[newbie] Fwd: Linux for stupid newbies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone in Central America saw my linux links webpage and asked for advice. see anything in the hardware below that would preclude using Mandrake 8.0? - - -- Look what the cat dragged in: -- (snip) * Is more stable than Win 95 SR2 (what I use now, which seems to be the least unstable member of the Windows family) * Will run fine on my current hardware (Celeron 366 MHz w/32MB RAM) * Free or extremely cheap, both the OS and apps * Can have a Windows look alike GUI so my cybercafé's customers will not have to ask for help or even notice that it's not Windows * The time I invest installing and learning a new OS will be less than the time I now waste messing with Windows' instability and quirks (snip) - - -- Charles Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 39 34' 34.4N / 105 00' 06.3W ** Oh come now. At least pretend to be scared. The media spent millions trying to psyche you up for this - User Friendly, 08/01/01 on the Code Red virus scare - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO4vkYX+bkeP849+WEQKqsQCghwzlTa6MSlrxotkjp4y+vT+mXPgAn0mz RPK9Kqghf+gBi2THM1E/98P9 =lOSe - -END PGP SIGNATURE- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO4vnbn+bkeP849+WEQICGwCfY7czYGkUpcps8QH4UTi+tQO4StYAoLEq V+Gz0Enzi7iuJG/w08iXy24O =RmOP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Linux for stupid newbies
on 8/28/01 1:48 PM, Charlie Oriez at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: see anything in the hardware below that would preclude using Mandrake 8.0? The only reference to hardware I see is the celeron 366/32MB. Which should run linux fine. But he did say he wants it to look Windowslike, and I dunno if I'd run KDE or Gnome with 32MB. I run IceWM on my laptop (with mandrake8.0) that has 32MB of ram, and it's pretty good. Not the most exciting windows manager, but it gets the job done. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: Linux for stupid newbies
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 04:48, Charlie Oriez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone in Central America saw my linux links webpage and asked for advice. see anything in the hardware below that would preclude using Mandrake 8.0? - -- Look what the cat dragged in: -- (snip) * Is more stable than Win 95 SR2 (what I use now, which seems to be the least unstable member of the Windows family) * Will run fine on my current hardware (Celeron 366 MHz w/32MB RAM) * Free or extremely cheap, both the OS and apps * Can have a Windows look alike GUI so my cybercafé's customers will not have to ask for help or even notice that it's not Windows * The time I invest installing and learning a new OS will be less than the time I now waste messing with Windows' instability and quirks (snip) - -- Charles Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 39 34' 34.4N / 105 00' 06.3W The RAM is too little to seriously run KDE or GNOME. Xfce or IceWM would be good choices. IceWM can be made to look very much like Win95. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
