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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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LinuxCare,
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>Spare a Minute to Provide "Some Info"</H3>
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<p><strong>From fujairah on Thu, 20 May 1999
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Spare a Minute to Provide "Some Info"
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<P><STRONG><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" ALT="(?)"
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To william smith
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I have read about your answers on different linux sites. We are
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interested in LINUX and wish to see how it works, If it is fine we
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will be interested to go for it.
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If you could kindly give us some info about LINUX it will be
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really useful to us.
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<P><STRONG>
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- P.GOWRI SHANKAR
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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Um. That's pretty open-ended. It took me over a
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minute to format this replay and trim up the portions
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of your message that I'm quoting for context.
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Linux is an independent and free implementation of the
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POSIX and UNIX programming APIs and conventions. Most
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UNIX software can be ported to Linux with ease.
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Because all of the core parts of a Linux/GNU system
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are open source) it should be possible to port <EM>any</EM>
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UNIX software to it.
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What else is there to say on the subject. You found
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back issues of the "Answer Guy" so you must have found
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numerous other links to Linux web sites. It is one of the
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most popular subjects on the Internet.
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You are obviously already "interested" in it (enough
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to look around on the web to find me and enough to
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write to me). So you best strategy is to get a
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copy of Linux to play with (it's free after all, though
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you're best option is to pay for a copy of one of the
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popular distributions, to save you the trouble, time and
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expense of downloading a whole suite for yourself).
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As for matching Linux features to your needs: Only you
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can do that. Certainly you can, and probably should,
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hire a consultant (or contract with a consulting firm)
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to perform a requirements analysis process.
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From what you've said here, all I can say is:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><BlockQuote>
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Well, I like it.
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As for how it works.
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Well you install it, usually by booting from your CD or a
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specially written floppy, then you follow a number of
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installation dialogs, answering mysterious questions with
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obscure parameters. A bit later after much disk activity,
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often accompanied by "informative" progress indicator
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dialogs, you reboot. Then you log in to either a text or
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graphic session and you issues commands by typing them at a
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command prompt, selecting them from text menus or using a
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mouse.
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In other words, Linux works just like any other
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microcomputer operating system. I can't be more specific
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(because your minute is up, but also because there are many
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different distributions of Linux and most of them have
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many different options --- so you can choose almost any
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aspect of your user interface, for yourself).
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 42 June 1999</H5>
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