Subj : Re: Win4lin
To   : Mindless Automaton
From : Finnigann
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 06:48 pm

-=> Mindless Automaton wrote to Finnigann <=-

 MA> Finnigann wrote:

 > I don't think programming skills are needed to run Linux. Modifications are
 > almost always to text files.
 >

 MA> Err.. I dunno, its not like you can always download binaries.  You
 MA> usually have to know how to compile the stuff, which is programming
 MA> skills.  Of course you can just sit in your KDE/Gnome GUI and download
 MA> packages, but maybe you want to run say, Synchronet BBS.. :)

Well I'm not the very last person to answer this... but close.

In my dealings with RedHat5.zomething... It had tons of config files that could
be editied manually or sometimes a config tool was availible. Either way the
file to be edited was documented. Sometimes documented well and sometimes not
so well.

I assume it then compiled what ever it needed to and presented me with a Linux
installation. I had varring degres of success with Linux. I didn't have a
second machine at that time to struggle over and a back up machine to seek
answers with.

However it did do something and not a wit of programming skills have I.
(Nothing like my command of English)

Programming skills may be of some help, but reading skills are much more
helpfull.




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