On Sun, 28 Nov 1999,Tom Jacobs wrote:
| My two cents:
|
| Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why
| do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't
| I just click on a picture or type d:\".
| While I am no lover of M$ products in any way. Out of
| the box, with no other knowledge of computers,
| Winbloze wins hands down in the usability department.
| I haven't had a chance to use KDE yet because I still
| have to figure out how to get it to connect to my "X
| server" and other such stuff. It's a learning curve
| yeah, and I welcome the challenge. But even DOS's
| command line is easier for a newbie to figure out.
| I have yet to have Linux break on me, or hang even.
| Being an experienced Winbloze troubleshooter makes me
| yearn for something more stable.
|
| Tom Jacobs
| P.S. Is there an ls command that will allow the
| directory contents to stop at the end of each page so
| I can read them?
This'll seem familiar to you if you know DOS. Use
ls [options] | More
The [options] is a place holder for any command line arguments you wish to use
with ls.
| --- Joachim Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > On fre, 26 nov 1999, you wrote:
| > > "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > > > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote:
| > > >
| > > > > stable manner. But you have to admitt that
| > they have done a great job with
| > > the
| > > > > installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now
| > if they'd just stop trying
| > > to
| > >
| > > Gee I hate to knock you off your soap box, but
| > just about ALL new mother
| > > boards support the self-same boot of CD Rom to
| > install Linux AND Win9X.
| > > Risking more Flames here...Win98 is MORE user
| > friendly after first install,
| > > all most all components ARE installed WITH their
| > driver's.
| >
| > OK.. So you mean that CD-Writes are installed with
| > drivers ?? All Graphic cards
| > are installed with drivers ?? Sound cards are
| > installed with drivers ??
| > That's a change. The last time I was forced to
| > install win98, it didn't.
| >
| > >
| > > Now untill I learn the method to Linux's madness
| > for installing programs and
| > > WHERE the heck they are after that, I will
| > continue using Win98 as my primary
| > > OS. But to be fair Linux has many points in it's
| > favor, the foremost one is
| > > that it is a free OS, and more important...very
| > stable.
| >
| > To find the location of a file, try whereis. If
| > Mandrake supports the RedHat
| > filesystem scheme, most files will be installed in
| > either /usr/bin or
| > /usr/sbin. Cinfig files go in /etc.
| >
| > /Jocke!
| >
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