Gee, my Linux installations work right out of the box. Even when some
tweaking
is required, I've been able to get onto the web and go looking for
help. And
I've never had to dive around in drawers looking for old CDs and
floppies.
By and large my experience has been the same.
Perhaps not, but so
Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like
internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all.
On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:34, M.Schild wrote:
:
I'm still searching for that perfect distro to recommend, but this
isn't an experience I would want to impose on a novice
I repair/reconfig/support all kinds of MS Windows machines - in home
and
corporate environments - I can't begin to tell you how many times I've
experienced the exact same thing - but with MS Windows (all versions).
Believe me, I know. Installing a clean copy of Win XP on the same
machine is no pi
Despite the strong recommendations I've received for Mandrake as a good
novice-friendly distro, I've been unable even to get it to install. I'm
working with 10.1 Discovery on CD, on a Dell Dimension 2400 with a
2.6GHz P4 and a Samsung SyncMaster 900NF monitor. So far I've
encountered the fo
I'm confused. Is there something especially risky about Abba for a
computer that wouldn't be a problem with other artists?
--Dave
On Nov 12, 2004, at 11:16, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
On Friday 12 November 2004 11:06 am, JoeHill wrote:
My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like
Mandrake would definately be one of the top ones for novice users, in
my
experience. I can sympathize with your installation problems, however,
though I've never had the same with Linux. I had similar problems
installing
RedHat 8 on a certain box, but on others it installs flawlessly. I've
ha
Your hardware? Installer drops to text if it can't start X or there
isn't
enough RAM.
Dell Dimension with 2.6GHz P4, 19" monitor...can normally run 1600x1200
at 24-bit color in X, so technically it should be a problem. The
monitor is connected through a KVM switch, though.
- If 10.1 Official m
I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to
novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been
recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions.
I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to install but have been unable
to do so. First I got a t
