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To: g_m10 who wrote (74)	8/22/1998 3:55:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 484

I would say yes. But not foolpoof. One of the easiest installations is the obsolete Yggdrassil. But I ran into snags as a newbie bozo in selecting options. Slackware has a good install and it walks you through the packages as provides info on each one. It is a tad tough to tell what you should include in the kernel the first time. Mistakes can be made. The hard part it would seem is picking a rootdisk and getting your drive partitioned. this can give people problems. I used Partition Magic and it solved a few headaches. You have to know that you leave freespace for Linux and partition that free space with Linux Fdisk. Never use Linux fdisk to remove a DOS partition. Red Hat has a hard act to beat in its RPM package as it allows upgrading of packages relatively painlessly. This is good. Slackware's program installs and patch system can be tedious and error prone. You had better get used to compiling programs and knowing how to edit files to get packages to work. Most of the distributions of late have a complete more or less working package. I don't know about X set up. That can be hair raising and I don't know who makes it simple. If you have off the wall hardware you can get some real hummdingers in X. I burnt out a flyback transformer on a NEC multi sync II with a wrong horizontal frequency rate. Don't push that parameter 2 herzog. On the other hand it could go as smooth as day old baby hide and you are up and running with a GUI in 3 hours..! In a NUT SHELL you will learn what FCSRTFMFYFJ means when you install Linux. Or rtfm for short. It means " for !@$#!@$ sakes read the !@$!@!@ manual first you @#!$! !@$!@$!." Amen. And may I add. RIFT. Read it first twice. I would also take the Linux journal and join a LUG. The journal has some very thorough articles and the LUGS are very good at helping. Slackware has FVWM95 which ain't bad. Operates a tad like win95. You can also do OPEN LOOK which is good. KDE is smooth and real good looking.. more of a departure than any.... enlightenment is kool but I heard buggy.. The one thing I would like is a REALLY good WIN manager that is semi indpendent of X. They all suffer from X slowness and lack of focus.. they aren't smooth tools. plig.org EC<:-}

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