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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: At_The_Ask who wrote (325)	11/19/2002 3:08:33 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 484

Ive got an old p2 I'm going to use just for kicks. I run Debian on a P4 1.8 GHz which is more than enough. But I've also successfully installed Debian on a P1 133 MHz - no prob. I've been using java charts Unfortunately Java is demanding on Linux, too, and even more disappointing: the Java Virtual Machine is less stable than for Windows. Plus I work on and off in IT so learning new stuff is required. Yes, the learning curve is considerable. For a start playing with Knoppix during a weekend might be ok. But eventually one has to dig deeper, and obviously there are loads of books and even more online resources. (So it would help to have a separate machine with a Net connection while Linux is configured.) Here's a collection of HOWTOs for a number of topics: tldp.org Usenet newsgroups are a good place to search for hints to questions (it's likely that hurdles you'll meet have been discussed publicly by other people in the same situation): google.com Here's a list of Usenet Linux FAQs: faqs.org