Re: Introduction

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Name: Brian Ream
> AKA: Jack Tarkaan
\> System: Packard Bell 410-ish, c.1995?
> 	540 Meg Conner
> 	12 Meg Ram
> 	Crappy video/etc
> 	Creative Labs 4x
> 	Running RedHat 5.2

I've got a dual P200 with SCSI and 256Mb or RAM.  I don't use it's video at all
but use it via X from an old IBM PS Valuepoint or several NCD X-terminal I got
before they went to the dump.

>
> Current Projects:
> 	PPP connection via my 9600 serial modem

Ouch!

> 	Entirely Term-Based Web, E-mail, and ICQ
> 	Term Based word processing (my printer works!)

I'm pretty certain that the character version of Word Perfect is available for
Linux.  If not, there are lots of "text processing" tools,  altough most fall
short of bieng a real word processor.

> 	MOST IMPORTANTLY - Getting it to boot from the HD
> 		(This requires my lilo.conf to be correct..somethign
> 		that I haven't been able to do, and I'm now in my 24th
> 		continuous hour of trying.  It hangs at "L" - any fixes?)
>
> ANyway, I"m looking forward to the meetings that you people have..this OS
> has by far the steepest learning curve of anything else I've ever tried

It is RADICALLY diffrent from MS-DOS.  I think it is easier to learn without
knowing the "other" OS first.  "Unix for dummies" is a good book for intro to
UNIX basics and "A Practical Guide to UNIX System V" is pretty good if your
more techno-savvy.  There are several Linux specific books, but I haven't every
looked at them as when I learn UNIX/Linux they weren't around yet.  Now that
was fun,  I did it mostly from the IBM AIX manuals.