lcd monitors and linux

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:23:29 -0700
Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:10:57 -0500
> Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 27 March 2003 18:54 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > I've tinkered with Slack before; it may have been my first distro
> > > as well (searches through the cobwebs; way back in the 386 days). 
> > > This time I'll bug (not too hard, right?) enough people on the
> > > list to get it working properly.
> > 
> > Actually I remember that Slackware came up easily the first time I
> > tried it back in 1994 or so... and I had two SCSI controllers in my
> > machine and I remember having to give the boot process for the
> > install the parameters for the 2nd controller.  But they had a good
> > booklet that came with the distro that explained all that.  Seems
> > pretty fantastic now what with all the problems people (and myself)
> > can run into trying to do an install...
> > 
> > Good luck!
> > 
> > And as a PS... right after getting Slack installed I tried RH at
> > around 4.3?  Had some problems and it took 6 weeks to get a response
> > out of their support... by that time it was in the trash.  :-)
> > 
> > Never have been able to have much success with RH since.
> > 
> 
> RH 4.3 is the only RH distro I've tried, and it worked reliably for
> me. As was the case with any distro other than gentoo (debian doesn't
> count because I never made the effort to understand the distro), I got
> tired of searching for and retrofitting software (RPM hell, etc.).  It
> would never occur to me to look for support with the vendor; that's
> what we're all for!!!  Even Caldera in it's heyday wasn't very
> responsive with support.
> 

Oops, RH 7.3 !!!

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Collins