A lot of the extra RedHat software is commercial stuff, some of which is for trial. If you want and like some of it, you then purchase the real thing. As for the heart of the distros, RH and OpenLinux are essentially the same and would both work fine. Your WinModem is DOA. It REQUIRES windoze to work and is barely a modem at all. Most of the modem operations are handled by your CPU instead of by the modem hardware and this requires certain windoze drivers. You would be better served to get a real modem with or without linux - let the modem do all the modem work and don't bleed CPU time over to handle a modem's job. This means you get essentially any modem that is NOT a WinModem of some kind. For the most part, this also means a non-pci modem. Some will argue that there are pci modems that are not winmodems but they are still few and far between and not easy to find. Your soundblaster live card had been discussed of late in the list...you can get drivers for it for linux from creative's web site for now. In the future, new kernels should offer support for it without having to go to creative's site for a specific driver, however. -----Original Message----- From: Frank Rocco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient.list.not.shown Subject: Sorry, I forgot to change the header, Caldera vs Red Hat Hello, I'm new to Linux and notice that Red Hats's version comes with more software. What is the advantage of Red Hat over Open Linux 2.3. How frequent does each vendor supply updates and enhancments? I know this is a Red Hat list, but need advise. The two problems I have regarding hardware is a sound blaster live card and a US Robotics PCI WinModem. Any advise on these? Thanks in advance Frank Rocco -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
