If your bying new hardware you shouldnt need to set IRQ's, DMA's or ioports's. Most pci and agp cards self configure so unless you still have a isa card youll be fine. Debian's a good distro but Mandrake is your easy as hell to install if you want the easyer then windows 98 install path.
----- Original Message ----- From: B.E.D.Ellis-00@student.lboro.ac.uk Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:48:56 +0000 (GMT) To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: Welcome to the "main" mailing list (Digest mode)
Quoting Paul paul.corner@tesco.net:
If you need any CDs of the various distros, you only have to ask - Most of us are only too willing to help out.
I'm happy to download any ISOs etc I need from the net, I'm not in a rush to do anything really. Thanks for the offer though.
Quoting Tristan Scott trs@scott998.freeserve.co.uk:
Im running Gentoo. this is a good one if you're already into linux
I'm not ^^
This is irrelevent for a newbie tho, i suggest using some distro that holds your hand... what language(s) do you write in? gentoo obviously has a good build environment, but i dont know about the big distros...
I think I'll stick with Debian unless someone has a good reason I shouldn't.
I'm a decent programmer when it comes to java, c, c++, c#, php, VB, JavaScript and most of their variations (such as ActionScript, VBScript, JSP, ASP, etc). I've messed around with Assembly, OpenGL, DirectX, the WinAPI and Sockets/Network programming but not done any major projects with them yet.
I'm absololutly useless when it comes to hardware though. Only recently I'm starting to come to grips with everything since I'm planning on buying a new computer so been reading up on all the latest tech stuff. I think I'll have the most trouble during installation when it asks for my hardware settings (like an Interupts/DMA/etc). As for figuring out how to install various packages, thats where I ring up a few friends and post to this list.
Cheers for the feedback, Ben "Losing broadband for a whole 2 weeks, how am I gonna survive?!?!?"Ellis
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