Re: LINUX basics

Hi All,

Thanks for the help. I have now mastered the art of mounting a floppy
and looking at its files etc. - even unzipping directories I have
downloaded from the 'net, however, so far I haven't actually been able
to make a program run (except for one which seemed to run 'accidentally'
as I untarred it and which instantly gummed up the works!). The next
step is to try to do the same with the CD ROM - I'm having no luck at
the moment. I did find a useful document called a 'System administrators
guide' on the net which gave me quite a bit of useful info -
unfortunately, I had been on so many sites that I have forgotten where
it came from but I will try and figure it out and let you know. Its
interesting that LINUX is so very similar to UNIX and not terribly
different from DOS as far as basic commands are concerned, I feel much
less threatened by it since I have started to play about with this cut
down system. Incidentally, it appears that the DRAGON LINUX 75 I am
using is basically the Slackware 2.0.34 build. It has 'vi' as a text
editor and 'Midnight Commander' as a File manipulator but that's about
it. I haven't yet figured out why you would want to open DOS files in
LINUX - will they run under this environment?

Ian

> Ian;
>
> I know how you feel, but just stick with it and it will come, slowly though. I originally had
> Redhat 6.0, before I knew I needed 5.2, and it was tough for an old DOS man. It took a couple
> of weeks of messing with it before I started to get comfortable with it. I was using the KDE
> desktop manager for X and found it was sort of MS windows 95 like, with a few quarks. Linux
> is definitly not a threat to MS Windows yet. While it seems rock solid it is no where near as
> user friendly. You need to be sort of a computer geek and have a lot of time to learn the
> commands as even when running X, you must do alot command line typing to open the various
> windows. Get a good book at the bookstore and spend some time with it. DO NOT buy the
> book "USING LINUX", published by QUE, as it sucks.
>
> I have not loaded 5.2 and EMC yet but I feel much better about trying it than I did 2 weeks ago.
>
> Bill
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