[Glastonbury] Just a little idea

[mauricemail]

Been lurking on here for a year or so. And pricked up my ears when the
debate about distributions, especially when the name Mandrake came up. I did
manage to install it a couple of years ago. Subsequently I've tried others
and failed completely. Mandrake seems to lead us newbies gently by the hand.

I want to leave MS behind. But I need to speak to my digital slr (would the
new card readers solve that problem?) and a few other things where there
seemed to be no Linux applications. For example dictation systems. I also
need to access web sites which complain if IE is not being used to talk to
them.

I'm a serious home user. I built my first system in 1978 using a 25 watt
soldering iron, a Nascom 1 based on the Z80 chip and programmed it in basic
machine code then later, Z80 assembler. Advanced to Digital Research's CPM
and groaned when BG ground it down to PC Dos for IBM and MS Dos for the rest
of us.

But Unix foxes me. Maybe it's my advanced years? And my ancient brain is
much slower than it used to be. In any case, now-a-days I want to reliably
use applications not fathom out how to mess about with the underlying
structure.

Is Mandrake as bad as some of your seem to infer? What would you recommend
an inexperienced linux person to do?

Thank you.
Maurice


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tim hall" <tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk>
To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)"
<glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, 09, November 2004 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Glastonbury] Just a little idea


> Last Tuesday 09 November 2004 06:45, Sean Miller was like:
> > If it were only me then we might actually have more Linux users than
> > Windows ones in the world... this is one of the things holding Linux
back,
> > and it is why I have so much time for distros that make it easy. I do
admit
> > that Knoppix is pretty impressive, as is DeMUDI, so why is it that when
one
> > tries to install either to the hard disk (rather than LiveCD) they both
> > turn into a nightmare that seems to need an in-depth knowledge of Linux
> > internals to get to work?!?!?!!? (this was my experience with DeMUDI
> > anyway) -- if you really want to impress get DeMUDI working on my laptop
in
> > hard disc mode within a couple of hours... then I'd be converted! I
never
> > managed it...
>
> Yep, Knoppix is great as a demo, but pointless trying to install it to
HD -
> it's more or less not upgradeable. The A/DeMuDi-1.1.1 live CD (based on
> Knoppix) is only intended as a demo and never intended to be installed,
> absolutely everyone who tried had nightmares. The proper 1.2.0 release,
which
> is based on Debian Sarge installs easily.
>
> I'll install A/DeMuDi on anything that stands still long enough and
doesn't
> need proprietary drivers, gladly.
>
> cheers
>
> tim hall
>
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