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Goddamn Linux

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Postman

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Uh-oh... I've been at home the whole day becase I managed to get flu somewhere. So I thought what the heck let's install that ISDN-card in the linux-box since there is nothing better to do.

Unfortunately the drivers and stuff for the card came configured for RH, and my my box had Debian. I messed around a bit, converted the tools to .deb packages and installed it away. No the machine gets kernel panic at boot. Doh.

Since I'm a bit of newbie with the linux, I'd like to get some recommendations about what distribution to use, since I'm going to format the thing anyway.

Machine is P166/64/1.6 with integrated etherexpress 100, the ISDN card is apparently manfufactured by asus and has Winbond 6692CF chip in it.

The machine's uses would be:
1) Act as dial-up machine and dial to my ISP every day at certain time.

2) Since I have only 1 IP from the ISP, it should do some masquerare-voodoo to enable rest of my machines connecting to net.

3) Run RC5(ofcourse!) and pproxy for my home-herd.

Any advice is appreciated. I was planning to do this next weekend so any volunteers to irc with me while I do it? 🙂
 
I myself love debian (I am learning it) but I'm not really a *NIX newbie. 🙂 I would keep with redhat. The reason, if your card is supported there, get it working first in redhat. I have found that some manufactures make drivers that really don't work well in Debian when they say they are supported in RH.

LD

Any other questions, I would post to www.debian.org or go to the documentation project on redhat's site. (www.redhat.com)

 
Oh and ofource I need to run apache on it to display stats properly I guess.

I guess it will be RH then to it, some people have recommended installing Mandrake, but I've got no idea where to get it(D/Ling is not an option).

So any takers for assisting me to configure the beast up? 🙂
 
I just got mandrake and Love it, and its a suped up version of redhat so it will work with most devices that have drivers for redhat!
 
If you want a gentile transition, Mandrake 7 and 7.1 are great. If you want to get down and dirty asap, Debian can't be beat...well there's Slack, but that's expecting a helluva lot from a new user.
 
Slack is if you want to get down and dirty and learn Linux from the inside out. I tend to do better from the outside in, thus I reccomend Mandrake. =)
 
I ighly recommend investing in bottles of Advil before attempting to install linux, either that or alcohol. Both have the same effect: dulling the pain incurred on loading linux.
 
pogo linux is such a neat idea, unfortunately they ship onlu with US.

I suppose I will try to get mandrake cd somewhere since all of you recommend it.

Could someone exactly specify why mandrake is better than RH btw?
 
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