Question

[gsublett at lava.net]

On 11-Oct-00 Brian Eric Farnell wrote:
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> 
> I'm stuck with a Winmodem and even thtough there are some
> Linmodem drivers for mine I was going to buy a hardware modem. 
> I only found one internal PCI hardware modem at Comp USA.  It
> says specifically that it workd with Linux, but adds 'kernal
> 2.3' or higher.  Is this a misprint?  As far as I have seen
> there are no distributions running 2.3.  I'm running Linux
> Mandrake 7.1 right now.
> 
> Also, I always heard how fast Linux was, for CLI it's great but
> on KDE it seems to be everybit as slow as Windows 98.  Is this
> correct?  I have a suspicion that my AMD 'shared memory
> architecture'.
> 
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> 
> BTW, are novices welcome at your meetings?
> 
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Last first, of course all interested are welcome. 

I recommend an external modem, the PCI modem you found at CompUSA still
sounds suspiciously like a winmodem - a real hardware modem will not
require a specific kernel version.

I also highly recommend xfce instead of KDE

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Gary

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