Re: HELP: Will Linux work on following hardware?

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From: Barry Smith
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:00

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Looks ok assuming you have plenty of ram.. Get the latest releases or you
will have trouble with the videocard. 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. I use slackware which has a quirky
install program. Another alternative is Debian..but I haven't seen that. I
wouldn't worry about that just yet as you will probably be reinstalling it
several times until you know what you're doing...

Sundar Kingsley <spking1@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<5cp2qf$b82@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>...
> 
> 
> Being new and brave enough to foray into
> the world of Linux I would like to know if Linux will 
> install/run on the following hardware.  PC with
> Cyrix 133Mhz chip, MGA Matrox Millennium video board(PCI)
> and toshiba CDROM(IDE).  If so, what is a recommended
> distribution for a newbie.
> 
> Email replies appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Sundar
>

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Date: 1997/01/30
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