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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: Andy Cadley <ac@sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:06:18 +0100
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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