An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ganesh.iwpcp.com/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20040401/47128010/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 3 23:03:54 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (justin joseph) Date: Sat Apr 3 23:04:06 2004 Subject: [Mailinglist] Debian GNU/Linux Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hi all, I installed and configured Debian GNU/linux, at least to a "usable" state. Thought i did share my experience with you all, I bought my computer around three years back, an assembled P-iii. the vendor had installed windows 98 on it. I don't know exatly why, but soon i got fed up with the OS, 'think, because it was like living in a cage. the thing never let me know what its doing, i ckick here and something happens, i cliked there and something else happened, how this something happens was never meant to be understood. well may be microsoft sees all its users are dumb enough to not let them know these things.:-( i soon formated my hard disk and used only a dos disk to do the simple things i did then, write c program or use edit. it was then that i heard of Linux, i had first installed Red Hat 6.2 i believe, but did not know how to go around the system, with time i learnt some small things. I heard of the debian distribution then and tried it, but all i could manage to get was the shell, no sound, no X. well that sort of bored me, not that i used the X too often but all the same its absence was felt. It was then that i got a single CD installation media for Caldera Open linux 3.1, well i don't think there was any controversy invloving caldera then. To be frank caldera turned out to be good at first. I got good graphics and the sound , ASUS CUPLE-VM motherboard with VIA onboard sound. I also got the driver for my modem d-link dfm 560is. i could install and configure the modem to dial up. Thus things seemed going great when slowly i began to understand the the Caldra too was a cage a large one though, a spacious and comfortable cage, but still a cage. It was then i came to notice that there were LUG's and that the mailing list was helpfull in resolving issues being faced with installation and configuring of pure free software distrubutions. i subscribed and went after Debian once again. I choose Woody r0, the only cd's i could get. I had tried installing the same some time back and ended up with X crashing every time I switched from graphics to text and back.This I now understand is an issue with 4.1 release of XFree86. I have partially resolved this issue by changing the driver from Trident to the generic Vesa. Though this reduces the video quality in X, the X server is working fine. I hope to install the latest version of X and switch over to my specific driver soon. After the initial install i did'nt have sound. I got sound after i used the modconf to install the required modules. The big issue was the modem, I found out that the modem is ony supported by kernel version 4.2.2. So i went on to install the kernel 4.2.2. this is a bit of an inconvenience, but i believe this has to do. Can some one please enlighten me the draw backs of using this kernel if there are any, is it necessary to boot the latest 2.4 series kernel on Woody. at present i boot to this kernel only for browsing the net. The installtion and configuration of Debian would have been impossible with out the help of Ballakrishnan sir. My casual post on the mailing list informing my interest in moveing to Debian was more than welcomed by him, the issues with the modem were actually resolved at his house where i took the modem. I hope to learn more of Debian/GNU linux. And sincerely hope all your suppport. And please do inform if I could be of any help. Regards Justin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
