On Wednesday July 23 2003 09:09 pm, Erylon Hines wrote:
> From experience, the only distros that will work well on these
> machines are old (meaning less eye-candy) and out-of-date. I
> have a P75 with 32 meg that does fine on the 486 (Yes, 486)
> version of Mandrake 7.01. Those machines were ted
Erylon Hines wrote:
]On Wednesday 23 July 2003 05:21 pm, ThinKer wrote:
Hello All,
I've just inherited two very old machines (Original Pentium with 16MB
RAM each). I was wondering if there was anything I can download and
install on these machines. They are currently running Windows 95 and
they
On Thursday 24 July 2003 04:09, Erylon Hines wrote:
> From experience, the only distros that will work well on these machines are
> old (meaning less eye-candy) and out-of-date. I have a P75 with 32 meg
> that does fine on the 486 (Yes, 486) version of Mandrake 7.01. Those
> machines were tedious
>From experience, the only distros that will work well on these machines are
old (meaning less eye-candy) and out-of-date. I have a P75 with 32 meg that
does fine on the 486 (Yes, 486) version of Mandrake 7.01. Those machines
were tedious with any version (even 7.x) optimized for the Penium.
Hello All,
I've just inherited two very old machines (Original Pentium with 16MB
RAM each). I was wondering if there was anything I can download and
install on these machines. They are currently running Windows 95 and
they have Network cards already installed. I can put them on my network
and bro
ly have a great time with Linux. It's a
great tool to learn from and use.
Steve Weltman
(from Los Angeles)
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From: "Jason Ashman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie]
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
> Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
> unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
> "Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapte
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
>Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
>unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
>"Linux for Dummies" for example ch
> This is where I disagree. There is nothing better when learning than
> to have 2-3 xterms open. One holds man page lookups, the other the
> actual working commandline and a thirdjust in case. It's sortof
> an analog to the days when I had a commandline and a whole bunch of
> manuals open
"Daniel J. Ferris" wrote:
> Three methods I found:
While I would agree with your methods to some extent, I'd modify them
just a wee bit.
> 1. Loose X windows for a little while and learn some command
> line
This is where I disagree. There is nothing better when learning than
to have 2-3 xter
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:00:05 +0100, Gordon wrote:
>As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
>Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
>unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
>"Linux for Dummies" for example ch
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To: Newbie Linux Mandrake (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:00 PM
Subject: [newbie] Learning Linux?
> As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
> Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks a
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
> As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
> Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
> unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
> "Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapte
Title: RE: [newbie] Learning Linux?
"Running Linux " (O'Rielly Publishing) is an excellent reference. Dennis registered linux user #180834 or something like that.
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ihave linux mandrake for beginners and it wasnt very helpful it seems more
like $25 for the mandrake 7.0 cd which i never used because i already had 7.1
In a message dated 13-Sep-00 05:57:17 Central Daylight Time,
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<< As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the be
> As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of
learning
> Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
> unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
> "Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapter?
All of the above.
I would a
As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
"Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapter?
Regards
Gordon
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