It's a great learning experience to use UNIX on MPE. I invoked the unix shell
and thought that things are gonna be easier. But, unfortunately, lots of the
familiar things I know wasn't there (eg.perl). Ended up learning about awk,
etc.


Emerson, Tom # El Monte <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The system you describe is suitable for "learning", but as usual, there is
> the ever present question to ask: what do you actually want to DO with the
> machine?  If what you want to do is "learn Unix" [and, by extension, the
> posix "shell" under MPE], then stick with a straight installation and skip
> "X" for now.  If you eventually want to dump (ahem "have an alternative to")
> Microsoft, then you'll need to get "X" installed and you'll want to look
> into StarOffice [now distributed by SUN] or Applixware -- both of these are
> complete "suites" to supplant Microsoft Office

> Of course, using Linux to learn the posix "shell" would actually make this
> an "on topic" discussion thread... :)

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Phillips [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>
>> Since this is way off topic, perhaps private replies would be better.
>>
>> We have ... aging PC's that are still operable,
>> So, I'm thinking to ... use one ... to try out Linux
>> bought RedHat Linux 6.0 ... I am looking for any ideas about
>> installation and playing with Linux.
>> the PC ... is a 486 with 16MB and I'm not sure of the disk drive size.
>>