RE: tlug: Hello, I'm a newbie and help!

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> 差出人 : Gavin Walker <gwalker@example.com>
> 
> 
> >Basic question: Am I in for a world of pain, or will the task be easy?
> >Any pre-install hints would be much appreciated.
> 
> Welcome to the TLUG list, Gavin.  As anyone who reads this list knows, I
> usually have an opinion about everything, so this is no exception :-)  Hint
> number one: Red Hat 4.2, while not unserviceable, is F-U-R-U-I "old" :-)
> The shortest route to Linux happiness, IMO, is to get Pacific HiTech's
> TurboLinux.  The setup is as user-friendly and easy to install as you could
> possibly ask for.  Also, version 2.0 will be coming out in (I think) 4 - 6
> weeks.  I just got the 2.0 beta 2 CD in the mail today.  The current release
> versions are 1.2 (English) and 1.4 (Japanese).  I recommend the J version,
> unless you have no interest in reading or writing anything at all in
> Japanese.  And I can tell you, the version 2.0 release that's coming up will
> not you out.  In some areas it's actually already *easier* to configure than
> some things on MacOS or Windows and it's only going to get better.  OK, I
> sound like a commercial :-)  But to continue the commercial, I'm a former
> Red Hat 5.0 user who would never switch back from TurboLinux.

We're not paying him, I promise! :)

> 
> <Note to Scott Stone: is there any way for him to get into 1.2/1.4 in one
> nice painless shot, or will he need to install 1.0 and the upgrade CD?>
> 

1.2, yes.  1.4, no.  You have to do 1.0 first, then upg to 1.4.  2.0 can
be installed from scratch, though.

> >After the installation I'll be wanting to write some code. I'm guessing
> >that the easy to use development environments like VB and VC++ aren't
> >going to be available for Linux. Am I back in my University days with a
> >text editor and command line, or are there less labour intensive
> >solutions? Also, any recommended books?
> 
> 
> Emacs/Mule will work OK as an editor.  There is a GUI frontend available for
> the gdb debugger, and probably some other stuff as well.  I'll get back to
> you on that (e-mail me if I forget).  Recommended books: Running Linux.

I need to put my .emacs file up for FTP, so people can use it for
syntactic hilighting and such...

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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