Newbie bull brings own china shop.

[Brian Durant]

Hi,

I am a relative Newbie to Linux and totally new to Debian and this list. 
My first questions, which I hope aren't like the above subject, is how 
closely related is Xandros (formerly Corel) to Debian? Is it close 
enough that list members wouldn't mind me posting problems to this list 
or is that verbotten? I know that Debian has a long and honored 
reputation of not including commercial software, but does that mean that 
no attempt is made to support commercial products, for example getting 
Win4Lin, Star Office or Codeweavers' Office and plug in products to run 
on Debian? Can such issues be posted to the list?

At this time, I am trying to get a working Linux version installed on my 
daughter's Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC. This PC has no legacy serial 
or parallel ports, supports USB 1.1  and like the iMac, comes without a 
built-in floppy drive. I have tried Mandrake PowerPack 9, SuSE 7.3 Pro 
and Xandros 1. I have had problems with all of these with regards to 
getting the SiS 900 Fast Ethernet driver (Ethernet built into 
motherboard) to work properly. As the computer is connected to our home 
WAN/LAN, she hasn't been able to access the Internet or brows the 
Intranet. I am now in the process of burning the Debian 3 rev1 CDs and 
was wondering if there were any helpful comments or suggestions to any 
of the above.

Cheers,

Brian



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