[CS-FSLUG] I'm dangerous

[N.Thompson]

This makes me reconsider trying Slackware, Mandrake works and thats 
something I've never found to be equally accurate in Slackware Linux. As 
much as I'm unhappy with not being able to find some rpm's for software 
without a Mandrake club membership its still better then having a 
distribution I know too little about to make any use of it.

I didn't really realize how fortunate I was to have a working system 
until I read your post, for what its worth I wouldn't blame myself in 
your position, most unices including almost all Linux distributions 
require much more technical knowhow then BeOS or Windows and in my 
opinion thats because everything in unices was originally designed not 
for average users but people with previous experience who already know 
their way around. Also I find that with all distributions I've tried 
either something is broken, most of the system doesn't work the way I 
want it to or nothing works at all after a clean installation, BeOS has 
decent defaults for everything from the point its installed and Windows 
at least has barely tolerable defaults out of the box whereas with every 
linux distribution I've tried I've definitely had to change things.

I'm still unhappy with my shortage of software with Mandrake Linux 
however so I"m probably going to look at a distribution I've already 
tried and know I can use, I've also been putting some thought into 
Lindows simply because if their package manager is like the one in 
Xandros Linux except with more software and less bugs it should give me 
a better idea of what software is available and what it does, I should 
therefore have an easier time finding what I want. One of the things I 
do miss about Windows is simply being able to go to a large software 
directory web site and download and install what I want just like that, 
its nowhere near that simple in Linux because I am either unable to find 
software by what it does or there just isn't much available at all.

Ed Hurst wrote:

> Make sure you keep your Unix systems away from me. I managed to kill 
> mine again -- twice in 4 months. I really gave it my best shot, but it 
> got to where the pppd just wouldn't send anything out. I even changed 
> modems, but by then it wouldn't even talk to the modem.
>
> So, I went back to the failsafe position: SuSE 8.2. Though I lost 
> about a month's worth of data in the process, it's mostly stuff I 
> copied off the web. The really important stuff has already been posted 
> to website, or was backed up from late May.
>
> <wailing>I'm just not worthy of BSD!</wailing>
>
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