Re: Linux Replies(was WinXPActivation)
- Posted by 1evan at sbcglobal.net
Sep 16, 2003
I have Slackware 9.0. Downloaded the complete distro from
www.slackware.com for free. That took a while 
! (CD's are
available) Installed it with the newbie option. Gnome desktop. No
problems. Everything but DSL automatically set up. Installed RP-PPPOE
(www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/) for DSL with no problems.
Reinstalled with expert option to set it up how I wanted. Still no problem.
I'm far from a Linux expert or super-geek. Just a little reading and
everything went smoothly.
I did partition my disk with PartitionMagic but have used fdsk in the past.
Jonas Temple wrote:
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>FWIW,
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>I installed Red Hat 9 this summer on my PC. The partitioning was
>straight-forward, the hardware detection was 99.9% right and the darn
>thing never crashes! (The .1 % hdw problem was a monitor setting and
>I'm not sure I selected the right model).
>
>The only issue I'm having with RH9 is I can't get the Palm sync
>working... :( ...otherwise I'd be making the permanent switch!
>
>Jonas
>jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
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>>On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:31:06AM -0500, C. K. Lester wrote:
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>>Hmm... I've never used FreeBSD, so I can't fairly compare and contrast
>>the
>>2.
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>>I'm interested in how your experiences with Linux compare with your
>>experiences
>>with FreeBSD, tho. Maybe it is better. (I've heard that FreeBSD tends to
>>be
>>smoother under heavy system load but doesnt have as good hardware or
>>multi-
>>media support.)
>>
>>jbrown
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