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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: David Ogg <davidogg@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 06:29:42 GMT
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In article <9k1cgd$eq6$1@venus.itns.co.za>, xstephenx@apple2.org.za
says...
> 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?
This one's easy (although I wouldn't say Red Hat "sucks")
For starters lets take a look at the included version of GCC.
Can you even recompile the base kernel with it?
I wouldn't say any OS sucks because of the "ease of installation"
because if the OS is worth it's salt, you're only going to install it
ONCE anyway.
However, the compiler thing, I just have to sit back, shake my head and
wonder what WERE they thinking?
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- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Andy Cadley <ac@sys.uea.ac.uk>
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- From: Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>