Hi Jamie,
I'll show up tonight then.
I'm a little confused about your monthly meeting time though.
ELUG website says it's on Sat, Dec. 17th 2-4. Is that really the 18th?
Thanks,
Steve
At 02:28 AM 12/9/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Steve,
> Some distros are easier/better in many various ways. I usually
>recommed SuSE, as it comes with a lot of applications, and conforms the
>the unnoficial "standards" RedHat and its variants(Mandrake) are kinda
>like proprietary distros, however i do like mandrake... its a pretty easy
>full featured (for a single cdrom) distro. The big deal however is the
>hardware you use, especially the video card, as well as modem, and
>soundcard, hardware makes more difference in ease of install IMHO. If you
>bring your machine to the thursday install clinic, we (a bunch of more
>experienced linux users, and newbies alike) will be happy to help you
>figure things out. You might want to try the new SuSE 6.3 that will likely
>be present. I (if i can remember) will try to bring a bunch of older
>distros i dont need and am happy to donate to whomever may want them.
>
>Jamie
>
>The following message generated by fortune -s (short), these randomly
>generated messages do not necessarily reflect the users ideas.
>
>The answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is...
>
> Four day work week,
> Two ply toilet paper!
>
>Linux currently has the fastest growing userbase :)
>
>On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Stephen Brenner wrote:
>
>> Are some distributions better for x-windows setup?
>>
>> I had a 486-120 with an old ati card that setup easily.
>> I switched to a 486-133 with a matrox millenium and a
>> Mag DX1595 and it refuses to Xconfigure with Redhat 6.0
>> or 6.1. I've ordered the Mandrake cd to see if it
>> recognizes devices better. Redhat couldn't even find
>> my future domain scsi card.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
