> > wiped out). Thing is I RTFM. > > What manual would that be? :-)
man pages of course... the "F" fits man pages *perfectly* ;) if you need a man for F itself I guess that's okay when ur subscribed to a linux mailing list :D j/k > > How anybody can just download a distro and get it to work without a > > manual is beyound me. There's a song by Queen - "With a little help from your friends".. I actually dloaded and installed Slack 8 with almost no man reading... tho I gotta admit I installed a range of SuSEs before (and got rid of them all again) > It's pretty simple actually... If you bought recent hardware and the distro's > don't include that hardware yet, you'll have to tweak a lil.... If it is in > there you shouldn't have any problems. I usually use slackware which has a > text based install and has no problems on newer hardware. Then again, for the > average new-comer to linux it will be WAY too difficult. And xfree86.org claiming they'd support Radeon doesn't exactly help it. > I have no experience with wine... If you are trying to run windows crap on > linux you're on the wrong mailing list in the first place. tell me a prog that can do anything ACDSee can do and I'll dump it. > Dunno, I use tar balls. btw how do I uninstall a prog that was inst'd from tarball? > > If you have to compile as a newbie you are usually dead in the water. ah c'mon - ./configure, make, make install. whaz da fuzz? if the coder did a good job... > Yea some times you are, however, if you read the manual you usually don't > have to do really friggin' things. Mostly I just type (after reading INSTALL) > ./configure > make > make install > and that mostly works..... that really ain't that hard :-) maybe i should start reading the whole mail first DF _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
