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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: B Hamilton who wrote (83)	6/23/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Well as I said, Xfree86 is for a very small percentage of user's of Linux the most painful stumbling block. There is no doubt that some will give up on it with a bad taste in their mouth because of this failure. My belief is that this represents a small percentage of Linux users. But my points are if you are interested in using an OS that as you learn about it over time surprises you over and over again with simplicity and elegance and speed, don't sweat the small stuff and get AccelerateX. That personal life advice and not investment advice. On the other hand if you give up on Linux because the volunteer who did the particular XFree86 driver for your video card did not get it quite right yet, well you lose. The question is do you want to use a 200.00 OS per computer or a free OS for as many computers as you want and buy a 50.00 card for each computer or spend 89.00 per computer to fix the video problems. On the other hand, the performance improvement of AcceleratedX at 1280x and above with true color in fact may double the percieved/actual performance of your computer. watman.com Even the four display system show would switch to any desk on any display and be active in a second or less. This is a 1994 technology 200 mhz pentium pro based system. Was at PC-EXPO at Javits Center in New York. Redhat had small booth as well as Caldera. Show was smaller that last year as the basement floor was 40% empty. There was not a Linux area as in the past. On the other hand Linux now has it's own trade shows. Tom Watson tosiwmee