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Re: Bruce & Linux Server Adventure
> Since nobody has answered you yet, the Riva 128 card is about on par, if not
> a little worse than the Permedia 2 you asked about. In fact, I just tossed
> a Riva a few days ago; it started acting erratically causing a user's
> machine to crash.
Thanks for the info.
> Pretty much the bottom line is you really need a TNT2 or Voodoo2/3 for
> playing Quake 3 in Linux.
Okay, assuming I'm going to buy a new video card, and want to run Quake3,
which is the better supported card in Linux, TNT2 or Voodoo2/3 ???
> On a side note.... I have a Compaq Proliant 1600 at work has been serving
> up files and print service for 80 users using RH 6.0 and Samba for a month
> now. Not a single hitch - it's the smoothest server implementation I've
> ever experienced (I've also done NetWare, NT, HP-UX, and SCO). It's also
> running Raid 5, which I expected at least minimal headache from but didn't
> get.
Great!
> The only glitch on the server side I ran into (and this was still
> pre-implementation) was that I had to replace the standard lpr with LprNG
> (or however the capitalization goes). The standard lpr was causing some of
> my HP Lasers to cough up blood. On the client side, some 95a users were
> experiencing slowdowns, which was fixed by installing the DUN 1.3 patch from
> Microsoft (the important part of which updates Windows' IP stack).
Good info to file away in case anybody else has this situtation.
> Even though I've never made it out to a KLUG meeting (live in G.R.), I've
> been lurking on this list for awhile, and thought I'd share this extremely
> positive experience I had with Linux.
There are people who drive from G.R. for most meetings.
I know there is occassionally a car pool, if you're interested.
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Bruce Smith bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan 49093 USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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