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adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote:

>Sam Trenholme (set@oryx.llnl.gov) wrote:
>: >Linux may be your dream machine but can you imagine someone 
>: >new to computing trying to install and setup a unix PC ?  
>: >Nightmare would be an understatement.  Windows NT may be slow 
>: >and hungry but at least you can use standard apps on it.

>: Linux is actually easier to install than OS/2, based on my roomate's
>: experiencing installing both.

>I've personally installed
>	Windows 3.x on            5 systems
>	Windows NT Workstation on 3 systems
>	Windows NT Server      on 2 systems
>	IBM OS/2               on 2 systems
>	linux                  on 3 systems
>Nothing spectacular, but enough to comment on their relative ease of 
>installation and configuration.

>Linux is not easier to install than any of the others, it can be the most 
>difficult. Of course I only had 3 years of experience as a UNIX user. 
>Maybe if I had been a system administrator it would be easy?

>: It also is almost as easy to install as Windows '95. Installing Linux is 
>: as easy as:

>[lots of painful steps deleted]

>Downloading, unzipping, creating floppies, this is easier? Maybe less
>expensive if it isn't your phone bill. Get a CD-ROM drive if you can
>afford it. Even then linux is not easier. At best it is equivalent,
>assuming your hardware is supported and you have a distribution with
>friendlier installation/configuration software (I wasn't impressed with 
>Slackware).

>: The experience of getting Bill-Gates BS off your hard disk is well worth 
>: this process.

>If you goal is non-MS software then linux is a good choice, but ease of 
>use is not a powerful pro-linux argument.

What's so hard about installing linux?  If you have a cdrom drive, you
get the slakware installation from anyone, then....
1) You make two disks. (10 Mins.) using the WINDOZE or DOS version of
rawwrite.  You pop one disk in after the other (Boot first, Root
second.... It's not that tough to remember)
2) Then run the setup program.
It: Formats drive and handles all the crap like setting up swap and
untarring files and sticking 'em in thier proper spot
3) Install it (30 Mins on quick mode)
4) Reboot computer and enjoy!

I know an ELEVEN YEAR OLD CHILD that installed Linux with only the odd
phone call to me.

Ben 8-)
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