Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:48:43 -0500
From: "Maya Rushing Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: upgrades to a 70CT
Neil,
Permission granted. <g>
We have contemplated using Linux, actually, and also doing the dual-boot
thing. We like Corel products, and I understand they have Word Perfect,
etc. for Linux. One of these days....
I have an old Pentium system (133 MHz) that is kicking around here. Any
suggestions as to what it would be good for? Internet access? We could
network it to the others....
Sorry, getting off topic.
Maya
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From: neil barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Fri, January 05, 2001 3:32 PM
To: Libretto
Subject: RE: upgrades to a 70CT
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:25:36
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: upgrades to a 70CT
Maya,
Actually I'm quite jealous - I think you have a most amazingly distinctive
name. Permission to use it in a short story sometime? No-one ever publishes
them so you'll be quite safe!
Re W98: I'm avoiding it (and it's postdecessors (if that's the opposite to
predecessor)) because:
o I don't like MS business methods/ethics.
o I don't like systems that crash on a regular basis - and require
restarting after the most trivial change
o I don't want a system on a machine used by all the family that has no
protection between users, so daughter can download a virus and wipe us all
out.
o It's resource hungry and slow (with the exception of the shutdown)
o I have no peripherals which require w98 exclusively
o I like to play...but I *don't* play computer games
So I mostly use linux - though I'm by no means an expert on the subject and
now the home setup is four computers:
1) linux only providing internet access and firewall for the others
2) lib dual booting w95 and Mandrake 7.1 (finally got that running this
afternoon!)
3) dual boot pentium 300 with a bout 30g space - dual boot w95 and Mandrake
7.1
4) daughter's machine with spanish keyboard - pentium 233 dual boot
w98/office 2000 (to get the spanish wp) and Caldera 2.4e (with word perfect
8 spanish, uk, and us). She uses the linux about 90% of the time.
I just noticed I *do* have a w98 machine. But *I* don't use it :)
If you want to play linux, I'd recommend either Mandrake 7.1 or Caldera
eDesktop 2.4 - this has possibly the best install I've seen. But be warned -
there's a very steep learning curve for linux. I don't claim to be any kind
of expert and I've been trying to learn for a year. Plus you may have
difficulty finding apps that do what you need. But it's worth a try and at
least it gets you out from under Bill's thumb!
Cheers,
Neil 'crawling slowly' Barnes
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