--- Joe and Colleen Huber <huber@fastq.com> wrote:

> xnipped<<<

> All I
> have is a (win)modem.
> 
> I was talking to qwest on Tuesday (just the minimum
> - 256 upload/download).

IF you don't need anything except access to the
web..no webpage, no email address, no usenet, etc,
then they do have just a pop for 15/month for the dsl
plus ten for the access. That is all I have 256k/256k.
I connect and d/l 26.7KB which is about 240kb plus.
Very happy with it.


> Haven't talked to Cox. If anyone has any comments
> good, bad or otherwise on
> either I'd appreciate those as well. Qwest said they
> would handle all the
> set up on the PC (I didn't ask if that meant
> "windows set-up").

It is easy, just put the wall splitter in, hook up the
system and sorta fumble around with the 'setup'
instructions....seems one was 'backwards', but I did
it and plenty here will tell you, I am NOT a sys/admin
person nor know networking at all. On qwest dsl
256/256 right now.

Once the connection is setup from the modem to the
provider, it is 'there' whether in linux or windoze. I
had no choice, I set it up with linux and Knoppix 3.3
if I remember right.

> 
> The PC I have at the moment is almost 6. 

On a amd K6-2 350, 128, 40gb. Slow, but steady.

The short
> term (shortly after
> Christmas) is a (new) dual boot system Windows (for
> the wife) and some Linux
> distro. I've got a hosted website out there - static
> HTML with a sprinkling
> of JavaScript. Things are getting to the point where
> I would like to start
> getting into some server side stuff (get Apache and
> MySQL running) so that I
> have something to learn/test on for web development.
> Should I just pull the
> RedHat 7.1 off the shelf? I get the impression that
> RedHat has sort of moved
> away from the "personal computing" market.

This is 'simply Mepis', installed, slicker than ice to
install, the following is a copy/paste from the
cdrom's 'version' file.

SimplyMEPIS-2004.04
Published by: MEPIS LLC, www.mepis.com
Prepared by: MEPIS LLC, www.mepis.com

I had a partition to install to already setup, so
didn't have to partition the hd, just install.

I also recommend getting a copy of Knoppix 3.6 and
running from cdrom first. Great distro for seeing any
conflicts and it will automatically detect a dsl or
cable modem if windows does!!



> 
> Any thoughts appreciated.
> Joe

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