>I have always wanted to learn Linux and FreeBSD, but could never >find a good enough machine to do it
"a poor workman always blames his tools" ..... :))) FreeBSD and Linux installed on 486/66, 32 megs (if you can still find one) works great for a learning machine, and some IMGate users (uh, me) use them for production machines. "what ever Intel gives, MS takes away" >and then on top of that when it was >installed I just couldn't run from machine to machine. Pickup a small thinkpad on ebay for a couple of $100, slip in a enet card... You can take it to bed wid ya also, www.cygwin.com has a quite complete and free Unix environment for Win32, and active users mailing lists, if you want to learn the *nix commands, shell scripting, ssh, etc, etc. >So I was reading cnn.com and they were talking about Virtual PC for the Mac. my excuse: I don't have a Mac. :)) > So I figured >what the heck may as well check it out and I found out it can run Linux and >UNix and any other PC operating system you can think of. So now you don't >have an excuse as to why you can't learn another operating system. there never was a good (external) one.... :)) >This should keep me busy for the next life time. I am using the 45 day >trial now, but when I will purchase it, it's only $199. >http://www.connectix.com Put a 486/66 (no crt, no kbd, no mouse after installation) on your LAN and SSH into it from your Mac or Win machine. Really no need to spend ANY money (oh, how un-American is that!!) Len Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
