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]) (4044 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:20:35 -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 <20001019012038.DJKD5177.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c276674a> for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:20:38 -0700 Message-ID: <005b01c0396b$693a82a0$fb011018@slktaho1.nv.home.com> From: "Jason Custer" To: References: <3.0.6.32.20001015222501.007b6b70@mail.ufw2.com> <3.0.6.32.20001018175910.007caaa0@mail.ufw2.com> Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:25:04 -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: No, I put it on mine, but I think they are putting it on now. You may want to call and ask...1800gateway (18004283929). I love my gateway and never lock up because of hardware. I use a dtlk synth on the only isa port on my board. If you get a gateway, I obviously have experience, so let me know. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Harding To: Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 3:59 PM Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? > Cool, does gateway put it on automatically? I don't know what they say is > so bad with the new redhat 7.0, but I know my isp uses redhat, and this guy > says he can probably help me get some things going that I've had troubles > in in the past. > I went without swap on my machine, but don't find it to be a problem with > 256 mb of ram, probably more than I need for now (figured ram would solve > my windows lockup troubles, but it didn't, especially with trying to record > a lot of stuff at once like sound recorder or whatever.) > At 08:34 PM 10/17/00 -0700, you wrote: > >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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup