I had a brief affair with Linux a year or so back. Here is what I learned: The Red Hat package that is available for $50 or so saves a lot of time. It will require a lot of updates from their website but that is relatively painless and is included in the price. All hardware is not supported. This was a problem with motherboards and with video cards. The hardware runs, but very slowly! The mother board needed to have its supporting software loaded and there was simply none available that would run with Linux. Although it was a 600 mhz machine with an 8G hard drive it was very limited due to the performance. I wanted a full featured machine so I had installed everything in the package. I have set aside the machine for now and it will soon be loaded with Win98 and go to my grand daughter. The Win XP PRO machine that I put together last year has put to rest most of my Microsoft complaints. It is tough to hang it. If you have a limited number of applications to run, Linux works fine. If you have a lot of machines needing an OS, it is an economical solution. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 johnferrell@earthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Moreira" To: Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 2:29 AM Subject: [OT:] Linux info > Hi Guys > I been reading a lot of stuff on this list about Linux, and I am not very > pleased with windows I would like to look at alternatives, specially if they > are cheap or even free. > The problem is that I been using windows for such a long time that I can not > get my head around the Linux concept. > and then there are Linux, Debian, etc. I am confused... > any really good sources of info that you can recommend ? > From all the info I got from a Electronics engineer's angle this system > brings a lot of advantages in terms of hardware control. > > thanks in advance for any help, and sorry for my MS windows corrupted little > brain, I blame society... > best regards > Luis > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.