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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:09:49 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:06:18 +0100, Andy Cadley wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Alan Sharkis wrote:
>
>> OK, I admit that when I installed Mandrake 8.0 on a loaded Pentium III 800
>> it was a snap. It even recognized my Sound Blaster Live! and a Linksys NIC
>> (Tulip) without any help on my part! But when I tried to install the same
>> distro on a Pentium 100 -- same NIC and a Sound Blaster AWE32, it bombed
>> miserably. I do have Red Hat 7.2 running on that machine, but it was
>> hand-configuring all the way. It would be torture for anyone who was
>> brought up on Windows.
>
> I seem to recall that the Mandrake 8 graphical installer needs something
> like 64Mb of RAM and having less is pretty much the only thing that I've
> ever seen cause it to bomb out.
>
> And Red Hat sucks big time. Even the latest version.
>
> AndyC
Andy please elucidate on _WHAT_ sucks in Red Hat?
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Microsoft Works ? What are we listing oxymorons?