Author: Peter Berger
Date: 06:58:44 03/15/01
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On March 15, 2001 at 02:15:31, Hristo wrote: Hi Hristo, >Peter, >most people would have trouble setting up windows from scratch. I disagree here - I really think that nearly everybody with a common PC can install Windows98 so that all the basic things work very well . >However if you can do that then installing SuSE linux 7.1 (personal) >should be just as easy and it will cost you about $20. ;-)) >www.suse.com >I bet some other distros are also very easy to setup. I think Redhat is even a little easier but I agree installation support has improved . Although , well ... Computer with less than 128 MB RAM - no nice graphical installation with SUSE . Sound :-) ? Easy ? Depends .. ( in fact this question is quite funny ; every time I talk to a Linux fanatic this question cools them down a lot :-) ) Graphic card ? Easy ? Yes , unless you have a ... > >For all new-to-linux, please do your self a favor and buy a distribution! >SuSE, RedHat, Debian, Slackware, anything ... you'll save lots of time >and efforts. Latter you-new-to-linux will learn how to download and install >software packages from the internet and also (if you want) how to >compile the kernel with optimizations for your own CPU, how to compile >software packages optimaized ... etc. Here I definitely agree ! >Meanwhile, just have fun. ;-) > >cheers. >hristo Don't get me wrong ; half of the day I sit at a Linux PC , I mainly work on Unix systems anyway . At home I currently sit in front of my Windows 98 PC and am very happy with it :-) . I was under the impression that the original poster thought Linux would be a superior platform for running chessprograms which is definitely untrue . Cheers. pete
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