Time to start Linuxing..some questions 2238
PaulFXH Hi; FWIW - as long as you have 3 Primary + 1 Ext'd, you can have MANY logical drives within that *1* Ext'd parbreastion. ======================== Example =================== (view...
Alan Connor
If there is anything worse than X windows, it has to be PERL.
Or possibly BASIC
In what way is PERL 'required'? WE only ever used it to write scripts in, and in general I pretty much outlawed it because either the problem really needed C for any kind of speed, or it COULD be written in shell, and since shell was what the systems used, shell is what you wrote in please.
Well I preserve my true idenbreasty purely because I have several existences, and prefer to keep them compartmentalised.
This particular idenbreasty has been going for a few years now, and its the only one I use on usenet.
I think I am beginning to feel my way towards what I want..perhaps I am not as minimalist as I thought..at the sysadmin level I DON'T want GUI at all really..but as an ultimate user of the projected laptop system I will.
I suppose the final destination is twofold
- a stable 'office server' and development platform for web-mail-apache-mysql-samba-netatalk-printer SERVER stuff..non GUI. A place where data resides, is processed and is backed up. This is where the proposed machine will chiefly end up, but I will use it to develop....
On 25 Jul 2006 13:14:01 -0700, NAV staggered into the Black Sun and said: Wait, what? "mount" only makes sense for devices that have filesystems on them. Did you mean "I want udev...
- a resilient replacement (on a portable) for my win 98 desktop that is as sparse as this one is. Next years project. Things I want are mainly mail-web-office type functionality, plus ability to run a couple of windows apps I can't do without - IE6 that is needed for some websites I can't avoid, and Corel Draw..VMware should cope with both. The rest will stay on this Win98 machine till it dies..I'd also like to be able to manipulate camera images and some sound stuff..and play the usual movie clips and the like. Since I hate spending money on expensive processors and loads of RAM to run stuff I do not need, I want this machines GUI to be lightweight and simple. I'll probably invest in a wireless router at this point to replace the aging D-link, and give me roaming around the house and garden...
Anyway, MegaThanks to all who have responded..It is becoming much clearer now. I'll go Debian simply because no one has actually said its a BAD idea, and my friend who gifted me the machine has all the distros and uses it himself.
As far as window managers go, it seems that its pretty much a matter of taste and configuration.
I'll try a few out...it seems a less than irrevocable step whichever way it goes.
Linux groups from Newsgroups