On Wed, 14 May 2008 12:06:52 +0900
Thomas Blasejewicz
I have been using Windows for the last 20 years and would like to try Linux. I don't have specifically "linux compatible" hardware and cannot afford to buy me such just for a try. Efforts I made in the past few months trying to install "Linguas OS", Ubuntu and finally OpenSUSE on old, currently not used computers remained mainly fruitless. (Somebody suggested that is probably hopeless, if I try to get Linux running all by myself and without a very knowledgable teacher around. This may be deducted from the messages I posted here regarding my problems with saving a file to a floppy.)
Anyway, I am planning to give it another try on an old notebook (Sharp Moebius) somebody is giving me.
There is a very active Linux group in Japan. We had a member of one of
the groups attend our meeting in March as he was working in the US for
a few months. Sometimes, putting Linux on very old hardware takes a bit
of tweaking.
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Jerry Feldman