Re: Survey Please read

Thanks Hans,

I have a copy of Partition Magic which I use occasionally but I so rarely
have to mess about with partitions that it gets little use. I looked at this
product and it certainly seems very good though I don't think I need it just
now. One thing which impressed me with the linux installer on RedHat was the
way it automatically repartitioned and formatted my hard disk itself. I
already had windows 95 loaded and linux just set itself up on newly created
partitions without messing anything up. That was RH5.2 whose installation
program looks positively archaic compared to the latest version - I've had
the new one loaded and running (RH6.1) but I've had to slip back to RH5.2 as
I couldn't get the EMC to run on 6.1 - now I'm missing some of the extra
facilities that 6.1 gives!! Like you, I have been messing with computers for
a long while ( I built my first one from a kit in 1967/8 - hundreds of
separate 74* series ICs and discrete components, 1K of RAM upgraded
eventually to 8K and storage on a tape recorder - them were the days!) Since
then its been a constant battle trying to keep up to date and to say that,
for the last 30 years I have had almost daily contact with one form of
computer or other from mainframes to building control systems, I still seem
to know very little. I suppose that this is because I was never very
involved with programming, except on the building control stuff. However,
when I first loaded linux it was like going back 20 years and trying to
remember how to work in an early version of DOS, it terrified me - that was
until I discovered KDE which immediately brought me back to a system I could
recognise and operate in almost the same way as windows 95 - it even looks
the same. Now, having found a combination which suits me, I am anxious to
play around more with it and the more I do so, the more I like it. Its so
refreshing to have a system which seems very difficult to break and where,
if I do mess something up as I did earlier today, I can always get back in
and correct things without finding that the problem is in a corrupted .dll
or something which needs a complete reload. This is because linux is almost
all based on script files - like the windows .ini files - which can be
altered in any basic text editor and I am now gradually beginning to
understand how the main ones of these work and gaining confidence in
altering them to suit my own particular purposes - something I could not
possibly do in windows. The fact that they are also very well documented
within the script with each stage having its own description immediately
before the 'action' line helps greatly in understanding. I hope you do
decide to try linux again and give it another chance as, if I have read your
character correctly, I think you would soon grow comfortable with it.

best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK

----- Original Message -----
From: hansw <hansw@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Sent: 27 January 2000 17:59
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]Survey Please read


> From: hansw <hansw@...>
>
> Ian,
> I just read a little about the Partitioning Software System Commander
> are now selling and it does a lot of things and you get a copy of System
> Commander as well $39.95 I expect street prices are a lot less.
> hansw
> PS again I do not have anything to do with this company, they just do a
> great utility.
> http://www.v-com.com/products/pc.html