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At 10:38 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Ed, All, > >Well seeing as how it was worded in the e-mail to you from Xandros , the >Delux addition is the only one discounted. $99.oo - $45.oo = $55.oo for >the Delux addition. > >That's not so bad, essentially $20.oo more for the Deluxe. Hmmm, I have >to wait until my new computer stuff comes to get it. > >Thanks for the input Ed. I'm STILL L00King for a easy, workable Linux distro. > >"Capn' Buck" I agree with your logic and, IMHO you have found an easy and workable distro in Xandros. You might solicit opinions from some of the folks that were in attendance last evening as I am somewhat biased. I understand that Larry and Terry have already made the plunge and John H. said that he was going to. As another footnote, I just upgraded this machine from an Intel PIII Coppermine 700 MHZ to a new Asus A7V333 mobo, AMD Athlon XP 2100, new case, ATI Radion 7500 AGP card and 512 Meg P2700 ram. I transferred the hard drives, floppy drive, DVD drive, CD burner, network card, Soundblaster Live Platinum and ATI TV Wonder VE TV card from the old box to the new box. The old box was dual booting Xandros Desktop and Win98SE. With great reluctance I connected all the peripherals and pushed the power button. The BIOS auto detected all the IDE devices and up came LILO. I selected Xandros and the boot process started. As I watched the boot messages, Xandros told me that the video configuration had changed and a new configuration file was being written. Next I was presented with the log-in screen with my name looking me in the face. I entered my password and was immediately presented with my KDE desktop, the only difference from when I had shut the old machine down a few hours earlier was that the screen resolution was at 1024 X 768 (the Xandros default) rather than 1280 X 1024 as before. I right clicked on the desktop and reset the resolution and the box has been running ever since. No reboots, no searching for driver discs, no trying to figure out which new piece of hardware Window$ is wanting a driver for, nothing but a rock solid, totally stable, high performance system. I have yet to even try a boot into Window$ because I know that just to get the TV card working under Window$ required a minumum of 8 reboots and the careful feeding of each driver to get it all installed just right. As I am writing this in Eurora, running happily under CodeWeavers Wine on my right screen, I am watching the local news on the left screen and Xandros found the TV card from the get-go. I guess I will dedicate Saturday to getting Window$ working again as I must do that in order to finish my tax return with spyware infested, activation requiring TurboTax (I didn't know and will not purchase it ever again!). Keep up informed as you move forward, Ed Richards --=====================_91657248==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <body> At 10:38 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite><font face=3D"arial" size=3D2>Ed, All,<br><br> Well seeing as how it was worded in the e-mail to you from Xandros , the Delux addition is the only one discounted. $99.oo - $45.oo =3D $55.oo for the Delux addition.<br><br> That's not so bad, essentially $20.oo more for the Deluxe. Hmmm, I have to wait until my new computer stuff comes to get it.<br><br> Thanks for the input Ed. I'm STILL L<i>00</i>King for a easy, workable Linux distro.<br><br> "Capn' Buck"</font><font face=3D"arial"> </blockquote><br> I agree with your logic and, IMHO you have found an easy and workable distro in Xandros. You might solicit opinions from some of the folks that were in attendance last evening as I am somewhat biased. I understand that Larry and Terry have already made the plunge and John H. said that he was going to. <br><br> As another footnote, I just upgraded this machine from an Intel PIII Coppermine 700 MHZ to a new Asus A7V333 mobo, AMD Athlon XP 2100, new case, ATI Radion 7500 AGP card and 512 Meg P2700 ram. I transferred the hard drives, floppy drive, DVD drive, CD burner, network card, Soundblaster Live Platinum and ATI TV Wonder VE TV card from the old box to the new box. The old box was dual booting Xandros Desktop and Win98SE. With great reluctance I connected all the peripherals and pushed the power button. The BIOS auto detected all the IDE devices and up came LILO. I selected Xandros and the boot process started. As I watched the boot messages, Xandros told me that the video configuration had changed and a new configuration file was being written. Next I was presented with the log-in screen with my name looking me in the face. I entered my password and was immediately presented with my KDE desktop, the only difference from when I had shut the old machine down a few hours earlier was that the screen resolution was at 1024 X 768 (the Xandros default) rather than 1280 X 1024 as before. I right clicked on the desktop and reset the resolution and the box has been running ever since. No reboots, no searching for driver discs, no trying to figure out which new piece of hardware Window$ is wanting a driver for, nothing but a rock solid, totally stable, high performance system. I have yet to even try a boot into Window$ because I know that just to get the TV card working under Window$ required a minumum of 8 reboots and the careful feeding of each driver to get it all installed just right. As I am writing this in Eurora, running happily under CodeWeavers Wine on my right screen, I am watching the local news on the left screen and Xandros found the TV card from the get-go. I guess I will dedicate Saturday to getting Window$ working again as I must do that in order to finish my tax return with spyware infested, activation requiring TurboTax (I didn't know and will not purchase it ever again!). <br><br> Keep up informed as you move forward, <br><br> Ed Richards</font></body> <br> </html> --=====================_91657248==.ALT--
