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Originally Posted by din
And regarding the happiness we get form experiments, nothing can be compared with that. I remember using RH 6.1, it was very tough to get the graphics mode, I could get it somehow, then it was like a dream to play movie in Linux, I tried a lot and (of course I didn't do any programming) and finally it worked. Even that made me so happy and I can imagine teh satisfaction we get when we do experiemtns with Linux.
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sniff... sniff... how true
i remember those dayz when i was new to linux... but i cud get along well coz i had sufficient dos knowledge and hence wasn't scared from using the CLI.... i had an Xwave XG sound card wid fm801 chip... somehow managed to install alsa and get it working... those dayz alsa wasn't bundled alongwid most distros... when i got Xwindows working first on my trident 9750 then on my nvidia tnt2... the joy of running sawfish smoothly... when i first compiled kernel for my needs... memories galore...
those dayz only the 'fortunate' group hardware was kinda fully supported out of the box.... so getting linux to work completely on my 'not so fortunate hardware' was a big achievement for me!
well this ad perfectly fits in here:
xwave xg snd card - rs.5000
tnt2 agp - rs.9000
17" monitor, non-standard resolution - rs.15000
db15 bus joystick - rs.3000
getting linux to work the way you want on this hardware - priceless!
there are somethings money can't buy... for everything else (read windows, mac) there's mastercard!!
obviously u need money (credit card hereh..) to buy windows which has full driver support for all for this hardware!!!
hehe....
but things haf drastically changed.. ubuntu has always worked for me in modern times. no matter what hardware i've thrown in, it has detected if not installed the drivers automatically (i can do it!). linux has come a long way.. and yes i must say: linux is taking over the world