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
old P200 boxes not much above the 100 mark
Or a lot less (unless you mean a complete system with monitor etc). If near Norwich, check Anglian Computers http://www.angliancomputers.co.uk although be warned that their site is odd and does not always display all the frames in opera although it seems to do so in netscape. Thanks to Paul Corner for telling me about them.
Syd
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 7:51 am, Syd Hancock wrote:
old P200 boxes not much above the 100 mark
Or a lot less (unless you mean a complete system with monitor etc). If near Norwich, check Anglian Computers http://www.angliancomputers.co.uk although be warned that their site is odd and does not always display all the frames in opera although it seems to do so in netscape. Thanks to Paul Corner for telling me about them.
Are you sure that's the url Syd I keep getting "Unknown Host"?
Cheers, BJ
Are you sure that's the url Syd I keep getting "Unknown Host"?
Sorry, relied on my memory. Now you see why I'm unemployable. It's Anglian Internet
http://www.anglianinternet.co.uk/
Syd