🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:22:50 GMT, Bob Ward <bobward@gte.net> wrote:
>Caldera is one of the ones I tried, and it did get things mostly
>right, but I still haven't been successful in installing any
>additional software with the sole exception of StarOffice.
>
>Since I'm fortunate enough to have an ADSL connection, I've been able
>to download several different distributiions and burn them to CD's; I
>would have been more than annoyed if I had paid even $20.00 for a
>program that did not work as expected.

Caldera's installation worked a lot better than Windows did.  The
setup I had was a Celeron 300 Mhz, 4 GB HD, 32 MB RAM, 32X CD-ROM, AGP
video card, Acer 10/100 NIC, it recognized everything correctly and
was running fine.  Btw, that was my very first Linux installation, so
I'm not a Linux guru, I'm a Linux newbie...8-).

>As for devices not recognized by Windows causing problems, I've not
>seen this to be the case, since most, if not all manufacturers include
>drivers for the appropriate version of Windows, but not as often for
>Linux.  USB devices would be an excellent example.

I have an Athlon 550 Mhz with a PCI Banshee video card.  Win95, will
install fine with generic video card drivers then just load the
Banshee drivers.  Win98, will not even recognize the Banshee video
card and about 90% of the way through the installation, it usually
crashes or some error that may allow me to continue but usually the
installation is hosed.  A few times I have been able to get an
installation somewhat successful, but Win98 uses some generic driver
for the Banshee, when I try to load the drivers for the Banshee, there
are problems, I've used both the old drivers and the new drivers.
Back to Win95.  I've even tried installing an AGP Diamond III S540
video card but System crashes constantly under Win98.