From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Gary Britt wrote:
> You know reading the multitude of threads springing up suddenly about doing
> things with Linux and it makes me wonder if its ready for mass desktop use,
> even now after many years of steady improvement.  Theses messages make it
> clear there are many secret command line incantations that one must know to
> do many things.
>

Nope, they're just the quick way when you know how.

Most of the main desktop distros have every pickie for you to click your
mouse on you could wish for, whether setting up filesharing or installing
just about anything from a media player to a major server with multiple
virtual images of other servers within

> On the other hand I read something about Damn Small Linux the other day, and
> it sounds like it will install on my old Pentium 233 laptop with 4 gig hard
> drive.  I'm going to install it to give it a go.
>

Enjoy. The smaller the distro, the fewer the pickies.

> I watched that most impressive XGL (whatever that is) Suse 10.1 linux video.
> Definitely impressive stuff.  Most of it unneeded fluff but impressive none
> the less.  Then I read somebody's comment that XGL doesn't work with NVidia
> or ATI video cards in a default install and you have to get drivers and
> recompile the kernel etc. to make it work.  Gee, the two most popular video
> chipsets in the world and it doesn't support them out of the box in a
> default configuration.   That kind of stuff has got to improve for Linux to
> conquer the world, even given the WGA and Vista Op Sys trojans.
>

Well that person is obviously a berk. I tend to use NVidia cards coz
they're very well supported under linux.

The screen I am typing this on is driven by a Nvidia card & no kernel
recompilations required.

Adam

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