I downloaded & installed mandrake 7.0 on the
recommendation of a friend. I had a little bit of
experience working in a Unix environment (FreeBSD I
believe) but that was the extent of my familiarity. I
spent about two weeks reading hardware lists and
gathering information about IRQs, DMAs, Horizontal and
Vertical refresh rates, etc etc.
The initial install went just fine. The only things
that didn't work right were my cdburner and I couldn't
change any of my desktop settings in KDE (just learned
why today from someones post to this list.). That
didn't bother me particularly.
Boy I was overwhelmed the first time I sat looking at
a KDE desktop wanting to listen to a cd and read my
email. It was at that point that I really began to
realize how much I took wandows for granted.
Anyway, theres my .02 on that subject. Newbies aren't
necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in
experience with this specific OS.
Dacia
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 5/27/00 9:54:47 PM Mountain
> Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first
> install of
> > Linux instead of buying a documented package is
> truly nuts,
>
> <------- is truely nuts then...<snicker>...DLed my
> first (RH 5.1)....managed
> to install it and fumble around, then I got smart
> and bought Linux
> Unleased...so I could absorb clues in a faster
> fashion
>
> Jerry
>
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