call me stupid...Hello first post

flickflum · 10-25-2003, 08:45 PM

Okay, i dont want to be the laughing stock of the board. Im getting ready to tinker with linux for the very first time. Here is the kicker im going to use vmware workstation, im i really taking away from the experience by doing this...Please dont hold back im open to constructiive critism

oh going with mandrake 9.1

misophist · 10-25-2003, 08:49 PM

Did you have a question?

flickflum · 10-25-2003, 08:51 PM

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im i really taking away from the experience by doing this?

there was a question just forgot the "?"

2damncommon · 10-25-2003, 08:55 PM

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im going to use vmware workstation, im i really taking away from the experience by doing this.

VMWare is a good enough tool, that you would experience a few VMWare related issues rather than not experiencing Linux.
You might also be interested in trying the Knoppix run Linux from CD.
Good Luck.

flickflum · 10-25-2003, 09:01 PM

http://www.knoppix.org/

in some trouble

speter · 10-25-2003, 09:08 PM

Flickflum, click on the "Knoppix" link in the middle of the paragraph.

As far as VMWare, I have run many Linux distros on virtual machines and quite like doing things this way (since I tend to like to try out almost every one out there).

Steve

Dapper Dan · 10-27-2003, 12:43 AM

Flickflum, you may also want to check out Morphix, another cd based distro that is also Debian based to see if Linux is to your liking. Once you download the iso and burn to cd, set your bios to boot first from cdrom, drop Morphix in the tray and hang on!

http://morphix.sourceforge.net