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On Friday 06 December 2002 1:38 pm, you wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 December 2002 8:18 am, keith lawford wrote: (to the webmaster at dclug: )Dear SirNice but not necessary, 'Neil' will do. 'Oi, LUG' will work too.
Lol, "Oi, DCLUG, please help me, I'm stupid!" is my prefered becon call ;-)
I am thinking of changing from Suse 8 to Mandrake (, however in the past IThere's no watertight reason to do that, you won't find an enormous difference in the two, except in the configuration tools provided.
I thoroughly concur. I've installed Mandrake for several years on my machines and have generally been very impressed (far easier than Windoze, especially when Windows 'cocks up' and wipes your linux partition). I've also installed SuSE once, which was equally easy but incredibly similar... SuSE's green, Mandrake's blue, that's about it ;-) Personally I'm more interested in Mandrake vs. Debian (for a non-broadband user)... <ducks>
http://www.dclug.org.uk/linux_doc/tips.html
Damn useful page, actually! It tought me several things I didn't know... Cheers to whoever wrote it!
Could anyone advise me before I make the move about how this problem could be overcome? Booting from floppy?That's always an option (for Windows as well as Linux) but all the bootloaders are capable of offering both options (although some versions of Windows are NOT happy - if you are running Windows 2k or XPPro with certain filesystem options set, you could have problems. Email the list if you are
I lent some Mandrake disks to a friend because I managed to persuade him that Linux was worth a try. He found that linux installed fine, but Windows subsequently refused to boot! Bloody typical... In a typical Windows-user stylie, he didn't email me, who probably would have consulted you guys, he just wiped it and installed XP again :-( Which is presumably what Microsoft wanted... So *persevere*, ask a helpful Linux guru (of which there are many, unlike with Windows, where everyone seems to use it but nobody knows how it works or how to fix it)! I'm slowly converting my friends to Linux; it's a bit difficult as they are all quite used to Microsoft products (after having pirated them, cost is not a benefit of linux in this case; even a hardened [and reasonably well-off] Microsoftie admitted that the licence fees for Microsoft products were ridiculous). But two successful converts so far, one of whom was French, both of whom are now very pleased with Linux! Cheers, Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.