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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (51347)	3/1/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 1571611

I've never used it but another consideration is hardware support.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (51347)	3/1/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571611

Jim, Re: I have a pretty extensive DOS background That is far from enough. Linux(UNIX) is a completely different animal. If you know it, it is very powerful, otherwise, you don't even know where to start. Gary

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (51347)	3/1/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 1571611

Jim: If you want to try Linux get a basic machine & the Red Hat distribution for it, and go ahead. Don't mix dos & Linux 'till you have a flavor for what's going on. Later, you can run windows & dos under Linux, or multi 0S-es, modify the source code, and compile it yourself, but for starters, KISS. The dos background will serve you well. DOS & UNIX have the same roots. I don't really see it as being a great OS for the home users who are basically content with the windows packages, but for developers who are working in X & writing code, or doing extensive networking, there are no other UNIX packages for the PC that come close now. They had a distribution out for the SGI workstations a week after SGI announced them. HP, IBM, INTC, all support the effort(& not just for their pc line), and the 21164 & 21264 are also supported. IMHO, it is a strongly coming OS. tgptndr