OK. So my ethernet card doesn't work on Mandrake. No way for me to
develop then! I can't transfer my files or remote debug like that, or
even get net access.
One person recommended I just try different distros, or go for simple
answers found on google, otherwise I could end up getting frustrated.
I've found a website linuxworld.co.uk . Lots of different distros there
for cheap on CD. Downloading is one of my least favourite parts,
because it takes so long.
Apparantly with my SiS (very cheap) chipset, I'll have better luck with
a 2.6 Linux kernel. But unfortunately even Mandrake was based on 2.6 so
that's not a good start.
Someone recommended knoppix, although that apparantly is a liveCD so I
don't know how good that is for development.
There are apparantly 3 distros that I'm aware of that are 2.6. Suse,
Slackware and Ubuntu. So now I have a process of trying them all,
before declaring myself totally stuck again.
Really I just wish I could have bought a Linux PC instead of a Windows
PC.
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