Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
> > I would prefer the term "different" to "better". :) Me too. "better" is always relative to the user, not the entire userbase. Different strokes for different folks and all that :) -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.ti

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Steve Pacenka
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 17:36, Rhonda R. Wilson wrote: > My son and I have decided to learn the Linux OS so that we can get off > Microsoft OS and have a mutual project between us. We have a Sun Ultra5 w/ > Sparc processor and at the moment it has Solaris 8 installed, but I plan on > putting Debian

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Irvin Probst
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 02:48, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On the other hand, i have been using debian for a few years on i386 and > it was a bit of a stuggle to get it onto my IPC [sun4c] IMHO linux is not the best choice for sun4c hardware, I think that even Solaris 7 runs faster, not to mention tha

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:04:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > Rhonda R. Wilson said: > > > Is this the right spot? > > im sure people here will be more then happy to help but if your > household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start > with a "easier to install/use" distribution first

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 18:28, Thomas A. Cort wrote: > > household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start > > with a "easier to install/use" distribution first before going to > > debian(which is easier to manage in the long run usually). > For a really easy to use Linux distributio

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas A. Cort
> household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start > with a "easier to install/use" distribution first before going to > debian(which is easier to manage in the long run usually). For a really easy to use Linux distribution for the Sparc32 and Sparc64 platforms you may want to tr

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread nate
Rhonda R. Wilson said: > Is this the right spot? im sure people here will be more then happy to help but if your household has zero unix/linux experience it may be better to start with a "easier to install/use" distribution first before going to debian(which is easier to manage in the long run us

Re: Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:36:24PM -0400, Rhonda R. Wilson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to this listing and wanted to make sure that I am in the right > place. > > My son and I have decided to learn the Linux OS so that we can get off > Microsoft OS and have a mutual project between us. We h

Hello, New to this listing.

2003-05-29 Thread Rhonda R. Wilson
Hello all, I am new to this listing and wanted to make sure that I am in the right place. My son and I have decided to learn the Linux OS so that we can get off Microsoft OS and have a mutual project between us. We have a Sun Ultra5 w/ Sparc processor and at the moment it has Solaris 8 installed