Hello. Since AFS is down, I will respond here. > I don't believe there's anything called Windoze2001 by the way - did > you mean the very _insecure_, screwed up Windoze XP? I guess the > (paranoid) RCF people will not be too happy with that. It is typo. Windows2000 not XP > > Install Ximian GNOME, and KDE 2.1 and you have Office packages, and > other cool stuff. With XFree86 4.0.3 you like 3D hardware > acceleration, so you can install some Loki Games Demos like SOF, > Civilisation, and others (no reason to get bored while you are on > shift, is there?). Honestly, throw windoze 'helluva far' (quoting > Mr. T of the A-Team). As much as people (including me) do not like MS products, it is sadly (very sadly) standard for average Joe PC users in the world. And, there are a lot of average Joe in our group, we need MS. Also, we need it for scanner. (Sane or XSane is not working for our HP Scanner (maybe). ) > I haven't checked recently, but does ROOT compile with GCC-3? I did not try yet. > > > 3. We should stick with RH6.2 > > Advantage --- Whatever working now will work tomorrow. > > Disadvantage --- The default RH6.2 does not work with new > > PCs. (I mean this will require the effort by someone to make it > > work. eg. new XFree, new kernel, etc...) > > What? Where's the incompatiblity? The graphics cards or what? > Anyway, this is a poor solution, since some pii's already runs 7.1. In detail, new PCs come with GeForce2 GTS graphics card. This is not supported by default RH6.2. Therefore, someone needs to upgrade XFree if we stick with RH6.2. And, since new PCs come with USB and FireWire ports, if someone (like me) want to use it, it needs kernel 2.4 or newer. (Well this is not entirely correct, but it just a lot easier by using RH7.1 than by patching RH6.2) Hiro
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