Re: I want to migrate to Linux

Aragorn <aragorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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pcbldrNinetyEight <pcbldrninetyeight.com> wrote:

Aragorn <aragorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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pcbldrNinetyEight <pcbldrninetyeight.com> wrote:

I want to migrate from WIN98SE to Linux and am looking for advise.

<big snip of things about which I am unqualified to make any
intelligent comment about>

;-)

Those things were mainly intended to make you better understand some
low-level stuff regarding partitioning and UNIX or GNU/Linux
interiors. ;-)

<a little snoop here, a little snoop there, and more below too numerous
to mention>

I appreciate the info. You have an excellent memory and impressive
writing skills. I have slept many times since the era of the PC began
and thus forgotten most of it's history but much of what you say is
still familiar to me.

I am aware of the need to avoid rebooting servers. In 1999 I worked for
three months as a trainee doing onsite network and PC repair. Some
clients had Unix servers and some had NT. I was just starting to come to
grips with all three when the company was bought ought and I got laid
off. What a tragedy. I dearly loved that job. I never found another like
it. Only offers I got were for PC repair working retail store hours (I
won't work nights or weekends) and helpdesk (my people skills are poor,
I would soon be clinically depress or fired).

My history with PCs began in 1994 with the purchase of an AcerAcros 486
DX2-66 running WIN3.1 and DOS 6.22 and a whopping 16MB ram. IIRC in 1995
I added 16MB of ram for $400. At the time it didn't seem too outrageous
considering that earlier PCs sold for many thousands and that was just
for the CPU, nothing else included. It still works but lies in the
basement now, sad and forgotten. I purchased it to play DOS games and
learn more about computing. At first I had no use for WIN, I preferred
DOS. I especially liked the control it offered. No worries about program
conflicts and uninstalling involved nothing more than deleting a
directory. Eventually I found Remove-It and uninstalls for WIN became
easy too. I did have to learn the intricacies of DOS memory management
though. Then I discovered QEMM 8. What a luxury it was not having to
edit system files manually to juggle TSRs and devices.

I have only ever owned three operating systems prior to Linux, no
upgrades, only full installs. I've been stuck at WIN98SE since 1999 (my
first build). I would have bought XP were it not for *Product
Activation*. I do not register software (I paid for it that's enough).
No one tells me what I can or can't do with my hardware or software
under my own roof, not now, not ever. I will never again buy a Microsoft
OS. If that means that I will one day no longer be able to build PCs
then so be it, I will live without them. But now it appears there is the
possibility (with the help of this NG) I can keep enjoying my hobby
minus the tyrany of a Microsoft OS. Free at last! Free at last!

Have you ever seen those commercials where one guy pretends to be a MAC
and the other a PC? I'd like to see them add a third guy, a Linux guy.
That would be fun. He could say: "I'm free". "I'm open source". "I have
a bright future and you two don't".

Windows is ubiquitous *only* because of the monopolistic deals
Microsoft makes with consumergrade computer manufacturers

Opportunities to buy Linux boxes in retail stores are few and far
between. IIRC Wal-Mart had them but no more. What's Joe Public supposed
to do, plunk down money for what to him is an unknown entity? Especially
since he doesn't even know anybody who owns one.

Processor manufacturers AMD and Intel are also actively cooperating on
the development of the Linux kernel, albeit that their motives are
quite different - AMD is typically more FOSS- and standards-minded
than Intel, which has already shown a lot of monopolistic behavior and
the same kind of foul play as Microsoft, with whom they are also
participate in a common endeavor called the Trusted Computing
Platform.

Up AMD! Down Intel! Too bad Joe Public has no clue what TCP is or how
it's real purpose is to shut out FOSS.

It has taken a long time and it's still moving at slow pace, but the
IT industry is starting to realize that GNU/Linux and FOSS (Free &
Open Source Software) are valuable, are here to stay and are simply
the perfect roadmap to the future. ;-)

Long live FOSS! Long live Linux!
--
pcbldrNinetyEight
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