[mythtv-users] VERY OT: Going to Linux.

[MacNean Tyrrell]

On 5/31/07, Mike LaPlante <mike at dividia.net> wrote:
>
> http://www.luny.org/
>
> I don't know anything about the NY area, I'm down in Texas. NYLUG looks
> like a well organized site. They have a mailing list and IRC channel. Should
> be a great place to start for those off topic questions you have. Sounds
> like you have a busy life with wife + kids, and it may be you'll never get
> to go to an actual meeting with your LUG, but you can still join and make
> use of its mailing list and chat.
>

Yea, i'll take a look at it.  Thing with NY, 80% of the time, everything
like that is based out of NYC.  But mailing list/chat is probably better for
me anyways, so thanks for the link and info.

 You'll get a flood of "this distro is best" responses where ever you go.
> You'll just have a make a choice, chances are your the distro that you get
> successfully installed first will be your distro of choice from now on. Back
> when I started I had several failed attempts at installing various distros
> never getting anything to really boot. Finally I got Slackware installed on
> the first try and I used it for the next 5 or 6 years. Now a days I use
> Fedora but mainly because I have a linux job and we are straight Redhat at
> work, so it eventually came home with me.
>

Yea, i know, just kinda wanna get one on and be done with it for awhile,
hehe.

 If you play WoW as little as you say then dual boot is probably easiest.
> Getting things running with Wine will take time away from your game
> enjoyment. Easier to do a quick reboot once the kids are in bed, then reboot
> when you done, turn off the monitor and go to bed. When everyone wakes up
> the computer will be sitting in linux.
>
> :-)
>

Yea, I guess that's how's it's gonna be for now.

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