Hi Alex! Thanks for letting us know about this. I don't suppose I could get you to write a review on the web page for this? Just what you wrote here would be fine.
To the rest of the group (and Alex): To write reviews: 1. Go to http://news.gnhlug.org/ 2. Log in (or register if you haven't already) [The email address you register with never appears on the web site - and you can set a "fake" email for displaying after you register and set up your account info.] 3. From the "front" page (aka "first", "main", ...) click on Reviews in the Main Menu box in the upper left. 4. The page that comes up (which lists existing reviews), click on "Write a Review". 5. Just fill in the blanks. Please feel free to write a review about any Linux-related product, service, software package, ... you come in contact with. And if you know it, please include the version number (because the software universe mutates so quickly)! These reviews help those of us * looking for pleasant experiences find them; * looking to avoid unpleasant experiences avoid them; * looking for feedback to something we've worked with find it. So, by taking just a few extra minutes helps the whole community! --Bruce Alex Hewitt USG wrote: > You may have read my posting on how I fared trying to get Linux running > acceptably on my Compaq 1700XL laptop. Ultimately I wasn't able to get Linux > installed and running to my satisfaction. In the meantime I noticed that VMware > had introduced a new version of their software and I decided to upgrade to that > version and try it on my laptop. The long and short of it was that I was able to > install Mandrake 8.1 with very little effort. My first attempt was thwarted by > my failing to perform the correct sequence of actions to get my X server running > properly. Additionally, I setup my virtual disk too small and so I repeated the > installation with a larger virtual disk (2 gigs). After reading the X server > installation description more carefully, I was able to run X at 1024x768 > resolution. The other detail is that VMware supports several different ethernet > "virtual adaptors". On my laptop the ethernet bridging option didn't work with > my wireless PCMCIA adaptor but the NAT support worked perfectly. I can now run > my Linux system as a guest on my Windows 2k laptop. > > -Alex > > Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster! > > "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it > said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous > > Want to know what it looked like 1, 10, 100, 1000, 1,000,000 > years ago? Just look up on a clear night! > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** -- For the latest local Linux news, go to http://www.gnhlug.org/ . For the latest CodeMeta news, go to http://www.codemeta.com/news . For my personal news, go to http://www.milessmithfarm.net/news . ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
