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Kevin · 02-19-2003, 09:20 PM

Hey dudes,
I recently delved into the Linux world to try things out. At first I bought Lycoris Desktop/LX. www.lycoris.com . Check it out. It is similar to windows/lindows and sells on cheap PCs. It retails for only $29.99 so I figured I'd check it out. It wasn't bad, but driver support was horrible and so was general support of my hardware. So I moved on... I looked into Lindows, but it was too expensive. I moved on to Mandrake Linux. This thing is free. Just download the ISO and burn. Well, I did that... and I like it a lot! It is supporting my ATGi 8500 graphics card (linux likes nVidia cards much better) without any problem. The sound works well too. The unfortunate part is my monitor. I can't get any distro of linux to correctly support my 1600x1024 SGI LCD. I'm thinking about trying Red Hat. Well... just thought I'd relay you all my experience.
-Kev

02-19-2003, 09:20 PM	#6
Kevin Slacking more than your weird uncle Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: San Diego, CA (UCSD) / Los Angeles, CA (home) Posts: 1,605	Hey dudes, I recently delved into the Linux world to try things out. At first I bought Lycoris Desktop/LX. www.lycoris.com . Check it out. It is similar to windows/lindows and sells on cheap PCs. It retails for only $29.99 so I figured I'd check it out. It wasn't bad, but driver support was horrible and so was general support of my hardware. So I moved on... I looked into Lindows, but it was too expensive. I moved on to Mandrake Linux. This thing is free. Just download the ISO and burn. Well, I did that... and I like it a lot! It is supporting my ATGi 8500 graphics card (linux likes nVidia cards much better) without any problem. The sound works well too. The unfortunate part is my monitor. I can't get any distro of linux to correctly support my 1600x1024 SGI LCD. I'm thinking about trying Red Hat. Well... just thought I'd relay you all my experience. -Kev __________________ I used to throw hot coffee all over the ass of the horse there, then whip him while he was kickin' at me. Those f***in things are crazy.