[NBLUG/talk] Re: talk Digest, Vol 20, Issue 28

Augie Schwer augie.schwer at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 21:43:21 PST 2005


On 11/29/05, Art Hampton <art.hampton at gmail.com> wrote:
> This discussion of Aptitude is just about a perfect example of why I'm
> typing this from W2K.
> Don't get me wrong, I take delight in geeking around with the various OSes,
> and I'd love to not further line Bill's pockets, but sometimes I just want
> to use an application and not fool around with a command line or have
> unexpected things happening.
> Criminy. I installed Slackware and attempted to access my cdrom. I'm told
> that only root can open the cdrom. OK, so I log on as root and attempt to
> change the permissions to allow the lowly user (me) to open the cdrom, and I
> can't figure out how to do it. I suppose I could, actually. I can program in
> C, and I did manage to somehow stumble through college, but this is just too
> much effort to be able to open the GD cdrom. Give me strength, or better
> yet, W2K.

Slackware? Is that still even maintained? You might be better served
by something more geared toward Desktop/Beginning users; I like
Mandriva.

Augie.


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