SillyDog701

[Belle0821]

....XP constantly crashing on me, going so slow that a snail would pass it up, and am (within the next month) going to change some parts off of my Compaq Presario 5400US 1.2 GHz puter to put Mandrake 10.0 on. The question that I have is........since I'm stuck with dial up temporarily at the moment, would that prevent me from using Linux? If I can use dial up with Linux, how do I need to go about it? I want it to where I have no Windows on my puter at all.

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[Mandrake]

Honest advice: Don't think Linux is the solution to everything.

I still have no wifi support in Linux, and no 3D acceleration with my Radeon video card.

With regards to your question... if you have a 'win' modem, you might not be able to use it under Linux. If it's an external modem then in most cases it's just a matter of using Google to check Linux compatability with it. Mandrake or SuSE come with utilities for dialup up to your ISP (provided your modem is supported).

Of course . . . you could always fix your Windows installation. I think if you cleaned out all the spyware and virii sitting on your computer, and installed the latest updates to XP and turned the firewall on ... all those problems would go away.

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