Re: off topic : WinLinux
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From: Jiri Babor <J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 5:40 PM
Subject: off topic : WinLinux
> I am proudly announcing my 87th failure to penetrate the Linux
> universe. Well, to tell the truth, I lost the count long time ago.
Jiri:
Have you forgotten all the hassles we all went thru to get DOS,
and later, Windows running? Weird drivers that had to be installed
before a hard drive would work - drivers to get a sound card running,
to access upper memory, etc. etc.....?
Linux is much the same, except that instead of learning it over a period of
several years, we have to grasp it all at once. And since Linux does a lot
more than DOS, there's that much more to grasp.
I think you would find it much easier if you got a Linux distribution which
comes with an installation manual. SuSE, for instance, comes with a nice,
understandable book that covers setup and operation in detail. As far as I
can tell from a quick look at their website, SuSE works with Cirrus Logic
cards.
You may want to do a search for your particular model at http://www.suse.com
to be sure.
Packages from SuSE and Caldera, among others, retail for $25 - $35 in this
area.
That's a lot to pay for "free" software, but if your time is worth more than
50 cents an hour, you'll come out ahead by buying the package - also, the
half-dozen CD's come in handy when you want to re-load Linux, or are ready
to try out some of the thousands of programs on those CD's.
Regards,
Irv
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