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Re: [PLUG] RE: Win98 End of Life -> Lin98
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try morphix-light gui (since your machine is relatively slow) - it boots
from cd and has an option to install on hdd. i have it running on a
presario 1925 - the worst laptop ever made. it runs well actually. if it
works on this clunker - i think you will find success too. it picked up
dhcp and it configured my wheel mouse. it setup X on the laptop too. if
you need more apps than it comes with (abiword and gnumeric, gimp, gaim,
xmms) then just apt-get install.
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:26, Steven Arbitman wrote:
> chris.shank@acetechgroup.com:
> > Seems to me this could be a good opportunity to get Linux converts
> if
> > there were a linux distro specifically tailored to machines
> currently
> > running Win98 (ie: lowerend P2 and up, 64M ram, etc). Their needs
> are
> > generally minimal: internet, email, office, and maybe a special DOS
> > application or two. If this distro included a working/easy DOS
> layer, I
> > could get several clients to switch right away.
>
> I am a newcomer in switching to Linux. I have begun by trying to load
> several "easy" Linux distros onto a Celeron 450 machine I have. What
> I learned may be of interest.
>
> I tried Easy Linux, College Linux, Icepack Linux, and an old Corel
> Linux (from the last time I decided to learn Linux). I would not use
> Lindows because as was said it is too expensive. They all start out
> pretty well, but generally fail in two areas: X and networking.
> Partitioning is not a problem, as I am not new to computers, and most
> of these distros only create two partitions, root and swap.
>
> They each have their good points too. College Linux has the best set
> of applications (for a professional end user) preinstalled. Easy
> Linux gives me a chance to select a wheel mouse, which I miss in all
> the others - they just assume a 3-button. But I think the best is
> Icepack Linux; it automatically recognized my DHCP network! When I
> finished installing I was online, just like that! Although all the
> others had a choice to specify DHCP, it never worked. (Same hardware
> too!)
>
> So far I have learned that I must know more about X and about Linux
> networking. I am sure I will have questions, but not yet, I still
> have to read the docs. I think I may yet end up with Debian but then
> I have to learn about selecting packages and I have to do all the X
> and networking configuration myself.
>
> Desktops are another issue for newcomers, I can get around in KDE, but
> when I tried window-maker I barely knew how to log out.
>
> Working alone is not fun when you get stuck, so I wanted to let you
> know I was out here trying it.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> --
> Steven Arbitman
>
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W. Chris Shank
ACE Technology Group, LLC
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