Ok gang:

It has been over a year since I purchased Suse Linux Personal Edition 8.2 and it is finally time to fish or cut bait.

For several months now, I have been using my secondary computer which has a Soyo Super 7 board with an AMD K6-2 533 Mhz processor.

My primary computers hard drive kissed the dirt and I have been waiting for a really good deal before I replace the 6 Gig primary hard drive on the primary computer. It has a 3 Gig secondary hard drive, but I do my backing up on the secondary hard drive and did not want to blow it up without transferring everything on my new hard drive first. As of right now, I don't know if I will be able to get anything off of my former primary drive, but the really vital stuff is backed up on the secondary drive.

I bought a new 120 Gig Western Digital at Circuit City for $39.99 after rebates. My 6 Gig drive only had about 1.8 Gig being used, so I have storage up the Wazoo and would have bought a smaller hard drive but for the price. It did't make sense to pay more for less.

I am going to Linux because I am tired of Microsoft's prices for software that is always "IMPROVED", yet constantly being debugged. I am tired of upgrades that are averaging $80..00 for "PERSONAL" editions and close to $200.00 for "PROFESSIONAL" editions. I am going to Suse Linux from Germany for $39.99 that I paid for my "PERSONAL" edition of 8.2 which can be upgraded FREE to 9.1 although their tech staff at Suse said the advantages are not that great and that I should stick with 8.2 unless I want the power of the "PROFESSIONAL" edition for an extra $60.00 and they said the average user does not need the "PROFESSIONAL" edition.

For those of you that are interested, the new Suse Linux Personal 9.1 costs only $29.99 + shipping for a disc set or you can load the complete system, minus registration rights and privileges for free over the internet.

Suse Linux allows you to install it and Windows on different virtual drives and allows you to choose which one you want to work with. I currently own Windows 98SE and do not see myself going beyond Windows 2000 if I can find someone to sell me their certified Microsoft disc.

I currently have 9 computers which I will be selling to low income unemployed here in Milwaukee. These have to be software loaded and tested, and I have been advised by Suse that I can copy 9.1 off the internet, and supply the disks to people that buy the computers from me at no charge, so long as I tell the buyers that they do not get ownership registration rights and privileges unless they pay for a certified copy. Can't beat that with a swizzle stick!

I chose Suse's version of Linux because of the research I have heard they put into it, and they are also the least expensive of the 3 major Linux distributors.

As I sit here and write this, I keep thinking of the poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and wondering why I keep doing these dumb challaging things when I could be learning and having fun with an established working operating system, and have come to the conclusion that I may be more nuts than I thought.

So if you do not see or hear from me for a while, it is because I like to go whole hog after a problem until it is resolved or until they put me in that weird white coat where the arms tie in the back. If I am gone more than a month (Rarely happens.), I got frustrated and lost count of the muscle relaxants I took and will probably be in detox for a while <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Into the valley of death he rode---------------------

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />