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by **Jim R** » Mon, 07 Jul 1997 04:00:00

I am (another) Linux tryer. I bought a "pre-owned" InfoMagic Linux
Developer's Resource (June 1994 edition). I have been toying around with
it, but it's time to get serious. Can anyone recommend an up-to-date Linux
distribution? Red Hat? Caldera? Slackware? Others? I have Linux
Journal's 1997 Buyer's Guide and have been thumbing through it. I am
somewhat of
"power user" in Windoze 95/NT, and have hand-built my system, but a
UNIX/Linux expert I am not! Here is what I am running, should anyone know
of hardware incompatibilities:

AMD K5-133 on VXPro-type motherboard (Sibercom, I think).
AWE64 sound card.
S3ViRGe video card.
LiteOn CDROM.

Any useful advice would be appreciated :-)
JimR.

by **Eric Feth** » Tue, 08 Jul 1997 04:00:00

Jim:

>I am (another) Linux tryer. I bought a "pre-owned" InfoMagic Linux
>Developer's Resource (June 1994 edition). I have been toying around with
>it, but it's time to get serious. Can anyone recommend an up-to-date Linux
>distribution? Red Hat? Caldera? Slackware? Others?

Personally, I like Red Hat. Current release is 4.2, and is easy to
setup and use.

Quote:> I have Linux Journal's 1997 Buyer's Guide and have been thumbing through it. I am
>somewhat of "power user" in Windoze 95/NT, and have hand-built my system, but a
>UNIX/Linux expert I am not! Here is what I am running, should anyone know
>of hardware incompatibilities:

Know that feeling. I am VERY well versed in DOS, Win3.1, Win95, WinNT
and OS/2. But the pull of LINUX was unrelenting...I'm currently
running it on my IBM Thinkpad 755CE and installed it thru a BackPack
CD-ROM. Very nice :)

Eric D. Fether

by **Mike Kondrato** » Wed, 09 Jul 1997 04:00:00

First of all, the system that you have is absolutely un-sutable for
Linux :)
The VXPro boards are not the bset boards that you can get, if you buy a
board, get something good like Gigabyte, Asus or something simular..
(don't get M Tech boards thou)
AWE64 sound card will do you no good in Linux (or Windows :)
S3Virge Video card is a waste of money again..... the 3D features SUCK
and no game supports it, but the good thing is that it is an S3 chipset,
linux has a good support for S3 cards.. I got Diamond Stealth64 VRAM 4MB
and 3Dfx for 3D stuff ( glQuake should be out soon :))))!!! (for
linux!!!!!!!!!!!!)
If you want a good CD-ROM, get Toshiba, it is a lot faster then Lite-ON
and ALOT more reliable.
The good distrebution is Debian. It is kind of hard at first :) but you
have a better control over your system.

> I am (another) Linux tryer. I bought a "pre-owned" InfoMagic Linux
> Developer's Resource (June 1994 edition). I have been toying around
> with
> it, but it's time to get serious. Can anyone recommend an up-to-date
> Linux
> distribution? Red Hat? Caldera? Slackware? Others? I have Linux
> Journal's 1997 Buyer's Guide and have been thumbing through it. I am
> somewhat of
> "power user" in Windoze 95/NT, and have hand-built my system, but a
> UNIX/Linux expert I am not! Here is what I am running, should anyone
> know
> of hardware incompatibilities:

> AMD K5-133 on VXPro-type motherboard (Sibercom, I think).
> AWE64 sound card.
> S3ViRGe video card.
> LiteOn CDROM.

> Any useful advice would be appreciated :-)
> JimR.

by **Kevin T. Sh** » Thu, 10 Jul 1997 04:00:00

>I am (another) Linux tryer. I bought a "pre-owned" InfoMagic Linux
>Developer's Resource (June 1994 edition). I have been toying around with
>it, but it's time to get serious. Can anyone recommend an up-to-date Linux
>distribution? Red Hat? Caldera? Slackware? Others? I have Linux
>Journal's 1997 Buyer's Guide and have been thumbing through it. I am
>somewhat of
>"power user" in Windoze 95/NT, and have hand-built my system, but a
>UNIX/Linux expert I am not! Here is what I am running, should anyone know
>of hardware incompatibilities:

>AMD K5-133 on VXPro-type motherboard (Sibercom, I think).
>AWE64 sound card.
>S3ViRGe video card.
>LiteOn CDROM.

>Any useful advice would be appreciated :-)
>JimR.

redhat is very good IMO
redhat it up-to-date

--
Power Perceived is Power Achieved......

please encrypt anything of importance.

by **Ben R. Boul** » Fri, 11 Jul 1997 04:00:00

> >AMD K5-133 on VXPro-type motherboard (Sibercom, I think).

Should be fine.

Quote:> >AWE64 sound card.

Doesn't work out of the box on any of the mainstream distributions. Not
too hard to patch a 2.0.30 kernel to use it though. Once it's done it
sounds fantastic.

Quote:> >S3ViRGe video card.

Get Red Hat 4.2. It should work find out of the box. With a little
work, you can get good hardware acceleration. (Get the update to XFree86
3.3, and then perhaps patch that.)

Quote:> >LiteOn CDROM.

Is this IDE/ATAPI??? If it is it works fine. Otherwise, I don't think
it does. I haven't seen it in the list of oddball cd-rom drives
supported by linux.

I would strongly recommend Red Hat as well.

Good luck,
Ben Boule

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