anarkissed wrote: > > The things people have said about linux being fast > on survPCs seem to apply only to the CLI version, > the gui seems far harsher.
There's a big range of survPCs. Linux won't run at all on a 286 (or older). With a 386, you can run Linux with a CLI, but you should forget about a GUI. With a good 486 and at least 16meg RAM, you can run a Linux GUI, but you need to keep the bloat to a minimum (no fancy window manager, no fancy desktop). > The systems I've had that ran the GUIs at all were > so slow I couldn't wait. 486 systems? How much RAM? > I tried all the GUIs that I could at that time. Did you try icewm? > I've never gotten modem to work. Does the modem work with Arachne? If so, it will work with Linux. I've just posted a message showing how to transfer values from arachne.cfg to Linux. If you are still confused, post your [dialer] and [tcp/ip] sections and I will show you the Linux equivalents. > I got a NIC to work Are you able to ping between machines? > but couldn't access file systems between machines. Step 1 Make a server available one machine. ^^^^^^ (ftp, telnet, http, nfs, whatever) Step 2 Make sure client has permission to use server. ^^^^^^ Step 3 Run appropriate software on client. ^^^^^^ (ftp, telnet, lynx, mount, whatever) > 15mins a day teaches me how to scream my throat raw at > a screen that just keeps blinking at me. it teaches me > how to get up from the keyboard and go stomp around the > yard till the urge to destroy has evaporated. We've all been there. That's exactly how I felt when I started learning DOS. Ditto Linux. Don't dispair. There are plenty of people here who are happy to help. Give us some specifics and we will try to sort them. > I just got lots more paths and commands to puzzle over. > I finally figured it out by doing a lot of moving around > on the tree, getting the idea. The advantage of starting with BasicLinux (or some other mini- distribution) is that the tree is much smaller and easier to digest. A beginner can become familiar with the essentials of Linux without having to plow through hundreds of megabytes of inessentials. Cheers, Steven _______________________________________________ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html
