I like playing with Linux. The more I play the more I learn. I am fortunate to
be home fulltime (pensioner). Linux takes me back to the good old days,
pre-Windows, when you could make your computer do whatever you want. There was
no OS and the computer was yours to treat as you wanted. My first computer was
an Apple II. By today's standards it wasn't much, but it was what a computer
should be. You could treat it like a car. You could look under the hood and soup
it up and make it do whatever you had a mind to do. Everybody's computer was
different and everybody was doing different things with them. I still have it,
but haven't turned it on in years.
My latest distro to enjoy is SimplyMEPIS 8 which runs on kernel 2.6.x.27. It
loads almost as fast as Ubuntu 8.10 and it is snappy. If anyone wants a good KDE
distro based on Debian that can do everything out of the box, they should try it
out. It is very stable, but still in beta (2nd).
I didn't mean to sound critical. It might have looked that way, but it wasn't my
intent. I should proofread more. I want people to develop good practice, so that
we have fewer problems and fresh installations are best for newbies. People on
dialup may be hesitant to download a new release and think that an upgrade will
save time and bandwidth, but that isn't necessarily so. If you have no disk then
you have nothing to fall back on.
Anyway, I think you got what I was saying in the end. I like your knowledgeable
posts. I don't have any expertise other than what has been gained by the school
of hard knocks. I learn by doing and sometimes by learning from mistakes.