Re: XGS/32 v1.4b Released!

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 11:49:38 -0600, Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>
wrote:

>Well, I am self taught in all my computers, Yes, the Apple required
>less knowledge to use but more knowledge to make the most of it. This
>is really the major point.

I'm self taught as well.  When I was in grade 9 the only computer
courses were for grade 11 students and up.  Also, if you weren't in a
computer course you weren't allowed in the computer room.  However, my
math teacher saw the potential I had with computers just from the fact
that I had been maintaining around a 95% average in math courses
throughout my schooling so he started taking me into the computer
room.  People got used to seeing me there and didn't bother to stop me
anymore so I borrowed a "Waterloo Structured BASIC" text from the
grade 11 computer science teacher and the rest is history.  :-)

>Too bad, it's not nearly as hard as you think. With a packaged
>distribution you have lot's of neat tools and apps. But too each
>his own. I take it you have no experience with UNIX?

The only Unix experience I have is when I had Linux set up as a second
operating system on my PC because my ISP disabled SLIP access and
Marinetti v2.0 hadn't been released yet.  I used Linux to give my IIgs
a shell account so I could continue to use my IIgs offline reader for
Delphi and other stuff.

However, just trying to get that set up I still needed help from a
Unix guru (Hi Devin :) and thankfully the distribution I was using
already had PPP support compiled into the kernel so I didn't need to
do any recompiling.

Just browsing around the directory structure I was totally
overwhelmed.  There is stuff everywhere and there are literally
hundreds of programs that I have no idea what they do partly because
their names are so cryptic.  I suppose if I were to read the "Using
Linux" book I have I might learn a bit more but that still means
investing a LOT of time to read that 800+ page book not to mention the
time required to experiment to get a feel for how things work.  I'm
pretty sure that book also says that it doesn't cover everything so
even if I do that I'll still be in the dark about some things.

I should also mention that I haven't even touched on XWindows as that
can get even more interesting.  :-)

>IMHO, it allows me to run the best GS emulator on a PC, and I
>don't have to deal with Windows all the time.

Well, you could always use Sweet 16 under BeOS.  It is extremely
stable (based on a lot of the Bernie source) and has lots of features
with more coming all the time and you wouldn't have to deal with the
immensity of Linux or the idiocy of Windows.  :-)

Unfortunately, I make my living as a programmer and all my work is
done in Windows so that is where I spend most of my time while on my
PC.

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