Re: [users] buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: also sprach Faheem Mitha (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 04:15:13PM -0400): I live in North Carolina, US. I am thinking of having it custom-built and it would be nice to get Debian preloaded. I looked at resellerratings.com. There seem to be some good

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jeff Reed wrote: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut/chapter/ch25.html check it out There's also the November 2000 issue of Linux Journal (focus on hardware), part of which is available online. But I like to hear about hardware issues from Real People. For one

Re: [users] buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:57:57PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | The point of getting a preinstalled machine is to check that Debian works | Ok with the hardware. It is strictly a hardware issue. As I indicated Yeah, it is nice to know that it does work, before you spend the money. | seriously,

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Faheem Mitha wrote: There's also the November 2000 issue of Linux Journal (focus on hardware), part of which is available online. But I like to hear about hardware issues from Real People. For one thing, you can ask questions. Faheem. The

Re: [users] buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Faheem Mitha (on Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:57:57PM -0400): The point of getting a preinstalled machine is to check that Debian works Ok with the hardware. It is strictly a hardware issue. As I indicated later in the message, I would probably reinstall at some point. Actually, I was

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: okay. that makes sense. although i'd recommend setting up unstable within a chroot in stable... that way you don't have to reboot, you can use both systems simultaneously. Well, with some limitations. You won't be able to run two Xs without some

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Faheem Mitha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010702 14:29]: Dear people, I am thinking of replacing my now rather elderly Pentium II 233 Mhz Digital computer with something new. I am new to Debian, but am very If you'll be pitching it, let me know... that's definitely enough for a happy little potato

buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear people, I am thinking of replacing my now rather elderly Pentium II 233 Mhz Digital computer with something new. I am new to Debian, but am very impressed so far. I am currently running SuSE (6.2 + lots of additions) and think I will run Debian on my new computer. I live in North Carolina,

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone bought computers from Dell recently? I bought a Dell 1400SC server I've put Debian on. It is true that they only preload Redhat, but everything works under Debian, except for their server monitoring agent. That fails because their kernel

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:15:13PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | I am thinking of replacing my now rather elderly Pentium II 233 Mhz This ought to run just fine. You're not using M$ Windows, now are you? wink | My main question is -- can anyone recommend a good firm to custom-build | computers

Re: [users] buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Faheem Mitha (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 04:15:13PM -0400): I live in North Carolina, US. I am thinking of having it custom-built and it would be nice to get Debian preloaded. I looked at resellerratings.com. There seem to be some good small vendors out there. For example, well, you learn

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Paul Whitmer
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: buying a computer Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:28:08 -0400 On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:15:13PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | I am thinking of replacing my now rather elderly Pentium II 233 Mhz This ought to run just fine. You're not using M$ Windows, now are you? wink | My main

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread David L. Craig
Faheem Mitha wrote: My main question is -- can anyone recommend a good firm to custom-build computers for Linux? It would be a big plus if said firm knows enough to be able to install Debian on it. I might do a reinstall, but it would be greatly reassuring to know that it works on the

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Faheem- Since I know you're at UNC, I'll just tell you that I've recently completed installing debian 2.2r3, over the net, on a CCI machine, which is an IBM NetVista A40 with a PIII-1Ghz chip in it. Things have gone pretty well, except that the built-in audio chip doesn't seem to be supported, so

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Jeff Reed
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut/chapter/ch25.html check it out -- -- Jeff Reed -- Linux System Administrator -- Metro West Boston Linux User Group -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.linuxbusca.com -- Daytime/Evening: (508)792-6070

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jeff Reed wrote: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut/chapter/ch25.html check it out Thanks for the reference. It looks useful. Best, Faheem Mitha.