Time for the swtich has come.
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 28 22:21:19 UTC 2005
--- Nicholas Comino <celloworld at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle Lagonegro (Student-Lagone37)"
> <Lagone37 at cortland.edu>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 2:06 PM
> Subject: Time for the swtich has come.
>
>
> >
> > I'm finally fed up with Windows and Microsoft in
> general. I just signed
> > up to this mailing list and am making the first
> steps to moving over to
> > Linux. From what I have read Fedora is the way to
> go. So now I must
> > download, but before I make the switch I have some
> questions:
> >
> > 1) Is it a good idea to do the dual particion so I
> keep WinXP for a while?
> > Because frankly I want it gone as fast as
> possible...
> >
> > 2) I'm hooked up to a LAN connection through my
> college, does Linux come
> > with a web browser like Windows does, because if
> so I should have no
> > problems with anything, I'm just worried about
> putting it on and not
> > having the ability to get on for help.
> >
> > 3) I have a bunch of drivers and such that came
> with the computer, will
> > they work for Linux, or are they only formatted
> for Windows? The disks
> > don't say windows on them at all, but I'm not
> sure.
> >
> > That's it for now, but trust me when I say you
> will all be hearing from me
> > a lot... Hehe.
> >
> > One question about this forum, is there a way to
> stop them from mailing
> > everything to me, I'll just go to the site to
> check responds and such...
> >
> >
>
> As a newbie to linux myself. I built a computer
> specifically for learning
> the platform - it let me kill the software as often
> as I liked till I learnt
> it (still working on that). The main problem I had
> was that the LAN chipset
> wasn't recognised by the kernel. It was a relatively
> unusual ALi chipset,
> the core recognised everything on the m-board except
> the LAN (the wireless
> card also didn't boot). I had to download and
> install the driver separately
> (by downloading to my winxp laptop, burning a CD and
> moving it over that
> way).
>
> Because the net is essential, you might want to try
> a live bootable CD first
> just to check that the kernel is more likely to
> recognise the LAN. I don't
> know if there's a live CD for Fedora,
Yes there are several live cd's based on Fedora.
RPMLIVE (LINUX4ALL)
Berry Linux
Adios Live CD
& others
Please check Distrowatch.com for Fedora Based Live
CD's.
but you could
> try Ubuntu or Knoppix.
> That said, my chipset was probably just unusual
> enough not to have made the
> kernel, and most would probably get you online
> without any hassles. It's
> just that in my experience, if it doesn't happen to
> work "out of the box"
> you might be in for a fast learning curve learning
> all the silly and simple
> things regular uses think are normal part of
> everyday life (like the command
> for logging in as root (su) or rebooting into a
> terminal...).
>
> Good luck.
>
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