On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:58:01PM -0700, Steven Adler wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this. I am a brand new Linux user. I've > used Windows since my first 286 back in 91. I know that like the back > of my hand, but I know jack about Linux, except for the little bit I > learned while building my website. Anyway, to the point. I just > installed RH7.3 on my laptop. How can I get MSN Broadband to work on it > so that I can connect to the internet. I need this in stupid newbie > speak. Like from installing the programs to connection. Please help
I don't know anything about how MSN does DSL, and though I am sure there is a way to make it work, I have to make two comments: First, Microsoft used to be ignorant of Linux, then they ignored it, then they bad mouthed it, but now they seem slightly worried by it. They aren't going to be any help in getting Linux working, they will likely be of no help with anything if they know the Linux is involved. If they ever get to be truly threatened by Linux, expect them to actively sabotage Linux users the same way they have actively broken Real Player on (I think) several occasions. My second point: whatever DSL you have it is really neat to have a static IP address, that lets you log into your computer from elsewhere. And with Linux you can do nearly as much logged in from another computer as you can sitting directly in front of the computer in question. When I am at home using my notebook I can fire up an instance of the emacs editor faster if I run it on my basement computer and have it put the user interface on my notebook than if I run emacs on my notebook itself--that doesn't require a static IP from the DSL provider, but it illustrates how Linux works well remotely. (The basement computer is faster and has more RAM than my notebook and the 100base-t network is pretty fast, that's how this is possible.) Right now I am typing this e-mail on my notebook's keyboard. I am at work and logged into my basement computer to do it. Works great, and because I run my own e-mail server, I can do other cool things--like have myself paged when I get e-mail from specific persons. And my Linx server is more reliable than was the e-mail server at my former ISP. All that said, Welcome to Linux! -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
