Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:37:26 +0000 (EET)
From: "A. Kunigelis" <algikun AT santaka DOT sc-uni DOT ktu DOT lt>
To: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: SVGALIB stuff
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Leath Muller wrote:

> 
> Shift to Linux? Ummm...and some people say that DJGPP is hard to set up
> for the beginner... ;)
> 
  Eh? Pressing 'ANY KEY' is also sometimes hard for a beginner ("I can't
find a key labeled 'any'!"). OK, to be serious Linux is not that hard to
set up *at all* these days! I installed Debian GNU/Linux off 4 floppies
without problems and then downloaded the rest of fancy stuff over the
internet pretty quick. All flavors (RedHat, Slackware, Debian) have
package managers and it's trivial to install/remove packages. E.g. I'd
just do:

$ dpkg --install binutils.deb gcc.deb ...

and there we go... And to remove them:

$ dpkg --purge binutils 

Once more: Linux is not a beast! Go on and you'll see

Martynas