Re: Congratulations Howard Rogers

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<413d8df7$0$18993$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...

> I have a lot of notes to write up! It's been an interesting ride. In
> retrospect, it was probably a bit ambitious *starting* by wanting Linux
> working on a *laptop* -when we all know laptops are full of utterly
> proprietary stuff. When your laptop vendor proudly advertises "XXXX
> recommends Windows XP", you know you're in for a hard time.
>

Akshally, my first Lunix install was on my laptop... :) Mind you with 15 years of Unix under my belt and a number of installs of BSD and other PC 'nixes in the past, I didn't really fear much. And Mandrake 8 was dirt easy. So was Suse 8. The hard part was convincing XP Pro to dual boot all that. A bit of Partition Magic and Boot Magic later, it all got sorted out.

Of course, winmodem doesn't work, and the DVD-CD/RW is currrently only a DVD-CD/R, still haven't worked out how to get the darn thing to record... But then again, my notepad is an Asus L2. Not an IBM. So it should be vanilla standard. <tongue firmly in cheek> Received on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 02:02:06 CDT