Re: [Qn] System Setup, & What Linux ??

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From: Albert Hui
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s933414@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Marcus Barczak) writes:
>s931306@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Albert Hui) writes:

>>Get a better mon for your card, TrueColor under 1024x768 is OK.

>Note none of the current XFree servers support 24-bit truecolour
>graphics.  My advice get a good monitor .. 15" preferably with high
>bandwidth and sync frequencies to get the best refresh outta X

Agreed.  TrueColor probably won't be around for some time.  But then,
why did he need the PCI card with 2Mb VRAM in the first place?

>Yuck .. why run a crippled OS on top of a useful system.  If I wanna
>run DrOS I just use the real thing.

MS-Dog is an alright game loader, Windoze got a bunch of apps.
It's nice to take the best from both worlds (without rebotting :)

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