On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:26:03 +0000, riccardo35@gmail.com took time to say the following: (^_^)On Mon 29 Jan 2007 13:17, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: (^_^)> (^_^)> Maybe in a few years when I'm 70 (^_^)___________ (^_^) (^_^) - Ha! - I AM 70 :) (^_^) (^_^)......................................... (^_^) (^_^) In 1994 I had a hard time trying to start with Slackware, and gave up. (^_^) (^_^)In 1999, I had another try with SuSE - it had me under mah Linux Truck (^_^)with spanner in hard & engine-oil dripping in the eyes [attempt at (^_^)humor] . . . after about 6 weeks got it going. (^_^) (^_^)That was my experience - the first few weeks are the toughest - after (^_^)that . . . very good system (^_^) (^_^)Linux is Industrial Strength - used by banks, research labs, (^_^)oil-refineries & insurance companies (^_^) (^_^) (^_^)cheers + best :) In my case, I forgot to choke the rear wheels and the truck rolled backwards on me! :-P It's fine and dandy for machines running Linux in those settings because the machine basically sits there and what have you, but for someone like me, I want it to do everything Windows can do. Right now I can't see myself going full time on Linux and giving up totally on XP. Don't think that will ever happen, but I would like to get it to a point where it will be more useful. Learning should be fun imo, but it (learning) can be so darn frustrating at times, especially when its something that should be so simple, and sometimes those simple problems are the biggest pita things! :-( Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will Rogers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org