Hi On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:34, allan scott wrote: > Hi, > > Well I am a long way from Sydney but email takes me there!!! > > I have been using the 'infernal machine' for some 20 years now and I am up to here >with MS.
Join the club we have all been there... I sort of gave up On M$ when I had 18 crashes in one week 6 driver re-installs and 2 complete installs in one week.And all the MCSE people said my hardware was stuffed, I put Linux on it had a minor problem with sound (thanks the IRC gods) and the machine ran for 19 months without one single crash (I sold it after that). > Mandrake looks like the go but I need to know if the 8.2 boxed set will contain a >wysiwyg web editor as I have some 340 Mb of book > written. This and some 22,000 digital camera pix, se need to manage these too. Yep sure does they are called SCREEM and QUANTA PLUS (PUN ALERT) yes you have not one but 2 wyswig web page tools and yes there is more .You can find more info at http://www.freshmeat.net > The big question is, can I wipe MS, install Mandrake and keep writing??? I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. Will Mandrake see my > USB port and use my 40 Gb hard drive, my camera card reader, Epson A3 printer and >broadband satelite connection. Mandrake detects broadband connections as part of the install, Yeah Ive seen Linux on a few Toshiba laptops now no problems noted by the users. Check with the Mandrake web site they list machines that Mandrake works with and to what degree and what hardware are supported. Yes Epson printers are supported by CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) I'm actually using a Epson printer on this very machine. Yes USB is suported (I use a Kodak USB digital camera works fine with Mandrake just shows up as a USB Drive, bit like a floppy) and as for the 40Gb hardisk people are using 400mb to terabyte setups with Linux. > We live and work on a remote torres strait island's so I cant just 'pop down to the >shop'. Why go to the shop at all just download it, and if your still worried just get a copy of Knoppix Linux http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression. PS - wait till Mandrake 9.0 comes out its due out soon with heaps of new USB support. > Cheers for now > Allan Scott > Kubin Village > Moa Island > Qld 4875 > Ph 07 4069 4015 > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
