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According to the Dell site you won't save any money with the Linux version. In fact the windows version may be a bit cheaper. I'm like iccaros; I'll only buy hardware if it has Linux drivers. That will sometimes narrow my buying options, but, I believe in and support FOSS (free open source software).

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compound (chemistry reference)

Funny stuff, marty! I love it.

responsibility

Dell+Linux will soon be a reality. linkage

improvement

Yeah, I loved it when I finally got DSL, I love the speed of broadband. Direct fiber-optic! That sounds cool, is that like a T1 or something? Is that going to be pricey?

song

Slackware Linux, using XFce.

Hiya Liz, Yep. Agreed. I'm also happy with the gas mileage on my Malibu. Awhile ago I had an idiot light constantly "pinging" about 2-3 times per week on my dash, it indicated that something was wrong with the ABS. I would take the unit in and have it checked only to have nothing wrong with the ABS. As it turns out my wheel bearing was going on my left front wheel which was causing the ABS light to ping. Weird stuff.

Hey, I started with a 300 baud modem. Does that translate into 0.3K? 'Course it was all (DOS) text back then, so it was faster than my DSL is now. My slowest modem was a 9600 baud modem that was useful for downloading e-mail on my Windows 3.1 units. I remember when a web browser (Netscape 1.0) would fit on a floppy disk. Netscape had its heyday with Netscape 3.04 and then along came IE.

presence

Nope, I'm still a working boy. I've got about 10-13 years to go before I can pack it in. Retirement sounds wonderful. You folks are lucky.

Did you have to take out a loan to manage that, just kidding :-) Heh-heh, at the time, yeah, I did need to borrow some money to buy it. It had a crappy 28.8 mwave dial-up modem........the worst Internet experience you can imagine, lol.

desperate

My first computers I had at the office were 286s, 386s, and 486s (DOS 5.0, Win 3.1). The first computer I owned was an IBM P l50 with 16 MB RAM, Win95 (at the time it cost me $3000).

Happy Birthday, Nerelda:-)

Tiger

Your safe graphic mode selection probably did the trick. Sometimes Ubuntu will guess wrong and set your resolution incorrectly during set-up, installation resulting in a non-functional display (safe graphic mode uses very conservative settings for your video card).

Congrats on getting your video issues sorted out. If it has been working for 3 hours you are most likely okay.

That is weird, shanenin. Yeah, when I forget to add Option "dpms" to xorg.conf in FreeBSD or Slack my monitor won't power down. But, it may not be that as the monitor does usually power down you say? If logging out doesn't do it try a re-boot or maybe fire up top and see if any weird processes are running.

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Monet