I haven't quite ordered it yet, but I'm almost there.
Terry
At 09:19 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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
