[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO

[Joel Ewy]

Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that Stephen Castello may have mentioned these words:
>> Now if Linux would figure out how to provide & install drivers as easy
>> as Windows & Mac.  The last time I tried Linux on a Shuttle SN85G4V3
>> with an old Nvidia 5500 agp.  The instructions: go to the web site and
>> get it.  Instructions on web site: just compile it & install. Then it
>> needed other bits that didn't exist. Around that time the GUI
>> disappeared to the command prompt. The error message basically said to
>> do a reinstall.  That ended that Linux attempt.  I forget which distro
>> it was.
>
> If that's all it takes to stop trying linux, I'd have quit using
> Winders *long ago.*
>
> Windows update once downloaded a video driver update (on Win2K -
> arguably the most stable Winders around) that integrated so deeply
> into the OS that it warranted a reinstall!
>
> Despite that, this isn't a "Linux is great, Winders just sucks" post
> (Well... ok, unless it's a mail server, then that would be true ;-) --
> I've had issues with Winders (print drivers are usually the worst),
> with Linux (wirless drivers), MS-DOS (networking drivers), setting up
> filesharing in BeOS is iffy work! Heck, I've had issues with OS-9,
> building boot disks can rather be a pain... but man-o-man, the pain is
> worth it! When you get a boot disk that automatically sets up 4 80-col
> term sessions, starts Dynacalc in one, TS-Edit in a second, Rogue in a
> third and a fourth for a shell, and was still fully booted quicker
> than Win2K... It's worth it. ;-)
>
Woohoo!  :)
> No OS is perfect.
>
Well said.

JCE
> Laterz,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
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>
> What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
> and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
>
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