Re: SEUL: Observatons

[Micah Yoder <yoderm@geocities.com>]

jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> 
> I disagree. The fact is than the VGA server will run with *almost* any
> card.  But not all.
> There are PCs with NVidia Cards (correct me if I am wrong but that is
> a modern card) that won't run with the VGA server.  They will run with
> their specific server however.
> And there are other cards where the VGA server will only support 320x200.

[snip]
> 
> Also 8 meg machines will have a hard time with an X based install.

OK, points taken.  Curses it is!

> Sorry but here in France day time phone rates for local calls are
> about 15 cents for three minutes.  Downloading 100 or 200 megs over a
> modem is not viable here.  So until France becomes one of the United
> States of America :-) I vote against that.

Ouch.  Anyway, I didn't intend for the user to download EVERYTHING that
way, only certain software packages that they pick from a list.  Most of
the ones they'd want will be included on the CD, but of course, there
will be more, and we'll always work to make new things SEUL friendly and
put them in "the list".

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