Linux is fucking easy to install and maintain as long as you are not put off by the nice text mode installers (if you chose... Debian... I think the rest all have point and click ones). Also, you get to do cool stuff like traffic management, so you can download fuck loads of stuff while playing Quake and not care. Also with Debian all you have to do to update your system (security and whotnot) is apt-get update; apt-get install. Thats it, not questions you can't answer.
You can get hold of a 60Mb net install CD, it will download what it needs of the rest of the install. You should be up and running quite quickly!
The only tricky part is if you have a USB modem... though most of them are supported these days. Also you have true geek pride if you do the Linux / Free BSD thing ^_^
There wasn't anything you wanted on those hard disks was there? Oh and one thing Windows 2000 / XP does well is disk partitioning. Split it in three in Windows before you wipe it, though you can read up on disk partitioning *grin*
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Date: 2003-02-27 12:33 am (UTC)You can get hold of a 60Mb net install CD, it will download what it needs of the rest of the install. You should be up and running quite quickly!
The only tricky part is if you have a USB modem... though most of them are supported these days. Also you have true geek pride if you do the Linux / Free BSD thing ^_^
There wasn't anything you wanted on those hard disks was there? Oh and one thing Windows 2000 / XP does well is disk partitioning. Split it in three in Windows before you wipe it, though you can read up on disk partitioning *grin*
Go on! It will feel like a real computer again!