not a linux virgin anymore....

[techcoor]

Well...I did it. And it was goooooood.

Last night I decided to give redhat 7.0 a chance on one of my spare box's. K6-2 333, 64mb ram, 4 gig hd, 16meg agp vid card....It was my first linux install, and it is the first time that I have ever ran linux.

I was amazed how flawless & easy it was to install. It also properly detected all of my hardware...

The best part about the install was that I did not have to type in a 80,000 character cd key code (which can take longer than the entire install process of some of microsoft's products!).

I was up last night until 4am playing around with linux. I believe that I will really enjoy it, and am looking forward towards tinkering with it when I get off of work!

I strongly recommend trying it out! I'm running ME, 98, and 2K pro on my other machines.

...ahhhhhhh...no more blue screens of death on at least one of my box's.

[BFlurie]

The only problem I see is less availibility and variety of support programs. 'Course, that can change & hopefully will. With some work, it IS possible to get Windows to behave well (pretty easily w/NT-kernel systems), tho not as fast as a built-from-scratch OS. But w/1 GHz processors, that point begins to lose significance.

[Ptrper]

Glad to hear that you are enjoying Linux. Welcome to the club. I just installed Mandrake 7.2 and am quite happy with it. In fact, I was having problems with RH 7 because it wouldn't support my Gforce 2 MX, and a variety of peripherals. Drake 7.2 has managed to address some of the issues and I'm quite lit. (Especially USB printer support).

I hope that you thoroughly enjoy it. I know I have.

[techcoor]

Thanks for your response Ptrper...

I also downloaded Mandrake 7.2, and am anxious to install that to one of my other boxes. Can anyone provide some great linux sites?

Thanks.

[Emperor_Nero]

did you remember to use protection? you probably contracted WST (windows transmitted disease) so always use protection!