OT: redhat

[Bill Vermillion]

> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Vermillion done said:
> > > > And X seems to grow larger faster than the base OS :-)

> > And as I recall the SFU with Perl, GCC, KSH, awk, and about 100
> > other Unix tools is only available on XP or W3K. You are missing
> > a few things.

> Bill, if I want a *nix box, I have my own, plus a few zillion
> shells out there. I'll use *nix when I want *nix.

I was not implying that.  It's just now you can get the tools
to do things that were impossible with the base MS OS distribution.

> As long as I have perl (which is readily available for any
> win32) and PuTTY, I'm satisfied enough. But that would be for a
> machine for me. This is for someone else entirely.

MS did the right thing when they came out with SFU 3.5.  It is
free.   They used to charge for that in the past.   And that old
one seemed to be a semi-stripped MKS.

> > So what's the brand of the system anyway.  That might help figure
> > out what's inside.

> E-Machines  T2862  
> iNTEL Celeron 330 2.66GHz (256K L2, 533 FSB)
> 256MB DDR SDRAM
> 60Gig Ultra ATA HD (no make/model/speed specs on the box)
> CDRW/DVD combo drive (yadda yadda speeds..it's okay)
> iNTEL Extreme Graphics 3D Card
> iNTEL PRO 10/100 Ethernet (It reads as an EEPRO 100)
> 56K ITU v.92 modem
> 8-in-1 Media Reader

> $400. I personally think he got screwed, but that's what
> happens when you buy at a mass consumer outlet. He'd rather not
> deal with a specialised shoppe, but someplace convenient that
> he can just go and "pick something up". So be it. It's not my
> machine, and I don't have to deal with it past configuration.

I try not to help friends with their computers.  It's a good way to
strain friendships.  But I have my son pertty much up to speed
and he helps others and often fixes some of the machines in the
office he's in - when he's not out of town fixing something on 
one of the units they've built.

> BTW, the warranty says Gateway.  I didn't realise they'd
> merged/bought-out/whatever.

Gateway bought Emachine.  The announcement was made on July 28
according to an archive I checked.

Bill
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