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David Flood
SubjectRe: A Civil Request (was Re: The British Secret Service...[was Re: Republicanism still an offence in
FromDavid Flood
Date2002-04-22 22:49 (2002-04-22 21:49)
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"David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote in message news:aa1tnf$77vgj$2@ID-121201.news.dfncis.de...

David Flood
"paulh" <paulh@fahncahn.com>wrote in message

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If you want to continue this discussion - and there's more to the story

that

I won't discuss on Usenet - then email me at NOSPAMmaoltuile@SPAMNOTutvinternet.ie (take out the obvious).

D.

The Softrat - if he wants to be some bit mature - can suitably apologise in kind by giving someone who's starting into Linux (myself) a few pointers.

i) what are the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different distros (Mandrake, SuSe, Red Hat etc?)

ii) what should I be careful of when setting up a multi-boot system, and what're the best partition and boot tools for an inexperienced Linux user?

Right, I'm off now to leave through an O'Reilly textbook (if no-one hears from me for a while, it'll be because I'll have fried my hard drive with fdisk - don't worry, I've already backed everything up).

D.