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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
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