Gosh, Richard Gaskin has obviously got the 'rough end' of Linux. Awfully sorry Richard,
But have just installed Ubuntu 5.10 i386 on 4 fairly crappy old Pentium 3s: it was unbelievably easy . . . Frankly my knowledge of Linux would leave space on a US 1 cent coin! about 5 years ago I tried to install various forms of Linux on various stray PCs at the UAE University in the United Arab Emirates - and rapidly reached the conclusion that Linux was strictly for masochistic computery types - I never got the windowing system to work, nor, consequently, a usable GUI - reminded me of all those UNIX terminal sessions in the basement at the University of Durham 22 years ago when I crashed a whole mainframe trying to run a concordancing program I had written in PASCAL processing the English translation of Leibniz's 'monadologie'! Anyway, nowadays the average Linux distro seems no more difficult to install than Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. sincerely, Richmond __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution