[General] Thanks Burhan

[Majed B.]

Your sound card is supported on Linux and the drivers are available
with the latest kernel. My Asus motherboard has them and they're
working fine.

I moved from Windows to Linux 6 years ago, and moved from Windows ME
to Slackware Linux. I had a second machine to access the Internet when
I screwed up my Linux box ... used it for about a month until I got
the hands on properly.

Slackware is the best way to truly toy with Linux, as every program or
service requires you to configure it before using it, which means lots
of manual reading! Amazing!

Stay away from Fedora.

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM, D D <diemdias at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Burhan for your very insightful email. I am just scratching the surface right now and Mandriva, Fedora and Ubuntu seem like the better distributions when it comes to transitioning from windows. I hope to eventually master programming which all depends on how well I am able to adapt and pick up stuff.
>
>  I do agree that books are a little more on the boring side. I too prefer the more direct hands on approach, though a lot of linux users recommend learning first and planning the entire linux experience. I hope to make it an interesting mix of both. Will try and document the outcomes as much as I can.
>
>  I have already installed Mandriva and it is pretty much Windows with a few challenges here and there. The only major problem I am facing is the sound card which doesn't seem to be working. There doesn't seem to be a sound driver for my HP dx7400 microtower which is shipped with a Realtek Ac '97 High definition sound card. Apart from this, I have done some minor stuff like linking java plugins in firefox and tranferring files using scp to my router (smoothwall, linux based).
>
>  I think I may just go with the Gentoo stage 1 idea. It will be a lot of hard work I can imagine but it should pay off. Also, I will wait for Fedora 9 to be released to install it perhaps over the Mandriva distribution.
>
>  Thanks again for your email. I really appreciate all the information you've provided. I will keep you posted as to how I am progressing.
>
>  Diem Dias
>
>
>  CARPE DIEM BABY!
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