Re: Mor on cheeplinux...

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:49:30AM +0100, Richard wrote:
> Ian
> 
> Ian Wright wrote:
> 
>  So far this is definitely the best version of
> > linux I've seen and should be very attractive to newcomers and ease their
> > transition from windows.
> 
> I've noticed this quite a bit with Linux.  It's almost like black
> magic.  Some monitors and graphics cards work fine with a certain
> distro.  Then again you can come along to another machine with the
> same hardware and find that it won't work with REd HAt or SuSE or
> Mandrake.  I know from my own experiences that some hardware can be a
> bit buggy and won't support a RH or SuSE X-server.
> 

Red Hat and SUSE have _exactly_ the same X servers. The only difference
is in the way they set up the ocnfiguration files. If you can get a 
card/monitor working with one linux distribution, then you _will_ be 
able to get it working with any distribution. It might involve getting
your hands dirty and hand editing some configuration files, but it is
always possible.

A.D.

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