yahoooooooo!!!

[nightsky]

After 3weeks or so after deciding to take the plunge i have slackware8 and loadlin installed w/win98SE - I have choices now! After all is that the essense of freedom along w/the responsibility of working towards your choices? lolol I don't yet have slackware8 configured but i will. Only thing now is that I can't keep trashing my win98, have to do some backup work now. Just wanted to share the excitement. Its like having my first computer all over again!

[DrZaius]

Congrats nightsky! I remember the first time I connected to the net using Mandrake Linux. Unfortunately, that was about all I could do, so I went back to using Windows the next day. Hopefully you'll last longer than I did!

[Computer Hobbyist]

Congratulations

Freedom is great, isn't it. Just don't give up, and after a few weeks you'll forget all about Windows.

CH

[nightsky]

Thank you for your support. Linux is pretty over whelming at first glass so much software to choose from and such a network project oriented environment. I reinstalled once b/c initially i did not install everything on the Slackware8 dsk. then came to understand I can easily uninstall any pkg I get familiar w/ and decide not to keep. I now hav a dualboot sys and still using 98 linux is a longterm learning proj and I still have much to learn about win98 and NT. Switching bet terminals is great and I started to config linux for the internet but was told that MSN does not support Linux OS, is that true? Hope not I am locked into a contract w/MSN for another yr.

[nightsky]

Dr. Zaius, I got my firs peek at WindowMaker last night after running XF86Config for the fifth time finally added all the monitor and video crd info correctly Still haven't complied a kernel for my system.

[DrZaius]

nightsky - Once you get past the XFree86 stuff and into a Windows-like environment, navigating Linux becomes much easier. Also, I don't think MSN is supported in Linux. Think about it, Microsoft in Linux?

[nightsky]

Hi, 5/28/02 BTW before I trashed my hdd trying to install slackware8.1b2 ver last week I was able to configure PPP in Slackware8 to establish an internet connection through MSN
Matter of fact under slackware I enjoyed uninterrupted connections. Alas, two weeks ago I got anxious for the new slackware8.1 version and attempted an iso install for the first time. Back to the drawing board

[Statica]

Originally posted by DrZaius nightsky - Once you get past the XFree86 stuff and into a Windows-like environment, navigating Linux becomes much easier. Also, I don't think MSN is supported in Linux. Think about it, Microsoft in Linux?

Why would you say that? Its not that MSN uses a weird dialler as in with AOL. From what I could gather its using a DHCP pool to provide IPs and it could very well be done. http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/8588.html is one such example after checking up with google.