[newbie] finally going for it

2002-12-14 Thread walt
I have enough of mandrake 9.0 working to the point where I can switch it to my main hard drive and just have winxp on my smaller drive and use linux almost exclusively. I do have to have some win programs and once I find comparable replacements, win xp will go completely. I do have to get

Re: [newbie] finally going for it

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:19 pm, walt wrote: I have enough of mandrake 9.0 working to the point where I can switch it to my main hard drive and just have winxp on my smaller drive and use linux almost exclusively. I do have to have some win programs and once I find comparable

Re: [newbie] finally going for it

2002-12-14 Thread kjc
Congrats. IMHO. A linux desktop is much, much nice than a Win desktop. In any event. I would spend a little extra money and buy a ASUS MB. I've had mine for a year. And, have had zero compatability problems with ANY OS that i have tinkered with. As far a video cards. I would stick with

Re: [newbie] finally going for it

2002-12-14 Thread Pilagá
El Sáb 14 Dic 2002 20:59, Dennis Myers escribió: I have both a Soyo and a Gigabyte MB with 1.3ghz Duron and Athlon 1800+ respectively, and they both run well. The Soyo is a K7VTA and the Gigabyte is a GA-7VRX no problems with 9.0 installation and they run like lightening compared to my old

Re: [newbie] finally going for it

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 December 2002 08:56 pm, Pilagá wrote: El Sáb 14 Dic 2002 20:59, Dennis Myers escribió: I have both a Soyo and a Gigabyte MB with 1.3ghz Duron and Athlon 1800+ respectively, and they both run well. The Soyo is a K7VTA and the Gigabyte is a GA-7VRX no problems with 9.0

Re: [newbie] finally going for it

2002-12-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:24, kjc wrote: Congrats. IMHO. A linux desktop is much, much nice than a Win desktop. In any event. I would spend a little extra money and buy a ASUS MB. I've had mine for a year. And, have had zero compatability problems with ANY OS that i have tinkered with. As far