Thank you for being extremely quick
Martyn. Why am I interested in Linux. I am increasingly fed up with
reliability problems with MS OS's. Only this very night I had a problem
that partly resulted from problems with ntlworld that prevented retrieval of
emails and logging on. Whilst the email retrieval was in progress I was
disconnected and my PC world still be trying to accomplish this. I Think
that I only just managed to 'restart' on the 'shut down' dialogue box before
every thing 'freezing up'.
Enough said about that man and his whimsies known
as widows. It is something new. It really does seem like the
pioneering spirit of the late 70's & early 80's. Not as spectacular as
California in those times but quite subtle. An international movement made
up of poeple outside mainstream OS supplies which most poeple would say there is
only one. It is a Historical fact that most important inventions have come
from those who are outside the mainstream industrial and commercial institutions
i.e. the first PC, the first Apple computers, prototypes in a garage.
It also might be the rebel in me that is suspicious of globalisation and
wants a way of striking out at a monolithic global coporation and that man with
his gawky looking hair and glasses.
Enough said I interested in installing Linux on
a an older system for word processing and basic things like that.
Indeed I have seen in Micro Mart dealers stocking old P200 boxes not
much above the 100 mark. I believe installation to be not as
difficult as it may seem but not as easy as MS. Also a better chance of
drivers being available enough said. And lets all get that man. May
penguins rule the world!
Bye for now from
Edmund Chinnery