Russell Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i do want a full install...i was unsure of which
> dist. to use, untill my friend told me he would
> burn a copy of the mandrake/rh he bought, and that
> settled it...i did consider caldera, but from what
> i have read, i don't think i would learn much from
> it...
Caldera is, probably, the easiest dist. Other easy
dists are SuSE <http://www.suse.com> and Red Hat
<http://www.redhat.com>.
Debian is a more newbie-unfriendly guru-oriented and
full-GPL'd dist. It let you take more control over
your system, but it's harder to configure.
>i aim to free myself from windoze, however, i need
>it for my kids games (everquest these days) and my
>s.o.'s quicken/office 98 files...
Some Windoze programs run in Linux with the Wine
emulator. Windoze 3.11 programs run with Wabi, but
it's proprietary software. And M$-DOS applications
runs with dosemu (a DOS emulator).
There is also a PC emulator, but you need a very
fast machine.
Hope this helps. Good luck :-)
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