Re: bad news

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:20:33 UTC, hoarcroft@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> In <11daifadrmv4l3b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 07/13/05
> at 10:06 AM, "David T. Johnson" <djohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > The Linux desktop alternatives such as Gnome or
> >KDE seem primitive in comparison, as does Windows XP.
>
> You might find it fun to lavish five dollars on a CD containing the
> Knoppix version of Linux. It's surprisingly complete and can be booted
> from the CD or, after transfer to your hard disk, from your dual-boot
> module. I play with it from time to time and rather enjoy it.
>
> -
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>

Hi Les,

Actually I have the distro, plus several other "live" distro's, Morphix,
Gnopppix, Knoppix, Lunar all were all pretty nice. Also I picked up about a
dozen or so "live" forensic and utility distros to play with. Plus I have in the
last week or so installed Madriva 10.2SE, Slackware 10.1, and FedoraCore4. Out
of the lot I like Fedora the best so far, though I do intend to try Xandros,
Debian "Sarge", Solaris , Open Solaris and maybe others including a more
complete install of Mandriva on my wifes PC. Picked all these up on eBay for
less than $30.00US with shipping from BIGCAT ISO. I mention and recommend this
distro vendor because he was so quick to replace a damaged distro of Madriva,
and every single one of the distros installed or live booted great, something
that doesn't always happen with these type of eBay distro deals. :).

In fact all my recent hardware woes began with what I suspect was a virus on her
Win98 install killing the hd and controller chipset. I 'm still in the process
of setting up my old OS/2 box for her, but will probably install OS/2 and Linux
for her use this time, no more Windows, I was sick of the 2-3 times a year
reload anyway. For all my troubles with moving OS/2 to my new P4 box, the
install running on it as I type this was done in Oct 2000, having been thrice
cloned to new hd's and now two mb's, not to mention several layered fixpaks,
with a lot of enhancements like OD, DM/2, XWP, Smartbar, CandyFldr and such all
layered on, with NO reinstalls! Heard anything on the SVISTA Bob StJohn was
pitching yet? Anyone? My digging in the last hour or two leave me not to hopeful
this is workable wares yet, and no clear indication it will ever be.

Matthew











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