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off topic : WinLinux

• Posted by J E M <budmeister1 at JUNO.COM> Nov 24, 1999
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Since ya'll are talking about your bad Linux experiences, I
thought I might shed some sunshine on this rainy parade and
toss in a success story :)

I first heard about Linux a few years ago (in its earlier years),
and was immediately intrigued by it, since I'd never heard of
a "free" operating system. I got a book from the library with a
Linux CD (it was some generic version customized for the book release;
it used kernel v1.2). This was before the KDE or Gnome came out;
in fact there were only 2 window managers with it (fvwm & twm).

Since there was no installation program at all, I had to boot up
an "install" boot disk, use fdisk to tag the partition I wanted
Linux on with a Linux native ID, create the filesystem, mount it,
check it, the whole shabang. It took me a few tries to get it right
(since I had *no* Unix experience at all - except from reading
hacking textfiles ;), but eventually it worked.

For all of you who think that the install program that comes with
Red Hat (or any others for that matter) are primitive, try doing
what I did ;)

Once it was installed, it took some doing to finally get some of
my hardware configured (I went without a CDROM for a long time ;),
but it all worked out.

Now I'm running my box as a home network server, with full Internet
services up (POP3 & SMTP, DNS, FTP, Apache, Telnet). It's also got
X running WindowMaker (get it, it's great!), Gimp, and some other X
goodies. Right now I'm working on getting DOSEMU and WINE configured.

Maybe I'm lucky...
Maybe I have the right hardware...
Who knows?

Good luck to all those who don't seem to have it ;)

----->Buddy
budmeister1 at juno.com
http://tenbux.iwarp.com/