Not Red Hat, but I've tried Presarios, and it's not the best deal. It will
probably work - just might be difficult.
JW
At 09:43 PM 9/12/2000 -0400, you 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?
>
>I know this sounds a little flaky but I haven't had a proprietary box
>since my computer classes in the early 80's.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
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