On Thursday 21 August 2008 11:25 pm, M. G. Devour wrote: > Let me remind anyone lurking that, indeed, we will happily discuss > anything you wish to about our main topic of Colloidal Silver! All that > is required is for you to pose a question to the gathered members. > > When such traffic is light, however, I do not prohibit excursions into > other areas of alternative health, particularly, or even the occasional > thread about Operating Systems! > > I've been in the process of "switching to Linux" for going on four > years, I think. It was the cost of four or five copies of Windows XP to > replace increasingly decrepit Windows 98 installations that got me > looking at the alternatives. <SNIP> > Peace, > > Mike D. > > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] > [[email protected] ] > [Speaking only for myself... ]
Hi Mike, and thank you for legitimizing this thread. Thank you also for recounting your personal experience with Linux. I agree with most of what you said, but, I must point out that you have chosen other the most end user friendly distributions of Linux. Don't get me wrong I'm a great admirer and fan of Debian and am eagerly looking forward to their next release. However, for the newbie, there are numerous distributions which are more user friendly. The most current trend in Linux is the live CD. Live CD means that one can put the CD in the CD drive and reboot one's computer then (providing one's computer is set to boot to the CD first) it will boot directly into a graphical boot screen allowing one to boot directly into linux without ever installing anything. I've tried many of these Live CDs and found them to work flawlessly. Every one I've tried has identified all my hardware and configured itself to work with my hardware. That includes loading Firefox and connecting me to the internet. To do this all that one must do is boot the CD and click on the Firefox icon. There are some exceptions to this and most of those are hardware/peripheral hardware designed to work only with Windows, but even these Windows specific pieces of hardware are being supported by the newer distributions of Linux. Dee, When it comes to trying Linux, what could be easier than than putting in a live CD and rebooting, selecting run from CD (rather than install)? once the Live CD boots you're free to play with Linux without ever affecting your hard drive or any installed software. When you're through experimenting you simply Log out, reboot your computer, take out the CD and you automatically boot back into Windows. Here is a list of Linux distributions which offer a live CD and are available free. Or if you don't want to download the distro and burn it to a CD They are available on a CD or DVD for very little money. These are in no particular order other than I'm listing the distribution sites first; then some sites where you can buy virtually any version of Linux available for next to nothing. http://www.ubuntu.com/ Both Ubuntu and Kubuntu actually offer free CDs by mail. http://www.kubuntu.org/ http://www.pclinuxos.com/ http://linuxmint.com/ http://www.mandriva.com/ They have one free version and a couple of others which sell for about $50 to $60. http://www.knoppix.net/ http://fedoraproject.org/ http://www.mepis.org/ MEPIS is the one I'm currently using, but I've used several others and will probably try a few more simply because I'm interested in the Linux community and in finding out first hand what the various distributions are really like for me. You can get a lot of good information from the above URLs. You can "listen in" on their forums or join the forums and ask questions. Here are links to sites which sell CDs and DVDs of many different versions of Linux for next to nothing, i.e. Between $2 and $10. If you choose this option, just make sure the Distribution you choose is a Live CD or DVD version. http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/index.html http://linuxcd.org/ -- L T R Registered linux user # 280295 Associate member #4758 of The Free Software Foundation [email protected] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
