On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 18:56 -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > Ahh...the memories! Actually, I had completely forgotten about helping > you back then but I bet I have our initial conversations archived away > in email somewhere. Someday I should make all of my private email > searchable somehow now that I have the disk space and cpu power for that > kind of thing. >
I don't recall how I learned about Linux, but I do remember it was some time just after Linus "released" it to the world (pre-version 1.0). The first distro I ever purchased was a Slackware bundle. Boy, when I compare that install with the installs of today it's like comparing cave men to modern man (ooppss, sorry Geico guy). > > It was a fairly steep learning curve. But trying the things that one > > No kidding. Like I said, it took me a couple years to really become > proficient with it. But now I consider it time well invested because > learning Linux has paid off well in terms of actually giving me a > career. I relied heavily on IRC and the fledgling www to get up to > speed. The Linux Documentation Project was key back in the day also when > there were not yet many Linux books out. But it was a fun learning curve. > > > and miss. Video drivers were an issue with many advanced cards. > > Video drivers are still an issue if you want 3d but I hope in the next > few years that problem will be solved also. Are you referring to the lack of good 3D drivers for all the various cards on the market? The NVIDIA cards and drivers work great, but if you want a choice other than NVIDIA, it's true, you're basically SOL. > > Yep. What I wonder now is: for how long will this situation last? Vista > is relatively new. It may catch up and pass Linux once again in terms of > driver support if MS is successful in getting everyone forced over to > Vista so that all of the hardware manufacturers have to make drivers for > Vista. Maybe Vista is new, but there's really no excuse for the problems it has or lack of drivers. XP was new, it had good driver support. M$ has had plenty of time to develop (or have developed for them) drivers. I hope it flops, not just because it's M$, but because it's a POS is sooo many ways and I don't want to have to support it or otherwise deal with it. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
