Hello, I subbed to SLUG last weekend, have read along for the week and thought it about time to introduce myself.
My name's Gary, I'm a tad over 40 (but feel anything from 20 to 70 depending upon how much sleep I've had). My present system comprises a Celeron 400 with 128MB RAM and 12GB HDD running Win 98. It was built in 1999 but is, surprisingly, starting to feel its age. For a while I ran it as a dual-boot with RH 6.2. In the next month or so I'm planning to buy a new machine. My current thinking is for a P4 2.8GHz processor with 512MB RAM and something like an 80GB HDD. I also think a combo CD/DVD reader/writer would be useful, and maybe a separate CD reader. System-wise I'm thinking of running Debian Woody on it. And so on to the questions: As a relative newbie to Linux, will installing Debian cause me too much sleeplessness? Opinions "out there" seem to vary. I've been running Knoppix 3.3 off CD to begin to reacclimatise myself with Linux. I'm planning on keeping the old machine around and hopefully access Optusnet cable for both. What sort of hardware would be needed to enable both machines to be connected to the net, and for my machines to be able to exchange files with each other (more from old to new)? But enough questions to begin with... Thanks, Gary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
