Comments on: Bringing the Duron forward https://dfarq.homeip.net/bringing-the-duron-forward/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bringing-the-duron-forward David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/bringing-the-duron-forward/#comment-3700 Mon, 04 Jun 2001 02:32:57 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=733#comment-3700 Hmm, I’ve never had problems with Office 97 on W2K. Of course MS wants you to buy Office 2000, or now, Office XP. I heard rumors that Win95 threw a monkey wrench in when you launched Office 4.2 under it (MS wanted to sell Office 95), but I never had much trouble with Word 6 under Windows 95. If you’re having problems with reboots, I’d be checking device drivers.

As for Linux, I don’t doubt Mandrake 8 is a lot better. I just haven’t gotten my CD burner going yet, but I’m sure I will.

BTW, I’ve heard people say Mandrake doesn’t support Adaptec SCSI cards out of the box, but Mandrake 7.2 had no problems with my 2940UW.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/bringing-the-duron-forward/#comment-3716 Sun, 03 Jun 2001 22:32:16 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=733#comment-3716 Trust me.

I know that Mandrake 7.2 is nice, but Mandrake 8 is far, far better. The whole KDe is updated, you get a far better Gnome setup… lots of improvements.

Or, if you don’t want something as cutting-edge, you can use Red Hat 7.1. Stable as anything, and the distribution that Red hat 7 should have been.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/bringing-the-duron-forward/#comment-3715 Sun, 03 Jun 2001 04:26:04 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=733#comment-3715 Interesting about Office 95 on W2K, I ignorantly loaded Office 97 on W2K and immediately suffered rather frequent random reboots – my son pointed out the obvious, that it wasn’t on the compatability list. So like MS not to support their own. Interesting site, new to me via daynotes.com.

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