Subject: RE: New to linux. Can you....
From: Bryan Hickok (bhickok@alaskapacific.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 14:11:01 AKST
I'm in the same boat... I can load redhat but that's about it... I went =
out and got a book by Mark Minasi titled: Linux for Windows=AE =
Administrators.
I'll let u know if it's good.=20
Bryan
http://www.sybex.com/sybexbooks.nsf/a55743ecdc6fc6d78825697300656da3/661c=
174216cf897688256bce007d68c7!OpenDocument
-----Original Message-----
From: volz [mailto:volz@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:58 PM
To: deneb2000@hotmail.com; enderak@gci.net
Cc: AkLUG@aklug.org
Subject: Re: New to linux. Can you....
Deneb:
My opinion:
for professional hacks: linux rocks!
for people who don't work with it a lot: You need a guru and be ready to =
spend=20
some time. I think Justin answered the specifics.
for me after working on linux systems for a couple of years. I find it=20
challenging still, but better than the alternative.
-Karl
>
>
>Hello Deneb..
>
>1) Many games now have Linux ports - the most recent and notable being=20
>Unreal 2003 - it has support right out of the box. Unreal Tournament,=20
>Quake 1/2/3, and many other games will run either natively, or with=20
>Wine. There's tons and tons of small games, like the solitares,=20
>minesweeper, asteroids, etc etc etc.. You can always dual-boot with=20
>Windows if being guarenteed to be able to play any game is a must-have=20
>priority.
>
>2) Yes.. I use sendmail with imap. I use Mozilla to read mail at home, =
>and I have a webmail program set up so I can check my e-mail over the=20
>web when I'm not at home.
>
>3) Yes, definately. OpenOffice or StarOffice can read and write Office =
>files with pretty good consistancy. They are just as full-featured as=20
>MSOffice. There's also KOffice, which is really good, and a few other=20
>office suites as well.
>
>There certainly is a learning curve coming from Windows to Linux, but=20
>the program quality is as good or better than Windows counterparts. =
The=20
>newer distrobutions (RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 9.2, SuSE 8.1) are a breeze =
to=20
>install and configure.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Justin
>
>
>
>c m wrote:
>> 1) run most games with the same or slightly more bugs then windows XP
>> 2) Run your own email server(no more hotmail)
>> 3) run basic office programs (able to handle things like word and =
excell(or=20
>> equivlents))
>>=20
>> Anyway.. I curently have a friend that is running a version of linux =
and has=20
>> had non stop trouble with it... is this the norm or the rareity.. I =
know=20
>> that linux has a reputation for stability but that will do me no good =
if all=20
>> the programs are all bugged to bit.. also it does me no good if my =
work is=20
>> not transferable to others...
>
>
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