Thanks for all your help

Have just bought and installes Mandrake 9.1

Boy is Linux complicated, XP is far easier, or so it seems, for exemple
installing programs is far harder the on XP

But I shall keep on trying

Again thanks to all
"charroy jacques" <jcharroy@club-internet.fr> a écrit dans le message de
news:3F3A0B79.9030109@club-internet.fr...
> Jim Bowering wrote:
>
> >Shazbot wrote:
> >
> >>Will try installing one of these systems very soon, the choice seems to
be
> >>either redhat or mandrake
> >>
> >>As a complete beginner to Linux (never even seen it) which would be the
> >>appropiate for me
> >>
> >
> >Flip a coin. Seriously, at this stage it's all going to seem strange to
you
> >and the differences between these two distributions would be almost
> >invisible in comparison.
> >
> As a linux newbie, I don't agree with that, I've tried both redhat 7.3
> and mandrake 8.0 and I consider the mandrake to be easier to use and to
> go around with. their software manager app is especially important to
> the beginner I still am. The thing I've learned after a lot of mistakes
> is you should always read carefully documentation before taking steps
> with linux, which isn't usually required with windows. Especially if you
> try to compile a new program, read carefully what addon programs are
> required and strictly do what is said. But as a matter of fact, you'll
> probably have to make your own mistakes...it's very interesting but
> takes a lot of time in the beginning, although installation and standard
> use of the already installed software is pretty straightforward with all
> of these new distributions. Also if you find a new program which you'd
> like to install, always look for the binary rpm file (rpmfind.net)
> before trying to compile sources.
> cheers and good luck,
> Jacques
>