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Date: | Wed, 8 May 2002 22:39:50 -0400 |
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Oh yes, I use the Slackware distribution on my laptop and the Redhat one on
my desktop (it has the drivers I needed for the USB peripherals). Can you
run the X window software on yours? Gnome is a really cool GUI and I
believe it'll run in a miminal setting.
Kat
At 10:42 09-05-2002 +0800, you wrote:
> Is your pc Linux-only, or does it also have Windows installed?
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>Linux-only, Kat. It's a second-hand refurbished 'puter donated by a
>local volunteer org. that takes older computers and cleans them up and
>puts Linux Slackware software on them and gives them to people who
>would otherwise be unable to afford computers. I'm not a big fan of
>Windows, can't stand icons all over the place, and don't like that
>little paper-clip with eyes that keeps popping up - I use Windows at
>uni and I HATE it!!!! I'm a words person, not a picture person, so
>Linux suits me much better. But I'm not a computer person, so it's
>been (still is!) an interesting learning curve.
>
>Rayna
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