I've got an old Windows 95 cd you can have... ;-]

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of William Chops Westfield
> Sent: September 4, 2005 1:08 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE] Technology Adoption Lag (now: linux flames!)
> 
> 
> On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:08 PM, digitaladdictions wrote:
> 
> > I really do think modern Linux distro's are easier to use than windows
> > and involve less tinkering. I realize people are scared to type but
> > with a single command you can download and install a program, without
> > worrying about finding it or any of its dependencies on the web the
> > package manager takes care of all of it for you.
> 
> Heh.  I just turned on my debian linux system, after about a year of
> not using it.  I wanted to install gputils and such, figuring that
> would go somewhat more smoothly than it did on my mac...
> 
> So, after six hours or so of recovering from a forgotten root password
> (wasn't it nice of it to configure itself so that booting in singleuser
> mode wasn't sufficient to fix such things.  Anyone know how to turn
> that "feature" off?), I fired of deselect, eventually figured out how
> to get it pointed at a site that knew about gputils, and had it ready
> to update and install that, along with some assorted systems updates
> it thought I should install.
> 
> Hmm.  600+ Megabytes of assorted systems updates.  Including who knows
> how many megabytes of KDE "games" that were "required" by a mysterious
> chain of dependancies, plus "edutainment" packages with useful stuff 
> like
> a russian language tutor.  I *think* I weeded most of that out, and
> got down to a more reasonable 400+ Mbytes of download.  I let that
> go overnight, fiddled with the instal and configure errors today.  And
> now, only 24 hours after I decided to download gputils, it looks like
> it's working!  "Package managers make things easy" - HAH!
> 
> Sigh.
> BillW
> 
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