Dumber people can run Linux

http://www.volesoft.com/?article=26935 ^ | Friday 14 October 2005 | Wendy M. Grossman

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Here's the other thing: it worked. It said, "Choose a user name and a password." It logged me in. And there was an entire computer, ready to go. It connected to the Internet. Firefox went places. Email downloaded. OpenOffice…officed. I mean, call that open source? Where's the anguish and pain? Where's the six weeks of downloading drivers and learning how to compile source code? A shocking lapse of standards, I call it. If Linux can be run by people as dumb as the people who can run Windows, it's the end of civilization as we know it. Don't these people understand that writers need things to complain about if we're to be able to make a living?

[melbell]

ping to Mr. Melbell

[FLAMING DEATH]

I haven't used Knoppix for a while, but if you have an existing Linux swap partition, it will use it automatically. You also have the option of creating a swap file on a DOS partition. IIRC, everytime thereafter, it automatically will use the swap. There might be some way to disable it, but I don't remember.

You can also use Knoppix to configure XFree86 if there are problems. Just load up Knoppix and copy /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 over the same file on your hard drive. When you reboot with your installed system, X should work perfectly.