Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Lanman wrote: I Gotta agree with Mark on this one! It's AMD or nothing. Every single sytem I have and every system I've sold has been armed with AMD, and I've had absolutely no disappointments. Period. As a matter of actual fact, my dual Athlon MP based servers have consistently out-performed IBM

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread RichardA
On Saturday 07 December 2002 16:09, Mark Weaver wrote: Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the Linux

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Franki wrote: hmmm,, Normally I'd agree with that, I wouldn't buy a P4 CPU unless hell froze over sometime soon... However, my boss is about to supply me with a Dell Inspiron 8200 fully kitted for me at no cost to myself.. Its got a 2 or 2.2gig CPU in it. (dunno which yet) and its a P4 :-( but

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Lanman wrote: Can't argue with you Franki, if you intend to make sense! There goes a whole string of smartass remarks I had for Flamers! Took the fun out of my whole day. I guess I'll just grin and bear it! LOL ! Lanman not to worry Lanman...I'm sure an opportunity will present itself here

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 03:09, Mark Weaver wrote: Lanman, Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 03:13, Mark Weaver wrote: Frank, The thing is: Does one really notice a real difference above say 1.5Ghz if the machine is endowed with the proper amount of RAM for the OS and apps being run on the machine? ( proper amount of RAM = 256 minimum ). I know I haven't.

RE: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 05:49, Franki wrote: I imagine compiling big apps, like a linux kernel would be alot faster on a 3 gig then a 1.5... the question is, is the difference worth the extra bucks? I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an XP2800, but I can't see any reason to upgrade my

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr]

2002-12-07 Thread A. A.
Toshiba Tecra 9000... have you tried Mandrake 9 on a laptop of that model? From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr] Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:16:14 -0500 A. A. wrote: Me too... Regrettably I could

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Alexander Rayborn wrote: I hate to say it, but Mandrake 9.0 lost this battle. I gave up trying to recompile kernels to fix my problem - I gave Red Hat v8.0 a shot (I like Gnome anyway)... and voila, no problems with my P4B533-E motherboard. Works beautifully and runs well. Sorry Mandrake!

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-06 Thread Lanman
I Gotta agree with Mark on this one! It's AMD or nothing. Every single sytem I have and every system I've sold has been armed with AMD, and I've had absolutely no disappointments. Period. As a matter of actual fact, my dual Athlon MP based servers have consistently out-performed IBM X-Series

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr]

2002-12-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Sean Hegar wrote: i discovered the same thing but was afraid to say it. now i wont be the only one being flamed. How ever, many of the same things that are talked about here apply to redhat as well as linux in general. thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:12, Mark Weaver wrote: Alexander Rayborn wrote: I hate to say it, but Mandrake 9.0 lost this battle. I gave up trying to recompile kernels to fix my problem - I gave Red Hat v8.0 a shot (I like Gnome anyway)... and voila, no problems with my P4B533-E motherboard.

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-01 Thread Nikunj Bansal
Same here. Although I am more of a KDE fan and RH has butchered it in 8.0 quite a bit. Mandrake simply refused to recongnize IDE drives on my new ABIT-BD-711 motherboard. RH8 works fine. --- Alexander Rayborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to say it, but Mandrake 9.0 lost this battle. I gave

RE: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr]

2002-12-01 Thread Sean Hegar
i discovered the same thing but was afraid to say it. now i wont be the only one being flamed. How ever, many of the same things that are talked about here apply to redhat as well as linux in general. thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr]

2002-12-01 Thread A. A.
not properly support the ICH3M chipset: I would love to see the exact errors the rest of you are getting. From: Sean Hegar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr] Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:11:22 -0900 i discovered the same