On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:26 am, Tom Emerson wrote:

On Saturday 15 November 2003 9:19 pm, krikket wrote:

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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Tom Emerson wrote:

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When my dad says, "sheesh, your computer is slow", I know it that "The Time Has Come To Upgrade" is here :)

I don't know the specifics of the latest and greatest systems -- my 533 Celeron system at home is more than enough to meet my needs.

Well, you've got me beat by 100mhz, however it is the video editing thing that is the "crunch"

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But, there is one option that's not immediately obvious -- WallMart. [...] I also have no idea what flavor of Lunux they're installing. I *think* a few different versions...

As I recall, they were selling e-machines or similar loaded with "lindows" -- probably only one step below now that Novell bought SuSE, but still a step down in my opinion. ==============

Actually they are selling SuSE loaded machines as well now! WalMart has apparently been doing well with their Linux machines. I think your best system is always going to be one you assemble from good parts. That will probably give you the best pricing as well because if you are looking at price alone, you are not going to get a good branded one! If you want a good system, even from the brands, you will still pay the price for them! Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

I am running 8.2 pro on a PII 350 with 256mb memory with an 8meg graphics card. Thats what is nice about Suse you dont need this years latest gamerware to run it. In fact suse 8.2 runs better than win 98 on a PII 533 with 512mb. for that matter 7.2 ran better on a PI 300 with 128 that that 98 setup. CWSIV ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:12, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

No kidding. Full graphical on pre pentium machines. what level window manager?

My first Linux CAD station was a K6-2/233 w/ 256 (?) megs of ram and a 4-gig HD.It ran VariCAD on a 4-mb graphics card. Desktop was (and still is) fvwm2. That was SuSE 5.3 Got a Duron 850 on SuSE 7.2 w/ Matrox G-450 dual screen, and testing newest VariCAD re-write on SuSE-8.2.

i always thought pre pemtiums were for fire walls. CWSIV

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:59 -0600 "Jeffrey L. Taylor" writes:

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I am running 8.2 pro on a PII 350 with 256mb memory with an 8meg graphics card.

Thats what is nice about Suse you dont need this years latest gamerware to run it. In fact suse 8.2 runs better than win 98 on a PII 533 with 512mb. for that matter 7.2 ran better on a PI 300 with 128 that

Quoting Carl William Spitzer IV : that 98

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setup.

But you must have a Pentium or better. I think this started around 8.x. I shifted my older machines to Debian.

Jeffrey

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* Jeffrey L. Taylor [11-19-03 23:30]:

Quoting Carl William Spitzer IV : [snip ...]

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i always thought pre pemtiums were for fire walls.

Depends on how long you have been running Linux. There were no 486s when Linus started, no Pentiums when I started.

or 4044, 8086, 8088s.... -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org