From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com(ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com[24.0.0.66]) (2481 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:30:07 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from c276674a ([24.16.1.251]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001018033012.HVQA8202.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c276674a> for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:30:12 -0700 Message-ID: <005801c038b4$5814c9c0$fb011018@slktaho1.nv.home.com> From: "Jason Custer" To: References: <3.0.6.32.20001015222501.007b6b70@mail.ufw2.com> Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:34:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 List-Id: I have a gateway which runs redhat like a dreem! ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Harding To: Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 8:25 PM Subject: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? > I was thinking of getting another machine to just run linux on. I was > thinking to go either valinux or dell. I don't really know if there's much > else to choose from. I could just get another custom built with windows > Millenium on it, do the famous format operation and put whatever linux > distro I may choose, probably redhat or something (a distro I've not tried > out yet) on it. The problem I see is the computer place I got this desktop > from doesn't seem to sell open architect motherboards in systems now. > They're more integrated, and have less slots now, and usb instead of serial > ports is bad news. They basically had this open architect board because the > on board sound on that other one started giving noise I didn't want, and > switching to sblive wouldn't work any other way. > If there's no easy way to get speakup to load on plugging the synthesizer > in without rebooting, or for that matter replacing the kernel of one of > these already set up systems, I could just get ethernet going and use > telnet or ssh to it to do whatever I need from my windows/linux dual boot > system. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup