[ILUG] My Aunt Tilly

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Mon Aug 9 10:17:00 IST 2004


On 9 Aug 2004, at 09:28, Conall O'Brien wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:15:38AM IST, Liam Bedford
> <lbedford at lbedford.org> incoherently babbled:
>
>> There is approximately 0 chance of a cheap Dell having anything other
>> than Intel Integrated Graphics (Extreme probably), which uses system
>> memory for graphics.
>>
>> I think it usually works. I tend to avoid them like the plague, but
>> that's just me.

Aunt Tilly really doesn't care - she just wants to do the limited 
number of things she does, with the minimum of confusion. And believe 
me, Aunt Tilly is easily confused :-)

> Perhaps using a recent Knoppix CD to test the hardware configuration
> to see what is supported before installing SuSE will make your life
> easier.

That was absolutely on the list in first position. I've never tried 
before, but does Knoppix support any Winmodems?




Niall




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