Eric Auer wrote:
Hi,
if it turns out that there is some "MS chap" for PPP that old Linux
versions cannot handle, I would be interested to know. I get the
impressions that old versions of Linux are getting worse and worse
in dialing up to updated Windows oriented servers. Which sucks!
Luckily providers do not go as crazy as AOL and start their own
completely PPP-unrelated protocols. Sigh.
No Schitt. I'm about to see if I can go back to BBSing; my local isp
changed something yet again, and only REDHAT 9 will still logon. I'm
looking into the dish, but dont know if they have the same kind of
stupidity.
There are DOS viruses that make you lose data. Definitely. You
just were lucky. Linux is Windows-aware, and there are free drivers
to make Windows Linux-aware (partition-wise).
You do not need WAITASEC to scroll back in Linux: You have hotkeys
for that already enabled by default.
Dos viruses usta be distributed on floppies. I have not had a floppy
brought to my computer from some other source (other than hardware
drivers) in years. Nor was my machine ever part of a corporate LAN. That
left the BBS networks. One of the reasons I liked EXEC-PC.BBS was that
it had a large cd rom library of files which were all tested for
viruses. I was lucky, but not at all unusually so, millions of users ran
their dos systems in very similar ways without trouble.
Hm, FreeDOS boots into the file manager by default? I do not think
so. It boots into a shell. Linux does the same, but asks you for a
password first. And if you enable the graphical login, it will of
course offer the graphical login instead of the shell login first.
You can use the Ctrl-Alt-F1 hotkey to ignore the offer and login in
text mode ;-).
And you can, as many do, include a command to launch a preferred file manager in autoexec.bat. The comparison between bash and command.com is spurious because the dos user has a wide variety of easily and/or automatically installed tools to do that which he wants done. It is an additive process, more cumbersome than the default gui offered to most linux users, but can be as functional as the user wants.
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