Re: [Sheflug] Re: Re: My First Post

[Graham Spearing <nospam [at] tux.uklinux.net>]

Paul,

Based at the Hallamshire?

Basic message is to persevere - the people on this list are a helpful
bunch. I started with Redhat 5 and managed to get everything working
with much reading and heartache. I am not particularly a techy and the
distros these days are much more helpful.

It's always a regret of mine that I haven't had more time to get into
shell scripts, more commands and become a Perl Acolyte. My time may yet
come.

Anyway, good luck, and the gurus here should help you out. I've recently
found Mandrake to be the easiest to install - but then I'm a  softy.

Regards

Graham
graham@tux.uklinux.net
(and on NHSnet somewhere)

> Paul.Miller [at] csuh.nhs.uk wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
>         I will reply if I may to a few of your comments:-
> 
> Richard Wrote
> >
> >Can you try not to use HTML to post please.  Not many people do use
> that feature to post to discussion lists.
> 
> I don't know what you mean, I just type it into MS Outlook and press
> send! As far as I was concerned it was just a normal E-mail. I'm sorry
> if this causes problems. I'm posting this from Windows because my
> Linux setup seems unable to connect to the net.
> 
> Barrie J. Bremner wrote
> >
> > The only problem for Windows users is WinModems - not real modems at
> all -
> >most of the work is done by Windows, and hence these 'modems' cannot
> be used with
> >other OS, whether it be BeOS, Linux or Mac.
> 
> Yes I know about Winmodems, my modem is an external 56k serial modem.
> At one point I had it ringing up and connecting to the ISP they
> negotiated for a few seconds and then broke the connection. I managed
> to find a log file somewhere (I might even be able to find it again
> given enough time) which contained a log of the login process. It said
> 'Terminated by Remote Host' so I guess there was a problem with the
> authentification. Compuserve is not particularly Linux friendly.
> 
> Anyway after that I tried installing SuSE 7.0 from the front of a
> magazine and after that everything stopped working. I havent been able
> to get things working to the extent of being able to dial up again
> yet, but then I am busy and I haven't devoted much time to it yet.
> 
> >
> > The painful way is to buy it. - I bought RH6.0 - and the manuals
> were not a great deal of use - online support,
> > from http://www.linuxdoc.org/ and user groups like ShefLUG are more
> useful. You can most distros from
> > http://www.linux-emporium.co.uk/ - prices range from £2 up.
> >
> > You could even download the disk images, and burn them to CD, if you
> have a fast enough connection.
> > I got RH7 this way. Probably not the best way to start with Linux
> tho. If you have a friend with a CD burner
> > and a copy of a distro, they can always run you off a copy.
> 
> I have no problem with buying it, I've already bought SuSE and
> Mandrake. Even if I were to buy every distro available just to see
> what they were like I would still have spent less than if I were to
> update to the latest MS Windows & Office & Visual C++. I've just got
> hold of a copy of Red Hat 6.2 maybe it will be a little better but I
> will not hold my breath.
> 
> Even though they are free software they still seem to be commercially
> driven and so there is a temptation to put as many software packages
> as possible on the disks. Never mind the quality feel the width, is
> there a non commercial distro out there which only uses proven
> software?
> 
> I have a CD burner in my system, it works fine under Windows but I
> have not yet got it to work under Linux, the main reason for this is
> that this (Linux) is all new to me and there is too much information
> to take in all at once, nothing works the same as I am used to! I'm
> still busy assimilating it all.
> 
> Craig wrote
> >
> >Anyway, rock solid distros. Basically, Debian or anything based on
> it. The easiest debian derivitive I have yet
> >found is Storm Linux. Corel say theirs is easiest, but it crashes
> more times than, erm, a thing which crashes. A
> >lot.
> >
> >Anyway, Storms yer man for Debian style stability and ease of use,
> and Debian for raw out and out rock solid
> >dependability. I use SuSE 7.0, cos I got it fer nowt.
> >
> >Let me know how you get on,
> >
> 
> I've not seen a Debian distro or a Storm distro in the shops. Is there
> anywhere local I can get it or am I going to have to send away for it?
> 
> Anyway thats enough for now.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Paul J. Miller
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