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Article #56537Re: HELP: Will Linux work on following hardware?
From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
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Barry Smith wrote: > > Looks ok assuming you have plenty of ram.. Get the latest releases or you > will have trouble with the videocard. It'll work reasonably (= not very fast) with 8 Mb. What he really needs is a modem and net conection. Deban is ok if you can find latest release (1.2.4); AFAIK the one on Infomagic set has some bugs. Most people these days seem to use > Red Hat, but I found that the latest one with the Infomagic set has the old > x-windows which won't run on yours. Latest XFree is available as RH package from their ftp site. Dimitri -- emaziuk at curtin.edu.au ----------------------------------------------- If Jesus was Jewish, why did he have a Puerto-Rican name? ( Zen koan )
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