It really will run on anything, so it comes down to what you're willing to spend. Whatever you get, make sure you don't get a winmodem in it (that's standard on just about any PC you can buy retail.)
It's a little slow this week in tech support land. E-mail me some more details on what you're trying to do with this. I set up little single purpose linux servers all over the office using computers we were going to throw away anyway...
That problem with Corel... I had the same thing with the last 2 Mandrakes. The driver for this video card was just finished recently (Riva128ZX), but they didn't have it (at least not a working version). Redhat 6.0 had it, though.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
I can see it now, some hooded jedi, two curved lightsabers, mowing through a group of orcs...er, stormtroopers. Just kidding.
As you said, he's a great sci-fi/fantasy author. Nice guy, too...we see him around out in the sticks where I live. I hope he doesn't get too much flak from rabid fans over a decision that wasn't his. If you want to read a good primer for his work, his early novel The Crystal Shard is one of his most entertaining.
Just as Hollywood is starting to push for the disassembly of the MPAA, who oversee the US movie rating system, because it's so completely useless, now we get a ratings system for websites. It seems the only way to get nations to work together is to solve problems that don't really exist. Wouldn't want to waste our time and money feeding the poor or improving solar collectors or exploring space or anything.
Redhat is everywhere, but it's too damn expensive ($79.95 for the basic box? Download it)
Mandrake at Staples and Media Play, but don't bother, they don't have Mandrake's best, the Power Pack. I've only seen their basic and deluxe in retail.
Ordered my Mandrake 6.1 from LinuxMall, got a free RedHat CD with it, which isn't bad for $50.
Jpowers
looking forward to testing this
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KDE 1.1.2 is out
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I'd never used KDE before my boss asked me to install SuSE on his Thinkpad. KDE is SuSE's default, and I found it to be perfect for us: it looks just like the CDE some of our users have on their SPARCs, behaves pretty well, easy to adjust the configuration, etc.
I liked AfterStep, but the one I used kept crashing its apps. Enlightenment was well put together, but tougher to configure than the others. Still working my way around to WindowMaker.
Someone should post a comparative review of the X GUIs out there, so people can decide what to use. I'd recommend KDE to anyone who uses CDE already or who needs linux to run PPP, because Kppp is the easiest ppp config I've found yet, which is important if they need to reconfig on the road and don't have hours to debug. My users travel quite a bit, and that one is easy to explain and troubleshoot over the phone.
Sorry. I was thinking about not having to send shuttle astronauts on a space walk to fix every little loose screw. A [hypothetical] space station might need less on-board maintenace crew if they could automate some of the repairs. Less crew means less oxygen. I should have been more specific.
The worst part of it all is, once you get win98, you need a patch to make it y2k ready, too. They make you use IE to download it, or you have to sign up for some newsletter and they send the patch on CD. They haven't exactly advertised that yet, either.
I had to e-mail the company and ask them how to get it to work. You need to install it under Windows 95/98 first, and use the ORB Tools to change the drive status to non-removable. It seems to change something in the drive's hardware.
You can then do the standard fdisk/install on it, though on my computer I have to use a boot floppy because I use FAT32 on the primary hard drive and it creates a whole new set of problems. I've had no problems with either function or reliability otherwise, though I'm not exactly running it as a server...
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It really will run on anything, so it comes down to what you're willing to spend. Whatever you get, make sure you don't get a winmodem in it (that's standard on just about any PC you can buy retail.)
It's a little slow this week in tech support land. E-mail me some more details on what you're trying to do with this. I set up little single purpose linux servers all over the office using computers we were going to throw away anyway...
Jpowers
That problem with Corel... I had the same thing with the last 2 Mandrakes. The driver for this video card was just finished recently (Riva128ZX), but they didn't have it (at least not a working version). Redhat 6.0 had it, though.
Moving to SuSE anyway...
Jpowers
Article 1, Section 8:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries;
Jpowers
I can see it now, some hooded jedi, two curved lightsabers, mowing through a group of orcs...er, stormtroopers. Just kidding.
As you said, he's a great sci-fi/fantasy author. Nice guy, too...we see him around out in the sticks where I live. I hope he doesn't get too much flak from rabid fans over a decision that wasn't his. If you want to read a good primer for his work, his early novel The Crystal Shard is one of his most entertaining.
Jason
Me too. Been reading too much of The Onion, I think.
Jason
Cthulu in 2000. Why Vote for the Lesser Evil?
It's getting worse...
Just as Hollywood is starting to push for the disassembly of the MPAA, who oversee the US movie rating system, because it's so completely useless, now we get a ratings system for websites. It seems the only way to get nations to work together is to solve problems that don't really exist. Wouldn't want to waste our time and money feeding the poor or improving solar collectors or exploring space or anything.
Red Hat/Mandrake also in Software Etc. next to a copy of Civilization: Call to Power for Linux, and Word Perfect 8 for Linux at Staples. Scary.
jpowers
Redhat is everywhere, but it's too damn expensive ($79.95 for the basic box? Download it)
Mandrake at Staples and Media Play, but don't bother, they don't have Mandrake's best, the Power Pack. I've only seen their basic and deluxe in retail.
Ordered my Mandrake 6.1 from LinuxMall, got a free RedHat CD with it, which isn't bad for $50.
Jpowers
I'd never used KDE before my boss asked me to install SuSE on his Thinkpad. KDE is SuSE's default, and I found it to be perfect for us: it looks just like the CDE some of our users have on their SPARCs, behaves pretty well, easy to adjust the configuration, etc.
I liked AfterStep, but the one I used kept crashing its apps. Enlightenment was well put together, but tougher to configure than the others. Still working my way around to WindowMaker.
Someone should post a comparative review of the X GUIs out there, so people can decide what to use. I'd recommend KDE to anyone who uses CDE already or who needs linux to run PPP, because Kppp is the easiest ppp config I've found yet, which is important if they need to reconfig on the road and don't have hours to debug. My users travel quite a bit, and that one is easy to explain and troubleshoot over the phone.
jpowers
No one was using NT on the alphas anyway. Why take a horse-drawn cart on a superhighway?
Sorry. I was thinking about not having to send shuttle astronauts on a space walk to fix every little loose screw. A [hypothetical] space station might need less on-board maintenace crew if they could automate some of the repairs. Less crew means less oxygen. I should have been more specific.
Jpowers
The military applications are frightening. These would be useful for satellite / space station maintenace, get more done with less oxygen and all.
Jason
The worst part of it all is, once you get win98, you need a patch to make it y2k ready, too. They make you use IE to download it, or you have to sign up for some newsletter and they send the patch on CD. They haven't exactly advertised that yet, either.
I had to e-mail the company and ask them how to get it to work. You need to install it under Windows 95/98 first, and use the ORB Tools to change the drive status to non-removable. It seems to change something in the drive's hardware.
You can then do the standard fdisk/install on it, though on my computer I have to use a boot floppy because I use FAT32 on the primary hard drive and it creates a whole new set of problems. I've had no problems with either function or reliability otherwise, though I'm not exactly running it as a server...