RE: Linux Recommendations

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <roaming@xxxxxxx>]

> > Similarly, unzipping a file (usually a tar.gzip in *nix)
involved
> > gzip -d <filename.tar.gz
> > and then 
> > cpio -H tar -i < filename.tar
> 
> Or alternativly tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

Wow, that's so intuitive too :-)

(I just cribbed those instructions from my TiVo how to, which in turn
came
>from
> > Bruno - you have just said this is fairly standard and then gone
on
> > immediately to list 3 different ways of doing it and stated 
> 'or variations
> > on this theme'!  That is a contradiction in terms if I ever
> saw one :-)
> 
> The "./configure; make; make install " Are the 3 commands
required, in
> this case entered on a single line, not 3 ways of doing the 
> same thing.

Oh right, how obvious is that? :]
besides "or variations on this theme" is still a contradiction of
"standard"
:->>

> You may want to look at 
> 
> http://www.webmin.com/
> 
> This allows the configuration of most things under Linux,
including
> Apache, and SAMBA.

Thanks, it reinfoces my point though that you have to know these things
exist somewhere in order to get them to make your life easier.
As a novice linux user, you ain't gonna know such things exist or where
to
find them.
I was trying to get Apache working on windoze anyway - is there a
similar
product for windows apache?

> Give openoffice a try, it's considerably better than StarOffice
was.
>  
> http://www.openoffice.org

Thanks, but I already have MS Office and see no reason to switch from
it.....

> Finally you may wish to consider using Ximian Gnome as your
desktop
> environment, http://www.ximian.com/ we currently use
this for our
> desktop on ~30 machines, with no problems, includes several nice

> Any problems, or general question feel free to mail me off-list

Thanks.

This seems to be turning into a win vs linux duscussion I don't want
that.
There are arguments for and against both os'es - well on the server
anyway,
not convinced about linux on workstations.
I will be installing some flavour of linux for a specific purpose and
would
gladly welcome help when (not if) I get stuck, but it's not gonna make
me
switch OS religion wholesale :-)

BTW, what happens _if_ it works and I then want to run ermmm... a
security
related product (I don't want to mention any key words that will trigger
the
sort of 'discussion' we had the other week about using an old PC for a
single purpose only)... the one recommended by most ppl is a single
floppy
linux running this app, but if I've got a linux pc just doing caller ID
then
I may want to run the security stuff on there too - can it be easily
disentangled from the boot floppy and/or are there other similar
products
that are EASY to configure running on say Mandrake?

cheers,

Tony


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