Re: Anyone help a newbie?

From: Dan C (youmustbejoking_at_invalid.org)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:18:58 -0600

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:41:04 +0000, Paul wrote:

> Sorry guys - as an experienced Windows user (can I admit that in here?)
> I do realise how tedious answering these must be...

Not nearly as tedious a job as the poor Windows slobs have in their
newsgroups... :)

> After getting a bigger hard drive, I decided to dual boot Windows and
> Linux...

Great idea.

> Firstly, I have the choice of SuSE 8.1 Professional (7 CDs); Mandrake
> 9.2 (3 CDs); Redhat 9 (3 CDs) - any particularly suited to a newcomer?

Mandrake, without a doubt. Some reasons - SuSE 8.1 is outdated, and RH9
is no longer supported (RH has gone commercial/enterprise). Mandrake is
well known to be friendly to newcomers, and things will probably work fine
right "out of the box".

> Secondly, when I had a play with SuSE, I got it up and running fine,
> apart from not being able to get some hardware working - including my
> modem, unfortunately... It's the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB for ADSL (yes,
> the frog/stingray type thing) - I downloaded what claimed to be drivers
> from http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/, but couldn't find anywhere to do
> anything with them...

> Any help would be much appreciated.

Don't know much about ADSL, but if you install Mandrake and come back here
with specific questions about it, I'm sure you'll get the answers you need. 

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