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4 Oct 2024 05:23:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New computer:-)  
From: portelli
Date: 4 May 1999 01:21:15
Message: <372E75CC.A5C329CA@pilot.msu.edu>
I think www.lsl.com is offering redhat 6.0 for free.  You pay shipping
is all.  Suse 6.0 came out too.

Spider wrote:
> 
> well, I'de recommend you to download the updated parts for 6.0 ... It's worth
> it..
> (well, I messed up my glibc files... Time to reinstall a _lot_ :-)
> 
> Thomas Lake wrote:
> >
> > 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
> 
> --
> //Spider    --  [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
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