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Hi all,

: I'm running Linux on a 486DX33 w 16 Mb.

I am a student of medicine and have no more experience on computer systems
than about four years. Last year my friend and I set up a home network
of three machines. Involved is a Win95-box (I use samba for file sharing),
that's a 486 DX 4-100, and two linux boxes (486 DX 2/80, 32 MB and
386 DX 40, 5 MB). I use the 386 mainly as a printserver and it runs and runs.
Once a year we shut it down and do some installation and maintenance, that's
all. So on a 386 we have uptimes of about 350 days and not a single problem.
I remember times when we rebooted that printserver twice a day (Win 3.11)

Oh, what I actually intended to say, for me, as a student of MEDICINE 
with almost no technical understanding it took about 5 hours to install
linux and set up the network properly. I'm sure that can be done much faster
(I propably wouldn't need as much time by now), but on a Windows-network
it may still take me two whole days and I haven't any more features
than under linux.

So I don't find linux particularly hard to understand or to work with.
As long as you stick to the rule: Login as root only for administration,
so such things as rm -rf /usr instead of rm -rf ~/usr don't happen to you.

Stability and reliabilty are unchallenged when you use linux.

     Greetings to all.....           Phrenicus (aka Michael)


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