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Top ten reasons to install Linux on your PC:
1.When Linux is outlawed, only outlaws will own Linux.
2. When installing Linux, it is so much fun to run fdisk without
backing up first.
3.The flames you get from asking questions on Linux newsgroups
are of a higher quality than the flames you get for posting to
alt.sex.bestiality.
4.No matter what flavor of Linux you install, you'll find out
tomorrow there was a far more 3l1te ersion you should have gotten
instead.
5.People who use Free BSD or Solaris will not make fun of you.
They will offer their sympathy instead.
6.At the next Def Con you'll be able to say stuph like "so
then I su-ed to his account and grepped all his files for 'kissyface'."
Oops, grepping other people's files is a no-no, forget I ever
suggested it.
7.Port surf in privacy.
8.One word: exploits.
9.Installing Linux on your office PC is like being a postal worker
and bringing an Uzi to work.
10.But - - if you install Linux on your office computer,
you boss won't have a clue what that means.
What types of Linux work best? It depends on what you really
want. Redhat Linux is famed for being the easiest to install.
The Walnut Creek Linux 3.0 CD-ROM set is also really easy to
install -- for Linux, that is! My approach has been to get lots
of Linux versions and mix and match the best from each distribution.
I like the Walnut Creek version best because with my brand
X hardware, its autodetection feature was a life-saver.
(Today my favorites are Caldera and
SuSE)
INSTALLING LINUX is not for the faint of heart! Several tips
for surviving installation are:
1) Although you in theory can run Linux on a 286 with 4 MB
RAM and two floppy drives, it is *much* easier with a 486 or
above with 8 MB RAM, a CD-ROM, and at least 200 MB free hard
disk space.
(Note:
Nowadays you need at least a 386, and will do much better with
a 486 or better, at least 12 MB memory, bootable from the CD-ROM,
and at least 500 MB free hard drive space. Some distributions
require much more. That 286 version of Linux dates from ancient
history and didn't do much.)
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