The Unices of Ray Briddock.
The Unices of Ray Briddock.Some people in the usenet newsgroups started to talk about Linux as a viable alternative, even about building an API layer on top to allow the Acorn GUI and applications to piggy back on it.
I resolved to have a look for myself, and set myself the following goals.
Terms of Reference for the project
I kept a diary diary of the 5 weeks I played with it. I never achieved a stable
desktop environment which was actually useful.
I did get to the point where I could browse the web and use Email.
I installed Wordperfect and found it to have all the things I didn't
like about MS WORD, without actually having a useful degree of MS WORD compatability.
I deleted that and released 80 Megabytes of diskspace. (Yes !!! 80 Meg).
I then tried to install Star Office with zero success, eventually blowing
my Linux installation away.
Here is the diary page. There are 2 entries. One for the first attempt last year.
A second entry will contain my new attempts on an IBM P90 I have. The K6 350
which I was using before now has a banshee graphics card and is finding some use as a
games platform for Half Life and Unreal.
I created a bullet point repeatable guide for installation as far as I got. It served me well on the occasions when I reinstalled, sometimes odd things happened though. It seems that like MS Windows, no two installations are ever exactly the same.
There were times when I was simply confused as to what was meant. Eventually, I created a glossary of terms and a list of Linux commands and keystrokes , to help me remember what I had already learned.
As Mentioned in the Terms of Reference, I hope to be able to carry out some comparisons and report on first impressions.
