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But not willing to just plain give up (there's a principle involved,
dammit!) I sent off for the RH7.2 CDs when it came out. Fif* quid.
Well, * me sideways... this new KDE is seriously slick, it just
*feels* faster, smoother, the lot. I'd imagine a lot of the discussion
of new distributions on here centres on technical aspects of kernels
and so forth, but speaking as a Windows refugee fleeing the imminent
prospect of XP's Big Brother pirate protection, it's looking like
Linux can become a happy home.

So much so, in fact, that I'm planning on getting myself a new
computer in a year or so, and having whatever the latest RH Linux is
as the main OS. Bill's not seeing another penny if I can help it...
(he says, posting with a Hotmail address in a slightly embarrassed
tone)

Odds are a fair number of people reading had some input into this nice
new OS I'm using now, so I just have to say, thanks guys.

 > Bill's not seeing another penny if I can help it...
 > (he says, posting with a Hotmail address in a slightly embarrassed
 > tone)

You may be pleased to know that by using a script called gotmail, you can
retrieve from hotmail without ever seeing that MSN-dominated interface. So
exploit Bill all you want without seeing his adverts.

Bob T.

Only thing I'd REALLY like to see is a more centralized administration
console.  I hear mandrake has something like that going on, but I wanna see
it in RedHat.  I'd like to have the ability to configure my entire system
via a gui if I feel like it.  The more I think about it, it couldn't be too
hard.  You could build it in a way so that it's expandable via plugins for
different apps like Apahce and Sendmail.  Kinda like Microsoft's MMC. I'm
sure we'll see it someday...

--Michael Gorsuch

Quote:>So I'd heard about this Linux thing - let's face it, you can't spend
>any more than a year online and NOT hear about it unless you're under
>some *netic rock

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Quote:>So much so, in fact, that I'm planning on getting myself a new
>computer in a year or so, and having whatever the latest RH Linux is
>as the main OS. Bill's not seeing another penny if I can help it...
>(he says, posting with a Hotmail address in a slightly embarrassed
>tone)

Quote:

>Odds are a fair number of people reading had some input into this nice
>new OS I'm using now, so I just have to say, thanks guys.

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Quote:> So I'd heard about this Linux thing - let's face it, you can't spend
> any more than a year online and NOT hear about it unless you're under
> some *netic rock - and always felt I ought to give it a try at
> some point. Picked up the friendly yellow 'For Dummies' book which
> came with three CDs of RH7.0. Lots of nice hand-holding throughout the
> install process (which got me safely through a major glitch when the X
> installer, starting up reasonably enough in a no-risk 640x480, got the
> screen geometry totally wrong and was illegible, and pointed me in the
> right direction for LOADLIN when lilo couldn't cope with Linux being
> at the back end of a big drive) and I soon got into the OS. Got it
> online, no worries. Well, this is nice, I said to myself, but
> eventually I largely forgot about the system lurking at the other end
> of my drive and returned through force of habit to Windows95.

> But not willing to just plain give up (there's a principle involved,
> dammit!) I sent off for the RH7.2 CDs when it came out. Fif* quid.
> Well, * me sideways... this new KDE is seriously slick, it just
> *feels* faster, smoother, the lot. I'd imagine a lot of the discussion
> of new distributions on here centres on technical aspects of kernels
> and so forth, but speaking as a Windows refugee fleeing the imminent
> prospect of XP's Big Brother pirate protection, it's looking like
> Linux can become a happy home.

> So much so, in fact, that I'm planning on getting myself a new
> computer in a year or so, and having whatever the latest RH Linux is
> as the main OS. Bill's not seeing another penny if I can help it...
> (he says, posting with a Hotmail address in a slightly embarrassed
> tone)

> Odds are a fair number of people reading had some input into this nice
> new OS I'm using now, so I just have to say, thanks guys.

cheers,

Mathew

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