RE: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:57:03 +0800, Michael Peligro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam: No need for formalities - this is a list where users help other users! :) Good day! I am an avid gamer

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to John Hokanson Jr.'s words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:51:44 -0800 Yes, KDE 2.x is rather painful with only 64megs. :( Supposedly it is the bare minimum. You're probably going to see a lot of swaping and slowdown. GNOME isn't terribly better at this point. They supposedly do make

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread shane
well i can try on a few of these On Wednesday 31 October 2001 22:57, you spoke unto me thusly: 1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? get more ram. it will run, but ram is the best thing you can do to a linux box. 2. Is Mandrake 8.1 vulnerable to viruses such as CIH or BIOS-infecting

[newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-01 Thread Michael Peligro
Dear Sir/Madam: Good day! I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is too steep and the product requires me to upgrade my computer hardware as well. I am sad that I have to pay expensive licenses and hardware for Windows XP only to get an operating system that is

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:57:03 +0800, Michael Peligro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam: No need for formalities - this is a list where users help other users! :) Good day! I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is too steep and the product requires me