[plug] setting up

[James Elliott]

Thanks Wayne

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
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----- Original Message -----
From: "wayne" <hatari at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] setting up


> On Friday, June 14, 2002 2:14 PM
> James wrote:
> >
> > I have the CD's for Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 and am currently running
> 7.1,
> > but before I spend time upgrading Red Hat I would like to know what you
> are
> > using and what you suggest would be best for a new user.
> >
>
> Hello, James!
>
> I am (still) a newbie.
>
> I tried installing and using Redhat when Redhat was a pain 5.2 - and gave
> up.
>
> Then I tried Mandrake 7.2 and it was a dream for the partitioning - most
> important (for me).  It has been used only for the games for kids and
wife.
> I upgraded to 8.1 and only work in the Gnome environ, but still can't get
> the dialup working (probably because I left out most of the K
environment -
> if I recall?).  Mandrake has a very good GUI "Hard-Drake" for hardware
> config, and "Linuxconfig" to get at just about everything.  The
GUI/Windows
> Manager (inciteful!) is also very good - although I still can't solve the
> "Helps" and other screens running off the bottom of the resolution/monitor
> (can someone revisit that for me too?)
>
> However I will be trying other distros as I become a bit more active again
> in Linux and would encourage same - but the distros just keep on coming!
>
> Just personal comments - not flaming.
>
> Regards to all,
> wayne.
>
>
>