"Steven C. Darnold" wrote: > Four distros plus suse, slack and another. That's seven distros > and you still haven't tried BasicLinux. :-( They all come on a CD and a complete idiot like me is given the impression that all he hasta do is turn on the computer and boot from the cd rom.
I hear people talk about compiling Kernels and using make files, and I remember linking assembly, and how much trouble I could get into debugging. As for crashed caused by Netscape or whatever, I didnt see any mention of that possiblility in the indexes of the Linux manuals I have. Newbies are given the idea that the reason they should change to Linux is that it does not crash. However, I've seen posts by others on the alt.linux and alt.mandrake lists who had crashes. But then again, that's only a few dozen out of however many are running it, so I guess I am one of the lucky few who get to see unusual events. Next time I see it happen, I'll try ctrl-alt-F2; but the habit of dos and win users when a gui crashes is to just turn off the system and cold boot, or maybe put the 'reset'. It was no big deal, and didnt risk trashing the kernel. If that had happened, it had already happened by the time I could reset. Arachne usta crash alla time, but I dont recall that it ever trashed the dos boot. Maybe that's one more reason I am looking for an alternative. The idea of BasicLinux running in a ram disk is a damn good idea. I remember copying command.com to one so it would run faster on pre-pentiums. The safety factor had not occurred to me. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
