[Eug-lug] Linux convert

[Allen Brown]

> Allen Brown wrote:
>
>> Time to celebrate and brag...
>>
>> On Sunday-Monday I visited friends in Salem who are moving to Michigan.
>> They have an old computer (133MHz) running W2K.  She was afraid
>> windows had gotten infected by a "security" download she had
>> clicked on.  And asked about Linux.
>>
>> I installed it.  But it was having trouble.  It took many hours to
>> read the partition table.  Long enough that I was unable to stay for
>> the full install.  I decided to stay the course.
>>
>> So she did the last step while talking with me over the phone.
>> And the install spanned three days, much of which involved waiting
>> for this slow computer to contemplate its navel.
>>
>> Please understand that both of them are completely unsophisticated
>> computer users.  But it came right up after the install.  She just
>> edited her first file (from the NTFS partition).  She's tickled that
>> it is working.
>>
>> They both wonder why this wonderful system, costing nothing, is
>> almost unknown while the infection ridden windows system dominates
>> the market.
>>
>> Of course, the future is always hard to predict.  Problems could
>> come up.  But at this point we have new converts.  And they know
>> a lot of people.  Bwah-ha-ha!  Ubuntu rocks!
>
> Allen Brown
> Long and painful though that may be, I presume that the 133MHz machine
> also didn't have a lot of memory, so I am not too surprised at the time
> to install - glad to hear it all went well in the end
> Regards
> Fred James

No doubt, altho I never checked.  I did suggest it might be
a good time to upgrade.

She has this computer specifically because it has a zip drive.
So if she gets a replacement, it would be desirable for it to
support that.  That would be IDE.  With all the new interfaces
coming out I don't know if IDE is disappearing.  Is it?

Hmm, I suppose I should check if Ubuntu talks to the zip drive
before she leaves.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
  If all economists were laid end to end, they
  would not reach a conclusion. ---George Bernard Shaw