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Dear All, I thought it only civil to say a proper "Hello",as opposed to skulking anonymously,leeching from your clever Linux minds! My name is Sadie.I tried Mandrake 10 a couple of months ago,and now I am a total Linux convert.I don't feel satisfied unless I've downloaded at least one ISO per day and am compelled to regularly partition my hdd's to make way for more distros. Of course,I harbour Gentoo aspirations-but at this juncture,I cannot see myself managing to compile a 100% error-free kernel.That's not to say I don't try,with tiresome persistance. As a total beginner,at the moment I rate each distro according to the ease of the installation routine,and configuration of eth0.Slackware 10,while easy enough to install,was devilishly difficult to set up an Internet connection upon.Any routines which run so smoothly,there's no excuse not to give them a shot,I recommend to all my diehard Redmond consumerist pals..All of whom are utterly sick of spyware,diallers,viruses,worms,having their browsers hijacked etc. Take Xandros OS 2 Business Edition-almost spooky,isn't it?And Linspire.....Those two quash everyones immediate fear of Linux.I'm 33,and I had always believed that Linux is strictly for Quantum Physicists.Here I am,mailing you from a Linux box.Never thought I'd see the day. My installation-aspirations have unfortunately been curtailed for the forseeable future.Not knowing any better,I purchased a new PC with a hard disk in which the number of cylinders is set to 20023.Essentially,this means that many distributions are unable to detect the hard disk.Would love any suggestions for distros that can.Currently,I'm running SuSE 9.1 and Mandrake 10.1 (Two out of the three flavours I have found which are able to handle this new drive and 64 Bit architecture),while five others are crammed into my old AMD Duron. There is a funny side,however-XP can't "see" the drive either.This means,anyone purchasing such a computer has two options:either go beserk and demand a refund..or move on up to Linux. Enough about me.Really glad to have found you all.Look forward to reading all your mails. Sadie -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.