The message bdfoto%40tiscali.co.uk$80.47.174.218$.001701c5e518$887c9910$daae2f50@bdf2 from "Bob Dove" bdfoto@tiscali.co.uk contains these words:
/snip/
Re what might have been above if I hadn't snipped it, I agree that 3.11 was the best Windows version, but preferred CP/M
Reading these mails - your comments re operating/installing Linux is absolutely frightening. A 'simple' installation CD that injects Linux onto a hard drive and which comes up with a desktop 'just like windoze' (or Mac O/S) is all 99% of PC owners want. We don't want to know about command lines - just icons on the desktop just like the original Digital Research GUI that all other O/S desktops have copied!
Ah. Yes. Well, I *DO* want command line as well as GUI, but I'd settle for either to begin with. But I'd agree with you: I read some of the steps in setting-up Woody and mutter expletives to myself. How the hell do I know if I want which of a list of locales, whatever they are. I checked them all, just in case. (I have a suspicion they might relate to languages/text sets supported, but...)
Do I know what Privilege separation is? Do I ****! And it interacts badly with PAM - whoever *SHE* is...
And it fails to find my (hardware PCI modem.
(Knoppix 3.1 (which I know is elderly) won't run on this machine because it can't cope with the ATI Rage 128 graphics card.)
<hair mode="tear">