Penguins In Suits

Before Christmas I purchased a very reasonably priced, fairly low spec, second hand PC, which brings my collective total of PC’s to two. Although the wife thinks we only just have room for one in the house, I have plans a foot for at least two more; after all there is always room for more PC’s. Now I need a switch – or even better I could set up a wireless network… see the possibilities are endless.

Purchased without an operating system, my new computer is undergoing a series of experiments with Linux. Here are my results so far:
During the holidays I downloaded “Suse Linux” (just 1 CD) and installed it. It looked great, but for some reason the sound card did not work and every time the monitor went to power save mode, the screen changed to a stripy black and white. I played for a few days to see what it had to offer, and was fairly happy in the end.
Yesterday I downloaded “Fedora Linux” (4 CD’s) and tried to install that without much success. I didn’t play around to much to find out why – It could have been a fairly simple tweak to get it going.
Today I downloaded “Mandrake Linux”. After installation I found that it had forgotten the password I typed in (foolish thing!) and as a result denied me access to the desktop. I’ll have to try again tomorrow with that one.Still to come – “Debian Linux” Bet you can’t wait.