Avui, Dijous 16 Maig 2002 02:09, no tenieu res mes que fer i me vareu enviar aquest e-mail > Other topics which cause newbie Linux users heartburn??
Cool! > I can name quite a few: > 1. Modem installations. My son (magna cum laude at Princeton in computer > science!!) who can do just about anything in Linux did not know how to > install a modem in his dad's Linux machine. And it was an ISA modem that > was not a Winmodem!! Eventually it got installed but not until after a lot > of reading, heartburn and online advice. Even though I've done it > sucessfully once, I don't think I could do it again. Here the problem is hardware (faulty or old or both). ISA "plug'n'play" is a dreaded and plainly awful piece of engineering. Get yourself a nice, external (non-usb) modem and you have the modem isntalled in 3 minutes. Really. Just plug the modem, launch Kppp, click, click, done. > 2. Installing software and the constant problem with dependencies. The Use Debian (apt-get) or Mandrake (urpmi). Dependencies problem solved. urpmi available on text and graphical mode. > biggest problem I see with a novice installing Linux is after getting the > system up and running how do you install the OTHER programs especially when > those other programs need software which aren't on your system because > neither Red Hat nor Mandrake remembered to include them!! Where do you go > to get that software and where do you put it on the system. (Also a topic Are you sure that it is not yto be found on the CDs? Red Hat ships with 3 CDs of RPMs (plus 2 of SRPMS). Mandrake, also 3 CDs. Debian... 5 or 8 or something like that. I want to say: that's a lot of software! > not usually covered in the manuals--probably because they don't want to > point out that needed programs were not included in your distribution--Grip > needing Lame instantly comes to mind :-) And even if you do find out where Which distribution and which version of the distribution? I use Grip on Red Hat and Mandrake, "out of the box", to oggize my audio-CDs so I have them on my hdd (yes, I'm lazy). It worked fine, no problem. > the software you need is online, when you get there, you face the problem > of WHICH file do you download?? Usualy, if you get to the website where you can find the software, there's a nice place called "Home" and another one calleed "Documentation" that, if you bother to read, you can get the knowledge. Do not blame Linux for users lazyness. > 3. Installing your DVD drive so it will play DVD's. The software is now > available and Decss is not needed now. Reallly? How? > 4. Installing and especially using disk-burning software to create CD-R's > and CD-RW's. Let's see... Red Hat comes with Xcdroast, Koncd, Gnom Toaster. Out of the box. Mandrake, same stuff. > 5. Give me some time and I'll think of some others. In other words, the > little things which the makers of your distribution forgot to include in > the initial installation. OK. Salut, Sinner -- RedHat QA Test Engineer -- Running RedHat 7.3 on i386smp http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
