syed riyaz wrote:
> Dear friend,
>
> Hi !
>
> I beleive you will be in pink of health & in good mood.
>
> I have recently installed the Red Hat LINUX 5.0 on my PC(Pentium/100-Mhz, 32-MB
>Ram,1.2-GB HDD,DCS Sound Card, JVC-3,600 bps external Modem, SVGA Moniter, mouse
>etc.).
>
I have been using linux since 4.5 and that was what seems like a Looong time ago.
Certainly a long time in linux development time. Before answering your questions I
woul like to suggest that you get a copy of RH at least version 6.2. In the redhat
world it has been my experience that x.0 versions can be relatively buggy. The
functionality of the 6.2 ditribution from install to UI is light years ahead of 5.0.
Not quite as big a difference as windows 3.x to 95 since the underlying os is stable
in Linux but from a UI standpoint easily as big a deal.
The primary reason that the whole world puts up with the quirks is that the damn thing
works, and continues to work. I decided to finally upgrade my linux mail server for
our office the other day (RedHat 6.0) and realized it had been up for 234 days with no
problems. In fact I am a little embarrased that it went that long since I
had upgraded the kernel. There had been several updates done to the box including
network drivers but the kernel itself had not been upgraded. Try that with any
windows product. While the upgrades come out slow enough to wait that long the
machines won't run any where near that long before crashing.
I guess what I am saying is that the developers working on Linux and the various
distributions strive to get the underlying code working well before concentrating on
the eye candy.
> Please can any body tell me the following very basic things in a simple way:-
>
All the following answers are relative to 6.2
>
> 1. How to access floppy drives in linux ?
>
click on the floppy 0 icon with a floppy in the drive
> 2. How to copy Win98 files to floppies like Win98 ?
click on the floppy 0 icon with a dos diskette in the floppy
>
> 3. How to read from CD-ROM drives ?
Click on the cdrom drive icon
>
> 4. Is it possible to read DOS/Other files from Linux ?
yes
>
> 5. How stablish Modem connectivity, simple way ?
Control Panel network settings, Linuxconf, rh dialer. Many different ways
>
> 6. Does it provide TCP/IP & PPP connectivity ?
Duh
>
> 7. Where to get the Int-Browser on Linux, if its fre ?
No idea what this is
>
> 8. Soundcard not detected in Linux, its PnP in Win98 ?
This can be tricky. But your card may indeed work out of the box. Get the core OS
working and then ask the list for specific answers
>
>
> Well, I a am loosing hope of using Linux, if it is a such a great "Headeache". Is
>there any simplest Graphical-User-Interface in Linux awailable like Win98 or OS/2,
>where configuriong & using devices is a fun.
Yes but probably not in 5.0 it is old old old. Get a newer distrrbution. There will
still be issues but a lot fewer.
As for this mailing list, you will need to read the docs. It can be confusing since
ther is so much information out there so start with the rehdat installation manual and
getting started. There is a sh*tload of good info in there. Ask for help to specific
problems and include the hardware and version much like you did. Grow thick
skin. Some of our more knowledgeable and helpful folks get kind of testy :)
I would assume that you are interseted in computing or you would not have waded
through the RH5.0 installation. I am constantly amazed as to what I can do with a
linux box with free software that has probably millions of man hours of work put into
it. Stuff that would take thousands of dollars worth of software and hard ware to
accomplish in another OS. BTW a pentium 100 with 32 mb will certainly work, and
probably better and faster than win9x (NT won't at all I don't think), but it is not
much of a machine to run a modern graphical user interfaced operating system. A
little more memory 32MB would go a loing way to speed up things I suspect.
Hope this helps,
Bret
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