I am exhausted from a day spent exploring Linux. For some time, I have been intrigued by the idea of using Linux as my primary operating system. However, I didn’t want to give up Windows 98 on my machine in case I decided to go back. A few days ago, I bought a sixty gig drive, and yesterday Jack installed it for me. I’ve installed Linux Redhat 9 on the new drive, as a dual boot system with Windows 98. Everything went fairly smoothly until we attempted to use DHCP when connecting the LAN. Nothing we tried worked, and Jack finally set up static ip addresses in the router so we could use them instead.
However, everything seems to be working now for my machine, for both Windows and Linux. First thing tomorrow, I will install Mozilla 1.4 since the distro we used provided Mozilla 1.2. Then, I will probably attempt to get Windows file sharing working using Samba.
My goal is to see if I can do everything I normally do on Windows in Linux, with the exception of updating the household accounts in Quicken.