Okay, when you buy an operating system in Linux, you buy an operating system. Other software is available for download and perhaps more winmodem stuff ought to have been put on the distributions. Nonetheless, linux works lots better with ethernet cards and cable modems than the older slower modems. I use slackware 8.0 myself and like it. For one thing, when you tell slackware 8.0 to install everything, itdoes exactly that. Redhat does not. You'll find on the redhat CD's packages available for installation that the distribution doesn't install. Also, I use console ext mode only and a speech synthesizer since I'm totally blind and don't have the colors problem and also don't care what Redhat did with kde and gnome. Both of those window managers can probaly be downloaded and installed but it'll be a matter for disabling the Redhat interface and I don't know how to do that. I gave up on Redhat at 7.2 when my computer got knocked over by a hacker and it was only on a dial up modem too. Redhat has on a security front closed everything down and what you open you do at your own risk and hopefully with knowledge of consequences and precautions needed. I don't ever expect I'll be using any gui under linux, it's a work requirement for me to use windows 2000 but this computer is at home and I don't choose to use any gui stuff on it.
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