No sense wasting money on a "Windows" box when a "Dos" box will do!
Microsoft has people brainwashed into thinking that you need new
hardware for everything. For learning *nix, you will get the same
results from a 386 as from anything newer.
I agree with using an Intel box. As a beginner trying to learn *nix
you won't want to have to deal with the challenges of going off the
beaten path. It's very easy to find help and advice (and binaries)
for Linux/Intel.
Kris Feldmann
Thus wrote chuck goolsbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:39:04 -0700
> Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Linux for the 2400?
>
> >If my objectives are to learn basic command line navigation, typical
> >command names, and perhaps to write some pascal that'd work in other
> >linux environments, which should I try?
>
> heh. If you *really* want to do the above, here is your
> cheaper/better/faster way of doing it:
>
> 1. Go buy/acquire an el cheapo Pentium system.
> 2. Install a Red Hat distro on it, but leave out any of the X stuff.
> 3. CLI your way to unix nirvana.
>
> I will get some serious flack and flame from listsers about this but:
> The problem with trying to do this on a Mac is the installation bit.
> You are basically trying to put the flesh of a banana inside an
> orange's skin. It can be done, but the process *will* be messy. I
> have run plenty of UNIX flavors, including Linux on Macintosh and
> Apple hardware... and it has rarely been easy... and it is
> *certainly* not the best environment for *learning* unix! Your
> frustrations will only be amplified in the process.
>
> However doing all the above on a 'windows' machine is a far better
> use of *its* resources (than doing Windows, that is.) =)
>
> --chuck goolsbee
> geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net>
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