Article View: comp.sys.powerpc
Article #63Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Chris J. Mutter
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:57
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:57
36 lines
2375 bytes
2375 bytes
W. Yoon (wjyoon@mcs.com) wrote: : On 30 Jul 1995 22:53:32 GMT,dlam@julian.uwo.ca (d. lam) wrote: : I am ready to install a copy of Slackware in place of OS/2 Warp. : I am getting good supports from many dedicated Linux users. I did not : get much support for installing OS/2 Warp. : Learning more about Linux tells me that MS-Dos, OS/2 and Windows are : sort of descendants of Unix. There are quite familiar commands, fdisk, : more, cp (copy), mv (move), mkdir (md), rmdir (rd). so on and so : forth. Now I think I can have a complete control over the os instead : of being controlled by it. Thats the point ... you have control over your unix :) : There are many dedicated people that write : and compile applications for any conceivable hardware and make : available to anyone that wants them. The programmers list their e-mail : addresses so that you can ask them some questions directly. It is a : big contrast to commercial os's for which you have to talk to some : tech support people that barely know what they are talking about. : I will use MS-Windows 3.1 while I try to learn more about Linux. My : choice was not hard. : W. Yoon Good Choice!! - Go LINUX!- user linux fdisk to get rid of that damned DOS-partitions and then mkfs.ext2 - regards chris- -- Christoph J. Mutter a.k.a. CyBaWAMSY on #schweine _O_/ o--------o email: chris@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at / | | M$ suX | http://microsoft.is.lame.org:8001/~chris/HATE/ _/ \_ o--------o
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3vj21b$c7l@alijku06.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!osiris.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at!chrisReferences:
<3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <3vhp60$7t3@News1.mcs.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!osiris.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at!chris From: chris@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at (Chris J. Mutter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Date: 31 Jul 1995 16:57:15 GMT Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz Message-ID: <3vj21b$c7l@alijku06.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <3vhp60$7t3@News1.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: osiris.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]