5.0 CD's. For the life of me I can't remember how long ago >that was (3+ years ?). I used Windoze, RH was a hobby I fooled with. >It took me a _LONG_ time to get sound, printing, et al working. Linux >then was much harder, more finicky with hardware than it now is. BUT, >the lessons in doing so were invaluable. > > Then abruptly a few years ago my daughter needed a HDD in her >'school' computer and I sacrificed my 'linux' drive to get her goin' >again. So, I d/l'd some 'linux on dos' (run on you Windoze DOS drive) >distros, and kept playin with linux. I tried those I figured would be >different than RH, like ZipSlack, and one called Phat (basically >Mandrake),and a few others. Shortly thereafter, I built myself a new >system, includin' a new HDD. Now I had an old second HDD again, so I >bought cheap CD's for Mandrake 6.0. > > I've bought CD's for every Mandrake version since ... ;) >-- >Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
