Re: general Linux installation query

["Bob Jutzi" <bjutzi@alltel.net>]

Along that line, how difficult is Linux to install?  Also, will software
that is designed for Unix work on Linux?


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> From: Lar Kaufman <lark@world.std.com>
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: general Linux installation query
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 1997 5:41 AM
> 
> 
> I'm refreshing _Running Linux_ for the third edition, and I'm trying to
> make it more sensitive to accessibility issues.  I use many of the same
> utilities by choice that many use of necessity, so I can deal with that,
> but I'm curious about the basic installation of Linux without using any
> of the "friendly" graphic interfaces that usual distributions assume you
> will use.
> 
> Is there a consensus as to preferred commercial distributions to start
> with?  Is there a well-defined procedure for installing any of the 
> commercial distributions from a supported character-based terminal, or
> is vision an assumed prerequisite?  Did anyone have to install Linux 
> from DOS, for example, in order to use some supported software for a
> special peripheral?
> 
> _Running Linux_ has always assumed a "raw" installation from the 
> command line, but Matt and I know that most of the general public 
> actually use commercial distributions from CD.  Do these present another
> hurdle to deal with?  I'm looking for frustrating glitches that would be
> missed by the average sighted person.
> 
> Rather than fill up bandwidth, I'll be happy to take any email responses
> and summarize them for blinux in a few days.
> 
>  -lar
> "As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence 
> to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content 
> of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas 
> than to encourage it...." -- _Reno v ACLU_ 1997, U.S. Supreme Court
> 
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