En réponse à Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>:
>
> Well, I never said I disliked it either ;-)
>
True enough :)) .
>
> Oh, I figured. I have a few friends in the same situation :-)
> Anyway, 40GB are a lot, even having a few movies :-)
>
Well, I still have 15Gb free right now :)) .
>
> Same here. I don't have movies, but 3GB of mp3 O:-) Many of
> them
> are from my own CDs, but other are of music that I could only get by
> buying to cdnow or any other online place. And as I don't have a VISA,
> then ... O:-)
>
I just refuse to pay online. Call me paranoid or what, but I just refuse to pay
anything in advance. I only pay when I have the thing I wanted. I find it just
fair.
>
> I'll buy a PS2 some day, and then I expect to buy DVDs of some
> movies I always liked. The first on the list are "The 5th Element" and
> "Highlander" %-) The problem is that I don't know if buying those CDs
> online will be good, because of the zone protection stuff :-m
>
IIRC the DVD player on my computer allows to play any DVD whatever the zone.
But I've never tried it on commercial DVDs so I don't know if it's right...
>
> Well, it depends :-) It doesn't make all for you as SuSE or
> RedHat, that's for sure. Let's say that it's not the easiest to
> install,
> but it's the best to live with :-)
>
I've looked as the Debian website. Indeed, it seems quite complex to install
(at least according to the size of the installation notes :)) ), but also
extremely stable. Well, as soon as I buy this second hard drive I'll do
that :) . Downloading it completely is not a problem with my DSL line :)) .
>
> It depends on the hardware you've got. There is a lot of
> hardware that is built specially for Windows, and that's what doesn't
> work well in Linux. But for "normal" hardware, I'd say that everything
> is reasonably supported. Thought you will have to google for it
> sometimes to find it and/or how to configure it :-)
>
It shouldn't be a problem then. I don't use a Winmodem (I have DSL, so I use a
special modem connected on the ethernetcard) and the only complication there
may be is the HP PSC 750 printer/scanner I have. Are HP printers well handled
by Linux?
Christophe.
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