[Preston] Hello

[Matthew T. Atkinson]

'ellow,

There seemed to be a number of 'shareware' licences for XP going around here
last year too :).  I am glad that its all working now (and that your
house/hall was not burned down in the process!) and I hope it continues to
when SuSE is installed.  It shouldn't give you any problems; its got *very
good* set-up tools.  I would only advise that you use a program like
PartitionMagic on windows to create the Linux and Swap partitions before you
install SuSE.  That's what I did and it has worked perfectly.  I think that
expecting Linux installers to act as fully-fledged partitioning programs can
be a bit dodgy at the moment (they're getting better all the time, of
course, but I don't think they can resize NTFS partitions yet).

I have also heard that win9x is a lot easier to learn programming on too, as
you can quite quickly expose its gubbins.  What language are you using?  We
did some C (not low-level stuff, though) last year on windows that was not
too hard to port to Linux (as long as you make it as ANSI-compliant as
possible on windows).  I must admit that I was a bit disappointed that
UNIX/Linux didn't come up in our course sooner.  The 1st years now are being
taught C on Linux.  Recently we finished a project to make a web site.  We
had to learn Perl to do this and we also needed knowledge of UNIX/Linux web
servers.  It was such a laugh watching the windows users forget to upload
files and wonder why they weren't working for hours when I was just logged
in directly with ssh :).

Anyway, enjoy SuSE.  If you install/use GNOME2 on it, please could you let
me know what its like?  I heard it was crippled like RH's KDE and I really
need GNOME2 so I am anxious about making the move to SuSE 8.1 or later
now...  Thanks (but don't worry if you don't want to install GNOME2)!

bye just now,


matthew

----- Original Message -----
Hi,
Thanks for the help. You're right about being able to install 2000 and 98
in the same partition.
We then decided it wasn't such a hot idea, and formated again, then
installed in separate partitions. Since then, we thought we'd try XP (free
copy as I'm a computing student!). This set up seems to be ok atm, so we'll
see what happens when we stick Suse 8.1 on.

I'm putting Windows on because we're doing win programming at uni. (Sadly
Linux doesn't get much of a look in on my course). As I understand it, Win
98 is pretty useful if you want to be able to access com ports
directly  (future project, maybe?).

My main reason for putting on 2000 was because I fancied a change from 98
and it's only a 450MHz machine.
My Dad has just installed XP on his 500, though, and his seems ok at the
moment.

Everything seems to be going ok generally. The only problem so far has been
a near fire caused by a loose internal speaker wire.  :-/

Thanks for the advice everyone.  :-)


Caroline.