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Original Article - http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00020.asp

Stray Dog Joined: 08 May 2001 Posts: 1 Location: USA

i found the linux mandrake for newbies an excellent artlicle.. im a veteran netadmin with WINDOWS and found you article very very informative.. you might consider adding links to some sites that might help newbies and longtime users alike... i installed mandrake 8 and i agree it is the best distribution out there.. but being a newbie in linux i still have problems setting up things like samba to get the linux box to look like an NT server.. i too am trying to dump microsoft in as many places as i can.. im sure any links you can provide would be appreciated by all..

GREAT JOB..!!

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 7:55 am Post subject:

Great article. Can't wait till i get a chance to test it out. I just downloaded the ISO's for mandrake and burning them right now. I definitly will use this article when I do the install. I will let you know how I do. Since I'm a Linux Dope, (just have a Unix Intro class to fall back on) I'm hoping my install is a good one.

Good Job!

-Geekboy

All Your Geeks Are Belong to US!

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 8:29 am Post subject:

I too just got the ISO's and am burning them at this moment. The article is amazing. I am a bit of Linux dummy, and whenever I installed Mandrake 7.2, I just used the default install. I was going to pick up the power pack at a local store here(Don't want to mail order from the states, the exchange is deadly right now!!), but version8.0 hasn't quite made it here yet.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 9:28 am Post subject:

I have just one question for you. When you write an article that long, or any html with lots of text, do you write the text out, and then go back and add the html, or do you write it all(html + text) out at once. I write a lot of html at work, but almost all of it is tables. The largest block of text I have ever had to deal with is one paragraph sandwiched between two tables.

P.S. Thanks for showing other websites out there that no matter how long the article/guide is, it CAN fit on one page.

Edited by - hummer010 on 05/08/2001 13:28:58

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 9:43 am Post subject:

I don't know how Rover does it, but I write it all (html + text) as I go. Gotta be careful in Win9x though cuz notepad has a 35k limit (which I have hit before). DOH!

- Spot
Spot@LittleWhiteDog.com

"AssPunching is not allowed!"

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 10:01 am Post subject:

I could never write all that in Notepad. How would I spellcheck? [ Very Happy

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-Geekboy

All Your Geeks Are Belong to US!

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 10:02 am Post subject:

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I don't know how Rover does it, but I write it all (html + text) as I go. Gotta be careful in Win9x though cuz notepad has a 35k limit (which I have hit before). DOH!

- Spot
Spot@LittleWhiteDog.com

"AssPunching is not allowed!"

Don't I know it!! I have a javascript search engine which has four lines of text for each item. There are nearly 4000 items in the search engine. It is one page of html that is 612KB in size!! I have been using wordpad for it, but you have to make sure when you save that it is saved as a text file. Rover or Brain mentioned something about a notepad expander somewhere. I have been meaning to look for it.

Edited by - hummer010 on 05/08/2001 14:19:13

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 10:03 am Post subject:

That's got to be the best article ever! I have no more excuses. After years of hating Microsh1t and doing nothing about it, LINUX, here I come!

- Ed.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 5:18 pm Post subject:

I write it usually using Arachnophilia, it colors the tags and stuff so that it's earier to read. I also write the text and html simultaneously. I used to write it in Word so I could spellcheck, but I stopped that and I wish I didn't. Spelling errors have been slipping through. Win2K's notepad has no limit!!! Mandrake's "Advanced Editor" has all the power of a good word processor with none of the bullshit. Plus a spell checker, but it wasn't very good, too small of a dictionary.

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That's got to be the best article ever! I have no more excuses. After years of hating Microsh1t and doing nothing about it, LINUX, here I come!

- Ed.

Glad you liked it Ed...I spent a long time working on it. My favorite part is the Pictures, you don't see pics of the install process for any Linux distro very often if ever. Gotta love VMWare!

Rover

Toilet bowls...the chalice of dogs everywhere.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2001 5:23 pm Post subject:

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Gotta love VMWare!

Rover

Toilet bowls...the chalice of dogs everywhere.

I was wondering how you took those screen caps. I meant to ask that earlier. Cool. Cool Smile

Stray Dog Joined: 11 May 2001 Posts: 4 Location: Canada

The only problem I had was with the 'Bad Parts'. I find the ability to jump to the command line a blessing, not a curse. And if you want to change permissions, you don't have to jump to the command line. Just go to 'K/Applications/File Tools/File Manager (Super User Mode)' , change to the directory you want, right click on the file and select 'Properties' and then 'Permissions'. I'd have to say that jumping to the command line and issuing 'chmod 755 /directory/filename' is a touch easier Smile

Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 11:49 am Post subject:

I have to agree with you LineGod, the CL is a blessing not a curse, but only for us Linux geeks. Until a user knows what to do on the CL, it is a bit intimidating. How many computer users are there who use Windows who don't have clue about the DOS prompt? I'll wager quite a few. Of course the CL in Linux is completely different and infinitley more powerful than in Windows, a novice doesn't know that.

As for the file permission thing, I tried changing it from the GUI but it just didn't seem to work right. The particular directory was locked for some reason even though it resided within my user's home directory. I went to SuperUser mode in the file manager, but it still wouldn't let me. Very strange indeed, but a quick jump to the CL and viola it was fixed.

Rover

Toilet bowls...the chalice of dogs everywhere.

Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

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I find the ability to jump to the command line a blessing, not a curse

I hear that

not that i've use the CL in linux very often (remember BeOS)

but i don't think i've "tech sppt'd" a windows machine without leaving either a "command" or a "cmd" in thr run box in the last 5 years

Stray Dog Joined: 11 May 2001 Posts: 1 Location: Norway

Original Article - http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00020.asp

The article was pretty good, but what on earth did you do to those screenshots?! The colours were messed up badly. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 here myself, and was using 7.2 before that. This linux-distro is fabulous, and I heartily recommend it to newbies.