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- From: eekim@husc10.harvard.edu (Eugene Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Working Linux!/Suggestions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.203324.18642@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:33:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec17.203324.18642
- Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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- Hi. After following this newsgroup for about two months, I finally downloaded
- Linux and successfully installed it a couple of weeks ago. It is great! The
- installation was successful with very few glitches (I used the SLS 0.98 pl5)
- and everything, including the alpha S3 server, works very nicely. It is also
- extremely fast, the most impressive thing of all.
-
- Anyway, I just had a couple of thoughts. My main trouble with the installation
- was hard disk partitioning. After I figured out how much space and how many
- blocks my partitions should be, partitioning was fairly easy.
-
- The most difficult aspect was understanding the organization of the file
- structure. I had trouble with this mainly because I have only limited
- experience with Unix, and zero as a system administrator. I think what would
- be useful in future distributions (maybe this is being done with the
- documentation?) is explain the directory structure, and talk about where files
- generally go and how much customization you should do.
-
- Just as a side note, I wrote an article for the Harvard Computer Review about
- Linux. It will be coming out in the February issue. Unfortunately, the HCR
- is not really an established publication at Harvard yet, but I hope the few
- people who do read it will spread the word about Linux and try it out.
-
- Once again, I love Linux and am looking forward to porting as many programs
- as possibly, perhaps even writing a few of my own :)
-
- Thanks Linus et al.
-
- --
- Eugene Kim '96 | "If we do not succeed, then we run the
- INTERNET: eekim@husc.harvard.edu | risk of failure." --Dan Quayle
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