Steve, Thanx for Your suggestions & comments! On Friday 03 March 2006 10:01, Steve Hodges wrote: > I use Debian, which is probably not the way you want to go, but I am > quite impressed with Ubuntu. I've set it up for one of my relatives on > an older machine and it works without needing fiddling. I've tried to install Debian last year to a much newer PC (2,7 GB Pentium), I ran into a packages problem, that overwhelmed me and the machine and I decided that SUSE & Knoppix & Feather Linux would be easier to handle (although the Feather Linux was really sweet!!!) BTW - I just tried Ubuntu, but it seems I'm surrounded with a dark aura - the LIVE version refused to go further from the login phase. The loadind system stated, that whatever I do, THEY will soon login together with that anonymous user called "ubuntu", but they were wrong - nothing happened and everything started over again from the same point. I was offered the option to be a user myself, but the system never recognized me (as I suspected from the very beginning) whichever login name or pwd I used :) Perhaps the real version would have worked better (I still have the opportunity to try it, as I burned that CD as well) or is the problem in low RAM memory (128 MB together with integratred stuff, that makes it eventually 120 + something). But the good news is that the Fujitsu-Siemens company sent me a SMS that they have fixed my laptop!!! I still have not buried the idee fix to buy a Mac once more time (would that be the dual core Intel - I still do not know). > > If you regularly need to write into directories outside your home > directory (why?) E.g. adding programs or updating them. Apt-get and similar > > You're not going to get DOS stuff working in Linux without a lot of > effort. If you're really keen, you could look at one of the VM machine > applications, but this looks like a viable alternative: Oh, there's the FreeDOS platform available these days, so if I become really keen in turning back to roots, there will be options for that. > If you've been installing various linux versions, give Ubuntu a try. I > can't promise it will work well on your hardware, but if you have the > time, it's a good distro (as is knoppix) I will, for sure! I like to spend some time playing with different linux distros. Just perhaps hoping to find "my version". And once more thanks for good suggestions! Regards, Peeter -- Peeter Vissak +372 5560 1943 +372 5373 8855 pv@xxxxxx www.fotovissak.com www.foto.fie.ee
