Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 08, 2002 03:53 AM
As a person who has only used command line linux and unnix on my servers, I find it refreshing to see all the enourmous work around bringing linux to the gui and desktop.
I love unix and linux. But usually for my "personal conmputer" I use 98SE. My reson is simple. My hardware is old, 233 with 128MB RAM. I only use it to communicate. I check my email, store some important files, use excel to pay bills and such. I also keep a backup of my important files via ftp on my linux servers.
Recently I purchased Lindows just to see what that was about. I was giving a used "upgrade" computer by my employees because they felt sorry for me. This had a celeron 533 with 256MB RAM and a 18.9GB SCSI drive. It had all intergrated video, sound, NIC. It had no OS on it. So I grabed my handy little win98SE CD. And installed it. To my surprise it didn't find video, sound or nic. After taking the thing apart to do driver research I spent the next several hours looking for these drives, downloading the drivers, reinstalling 98se when the wrong but similar drivers corrupted the OS.
Finally, the next day I started fresh. But this time I loaded the lindows. I clicked next a few times and it rebooted. I expected even more complicated drives issues but to my surprise when it booted up. Everything was working fine. I was very impressed with the system and I installed OpenOffice without a single problem. All is well now. I can do everything I need to do now and I see no plans for change in the future. I didn't even have to install x windows. It just works and doesn't bother me. I have been told that most other distros are like this now. It has come so far in such a short time, I cannot imagine what the next 24 months will bring.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 08, 2002 03:53 AMto see all the enourmous work around bringing linux to the gui and desktop.
I love unix and linux. But usually for my "personal conmputer" I use 98SE.
My reson is simple. My hardware is old,
233 with 128MB RAM. I only use it to communicate.
I check my email, store some important files, use excel to pay bills and such. I also keep a backup of my important files via ftp on my linux servers.
Recently I purchased Lindows just to see what that was about. I was giving a used "upgrade" computer by my employees because they felt sorry for me. This had a celeron 533 with 256MB RAM and a 18.9GB SCSI drive. It had all intergrated video, sound, NIC. It had no OS on it. So I grabed my handy little win98SE CD. And installed it. To my surprise it didn't find video, sound or nic. After taking the thing apart to do driver research I spent the next several hours looking for these drives, downloading the drivers, reinstalling 98se when the wrong but similar drivers corrupted the OS.
Finally, the next day I started fresh. But this time I loaded the lindows. I clicked next a few times and it rebooted. I expected even more complicated drives issues but to my surprise when it booted up. Everything was working fine. I was very impressed with the system and I installed OpenOffice without a single problem.
All is well now. I can do everything I need to do now and I see no plans for change in the future. I didn't even have to install x windows.
It just works and doesn't bother me.
I have been told that most other distros are like this now. It has come so far in such a short time, I cannot imagine what the next 24 months will bring.
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