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re: New install -- on XP-era hardware
Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 9:25 pm
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Posted by Ned Rodriguez (30 messages posted)


I haven't had time to go over the answers you've sent but thank you. I used Ubuntu and it works very well. Better behaved than XP and better than my Red Hat distro I used previously.


On Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 4:48 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|[...]recently built a computer[...]1 GB of mem[...]installed XP, Linux and 98 SE.
>| Ned Rodriguez
>
>Trying to use a 9-year-old M$ OS on more recent hardware has all kinds of gotchas.
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1136243875
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>Here's a short version of the RAM problem:
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1183134656
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>AXCEL216's version has some extra meat:
>cache of http://www.mdgx.com/newtip8.htm
>++MaxPhysPage+MSCONFIG.EXE+Q304943+Q184447

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>What Linux distro did you use? How did that install go?


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re: New install -- on XP-era hardware (gewg_: Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 4:48 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-New install (Ned Rodriguez: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 2:18 pm)
*re: New install (Steve: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 2:37 pm)
-re: New install -- on XP-era hardware (gewg_: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 4:48 pm)
*re: New install -- on XP-era hardware (Ned Rodriguez: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 9:25 pm)
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