Funny you should mension that I just bought Red Hat Linux 5.2 and I'm about to
install it on a 1.3 GIG partition.

"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:

> Thomas Lake wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone I just cot a new computer! Weeeee! Its a PII 400MHz with
> > 64MB of ram and a Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT video card and a Sound
> > Blaster PCI128 sound card. I've just finished re-installing most of my
> > win98 stuff and I'd be interested to see how much faster the new
> > computer is at pov-ray. If anyone out there has a simple image with
> > render time and parse time specs for a PII-233 with 64MB of ram (That's
> > what my old computer was) I'd very much like to have it so I can see how
> > much faster my new computer renders. I don't know if it will make a huge
> > difference though, I don't have any more RAM than before, but it is the
> > new faster ram and the system buss is running at 100Mhz.
> >
> > Anyway if you think this post is way off topic or you think I'm just
> > gloating about my new comp too much then just let me know and I'll
> > cancel the message, PLEASE don't flame me though, just post a kindly
> > worded message asking to remove it:-)
>
> Well, after you get that new memory installed, go and get a Linux CD and do
> some real power computing. POV-Ray, Enlightenment, Gimp,
> Zooooooooooooomm!!!
> RedHat 6.0 was just released, and if you don't want to spend the $39 on it,
> just get a cheapbytes CD for $1.99

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