>>>>Jerry,
>>>>
>>>>I was considering taking a look at Linux, at home. Perhaps you can give me a few hints, how I should start? I understand there are several distributions. Probably I should download (or get on CD) one that is easy to install. Any ideas?
>>>:-P
>>>
>>>If you have a broadband connection you can download the three Mandrake 8.2 ISO's (total of 1.8GB) from Mandrake and burn them onto a CD. That's how I got my copy. (You can get by burning only the first CD, but you won't have access to about 1,500 of the latest apps. Once you get Mandrake installed you can selectively download and install individual apps using Mandrake's Contol Center. I've been using SuSE for 5 years, but last week I downloaded the thre ISOs and installed them here on my box at work. Wow! SuSE's got some catching up to do.)
>>
>>Well, 32 KBps (at work) is not exactly broadband, but I can leave my computer connected all night, for several nights, and use a download manager (Beware Spyware! I use DL-Expert). That would be no problem for me.
>>
>>Thanks for the information.
>>
>>The ISOs are something like CD images, if I understand correctly?
>>
>>Regards, Hilmar.
>
>That is correct. They require an 'iso' box be checked on most burn software.
>In Linux, besides using XCDRoast, KonCD or several other burn apps, one can do at the command line:
>cdrecord -v -speed=8 -dev=1,0,0
>and it's done.
>Once you burn the image it can load like an ordinary CD. Even autorun.bat will fire normally.
>JLK

Thanks. I will try it - although the first download site I tried apparently didn't allow "resume download". Damn - "resume download" isn't exactly a new option - it must be about as old as FTP itself, so why do so many sites not support it? Especially when they offer 650 MB files! (I briefly tested the download with Opera, which can - AFAIK - resume a download if the server offers this option).

I will try some of the other mirrors.

Hilmar.

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