[Sderby] networking

[mark wilkes]

Dave,
My main motivation for trying Linux (suse8) is that I was basically fed up
with windows 98 and having previously worked on Unix servers for Marconi
comms it seemed the logical o/s to try.(Also because it was free, Thanks to
the lug & Dom).
I was very impressed with the disk partitioning & desktop environment and
applications available. But found I had forgot most of my Unix commands so
struggled a little at first, but getting there the more I play around.
The only thing I have not been able to do is get my usb devices to work
(cd-rw & scanner).
I will utilise suse to run on my server. Which I couldn't really do with the
windows o/s I have. So in general I am very pleased with Linux and believe
with more experience I will be shell scripting with more confidence and
hopefully learning c/c++ programming.
Cheers Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jolley" <dave@lucien.cx>
To: <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Sderby] networking


> * mark wilkes (mwdl12311@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote:
> > Unfortunately I live in Wolverhampton so I cannot make the Friday
> > meetings.  What is Debian 3.0 ? Sorry but this s/w is new to me.
> >
> Debian 3.0 is the third release of the GNU/Linux operating system, a
> distribution that is put together for the community by volunteers.
> There is no company behind it, as long as the kernel and userspace
> utilities keep being written, Debian will continue.
> I'm guessing as you haven't heard of it, it's probably ot for you as
> it's aimed at fairly experienced users...
>
> > I will definitely take your advice regarding broadband (2 nic's) &
> > firewall s/w. I think I will also stick with Pentium 2 and 3
> > machines which should be adequate for my needs.
> >
> I would hope those machines would be good enough.
>
> > Thanks for your advice.
> >
> No problem.  Can I ask what your motivation for trying Linux is?  I'm
> just being nosey, on another list I'm subscribed to there's some
> discussion going on as to what peoples expectations of Linux are, and
> how it hasn't necessarily lived up to them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
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