On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jerry Human wrote:
> I am considering getting a deal from Ameritech for DSL and a Compaq
> Presario computer with a 566 mhz Celeron cpu loaded with Windows 98 SE
> (Sucker Edition? :-) ). Their DSL modem would be installed and
> configured using windows. Normally I don't like brand named computers
> because they are usually very proprietary (expensive and difficult to
> 'customize'). It does come with a 10 gig hard drive giving plenty of
> room for adding RH 6.2. Has anyone had any experience using RH 6.2 on a
> Compaq Presario?
>
> Naturally, I'd want to network it to my other boxes, would the Compaq
> Presario cause proprietary type problems setting up the network? Of
> course, I'd want to use RH and compatible adapters for the network.
>
> Since Windows seems to have a lot of security holes in it, would there
> be a way to use RH's firewall/ipchains or whatever the best security is,
> to secure the machine since DSL is a 24/7 connection?
As long as the NIC (or built-in DSL adapter) is supported under Linux, you
should be fine.
I have installed (RedHat) Linux to a more than a few
Presarios. Ironically, while the Windows 98 'SE' did install and run fine,
Windows 95, NT, and/or 2000 didn't install on all of them. Compaq's tech
support was very unhelpful when I asked for help installing W2K on
one of my Presarios ... they told me flatly that drivers didn't exist and
might never exist for my model. On the same machine, RedHat runs fine
(though I've never attempted X).
thornton Prime
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