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- From: bogstad@rhombus.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.052107.11434@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 05:21:07 GMT
- References: <dpn2.200.724295871@po.CWRU.Edu> <92Dec15.005502.14968@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
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- In article <92Dec15.005502.14968@acs.ucalgary.ca> barker@eneli (Scott Barker) writes:
- >Damien P. Neil (dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
- >> Linux is a free UNIX for 386/486 computers. ...
- >
- >> If you plan on installing Linux, I would highly recommend the SLS
- >> distribution, which will give you a fairly complete base system including
- >> many utilities and X/Windows.
- >
- >You really should check out comp.os.linux as well. There are several problems
- >with Linux under different hardware configurations which you might want to
- >check out. For one thing, it won't work with Maxtor hard drives (which is
- >making a friend of mine quite upset lately).
-
- Please don't make statements like that without providing specifics.
- I'm running Linux right now on a MAXTOR 7213AT IDE hard drive and am having
- no problems at all.
-
- Bill Bogstad
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