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yay linux

18:36 Wednesday 2 June 1999

Yay!

After pretty much working on it all day, I got my linux box up and running ppp, I downloaded netscape, installed it, created user accounts for myself and Wende, and all is great!!

I've even customized things a bit more this time around (as opposed to last time I had linux on my machine) making it easier to set up new accounts and stuff. I'm happy.

I had two major problems with getting ppp to work. First, the modem I had purchased was a PNP for Windows and it hadn't a Prayer on linux. I returned the modem and reconfigured the jumpers to make it /dev/cua2 (COM3 in DOS/Win terminology) and it worked. ppp still didn't work though.. After a lot of poking around, I finally went through the book step by step. Turns out I had forgotten to make one of the scripts an executable script. That fixed it and ppp now works on linux!

I was therefore able to finger and talk my brother's account, but he didn't answer.

I downloaded netscape 4.08 (4.51 was available, but I wasn't impressed with 4.51 on Win; so I chose not to try it on linux) and that's what I'm using now for this entry!

My intention is to ween myself off of Windows and Microsoft stuff entirely. I'll keep the old box for a while, but for internet stuff I'm pretty much on linux now for good. I still have my Quicken stuff on my other machine.. is Quicken available for linux?

So that's it. I'm quite pleased with myself for getting it all to work; pleased with linux for being a free operating system (and one that is stable) and just plain pleased. permalink