I just completed the installation of RedHat on one of my machines.

Good job… By the way Redhat is just one of many distros… You may want to try several other just in case you find one you like better.

I tried it once, and it was very slooooow. It was nearly unusable in fact.

You gave up too soon. Linux is very configurable and you shouldn’t expect it to work flawlessly as soon as you install it, you have to tweak a lot of things… For people new to Linux I would recommend something like Redhat or Mandrake because those two are easiest to tweak, with all the gui’s.

Everyone who’s anyone uses Linux… Many countries are using Linux on their government computers. But not my country, the stupids just signed a deal with Microsoft.

US universitys are no longer producing enough people in these fields.

Well actually that’s the opposite of the truth, that’s what the IT industry lobbies want the government to think but actually US universities are producing TOO MUCH programmers. I read an article about this recently, and while I can’t remember the exxact details, I think it said something along that lines of only about 65% of recent comp-sci grads in the US find jobs as programmers. The thing is, these H1B workers from places like India are willing to work for far less and that’s why they are hired first.

I will look up that google groups, thanks for the info about that. I have heard a lot about foreigners taking over programming jobs in the US on H-1B visas, mostly from India and China and they are always hired over American programmers because they are willing to work cheaper. Would you know if Canada has any such problem? To my knowledge it doesn’t but I am not that familiar with the field yet. My job is just really boring despite the fact that I enjoy programming, I thought I would look into something a bit more interesting.

Yep I saw that web site a while ago. I hope he is successful. Although I would think an “internet developer” would not have the necessary engineering skills to build this, but we’ll see… But if building a cruise missile is so easy, then why don’t more countries have them?

Here is interesting information about Russia building new pipelines to sell oil to China and Japan.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/904555/posts

I wish my country would switch to Linux. But no! They just recently signed some kind of agreement with Microsoft. Bunch of fools…

The only reason I still have Windows is because most games don’t work with Linux.

I have a dual boot with Mandrake 9.0 and Win XP… I used Partition Magic and it worked fine. What was that about drive letters? Linux doesn’t use drive letters, and Windows XP does not even know about the Linux partition.

Installing Mandrake couldn’t be simpler, the only part that you need to be careful is the partitoining part, you gotta make sure you don’t accidentally wipe your windows partition. The easiest way to do it is from Window start Partition Magic, reduce your Windows partition by as much space as you’ll need for linux (say 5 gigs) so that means that now you have 5 gigs of unpartitioned space on your hd. Then when you start the mandrake installation and it asks you how to partition the drive, select the unpartitioned space and create a Linux native partition of about 4.8 gigs and a Linux swap parition of 200 megs. The rest you can probably figure out yourself, it’s very simple…

You will be able to access your Windows files from Linux, but not vice versa.

What about the pulse-jet engine? Why haven’t I heard about this type of engine before? If it is so easy to build, then why don’t countries which require jet engines but don’t have the technology to build turbojets use this type of engine? Are there any aircraft which use pulse jets?