Hi kaynjay, you wrote on: 02 Feb 99 at 20:11 (received 03.02.99) about : _Re: Goodbye, people!_
>>will get there. What I do have is a system that doesn't crash every five >>seconds, it is fast and very configurable I guess what I'm trying to say >>is if I can work with this O/S anyone can. It just takes time. Use >>Windows but keep plucking away at Linux:) Give yourself something to >>compare Windows to. >I have to agree with you, Kent. My primary system is still OS/2 (note the >mailer) but I am slowly moving into Linux/Debian. I have far less time than >I'd like to spend with it, but I can see the benefits down the road. > >Now if I can only get X up to a state my wife would find palatable ... :) Same here, Windows NT user, *but* already using a UUCP provider for my emails and news (CrossPoint). At first, I messed up the system about each and every day. Formatted the HD about 12 to 15 times and re-installed Linux (had /etc/* saved) :-) Finally compiled my custom-Kernel with soundblaster support and it even worked! Boy, was I proud! Managed to install netscape finally, set up a PPP provider, can surf the WWW. All went surprisingly smooth (thanks to pppconfig). Then I became cocky, "just" wanted to switch to Linux with UUCP. Installed sendmail, procmail, pine and failed miserably. Gosh, I really hate sendmail-config, that's a real pain in the you-know-what. Then switched to exim (instead of sendmail), that worked better, I received email, got confident again, but configuring a mailer to UUCP is more work than I thought. Now I'm waiting for some good prince to come along and help me with that :-) (already posted the question "exim and uucp" here today). But I'm stuck with Linux now and I'm really working to make it my *only* OS, no matter what cryptic configs I may have to run. Kind regards Frederick
