On 12Jun2006 01:50, Harold Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hello everyone! I have been looking for a group like this. I have | downloaded puppy linux and made a bootable cd. I have read quite a bit | on forums and bought an older version of | "Linux for Dummies". [...] | I have run windows for years and familiar enough with dos to write and | edit bat files. I am currently running XP Home. I mainly use MS Excel, | Word, Notepad, QuickBooks, and Firefox as my browser.
Some equivalents: Excel: openoffice calc, gnumeric, KDE's spreadsheet (I don't know its name) Word: openoffice write, abiword, kword Notepad: pico, vi, emacs, nedit, gedit, ... Quickbooks: not sure - accounting software, yes? Firefox: firefox | My current PC is a single hard drive with only one partition. I can | boot to puppy linux from my CD. I can get to the desktop but can't | seem to get started to do any real work. I get frustrated when | following the forum or tutorials at the puppy linux site. There is so | much that I don't understand that I run into roadblocks and run out of | time or quit. | | I don't know if puppy linux is the best way for me to start or not. I | don't know if I should try to partition my hard drive or not. I would | like to have an alternative to windows at least. I might change an old | computer to just linux if I could wrap my mind around what and how to | do it. It seems like Microsoft wants to take over my PC, my pocketbook | and my life to a certain extent. If Linux is better and I can learn to | get some work done with it then all the better. | | Could someone kinda steer me in the right direction from what I have | talked about in this post? Get a spare computer if convenient and install a linux distro. Pick a standard task you would want to do, try it, then ask specific questions. Oh yes: one question per posting - it works better that way. That implies more than one post if necessary. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Check out Doohan's rear/all wheel slide in the French GP. Oh yeah. "I was just mucking around. I won't do that again." - Mick Doohan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
