Question

[al plant]

Brian Eric Farnell wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm new to Linux here and am looking forward to getting
> involved.  I have some experience with Solaris systems, but not
> much, the learning curve is killing me.  Anyway, a question...
> 
> I'm stuck with a Winmodem and even thtough there are some
> Linmodem drivers for mine I was going to buy a hardware modem.
> I only found one internal PCI hardware modem at Comp USA.  It
> says specifically that it workd with Linux, but adds 'kernal
> 2.3' or higher.  Is this a misprint?  As far as I have seen
> there are no distributions running 2.3.  I'm running Linux
> Mandrake 7.1 right now.
> 
> Also, I always heard how fast Linux was, for CLI it's great but
> on KDE it seems to be everybit as slow as Windows 98.  Is this
> correct?  I have a suspicion that my AMD 'shared memory
> architecture'.
> 
> Oh, one more thing, I have had to re-install Mandrake several
> times, I think the culprit is my Windows de-frag software, I
> think it defrags my Linux partitions into the WIndows section.
> Since Windows recognized the presence of an 'un-formated' D
> drive, I figured I was safe.  I'd like to just dump Windows
> completely, but unfortuneatly there is some software I use daily
> that Linux has no workable substitutes for (yet).  Perhaps I can
> learn enough to do a little 'homesteading'.
> 
> Regards,
> Brian
> 
> BTW, are novices welcome at your meetings?
> 
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Hi Brian,

I support Gary's recommendation of using Xfce as your window
manager. We use it here on Caldera Linux Boxes and on our 3
Free BSD Unix terminals and it is F A S T!
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