Per Backman wrote:
>>PB-> It is not really worth buying any of the Linux or BSD
>>PB-> distributions
>>
>>Linux is not expensive. CDs are available for $2 or it can be
>>downloaded for free.
>This is not so in Europe, there are phonebills to pay. There is no
difference in the >price between Linux and FreeBSD but the manual that can
be bought with FreeBSD is
>very good.
I must agree that downloading Linux is far from free. I started to download
Slackware and when the speed settled down I calculated the prize for the
connection and it was more than it would cost to buy the 4 CD set. The
prize was something like 40 USD for them, and of course I could have gotten
other things for them, but now I felt that Slackware really was the choice
for me (I've tried Red Hat and I was not overly impressed even on my AMD
K6-2 400, not to talk about my 486's).
Slackware seems a little userfriendly (as opposed to Red Hat) and it runs
rather well on low end machines. 486 is the lowest I've tried, but Linux
should be able to read MFM/RLL/ESDI (still no idea) HDs right? (Substitute
one of the floppies (bare -> xt) right?) I'll see when I have time to
install it (this is on a 386 for those who don't remember - or could care
less <G>), then I'm forced to install over the network so I'll learn
something else in the process as well :)
What do I need to setup at the computer with the CD to get it to work?
//Bernie
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