root@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca (Steeve McCauley) writes:

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>: Couldn't please the people who put together these packages
>: redo this and this time include all needed files? It's
>: really VERY hard for a newcomer to get a system up and
>: running.

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>       That's half the fun! ... Isn't it? 

Well, yes, I didn't expect a perfect system and indeed wanted
to learn more about unix instead of just using it.

However if we want linux to have a future (with sun solaris
coming to 386 computers in march), then linux should already
have quite a good distribution by this time. Currently for
newcomers it's really difficult to set everything up.

At least there should no vital files be missing in the
standard distributions and dangerous files (fstab, lilo/map, 
mtab) not be there twice on different disks. 

If I have some time when I have linux running with tcpip,
I will possibly write a short introduction how to install it
with the currently available packages. What to do and what 
not to do. I don't know yet if I will find time for it but
I will try very hard.
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