hello to all from a Linux curious Windows slave
Mike McVey
mdmcvey at att.net
Fri Feb 18 21:58:15 CST 2000
Dear KCLUG,
I have just joined your mailing list hoping to get in touch with
linux users in the KC area who enjoy educating newcomers to this OS.
As a grad. student preparing to teach high school English, I look on
my pc- technician background and aspirations to gain greater
technical mastery of the technology and uses of the internet as
maybe, hopefully, somehow lucrative in light of the low pay I
anticipate in my main career. In addition, I love the power of the
internet to subvert the corporate dominance of other realms of public
discourse, such as newspapers and television, and would like to feel
a part of this "information revolution" in a bigger way then by
lining the pockets of Amazon.com.
Anyways, now to my first Linux misadventure: I have just failed to
install linux on my 40 MB Pentium 75, and found the Red Hat 5.2
(apollo) distribution I tried to setup quite baffling--after
partitioning a 2.5 gig hard disk in a way that FDISK cannot undo
because it can't see or erase the logical drives Linux created, Red
Hat crashed amid a series of errors the likes of which this Microsoft
enslaved end-user has never seen before. At least I have faith that
errors mean something decipherable, unlike the General Invalid Page
Exeption Error Fault mumbo jumbo that I frequently encounter, but
never try to understand, in Windows.
Anyways, I would love to enlist the handholding of any of you users
who would be happy to help me get started. I would like to get Linux
on my IBM 350, 40 MB, 2.5 gig, Pentium 75, and then go on to bigger,
web serving eligible iron pretty soon. I am considering buying a
circa 1996, 128 MB, 250 (?) Mhz Alpha workstation with a SCSI bus
and 4 GB to continue my Linux (mis)endeavors, but I hate to buy the
thing until I feel confident that 1.) I can make it work, 2.) It is
as good of a Unix system for the money (a few hundred) as I suspect
it is.
My ultmate Linux/Unix aspirations are as follows: to be able to
implement a least one of the various content-rich, non profit or
tastefully profitable, web-based online communities (none of which
are computer related) that I have imagined creating in a manner that
is affordable and sustainable.
OK, now that I have told you about myself, I look forward to hearing
about you all. I am curious just what kind of computing Linux folk
here do.
Good Day!
Mike McVey
Kansas City
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