Time for the swtich has come.

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 7:42 pm, Scot L. Harris flailed at a keyboard and 
produced this:

> > 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...
> > 
> 
> If you are ready for the plunge I have always felt it was best to wipe
> out windows and use the whole disk for linux.  If you setup a dual boot
> system you may find that you won't spend the time to find equivalent
> programs native to linux for the day to day tasks that you do. 
> Virtually everything that windows does linux can do.  

I disagree.  For someone who is just learning how to run Linux, dual-booting 
is probably better.  It may take longer to learn how to use Linux, true, but 
having that Windows system there which you *know* works will come in handy 
when you can't figure out why your internet connection won't work.  Boot into 
Windows, fire up Thunderbird, and send a message to this list.

My first Linux box was RH 7.2 dual-booted with Win2K.  At first, I used 
Windows almost exclusively.  Now, I haven't booted into Windows on this 
computer in years.  'Course, it also helps that I have a backup laptop for 
when things go horrifically wrong. ;-)

Once you know you can reliably reach the outside world for help from your 
Linux box, then you can safely zark Windows.


> What you want to do is assess the programs and tasks that you need to
> have and do some google searches to find appropriate linxu
> applications.  You may find that many come standard with Fedora, others
> you may need to pull from other repositories.
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> Several different ones including Firefox.  No problem there.

Firefox, Mozilla, Epiphany, Konqueror.  If you use Firefox, install the "User 
Agent" extension.  Many sites that stop you from entering because you're not 
running IE will work just fine under Firefox if you spoof your user agent 
string (most sites, in fact, work just fine).


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Slainte,
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