Re: Ridin' Through Gateway Country, Roundin' up details.... (fwd)

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>With the volume of data a lot of people are handling today....
> >Volume of data?

> Yeah, volume of data. Animated graphics, Web Surfing (complete with client-
> side Java nad the JVM to run it), ISDN and cable modems (300K/sec downloads
> for $50 per month), Encarta and other multimedia apps. Internet phone and
> video. Games. Even a package like TurboTax is bloated from the 2 diskettes it
> took in 1991 to a full CDROM today, complete with video clips of tax experts
> telling you how to save money on your taxes.
>

Ah! I see your pont.  Bloat ware.  So you believe that we will all be able to
get cable modem's?  I talked to TCI and they said no way.

> Excellent write up, and it may explain some of my NT stability problems. I
> run on the Diamond Stealth 64000 graphics card, and once I got over the
> headscratching stage of inital configuration (with a beta driver at the
time),
> I've just haven't had a peep from Linux about that.  OTOH, NT bitches, moans,
> complains (about SOMETHING, you just can't tell, maybe it's video) and flops
> over, spewing character oriented hex as it spirals into the ground.
> Maybe I should tell it to come up as generic VGA, and see it that's more sta-
> ble. It'll be ugly, but I don't care (the other way, I think it's still ugly,
> just sharper:)
>
It's definitely worth a shot in my opinion.


>
> >>NT. If THe cost (to me) of RH Linux went from $50.00 to $1500.00, I
wouldn't
> >>care; the distribution is still a better value.
> >What else is there to say.  It's cheap, it works.
> The "what else" is -- Why ain't the rest of the universe using it?
> Um... we know the answer to that... it's one of the reasons KLUG exists.
>

Marketing.  Many many people simply do not know that a alternative exsists.
 And at this point a very viable alternative.  I've already read two reviews of
RedHat 4.1 in "real" magazines,  and both were rather glowing about how easy it
was to install and start up.  And Linux Mall now has the personal verison of
"Star Office" for $18.95.  Together they are everything a home user needs,  and
I don't think rpm --install *.rpm is really any different that a:\setup if they
want an additional program.


What's this about a revamp of the Amiga?  This is news to me.