All this Fedora business...

[Davis Johnson]

Welcome, friend. I am also primarily a lurker on this list, a remora 
feeding off of crumbs from the big guys. This has been a good place for 
me to hang out. From time to time I write an over-long answer to somthing.

I've deleted whole paragraphs from your email that I'm not actualy 
replying to.

Jeff A. wrote:

>I've got very, very little knowledge of Linux and these REAL computers, but
>I've been trying to pick out bits and pieces from all the mails...  
>
So am I, so am I.

>Is this "Fedora" software THE thing I should run?  I have a 164SX with a 533
>21164PC, using the AlphaBIOS.  Of course I've run NT4, but the only other
>thing I've been able to get to work (somewhat) is SuSE 8.1... not quite
>right, either.
>  
>
Perhaps. In the past I've frequently recomended Red Hat (now the 
baseline Fedora stared from) to try Linux on Intel. I've never tried 
SuSE. I've had realy bad fights with the Debian installer before. The 
down side to Fedora is that the set of ISOs that just rolled out the 
door is new. You might want to wait a week or two. The upside is that 
you have the ear of the developers here in a way that you wouldn't have 
on intel.

>Is there any *step-by-step for retards* on how to PROPERLY install?  I'm not
>exactly a genius... you know the type - Windows + x86.  I can generally
>stumble my way around Linux, and while I do have a fully functional SGI
>Octane, all this UNIX type, actual computer stuff is beyond me at the
>moment.
>  
>
Personaly I'd pick another title. I find that writing end user 
documentation is a lot like programming. With a program the machine is 
the final judge of weather the instructions you give it "work" or not. 
With documentation the user is the judge, and each user brings a 
different background to bear. Instalation instructions are invarably 
untested on a person exactly like you, on hardware just like yours. That 
doesn't make you a retard. Expect some difficulties, expect to overcome 
them.

No, I didn't answer that last question, did I?
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