From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (4340 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:58:24 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id QAA18443; Fri Oct 20 16:58:15 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA00159 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:58:19 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001020165834.007bc100@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:58:34 -0500 Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best? In-Reply-To: <005b01c0396b$693a82a0$fb011018@slktaho1.nv.home.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20001015222501.007b6b70@mail.ufw2.com> <3.0.6.32.20001018175910.007caaa0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Do they come with nonwin modems? At 06:25 PM 10/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >