-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Yaron wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > 1. Modem: look for any _EXTERNAL_ modems or look for a an ISA internal > > modem. Look on the box for "Works with 486", > > Or ask if it uses a real COM port. That way you can weed out the clueless > salespeople who'll just say "Yes" about the 486. 486 is easier on salespeople than COM port. Trust me... I've tried. > > 2. XFree86 4.xx supports Voodoo3 so get RedHat 7.1 beta or Mandrake 8.0 > > beta or any recent Linux distribution and add XFree86 4.0.3 to it. > > Doesn't RedHat 7 come with XFree4? People should probably NOT be using Red > Hat betas... especially newbies. Yes it does. However I find 7.1beta2 (Wolverine) _MUCH_ more stable than 7.0. > I'd say go with Mandrake. It's supposed to be the most User Friendly of > distributions. I recently installed almost all major distros and it did > seem to be the easiest one to install if you've never done it before. Recomended that too :) florin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6yhW5NLPgdTuQ3+QRAvkWAJoDL5zazA/u3o/K9vNPvu/wkI5R9wCghkmW i65Rw6Ony5lzZP5iN6XB3hU= =lgkv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----