On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 18:31, Gary Bennett wrote: > Hello, > > I subbed to SLUG last weekend, have read along for the week and thought it > about time to introduce myself. <snip> > > 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.
If you mean a drive that reads CD and DVD but only writes CDs then you would be better to get a CDRW and a DVD reader. I have found that the combo drives can be a problem. The CDs written on them are often unreadable in regular CDROMs. > System-wise I'm thinking of running Debian Woody > on it. > Good luck, I've never go Debian to work anywhere near as well as Mandrake or SuSE and I've tried many times over the past 10 years. I personally would recommend either spending a lot of time learning the Debian System or install a simpler version to use first. (no flames please, I know Debian is the "Holy Grail" but it is not the easiest version to begin with) > 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. works OK when installed on the HDD as well, but can be a problem when you want to add specialist programs. > 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) Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
