Bill Evans wrote: > Thanks Steve > Looks like I will have to get myself a CD burner.
No, I beg to differ, you dont _have_ to have a CD burner, but it sure does make things a bit easier. You can install quite a few of of the Linux distributions either directly from a hard-drive, or over a local network. Mandrake for example. Some can be installed directly off the Internet. Debian comes to mind here. Hmm this open source > software is getting expensive. What with the books I've bought, and the set > of Debian disks yet to be tackled I could have bought myself WinXP by now > :) The best 'book' is available off the 'net for free at http://rute.sf.net and you are allowed to print it out for yourself. There are literally _hundreds_ of small files which tell you HOWTO do various things. The better ones are all at http://www.tldp.org The literacy level is sometimes rather variable, but the info is there. That's much better than the situation in the commercial domain where the literacy is usually excellent, but the information content is so severely rationed that you get to the end of the prose, and wonder where the information was. ( Commercial software support contracts would be un-necessary if the documentation was written properly. Can't have that now, can we? ) But then again where would be the fun in that ... Indeed! I will be bringing a copy of Knoppix to the meeting this evening. > Bill > > > > >>Yep. Knoppix runs directly off the CD, its known as a Live CD. You don't >>need to have a working (or any) linux on the system that you demo it on. >>You can download it from ftp://debian.co.nz/isos/Knoppix/ if you have a >>CDR and want to have a look at it. Also, it might be interested to read >>the list archive discussion about it, starting here, >>http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0208/msg00184.html >> >>Cheers, >>Steve > > > > >
