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WHAT DO AMD Athlon 4, XP and Pagemaker 6.52 have in common

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kinky:
you need to see what display driver it is... most athlon 4 laptps have S3's ... and i have yet to see an athlon based laptop vieo that cannot run under 98 or 2000... im prety sure the driver is out thr somewhere...

If you want to try Linux, only linux distro to get right now is SuSE Linux 8.0 .. its great... by far beats current offerings from mandrake and redhat

voidmain:
Except for not being able to download an x86 ISO image.

kinky:
thats the thing i dont like about this community as much.... DONT BE SO CHEAP!

if someone makes something that i like, ill support them.  heck when i started using linux i borrowed a copy of redhat.... then went out and bought it... yes i paid for it... even though i already had it.

why?  because i really beleive in supporting something you like, instead of just telling everyone else to support it.

voidmain:
I bought RedHat as well, but I was able to "try before I buy".  And besides, I don't use the vendor specific apps anyway, except of course to install the OS. Once installed, RedHat/SuSe/Mandrake has nothing that I use or would use. And I would be paying SuSe for things that they didn't develop.  How does that support the community?  I would much rather pay the actual programmers and not the packagers.. I would like to pay the Apache foundation, the PHP developers, the PostgreSQL/MySQL developers, the KDE developers etc. If I buy SuSe those developers don't get a penny of it.  SuSe didn't write a damn thing that I would use in my daily activities.

When you buy RedHat, you are not buying the software, you are buying the support. I frankly don't need the support. Maybe you do. If you do, buy the software. Most people do. I am and have for the last 10 years of using Linux have been into it because I can do everything for nothing. I was quite frankly concerned the day RedHat IPOed. I don't at this time think it was a bad thing but I am not into the commercialization of the OS.  I don't mind commercialization of the apps though. Commercialization is one of the biggest things I hate about M$.

[ April 28, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

hoojchoons:
I think that Void Main has a point here but I don't believe that Linux as an OS is threatened in any way by the form of commercialization M$ use for the promotion of their products (yak!).

Furthermore, it's true that if you buy or order a Linux distro you're mainly doing it for the support each vendor offers you along with your purchase. You're also supporting the Linux community though, one way or the other! VoidMain, I'd also download an ISO image if it weren't for my crappy 56k Ltwinmodem

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