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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: "Alan Sharkis" <asharkis@optonline.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:06:08 GMT
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The older machine has 64 Mb of RAM. Maybe it needed just a trifle more.
But my point was that any OS that's specifically designed or customized to
work with a very narrow range of hardware variation could be successful on
these supposed $300 machines.
Alan
"Andy Cadley" <ac@sys.uea.ac.uk> wrote in message
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>
> 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
>