Rick,
what "is" a Pavilion? I've never heard of one of
those. Laptop? desktop? what kind of sound card is in it? Mandrake 7.1 has
a lot of support for a lot of hardware, and I'm told that 7.2 has even
more. Now...as far as sound cards go RedHat has even better sound card
support then does Mandrake. I came from RedHat to Mandrake. I cut my Linux
teeth on RedHat, but then I saw Mandrake for the first time, (Mandrake
7.02) I fell in love all over again.
I had better printer support in RedHat till I got my Canon Bubblejet. And
that was a little dicey but I'm stuborn and refused to let the
"features" get the best of me. I tricked it into thinking the printer was
something else other then a BJC6000. For a while anyway. The only programs
I can't print from now are Pine and a few of the more generic text editors
that I use. Printing from them though isn't really a necessity and if I
need to print an email I just export it to Netscape Messenger which prints
it just fine.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
*/
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 Rick Commo had this to say!
> And behind Mark's statement is an even more powerful truth, "if... you can
> install it and get it going". Because a stable operating system that you
> can't easily install won't be accepted. And I am in that league for example
> with my Pavilion 3625 - no sound. Since I don't use it anyway, I've let it
> slide, but it is a case in point as are the many questions thrown into
> [newbie] and even [expert].
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ..... Mark Weaver
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 2:34 PM
> Cc: Mandrake Newbie List
> Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
>
> Patrick,
>
> You are right, of course, Linux is a paradise for coders and programmers,
> but beyond that truth is another, even bigger truth. That is that Linux is
> incredibly stable and powerful as a home PC platform as well as a
> dependable business workstation platform.
>
>
>
