On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:15:11, Ray Hogaboom wrote: > Thanks again for all of your help I have downloaded Rute. > We are driving to the bay area today (5 hr round trip) I will copy > it to our laptop so that I can start reading it.
Good. Once you get terminology and an understanding of how Linux works under your belt, I think you will find a lot of stuff much easier to deal with. Which bay area is that? Tokyo Bay, San Francisco Bay. I live and work in the SF bay area on the peninsula. > I have wanted to move over to Linux for some time now. I knew that > it would not be easy. I am the type of person that needs to know a > lot about a system to be happy. With Windos Apps I have always been > able to install a new program and be up and running in very little > time. Linux has sent me for a loop. To me not only is it a > completely different way of doing things, it also is like having to > learn a new language to read the documentation. If I am able to get > Mandrake Linux working for me I will have no problem with joining > the club and supporting Mandrake. If your computing life has been primarily with ms win and ms dos, then you should know it is a completely different way of doing things. Linux is transparent. Everything is out in the open where you can see it and deal with it directly. You can control the whole works as root user. Real control. MS win is set up to keep the user ignorant of how the system works in order to control what the user will do with it. A lot of stuff is done in a very indirect fashion. One example is the way MS tried to fix win9x so that users didn't know that it was dos-based by obscuring which files actually contained the autoexec.bat and config.sys that it was using and moving all the dos files to a different directory. At the time, MS was trying to get everyone to believe that dos was dead. Ultimately, people figured out what was going on and that indeed win9x was dos-based. But, if you can remember that far back, MS repeatedly claimed that the 32-bit win9x was not. While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms win who has been able to install and use Linux without a lot of problems. Not one. My own problems were due to thinking I knew something about Linux based on my ms win experiences and knowledge. > I did not want a duel boot system but just may have to do that for > now. Do whatever you have to do to make things work for you. It's your computer and your software. You don't have to apologize for what you want to do with it (I'm making the assumption, of course, that what you're doing is legal, moral and ethical, which is true for most people). OTOH, no one else has to apologize for what they want to do with their computers either. With Linux, it's a free world. > I did seen a project on SourceForge.net for a promising > Auction Management program. They have not released any files to > download yet. I am not a programmer but may be I will spend some > time helping them any way that I can. You don't have to be a programmer. Linux moves forward because people have a particular interest that isn't being met exactly the way they need it to be, and they do something about that. In addition to working with developers to get things that I needed done, I've also worked with software manufacturers to get them to port ms win software to the Linux platform. Sometimes with success, sometimes without. They won't know there's interest unless someone tells them. > Thanks You're quite welcome. Good luck with your migration to Linux. deedee --- Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
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