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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (34494)	10/30/2000 1:27:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello Paul, > No good deed goes unrewarded here on SI Hmmm ... don't think so ... ;-) > Please post if possible the Linux version you installed, RedHat v7 > the price of it, Given to me for free at NetWorld+Interop ... as a Novell employee I believe ... > the system into which you configured (memory, type of > drive, type of vga) and any apps you added. I'm running on a Celeron 400Mhz with 128MB RAM, 20GB UDMA66 Hard Drive, 50x UDMA33 CD-ROM. The VGA is the standard provided by the 810 chipset ... I have not added any apps yet, but am looking at StarOffice to give it a try. It came with Netscape (which appears to be identical to my Windows version, although there are some display distortions ...) I have been downloading some Open Source projects and building them on this system ... partly to get familiar, and also doing some development again ... ;-) > Also I'm dying to hear about performance. I have to say that it is snappy! The web browser and graphics are fast, the builds are quick. I talked with a friend today and he suggested that I re-build the kernal for my machine and that it would be even faster! > You've probably run every single OS out there and I'm > dying to hear whether when you run Linux as your main > internet client machine you get the performance my LINUX > friends report. I'm not running it as my main machine yet ... there are still some issues that I want to resolve. I have to say that the screen display and fonts are not as easy to read as Windows ... and I haven't put it on my laptop yet ... I still run Win2k as my primary laptop/machine OS ... but this desktop is a Linux box from now on ... and I'm going to get more familiar with it ... ;-) > ================== > > I'm posting on a dual monitor, dual PCI Elsa VGA 1024x768, > Athlon 550 running NT. Ok ... the dual-monitor thing is great! Scott C. Lemon