I gave an hour long presentation on the Linux boot process a few days ago. I figure a few of you might be interested in looking at my slides for the talk:

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.cs.wm.edu/~scotts/boot.pdf"> ... oot.pdf</a>

I gave an hour long presentation on the Linux boot process a few days ago. I figure a few of you might be interested in looking at my slides for the talk:</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>My head hurts now. This is why the idea of installing Linux makes me quake with fear.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>There's no reason to. Every operating system, from Windows to Mac OSX to Solaris, must go through a similar process. None of this knowledge is necessary to be a user of a Linux system.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Good to know. I was/am definately looking at running Linux on my next machine.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I reccomend the Suse distribution. It's a pretty easy install and you get a working system right off. But - and this is true of Linux in general - making some changes are not obvious and might require some learning.</div>