[Cumbria] Christmas: a time of upheaval...

[Ken Hough]

Schwuk wrote:

>
> At least on my home lan... :-)
>
> A tale I will probably retell at the upcoming meeting, but I thought I 
> would note it down whilst waiting for a machine in install...
>
> My darling wife has presented me with the gift of wireless networking 
> this christmas, and after a slight hiccup (never trust PC World 
> salesmen - another story, and her choice, not mine), I shall be 
> receiving my shiny new 22Mbps Access Point and PC Card tomorrow (well 
> today if I look  at the clock) and have taken the opportunity to 
> rebuild my home lan to cater better for wireless access.
>
> I currently have a dual boot workstation (XP and RH 8.0), a dual boot 
> laptop (ditto and soon to be wireless'd), two redhat servers and a 
> Window 2K server. The only internet access is via isdn from my 
> workstation, so no access for the rest of my LAN.
>
> As some will be aware, I like Red Hat, but am not averse to other 
> distributions. Whilst Red Hat is my current 'flavour of the moment', I 
> am not keen (from a personal point -of-view) on the subscribtion 
> dependant 'Red Hat Network' (yes I know you get a free basic 
> entitlement, but I have three boxes at home, one at  work and one that 
> visits both - 5 * $60 for a what I consider a basic 'right' is not to 
> my liking), so I have been looking for alternatives.

SOUNDS  A BIT LIKE ANOTHER WELL KNOWN AMERICAN COMPANY!  ---- and you 
support this?


> Last week I tried to get to grips with Gentoo, which appeals to me, 
> but it is dependant on a good 'net connection and any distro which 
> _requires_ a kernel compile during install is not to user friendly to 
> me. I still want to try it, but it's now on the back burner.  I am 
> waiting to see what UnitedLinux do (if anything) and am concerned 
> about Mandrake's constant need for cash, that only really leaves 
> Debian and Slackware. 

What about SuSE????? Go on  --- give it a try! I could bring a set of 
v8.0 Professional disks to the next meet.

Regards Ken Hough