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I am an American teaching English in Beijing. I do not make much money so I cannot keep up with the endless parade of upgrades of software that keep coming out. In fact, I don't even want to try....I took my first computer programming in 1979, Fortran 77. I have had classes in COBOL and BASIC. I was a computer apps teacher for about 10 years in the states. I guess I should admit this, though I never have publicly and come out of the closet....I LOVE DOS!!! For many reasons I am looking to make the switch to LINUX. I have a couple of computers. One is a '486 (donated from a friend) that I want to use as a voicemail machine, leave it running all the time to answer my telephone. The second is an AMD K63-400. I want to stash it with 4 CD-R's, load it with about 756-1,000 MB or RAM, give it a RAM disk and use it to do nothing more than make CD's of lesson materials and tutorials that I am preparing in preparation for my masters degree. The third computer I have (also donated) is a dual pentium 2, model r440lx, that I will use to talk to the other computers and also surf the net. From prior experience with o/s's, I am guessing the general process is to format the HD, install the kernal, then install the necessary drivers and then the applications. Is there a more flushed out outline somewhere that I can follow? What version of Linux would you recommend? Is Linux networkable by itself or do you have to install another "utility"?
Thanks
Tom Connolly
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<P>I am an American teaching English in Beijing. I do not make much money so I cannot keep up with the endless parade of upgrades of software that keep coming out. In fact, I don't even want to try....I took my first computer programming in 1979, Fortran 77. I have had classes in COBOL and BASIC. I was a computer apps teacher for about 10 years in the states. I guess I should admit this, though I never have publicly and come out of the closet....I LOVE DOS!!! For many reasons I am looking to make the switch to LINUX. I have a couple of computers. One is a '486 (donated from a friend) that I want to use as a voicemail machine, leave it running all the time to answer my telephone. The second is an AMD K63-400. I want to stash it with 4 CD-R's, load it with about 756-1,000 MB or RAM, give it a RAM disk and use it to do nothing more than make CD's of lesson materials and tutorials that I am preparing in preparation for my masters degree. The third computer I have (also donated) is a dual pentium 2, model r440lx, that I will use to talk to the other computers and also surf the net. From prior experience with o/s's, I am guessing the general process is to format the HD, install the kernal, then install the necessary drivers and then the applications. Is there a more flushed out outline somewhere that I can follow? What version of Linux would you recommend? Is Linux networkable by itself or do you have to install another "utility"?</P>
<P>Thanks</P>
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