I got this message on my DOD webmasters mailing list here at work.
Linux is making its inroads!
If you looking at becoming at becoming a Linux consultant, it looks as if
you are in for a lucrative future.
brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Bates [mailto:seb@WEBTREK.COM]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 1:26 PM
To: WEBMASTERS@ODCSPER-NT1.HQUSAREUR.ARMY.MIL
Subject: Review: Corel Linux 1.0 install
Tired of slinging code today, so I took a break and tried my hand at
installing Corel Linux. I grabbed a Corel distribution CD from Joe
Klemmer's cube, (I also could have picked from Red Hat, Turbo, or
Caldera) and looked for an unused box to do the install. We had some new
machines lying around that nobody had claimed (yet).
1. Hardware
Dell PIII 700 Mhz w/ 256MB RAM
32MB Diamond Viper 770D TNT2 Video Card
18GB Adaptec SCSI HD
3Com Fast XL 10/100 Ethernet card
64 Voice A3D PCI Audio Card.
2. Software
Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Preloaded on a 2GB partition
Corel Linux 1.0 CD
Boot Disk
3. Actual install
Inserted Boot disk and restarted, Corel brought up the Corel Linux GUI
installer where I had to click on the licensing agreement (yes), and then
brought me to a partition manager, where I could select how large I wanted
my Linux partition to be. I choose 15GB, and then Corel prompted me for a
username (me). Corel correctly identified and configured all hardware,
there are two options, default install (for workstations) or custom
install (for servers or expert users). I choose the default install,
which automatically loads and configures Windows Networking (Samba,
http://www.samba.org)) . Once complete, it auto-restarted and presented me
with a GUI version of LILO (Linux Loader), which allowed me to choose:
Corel Linux
Corel VGA
Corel Consol
Corel Debug
Corel Expert
MS Windows
Choosing to boot into Corel Linux, I was presented with a login dialog GUI
similar to the Windows NT three finger salute. The user could choose
between root or my configured username (me). Once I choose, I was
presented with a change password dialog where, typical with most *nix
systems, one is prompted for their old password, and then entering the new
password twice to confirm, and complete.
Total time, 3.5 minutes.
4. Summary
The default (workstation) install loads a KDE desktop manager, very
similar to Windows 95, but with some small additions similar to the CDE
desktop.
What I like about Corel Linux 1.0 is the very quick (4 mouse clicks and
two decision points, size of partition and choice of username) and easy
install. 3 and a half minutes later, you're presented with a stable
operating system, connection to our Windows domain, and very little user
interaction.
Actually, what slays me is this was an easier (less choices), and faster
(3 times) install than Mac OS 9.
vrsb
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