which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?

[Brent Harding]

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 <bharding at ufw2.com>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 3:59 PM
>Subject: Re: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?
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>> 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 <bharding at ufw2.com>
>> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> >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.
>> >>
>> >>
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