Linux - Opportunity to evaluate & become reseller

[PeteF]

To all Resellers,
I recently accepted a FREE offer to evaluate Linux with the opportunity
to become a reseller. I know nothing about Linux. I'm going to try Linux
for the first time and it would be great to have some other people all
at the same beginner level so we can compare notes.

If you have a computer business, contact this guy Michael Mathews.
He is Distributor for TaFusion MEPIS Frontier, LINUX Operating System
They are offering an opportunity to exaluate Linux and become a reseller.
You receive the CD’s in approx 1 week.

Mike's job is to support the Ta product line locally in South,
Central NJ, Phila. Metro, and Del.

Michael Mathews
Genietech Computer
856 220-2157 Cell
On-site and Remote Computer Service and Solutions
www.genietechcomputer.com
See his website for Email address.
I don't want to expose him to SPAM by posting it here.

---pete---

[Tortanick]

I'm a linux beginner myself and some of my notes are as followes:

>you have an infinite license with no product key, installation is <1 hour, muck around, learn lots, ruin your system, reinstall, repeat.

> Create a seprate partition for /home and you can keep files & settings after a complete reinstallaton.

> MEPIS was never ment to be a server and it never will be.

> Linux will never dump the command line, its more powerfull than a GUI on lower requirements, Unless your not doing much with your computer you'll need to learn it. The good news is most people arn't ever going to do much with their computer.

>The command line is faster and easyer than GUIs, including windows & OSX.

>You're almost virus proof, live the dream.

>There is more free software (as in free beer) on the internet for linux than the average PC Supermarket, paying for software is alien to the culture.

>There are more linux distributions than you can count, demon-tools and vmware player can be used to mimic a empty computer so you can try a new distro from installation onwards, I can provide the template and a blank hard drive file if you want.

[PeteF]

Ok folks, while I'm waiting for the Linux CDs to arrive, I figured it
would be good to get aquainted with Linux Mepis, the version I'll
be evaluating. If you are just curious about what it is and like
to see some screenshots, check the links below. ---pete---

Quick Summary of Features of Linux Mepis
http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/04/09/21/1427251.shtml?tid=116&tid=126


Dozens of Screenshots of of Linux Mepis
Best viewed at 1024 x 768 min screen res.
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=204&slide=1

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[PeteF]

Everyone,
One reason I'm experimenting with Linux is to see if it will run on
older PCs that we normally consider useless for running Windows.
Below is an excerpt from an article on this topic. ---pete---



Sep. 21, 2005
Do you hate to see a good computer go to waste? I know I do.

I have half-a-dozen Pentium II machines, which came with Windows 98SE. If I trusted Windows 98SE to be even half-secure, I'd still be using them. But I don't.

So what to do with old boxes? Well one good thing is to run MEPIS's lightweight Linux distribution, MEPISLite.

Full article at link below...
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6303059665.html

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[Tortanick]

Linux on Pentium II will work. There are pleanty of distros with shockingly low system requirements: Mepis Lite, Arch Linux, vector linux, Xubuntu, Gentoo (needs a big hard drive).

My advice is to shop around, read lots of reviews, Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/) is a good site to look.

My instincts for lightweight uesr-linux would be to get a non-SOHO vector linux and install Open Office, but there really is no substitution for testing.

[PeteF]

Linux on Pentium II will work. There are pleanty of distros with shockingly low system requirements: Mepis Lite, Arch Linux, vector linux, Xubuntu, Gentoo (needs a big hard drive).

My advice is to shop around, read lots of reviews, Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/) is a good site to look.


So far it's been easy, the guy who called me promoting Linux asked what
I wanted to do with it and he decided which versions he will send me.
I don't have do any downloading or weeding through all the different
versions. However, I did look over all the different Linux versions at the
link below and it's overwhelming, so I think I'll just go with what he sends
me as a starting point. http://distrocenter.linux.com/

I'm going to keep it simple by installing to a formatted hard drive.

For my personal use I just can't abandon MS Windows, but I'm
looking to make use of some older PCs and also see if I can put
together systems for people who are sick and tired of all the
malware issues and other negative aspects associated with
MS Windows.

PS: I appreciate all your inputs so far.
Thank you.

---pete---

[Tortanick]

So far it's been easy, the guy who called me promoting Linux asked what
I wanted to do with it and he decided which versions he will send me.

Thats a method I would avoid, while some choices are obvious: don't give slackware to granny, normally the diffrence boils down to personal taste.