Thanks for further confirmation -
of the order of trial - I gathered also that the Serious Student will gravitate Debianwards for er granularity eventually, maybe for the same reason a Vigor beats out a Civic :-\ufffd
I'm still casting about to steal next some modest 600 MHz or so thingie for an install, having done some homework with older (SuSE and RH) distros - which have *books* (The john is the place to grok a new OS, not the CRT, till later IMhO)
Then too, early-on I can see what use *I* can make of the adorably miniscule (teeny CD, that is) LNX-BBC troubleshooting site (courtesy of Karsten!) That slick thingie booted up just Fine on my swinky e-Machine (even) with not a single, by-your-leave-sir: your video card sux... Yup - I've 'run' Linux too :-\ufffd
I don't doubt that the latest installs are quite less fraught with "WTF will it Do Next?" than say - the W2K I have to explore for a friend before attention to Lx. I just have to get a map of the HD in my brain, and fit in the lore later about - boot-partition sizes and other picky housekeeping - after I see what the distro thought was 'average'. 56K modem, and wishing won't get a lot of the (probably driver) downloads onto a nice CD. I see overnight batch files chron jobs coming.
Thanks for friendly nag though :-)
Ashton
re above, what I meant was: One-Up the Beast via a *complete* couple-disk install from scratch, on through: a working Office suite, complete with gaudy video tour of differing levels of detail. All bulletproof. THEN - maybe some small companies can find the guts to save themselves from Beast Tax. There will Have to be at least some printed info as well, graduated from stark newbie on up to at least intermediate info. (EZ to beat M$ at That game, the cheap bastards)
Needing to download Anything (initially) will cause heart palpitations; imagine how many out there have no idea what .zip is for.. let alone a umm tarball (et al). After all.. and since W3.1 - I'll bet that DOS knowledge is fading into oblivion, in a general 'businessperson's lore. Command-line would freak such a one. :(
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