Posted by BrianL on October 19, 1998 at 11:53:08:
In Reply to: I'm just curious,does any one here use Linux? posted by Nahaku on October 18, 1998 at 18:58:47:
You can download redhat linux from www.redhat.com -- there IS a boot utility called LILO boot that allows you to run win95 and linux on the same machine (MUST BE DIFFERENT PARTITIONS OR DIFFERENT HARD DRIVES!!!).
I use system commander which allows me to have a whole bunch of different o/s's installed -- there are a few things to worry about though --
1. Win95 and MS-DOS MUST BE installed on the first PHYSICAL drive -- so, if you have 2 seperate hard drives in your computer (not partitions, actual drives), win95 and/or dos MUST be on the first physical drive (primary master). It doesn't matter what partition they are in though...
2. BACKUP! Linux is freeware and *could* have some bugs (we haven't encountered many though...)
3. I suggest installing on different drives, then installing sys commander -- we unplug our win9x drive so linux doesn't go partition happy and delete everything.
Its a cool O/S for learning unix, setting up quake/2 servers, web servers, file/print servers, etc. It has a cool incarnation of netscape that runs on it too... there are a few other applications that can run on it, but if you're looking for software support, don't look there.
Linux is a lot like ms-dos in that everything can be done by command prompt. They do have a GUI (graphical user interface), although I don't remember what its called - its similar to unix xwindows if not exactly the same.
Good luck!
Brian