-=> PHIL MARLOWE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 PM>  AUTHOR       Gagne, Marcel.
 PM>  TITLE        Moving to Linux:
 PM>               kiss the blue screen of death goodbye!
 PM>  IMPRINT      Boston : Addison-Wesley, 2004.
 PM>  DESCRIPT.    348 p.  + 1 CD-ROM (4-3/4in.)
 PM>  NOTE         System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM:
 PM>               Pentium class CPU with 128 MB of RAM or more.
 PM>  NOTE         At head of title on the CD: WFTL edition Knoppix.

 PM> -----------------------------------------------------------------

 PM>  === I guess that "kiss the blue screen of death goodbye!"
 PM>  subtitle refers to Linux being more stable than Windows,
 PM>  supposedly.

 Well studying C programming the Linux box was using 16
 486's dumb terminals hooked up to it for 16 students.
 That Linux box neither locked up nor crashed in 7 months.

 > Check out www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost

 PM>  === Hey, Charles site! I know it well. Best DOS site on the
 PM>  net. Didn't know he was into Linux. Will definitely check it
 PM>  out.

Oh there's a link to Linux on his site.
Look at his origin line ect, ATP is a Linux native offline reader.

 PM>  can gain access to your system?  If so,
 PM>  how likely is that to happen? Seems pretty remote.

 > They use something called rootkit, gives them
 > full access to your system and it's not at all a
 > remote threat as my system was constantly
 > informing me of attacks. (failed as I was a
 > user online and NOT root) You really need to
 > setup a user account first off and I retain the
 > simple notes here on how to do so though I'd
 > have to look them up.
 
 PM>  === Hmm. That whole situation seems to be seriously out of
 PM>  whack. Just heard a report that now close to 60 percent of all
 PM>  inet traffic is, as you put it, nefarious, resulting in a
 PM>  doubling of the ISP fees you pay.

 > I've no books at all on Knoppix.  CD arrived in the mail.
 > I played for two days for a total of perhaps 5 hours
 > in ramdrive than installed it to my hard drive.

 PM>  === Impressive! But not me. I need hardcopy. Especially
 PM>  when trying something new. Too many brain blips recently. :-(

 Maybe, maybe not.
 Boot to the ISO image CD and very clear prompts
 holding your hand along the way.
 
 I found it totally simple and it gives ample cautions so you can
 chicken and abort at major steps

Oh yeah, Charles A. told me remind you if you want to burn your' own
Knoppix CD you need a burner and software to overburn a CD.

 PM>  === Cheers from Phil, requiring additional memory chips.

Thanks from Wayne, I just might snag that Knoppix book you listed
above to speed up the learning curve on the advanced stuff.
Knoppix is based upon Debian Linux with the accent on ease 
to install and use.
 
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